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

"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.

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Place / Publishing House:Tucson : : University of Arizona Press,, 2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (246 pages)
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505 0 |a Timeline of the Texas-Mexico border, 1835-1920 -- Introduction. The Texas-Mexico border : a mythical history -- chapter 1. The collision of cultural memories on the Texas-Mexico border : Walter Prescott Webb's The Texas Rangers : a Century of Frontier Defense, Americo Paredes' George Washington Gomez : a Mexicotexan Novel, and Rolando Hinojosa's The Valley / Estampas del Valle -- chapter 2. Mexico, genesis, apocalypse : Ignacio Solares' Yankee Invasion : a Novel of Mexico City -- chapter 3. The history of all is the history of each : Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, or, Evening Redness in the West -- chapter 4. History's alternative to the past : Carlos Fuentes' The Old Gringo -- chapter 5. The archival cave of meditation in Katherine Anne Porter's Flowering Judas -- chapter 6. Remediating a refusal of history : Arturo Islas' The Rain God : a Desert Tale. 
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