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Exploding the Western : Myths of Empire on the Postmodern Frontier

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Author: Spurgeon, Sara L.
ISBN: 9781585444229

by Spurgeon, Sara L.

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Format: Paperback
Copyright: 2005-05-30
Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr
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The frontier and Western expansionism are so quintessentially a part of American history that the literature of the West and Southwest is in some senses the least regional and the most national literature of all.

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Sara L. Spurgeon is a visiting assistant professor in women's studies at the University of Arizona.

Foundation of empire : the sacred hunter and the Eucharist of the wilderness in Cormac McCarthy's Blood meridian	p. 19
"Pledged in blood" : truth and redemption in Cormac McCarthy's All the pretty horses	p. 41
"The acts of their own hands" : borders, otherness, and identity in Cormac McCarthy's The crossing	p. 59
Decolonizing imperialism : captivity myths and the postmodern world in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony	p. 73
Sanctioned narratives and the (non)innocent triumph of the savage war : mythic co-dependence in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead	p. 102
Necessary difference : the creation of a Chicana utopia in Ana Castillo's So far from God	p. 120
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