Mavericks on the Border : The Early Southwest in Historical Fiction and Film /

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The author analyzes metaphorical border crossings between ideologies and between cultures in films and novels set in the early US Southwest. In addition to seminal works such as Blood Meridian, Go Down Moses, and The Wild Bunch, he considers lesser-known American works, Chicano, Mexican, and Native...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Canfield, J. Douglas (John Douglas), 1941-2003 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Western stories.
Western films.
Literature.
Intellectual life.
Historical fiction, American.
Authors, American > Homes and haunts.
American fiction.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Westerns > Histoire et critique.
Écrivains americains > Residences et lieux familiers > États-Unis (Sud-Ouest)
Roman americain > États-Unis (Sud-Ouest) > Histoire et critique.
Western films > History and criticism.
Western stories > History and criticism.
Historical fiction, American > History and criticism.
Authors, American > Homes and haunts > Southwestern States.
American fiction > Southwestern States > History and criticism.
United States > Southwestern States.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region.
États-Unis (Sud-Ouest) > Dans la litterature.
États-Unis (Sud-Ouest) > Vie intellectuelle.
Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine > Dans la litterature.
Southwestern States > In literature.
Southwestern States > Intellectual life.
Mexican-American Border Region > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; MAVERICKS ON THE BORDER; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: SOUTH TO WEST; 1. Ike McCaslin's Failed Crossing: Go Down Moses; 2. Tragic Glory: A Bright Tragic Thing; 3. The Border of Becoming: Theodicy in Blood Meridian; PART II: NORTH OF THE BORDER; 4. Broken Arrow: Crossing as Gesture; 5. Lateral Freedom: Buffalo Soldiers; 6. Geronimo Framed; 7. Tombstone: Violence and the Secular; 8. ""I'd become my own mother"": Big Nose Kate in Doc Holliday's Woman; 9. L'État C'est moi: Gore vidal's Billy the Kid.
  • 10. ""Our Pearl beyond price"": I, Pearl HartPART III: SOUTH OF THE BORDER; 11. Lateral Crossing: Dreams of the Centaur; 12. The Impossible Crossing: The Wild Bunch; 13. ""Circles upon Circles"": Last Reveille; 14. Monsters from Below: Los de abajo; 15. The Feminizing of Freedom and Fulfillment: Como agua para chocolate; 16. Mirrors, Dreams, and Memory: Gringo viejo; 17. Epilogue: Crossing into Fascism in Bisbee; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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