“…The Big Thicket of East Texas, which at one time covered over two million acres, served as a barrier to civilizations throughout most of historic times. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Loaded with the Past, Coloring the Present: The Power of Gun Imaginaries / 2 We are Texas Because of Guns: Firearms in Texan and “American” Imaginaries / 3 The Founding Fathers in the Temporal Imaginaries of Texas Gun Politics / 4 “I Forgive Him, Yes”: Gendered Trauma Narratives of the Texas Tower Shooting / 5 Triggered: The Imaginary Realities of Campus Carry in Texas / 6 Radical Political Imagination and Generational Utopias: Gun Control as a Site of Youth Activism / 7 Pro-Campus Carry Video Imaginaries at The University of Texas Austin / 8 Firearms Fetishism in Texas: Entanglements of Gun Imaginaries and Belief / 9 Imaging Texas Gun Culture: A Photo Essay / 10 The Explanatory, Social, and Performative Power of Gun Imaginaries / Index…”

“…In addition to the exploration of these two plays, this folklore miscellany contains essays on the decoration of graves in Central Texas with sea shells; camp meetings with vigorous preaching and religious seizures; Black Easter-April 14, 1935-during the Dust Bowl, when the people of the Texas Panhandle watched a rolling black cloudbank bearing down on them; Semaña Santa (Holy Week) in Seville, Spain; marriage customs in Thessaly and Macedonia; the Johannesburg mine dances, and much more…”

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Acceso restringido, con credenciales UPSA