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Etats de l'Ouest (Etats-Unis) dans la littérature --- West [U.S.] -- in literature --- West [U.S.] in literature --- Westelijke staten (Verenigde Staten) in de literatuur --- American literature --- Women authors, American --- History and criticism. --- West (U.S.) --- In literature. --- History and criticism --- Bio-bibliography --- Women authors [American ] --- Biography --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- American women authors

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Western stories --- Historians --- Authors, American --- Historiographers --- Scholars --- Authorship. --- Stegner, Wallace, --- Stegner, Wallace Earle, --- West (U.S.) --- In literature. --- Historiography. --- West (U.S.) in literature --- Interviews --- Authorship --- Interviews. --- Authors, American - 20th century - Interviews --- Historians - United States - Interviews --- Western stories - Authorship --- Stegner, Wallace Earle, - 1909- - Interviews. --- West (U.S.) - Historiography. --- Stegner, Wallace Earle, - 1909 --- -West (U.S.)

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The test of western literature has invariably been Is it real? Is it accurate? Authentic? The result is a standard anything but literary, as Nathaniel Lewis observes in this ambitious work, a wholesale rethinking of the critical terms and contexts-and thus of the very nature-of western writing. Why is western writing virtually missing from the American literary canon but a frequent success in the marketplace? The skewed status of western literature, Lewis contends, can be directly attributed to the strategies of the region's writers, and these strategies depend consistently on the claim of authenticity. A perusal of western American authorship reveals how these writers effectively present themselves as accurate and reliable recorders of real places, histories, and cultures-but not as stylists or inventors. The imaginative qualities of this literature are thus obscured in the name of authentic reproduction. Through a study of a set of western authors and their relationships to literary and cultural history, Lewis offers a reconsideration of the deceptive and often undervalued history of western American literature. With unequivocal admiration for the literature under scrutiny, Lewis exposes the potential for startling new readings once western writing is freed from its insistence on a questionable authenticity. His book sets out a broader system of inquiry that points writers and critics of western literature in the direction of a new and truly sustaining literary tradition.

Frontier and pioneer life in literature. --- Western stories --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- West (U.S.) --- In literature. --- Intellectual life. --- History and criticism --- Intellectual life --- West [U.S.] in literature --- American fiction --- Norris, Frank --- Criticism and interpretation --- Miller, Joaquin, 1837?-1913 --- Environmental literature

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Since World War II, the American West has become the nation's military arsenal, proving ground, and disposal site. Through a wide-ranging discussion of recent literature produced in and about the West, Dirty Wars explores how the region's iconic landscapes, invested with myths of national virtue, have obscured the West's crucial role in a post-World War II age of "permanent war."

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In Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West, William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the Western American past. Handley argues that although scholarship provides a narrative of western history that counters optimistic story of frontier individualism by focusing on the victims of conquest, twentieth-century American fiction tells a different story of intra-ethnic violence surrounding marriages and families. He examines works of historiography,as well as writing by Zane Grey, Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner and Joan Didion among others, to argue that these works highlight white Americans' anxiety about what happens to American 'character' when domestic enemies such as Indians and Mormon polygamists, against whom the nation had defined itself in the nineteenth century, no longer threaten its homes. Handley explains that once its enemies are gone, imperialism brings violence home in retrospective narratives that allegorise national pasts and futures through intimate relationships.

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