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8 produkter
The Cowboy
Representations of Labor in an American Work Culture
Inbunden, 1993
2031 kr
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The Cowboy uses literary, historical, folkloric, and pop cultural sources to document the cowboy's role in the culture of the American West. In doing so, Allmendinger makes use of early oral poems recited by cowboys in the course of their work, and later poems, histories, and autobiographies …
Over the Edge
Remapping the American West
Av Valerie J. Matsumoto, Blake Allmendinger
Häftad, 1999
412 kr
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From the Gold Rush to rush hour, the history of the American West is fraught with diverse, subversive, and at times downright eccentric elements. This provocative volume challenges traditional readings of western history and literature, and redraws the boundaries of the American West with absorbing …
Over the Edge
Remapping the American West
Av Blake Allmendinger, Valerie J. Matsumoto
E-bok, 1999
482 kr
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From the Gold Rush to rush hour, the history of the American West is fraught with diverse, subversive, and at times downright eccentric elements. This provocative volume challenges traditional readings of western history and literature, and redraws the boundaries of the American West with absorbing …
Imagining the African American West
Häftad, 2008
251 kr
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The literature of the African American West is the last racial discourse of the region that remains unexplored. Blake Allmendinger addresses this void in literary and cultural studies with Imagining the African American West—the first comprehensive study of African American literature on the early …
Melon Capital of the World
A Memoir
Inbunden, 2015
367 kr
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In this psychologically gripping memoir, Blake Allmendinger returns to his childhood home after a forty-year absence. His homecoming to the struggling farming community of Rocky Ford, Colorado, formerly known as the Melon Capital of the World, forces the author to confront his own sad and …
A History of California Literature
Inbunden, 2015
2238 kr
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Blake Allmendinger's A History of California Literature surveys the paradoxical image of the Golden State as a site of dreams and disenchantment, formidable beginnings and ruinous ends. This history encompasses the prismatic nature of California by exploring a variety of historical periods, …
Geographic Personas
Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West
Inbunden, 2021
722 kr
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During the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as the American West underwent a series of transformations, certain pivotal figures also undertook a process of self-transformation. Geographic Personas reveals a practice of public performance, impersonation, deception, and fraud, exposing the …
Tongues of Settlement
Where the World Becomes Basque
Inbunden, 2025
722 kr
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Known for their cultural traditions, celebrated cuisine, and distinct language, Basque peoples originated in a small area in the Pyrenees Mountains called Euskal Herria, or the Basque Country. Over the centuries, large numbers of Basques have left their homeland to settle throughout Spain, France, …
