Geographic Personas : Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West /

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"Geographic Personas explores how writers, dancers, actors, imposters, and con artists were influenced by one or more of three transformative factors -population growth, technology, and literary realism-that contributed to their personal reinvention during a great transitional period in the Ame...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Allmendinger, Blake (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Persona (Literature)
Literature.
Intellectual life.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
American literature.
American literature > West (U.S.) > History and criticism.
West United States.
West (U.S.) > Intellectual life.
West (U.S.) > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Geographic personas: the passing of Clarence King
  • Lord of the limber tongue: the great Spanish land grant fraud and the Barony of Arizona
  • The French Canadian cowboy: Branding Will James
  • Making an Indian: the case of Sylvester Long
  • L'Ouest boheme: Willa Cather's transnational prairie
  • A homeless snail: Yone Noguchi and Japanese self-invention
  • The past is the biggest country of all: remembering Helena Modjeska
  • Deutschland über alles: Germany's literary colonization of the U.S. frontier
  • The problem of representation: Isadora Duncan sleeps with the Russian Navy
  • Afterword: Burials and exhumations.

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