| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
True West :/ edited by William R. Handley and Nathaniel Lewis |
| Reminder of title: |
authenticity and the American West / |
| other author: |
Handley, William R. |
| Published: |
Lincoln :University of Nebraska Press, : 2004., |
| Description: |
1 v. |
| Series: |
Postwestern horizons |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Part I. Rhetorics of Authenticity. Truth or consequences : projecting authenticity in the 1830s / Nathaniel Lewis -- Cowgirls and sage hens : Henry Adams's western fantasy/ Lisa MacFarlane -- Getting the real story : implications of the demand for authenticity in writings from the Canadian West / Alison Calder -- Willa Cather : "The West authentic," the West Divided/ William R. Handley -- Part II. Authenticity and Native American Cultures. Simulations of authenticity : imagined Indians and sacred landscape from New Age to nature writing/ Drucilla Mims Wall -- "Real Indian art" : Charles Eastman's search for an authenticating culture concept Christine Edwards Allred -- The only real Indians are Western ones : authenticity, regionalism, and Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, or Sylvester Long / Nancy Cook -- The authenticity game : "Getting Real" in contemporary American Indian literature / Susan Bernardin -- Part III. Picturing Histories. Edward Curtis : pictorialist and ethnographic adventurist / Gerald Vizenor -- Animal calling/calling animal : threshold space in Frederic Remington's Coming to the call / Stephen Tatum -- "Cameras and photographs were not permitted in the camps" : photographic documentation and distortion in Japanese American internment narratives/ Melody Graulich -- Part IV. Reimagining Place. Authenticity, occupancy, and credibility : Rick Bass and the rhetoric of protecting place / Scott Slovic -- Authoring an authentic place : environmental and literary stewardship in Stegner and Kittredge/ Bonney MacDonald -- "Genealogy is in our blood" : Terry Tempest Williams and the redemption of "Native" Mormonism / Joanna Brooks -- Authentic re-creations : ideology, practice, and regional history along Buena Park's entertainment corridor/ Hsuan L. Hsu. |
| Subject: |
American literature - History and criticism. - West (U.S.) - |
| Subject: |
West (U.S.) - Historiography. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=103464An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0803203993 (electronic bk.) |