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Writing Arizona, 1912-2012 - A Cultural and Environmental Chronicle (Paperback)
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Writing Arizona, 1912-2012 - A Cultural and Environmental Chronicle (Paperback)
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From the year of Arizona's statehood to its centennial in 2012,
narratives of the state and its natural landscape have revealed -
and reconfigured - the state's image. Through official state and
federal publications, newspapers, novels, poetry, autobiographies,
and magazines, Kim Engel-Pearson examines narratives of Arizona
that reflect both a century of Euro-American dominance and a
diverse and multilayered cultural landscape. Examining the written
record at twenty-five-year intervals, Writing Arizona, 1912-2012
shows us how the state was created through the writings of both its
inhabitants and its visitors, from pioneer reminiscences of
settling the desert to modern stories of homelessness, and from
early-twentieth-century Native American ""as-told-to""
autobiographies to those written in Natives' own words in the 1970s
and 1980s. Weaving together these written accounts, Engel-Pearson
demonstrates how government leaders' and boosters' promotion of
tourism - often at the expense of minority groups and the
environment - was swiftly complicated by concerns about ethics,
representation, and conservation. Word by word, story by story,
Engel-Pearson depicts an Arizona whose narratives reflect
celebrations of diversity and calls for conservation - yet, at the
same time, a state whose constitution declares only English words
""official."" She reveals Arizona to be constructed, understood,
and inhabited through narratives, a state of words as changeable as
it is timeless.
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