The West and the word imagining, formatting, and ordering the American West in nineteenth-century global discourse
Western expansion in North America has mainly been described as either a linear sequence energized by nineteenth-century nation-building processes at a moving frontier, or as the practice of settler colonialism and its exploitation of resources and displacement of nonwhite peoples. This book suggest...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
[2020]
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| Series: | Dialectics and the global,
Volume 13 |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009792107506719 |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- On the Series
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Abstract
- Introduction: Imagining the American West
- Historical Background: The West and the World
- Methods and Theories: Doing Over Geography
- Spatialization Processes: Towards a New Language of Space in Literary and Cultural Studies
- Chapter 1: Integrating the Old Northwest through Utopian, Regionalist, Feminist, and Local Colour Discourse
- Chapter 2: The Incommensurable West between Integration and Separation
- Conclusion: Reimagining the American West
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Figures
- Bibliography
- Index
