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How myth became history Texas exceptionalism in the borderlands
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How myth became history [electronic resource] : Texas exceptionalism in the borderlands / John E. Dean.
ISBN
0816533709
9780816533701
0816532427
9780816532421 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2016. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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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.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 US Regional Studies, South.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 09, 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, Americo 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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