Swept Out of a Dead Frontier: Apocalypse, Disappearance and the Uncertain Future of the Contemporary Western - Couverture souple

Wattles, Jeremy T

 
9781932842685: Swept Out of a Dead Frontier: Apocalypse, Disappearance and the Uncertain Future of the Contemporary Western
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1932842683 ISBN 13 : 9781932842685
Editeur : Star Cloud Press, 2012

Synopsis

This critical study of Annie Proulx's Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 (2004), Cormac McCarthy's No Country For Old Men (2005), and Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993) uncovers the disconnections between Americans' national myths regarding the West and the challenging realities standing in the way of its sustainable future. Jeremy Wattles reflects on three different portraits of the West (Wyoming, Texas, Washington), and outlines the religious and cultural antecedents to their declarations of apocalypse. His text recognizes these fictions as a sobering check on a stereotypical, nationalistic ideology of self-reliance and providential progress, and offers a reappraisal of American identity in the face of modern economic, environmental and social concerns.

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Éditeur
Star Cloud Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1932842683
ISBN 13 
9781932842685
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
82
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Personne responsable
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