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RE-Imagining the Modern American West - A Century of Fiction, History, and Art (Paperback, New)
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RE-Imagining the Modern American West - A Century of Fiction, History, and Art (Paperback, New)
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Total price: R920
Discovery Miles: 9 200
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From the Mississippi west to the Pacific, from border to border
north and south, here is the first thorough overview of novelists,
historians, and artists of the modern American West. Examining a
full century of cultural-intellectual forces at work, a leading
authority on the twentieth-century West brings his formidable
talents to bear in this pioneering study. Richard W. Etulain
divides his book into three major sections. He begins with the
period from the 1890s to the 1920s, when artists and authors were
inventing an idealized frontier--especially one depicting initial
contacts and conflicts with new landscapes and new peoples. The
second section covers the regionalists, who focused on regional
(mostly geographical) characteristics that shaped distinctively
"western" traits of character and institutions. The book concludes
with a discussion of the postregional West from World War II to the
?90s, a period when novelists, historians, and artists stressed
ethnicity, gender, and a new environmentalism as powerful forces in
the formation of modern western society and culture. Etulain casts
a wide net in his new study. He discusses novelists from Jack
London to John Steinbeck and on to Joan Didion. He covers
historians from Frederick Jackson Turner to Earl Pomeroy and
Patricia Nelson Limerick, and artists from Frederic Remington and
Charles Russell to Georgia O?Keeffe and R. C. Gorman. The author
places emphasis on women painters and authors such as Mary Hallock
Foote, Mary Austin, Willa Cather, and Judith Baca. He also stresses
important works of ethnic writers including Leslie Marmon Silko,
Rudolfo Anaya, and Amy Tan. An intriguing survey of tendencies and
trends and a well-defined profile of influences and outgrowths,
this book will be valuable to students and scholars of western
culture and history, American studies, and related disciplines.
General readers will appreciate the book's balanced structure and
spirited writing style. All readers, whatever their level of
interest, will discover the major cultural inventions of the
American West over the past one hundred years.
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