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Becoming Western

Stories of Culture and Identity in the Cowboy State

Autor: Liza Nicholas
Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Brožovaná
Vydavatel: University of Nebraska Press
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
Odesíláme za 14-21 dnů
500 Kč
In the Cowboy State (also known as Wyoming), the Wild West has never died. The West has long been th...

Informace o knize

Autor
Liza Nicholas
Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydáno
2008
Stránek
218
EAN
9780803220690
ISBN
0803220693
Enbook ID
04922611
Vydavatel
University of Nebraska Press
Hmotnost
374
Rozměry
152 x 229 x 14

Kompletní popis

In the Cowboy State (also known as Wyoming), the Wild West has never died. The West has long been the favored repository of the East's cultural fantasies, and in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Eastern expectations and demands largely shaped Wyoming's image in this role. Becoming Western shows how the myth of the "American West" has acted as a force both in history and in individual lives. Liza J. Nicholas interrogates the creation of Western lore by looking at five stories that focus on, respectively, Jack Flagg, a Wyoming legend and the supposed model for Owen Wister's Virginian; an equestrian statue of Buffalo Bill sculpted by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; the dude ranch; the creation of the American studies program at Yale; and a campaign for the U.S. Senate. Each story reveals the ways in which the East consciously imagined and manipulated the West and how Wyomingites in turn interpreted this identity, manipulated it, and put it to work for themselves. Becoming Western is a fascinating study of how invented traditions can become potent cultural and political ideology on a local as well as a national level. Liza J. Nicholas is an adjunct professor at Montana State University and an independent scholar. She is the coeditor of Imagining the Big Open: Nature, Identity, and Play in the New West.

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