Millennial literatures of the Americas, 1492-2002 /
This study explores literary treatments of the end of the world in an array of works which appeared over the course of a 500-year span throughout the Americas. Beebee provides nuanced readings of the apocalyptic vision in an eclectic group of resources, ranging from letters of Christopher Columbus t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Series: | Imagining the Americas.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Eschatechnologies of the Americas
- The new Jerusalem : land without evil
- Hybrid messiahs
- Tribulations of the late nineteenth century
- Kingdoms of this world : millennial literature as reflective dissonance
- Golden UFOs : Ernesto Cardenal and millennial ufology
- The old, millennial America : Bob Dylan and the traditions
- The DNA of the lamb : the race for the end (times) in American millennial fiction.