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1 online resource (246 pages) |
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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 Gomez : 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. |
| 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. |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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Mexican literature -- History and criticism.
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Nationalism and literature.
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Literature and history.
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Mexican-American Border Region -- In literature.
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Texas -- Historiography.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dean, John Emory. How myth became history : Texas exceptionalism in the borderlands. Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2016 9780816532421 |
| ISBN |
9780816532421 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780816533701 (electronic bk.) |
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