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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Allmendinger, Blake (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Subjects:
American literature > West (U.S.) > History and criticism.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
Persona (Literature)
Identité dans la littérature.
Persona (Littérature)
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
Literature.
Intellectual life.
American literature.
West (U.S.) > In literature.
West (U.S.) > Intellectual life.
West United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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 bohème: 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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