How myth became history : Texas exceptionalism in the borderlands / John E. Dean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dean, John Emory, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Mexican literature--History and criticism.

Mexican literature.

Historiography.

Mexican-American Border Region--In literature.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Nationalism and literature.

Literature and history.

Texas--Historiography.

Texas.

Literature.

North America--Mexican-American Border Region.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 231 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2016.

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.

Contents:

Timeline of the Texas-Mexico border, 1835-1920

Introduction. The Texas-Mexico border : a mythical history

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

2. Mexico, genesis, apocalypse : Ignacio Solares' Yankee Invasion : a Novel of Mexico City

3. The history of all is the history of each : Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, or, Evening Redness in the West

4. History's alternative to the past : Carlos Fuentes' The Old Gringo

5. The archival cave of meditation in Katherine Anne Porter's Flowering Judas

6. Remediating a refusal of history : Arturo Islas' The Rain God : a Desert Tale

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-221) and index.

ISBN:

9780816532421

0816532427

OCLC:

929545470