Reading the West: New Essays on the Literature of the American WestMichael Kowalewski Cambridge University Press, 1996 M02 23 - 304 páginas The American West of myth and legend has always exerted a strong hold on the popular imagination, and the essays in Reading the West examine some of the basis of that fascination. Reading the West, first published in 1996, is a collection of critical essays by writers, independent scholars and critics on the literature of the American West in the last two centuries. It showcases new ways of reading and understanding western writing. Arguing for the importance of 'place' in literature, these essays explore what makes representative literary works 'western'. They also explore the multicultural and ecological dimensions of western writing. This volume helps enrich our understanding of a distinguished body of literary work which has sometimes been unjustly ignored. It deals not only with literature but with the changing conception of the West in the American imagination. |
Contenido
Region Power Place | 21 |
Literary Evolutionism and the Wilderness West | 44 |
REIMAGINING THE AMERICAN FRONTIER | 61 |
Understanding the Letters and Diaries of the American West | 63 |
Frontier Reportage and Western Vernacular | 82 |
Bierstadts Settings Hartes Plots | 99 |
MODERN WESTERN REVISIONS | 125 |
John C Van Dyke Mary Austin and Edward Abbey | 127 |
Mapping the History of US Hispanic Literature | 177 |
A MOSAIC | 197 |
The Politics of Identity in American Indian Fiction of the West | 199 |
The San Francisco Renaissance | 213 |
Some Notes on Californias Fiction | 231 |
Western Motifs in the First Wave of Asian American Plays | 251 |
Selected Bibliography | 273 |
Contributors | 291 |
Revisionist Western Classics | 144 |
Mollys Truthtelling or Jean Stafford Rewrites the Western | 157 |
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