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Stories of Old: The Imagined West & the Crisis of Historical Symbology in the 1970s (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis Studia an Series, 106) - Softcover
What happened to the American West as a cultural expression in the 1970s? Despite proclamations of its death, as a collection of representations the West continued to provide writers with material for the negotiation of American history and identity.
But it was a distinctly different West that emerged from the pages of such writers as Don DeLillo, Robert Coover, Jean Didlen, and Tom Wolfe.
In this study, the imagined West of these writers and of others who employed images of the past in literature, movies, political rhetoric, commercial enterprises, and historiographical writing comes under scrutiny.
It is an analysis of a historical symbology that was of critical importance to the construction of national identity during a time of cultural and social instability.
But it was a distinctly different West that emerged from the pages of such writers as Don DeLillo, Robert Coover, Jean Didlen, and Tom Wolfe.
In this study, the imagined West of these writers and of others who employed images of the past in literature, movies, political rhetoric, commercial enterprises, and historiographical writing comes under scrutiny.
It is an analysis of a historical symbology that was of critical importance to the construction of national identity during a time of cultural and social instability.
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- PublisherUppsala Universitet
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 9155444369
- ISBN 13 9789155444365
- BindingPaperback
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