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Exploding the Western : myths of empire on the postmodern frontier /
The frontier and Western expansionism are so quintessentially a part of American history that the literature of the West and Southwest is in some senses the least regional and the most national literature of all. The frontier--the place where cultures meet and rewrite themselves upon each other'...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
©2005.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Tarleton State University southwestern studies in the humanities ;
no. 19. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foundation of Empire: The Sacred Hunter and the Eucharist of the Wilderness in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
- "Pledged in Blood": Truth and Redemption in Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses
- "The Acts of Their Own Hands": Borders, Otherness, and Identity in Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing
- Decolonizing Imperialism: Captivity Myths and the Postmodern World in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
- Sanctioned Narratives and the (Non)Innocent Triumph of the Savage War: Mythic Co-Dependence in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead
- Necessary Difference: The Creation of a Chicana Utopia in Ana Castillo's So Far from God.