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How myth became history : Texas exceptionalism in the Borderlands
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How myth became history : Texas exceptionalism in the Borderlands / John E. Dean.
ISBN
9780816532421
0816532427
Publication
Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2016]
Physical Description
xii, 231 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
"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.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 07, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Timeline of the Texas-Mexico border, 1835-1920
Introduction. The Texas-Mexico border : a mythical history
chapter 1. The collision of cultural memories on the Texas-Mexico border : Walter Prescott Webb's The Texas Rangers : a Century of Frontier Defense, Américo Paredes' George Washington Gómez : a Mexicotexan Novel, and Rolando Hinojosa's The Valley / Estampas del Valle
chapter 2. Mexico, genesis, apocalypse : Ignacio Solares' Yankee Invasion : a Novel of Mexico City
chapter 3. The history of all is the history of each : Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, or, Evening Redness in the West
chapter 4. History's alternative to the past : Carlos Fuentes' The Old Gringo
chapter 5. The archival cave of meditation in Katherine Anne Porter's Flowering Judas
chapter 6. Remediating a refusal of history : Arturo Islas' The Rain God : a Desert Tale.
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