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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beebee, Thomas O.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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.