In Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West,
William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the Western
American past. Handley argues that although scholarship provides a
narrative of western history that counters optimistic story of
frontier individualism by focusing on the victims of conquest,
twentieth-century American fiction tells a different story of
intra-ethnic violence surrounding marriages and families. He
examines works of historiography,as well as writing by Zane Grey,
Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner and Joan Didion among others, to
argue that these works highlight white Americans' anxiety about
what happens to American 'character' when domestic enemies such as
Indians and Mormon polygamists, against whom the nation had defined
itself in the nineteenth century, no longer threaten its homes.
Handley explains that once its enemies are gone, imperialism brings
violence home in retrospective narratives that allegorise national
pasts and futures through intimate relationships.
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