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1 online resource (viii, 305 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Liverpool University Press - Liverpool English Texts and Studies
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Liverpool University Press - Liverpool English Texts and Studies.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Indians with voices: revisiting Savagism and civilization -- Wild hope: love, money and mythic identity in the novels of Louise Erdich -- Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee: mythologies of representation in selected writings on boxing by Norman Mailer -- The secret sharing: myth and memory in the writing of Jayne Anne Phillips -- The individual's ghost: towards a new mythology of the postmodern -- 'Cheap, on sale, American dream': contemporary Asian American writers' responses to American success mythologies -- 'No way back forever': American western myth in Cormac McCarthy's Border trilogy -- Native American visions of apocalypse: prophecy and protest in the fiction of Leslie Marmon Silko and Gerald Vizenor -- The brave new world of computing in post-war American science fiction -- Mythologies of 'estactic immersion': America, the poem and ethics of lyric in Jorie Graham and Lisa Jarnot -- Whose myth is it anyway? Coyote in the poetry of Gary Snyder and Simon J. Ortiz -- Aging, anxious and apocalyptic: baseball's myths for the millennium -- Finding a voice, telling a story: constructing communal identity in contemporary American women's writing. |
| Summary |
In United States culture, myth has played a significant role in representing the dominant ideologies of the nation as it emerged from colonial dependence to self-created superstate. In the period following the Vietnam War, however, such foundation myth has been radically challenged by the emergence of a range of new myths that set out to express America?s multicultural ethos. This essay collection questions the legacy of triumphalist mythology and explores the emergence of a more pluralistic, syncretic mythology that is central to the continual re-imagining of American communities. The thirtee. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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20th century |
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American literature -- Indian authors.
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American literature -- Indian authors. |
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Indian mythology in literature.
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Indian mythology in literature. |
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Race in literature.
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Race in literature. |
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1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Blazek, William.
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Glenday, Michael K.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: American mythologies. Liverpool [England] : Liverpool University Press, 2005 0853237360 9780853237365 (OCoLC)57751378 |
| ISBN |
9781846312540 (electronic book) |
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184631254X (electronic book) |
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9780853237464 (paperback) |
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0853237468 (paperback) |
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0853237360 (hardback) |
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9780853237365 (hardback) |
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