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Title:

True West : authenticity and the American West / edited by William R. Handley and Nathaniel Lewis.

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xi, 370 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--West (U.S.)--History and criticism.
Realism in literature
West (U.S.)--Historiography.
West (U.S.)--In literature.

Other Authors:

Handley, William R.
Lewis, Nathaniel, 1962-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-352) and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Postwestern horizons

ISBN:

9780803224100 (alk. paper)
0803224109 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53020296

LCCN:

2003019518

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)