How Myth Became History : Texas Exceptionalism in the Borderlands /

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"The book explores how border subjects have been created and disputed in cultural narratives of the Texas-Mexico border, comparing and analyzing Mexican, Mexican American, and Anglo literary representations of the border"--Provided by publisher.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Dean, John Emory (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Nationalism and literature.
Mexican literature.
Literature and history.
Literature.
Historiography.
American literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Litterature et histoire.
Nationalisme et litterature.
Litterature mexicaine > Histoire et critique.
Mexican literature > History and criticism.
American literature > History and criticism.
Texas.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region.
Texas > Historiographie.
Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine > Dans la litterature.
Texas > Historiography.
Mexican-American Border Region > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Timeline of the Texas-Mexico border, 1835-1920
  • The Texas-Mexico border : a mythical history
  • The collision of cultural memories on the Texas-Mexico border : Walter Prescott Webb's The Texas Rangersl, Americo Paredes' George Washington Gómez, and Rolando Hinojosa's The Valley : Estampas del Valle
  • Mexico, genesis, apocalypse : Ignacio Solares' Yankee Invasion : a Novel of Mexico City
  • The history of all is the history of each : Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian: or Evening Redness in the West
  • History as alternative to the past : Carlos Fuentes' The Old Gringo
  • The archival cave of meditation in Katherine Anne Porter's Flowering Judas
  • Remediating a refusal of history : Arturo Islas' The Rain God : a Desert Tale.

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