How myth became history : Texas exceptionalism in the borderlands /

The book explores how border subjects have been created and disputed in cultural narratives of the Texas-Mexico border, comparing and analyzing Mexican, Mexican American and Anglo literary representations of the border.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dean, John Emory (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2016]
Subjects:	American literature > History and criticism. Mexican literature > History and criticism. Mexican-American Border Region > In literature. Nationalism and literature. Literature and history. Texas > Historiography.

Table of Contents:

Timeline of the Texas-Mexico border, 1835-1920
Introduction. The Texas-Mexico border : a mythical history
1. The collision of cultural memories on the Texas-Mexico border : Walter Prescott Webb's The Texas Rangers : a Century of Frontier Defense, Américo Paredes' George Washington Gómez : a Mexicotexan Novel, and Rolando Hinojosa's The Valley / Estampas del Valle
2. Mexico, genesis, apocalypse : Ignacio Solares' Yankee Invasion : a Novel of Mexico City
3. The history of all is the history of each : Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, or, Evening Redness in the West
4. History's alternative to the past : Carlos Fuentes' The Old Gringo
5. The archival cave of meditation in Katherine Anne Porter's Flowering Judas
6. Remediating a refusal of history : Arturo Islas' The Rain God : a Desert Tale
Epilogue.