Claiming, Corrupting, Contesting: Reconsidering "The West" in Western American Literature

Padget, Martin

doi:10.1093/alh/10.2.378

“…representaciones culturales sobre el Oeste americano ha asociado su realidad con una 'cultura de la violencia'. La veracidad de esta concepción ha sido estudiada por Padget (1998) y DiLorenzo (2010), aunque el auténtico interés se ha centrado en la violencia racial y contra minorías (Blackhawk, 2009;Dykstra, 2009) y/o la violencia de género (Graulich, 1984;Butler, 1997;McKanna, 1997;Jacobs, 2009). Este artículo analiza la novela de Merino como una representación, construida desde una perspectiva española y migrante, de los diferentes tipos de violencia ejecutados y padecidos por las mujeres en la cotidianidad propia del Oeste americano actual.…”

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Tornados cotidianos: mujeres y violencia en el Oeste americano a través de El mapa de los afectos de Ana Merino

Saravia¹

2020

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Este artículo analiza la representación literaria de las experiencias de violencia de las mujeres del Oeste americano actual. La fuente escogida es la novela coral El mapa de los afectos (2020) de Ana Merino, construcción ficcional que ofrece una perspectiva española y migrante de los Estados Unidos. Tomando como punto focal del estudio a las protagonistas de la novela, se exploran los diferentes perfiles de mujer construidos atendiendo a la interseccionalidad de factores como su origen nacional y/o étnico y clase social, así como los diversos constructos culturales y contextuales que generan la violencia.

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“…Campbell notes that word 'West' in Western literature may mean "a fixed, permanent geographical and ideological fact" (as cited in Hamilton & Hillard, 2014, p. 9) while, according to Padget (1998): the very word West may suggest Euro-American narratives of westward expansion and a more general process of colonization through which Native Americans and Mexican national and immigrant populations were incorporated into the US during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (p. 380) The statement mythically pictures the superiority of Euro-American colonization to the Native American and Mexican American in the nineteenth century. In addition, some experts denote the 'West' as frontier melting pot, symbol and myth of American origin, Euro-American settlement expanding westward and advancement of American global militarism (Baym, 2006, p. 806;Dasgupta, 1969, p. 61;Paul, 2014, p. 312).…”

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Formulating Western Fiction in Garrett Touch of Texas

Kasih¹

2018

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Western fiction as one of the popular novels has some common conventions such as the setting of life in frontier filled with natural ferocity and uncivilized people. This type of fiction also has a hero who is usually a ranger or cowboy. This study aims to find a Western fiction formula and look for new things that may appear in the novel Touch of Texas as a Western novel. Taking the original convention of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, this study also looks for the invention and convention of Touch of Texas by using Cawelti's formula theory. The study finds that Garrett's Touch of Texas not only features a natural malignancy against civilization, a ranger as a single hero, and a love story, but also shows an element of revenge and the other side of a neglected minority life. A hero or ranger in this story comes from a minority group, a mixture of white blood and Indians. The romance story also shows a different side. The woman in the novel is not the only one to be saved, but a Ranger is too, especially from the wounds and ridicule of the population as a ranger of mixed blood. The story ends with a romantic tale between Jake and Rachel. Further research can be done to find the development of western genre with other genres such as detective and mystery.

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Formulating Western Fiction in Garrett <i>Touch of Texas</i>

Kasih

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Ngestirosa²

2018

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Western fiction as one of the popular novels has some common conventions such as the setting of life in frontier filled with natural ferocity and uncivilized people. This type of fiction also has a hero who is usually a ranger or cowboy. This study aims to find a Western fiction formula and look for new things that may appear in the novel Touch of Texas as a Western novel. Taking the original convention of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, this study also looks for the invention and convention of Touch of Texas by using Cawelti's formula theory. The study finds that Garrett's Touch of Texas not only features a natural malignancy against civilization, a ranger as a single hero, and a love story, but also shows an element of revenge and the other side of a neglected minority life. A hero or ranger in this story comes from a minority group, a mixture of white blood and Indians. The romance story also shows a different side. The woman in the novel is not the only one to be saved, but a Ranger is too, especially from the wounds and ridicule of the population as a ranger of mixed blood. The story ends with a romantic tale between Jake and Rachel. Further research can be done to find the development of western genre with other genres such as detective and mystery.

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Claiming, Corrupting, Contesting: Reconsidering "The West" in Western American Literature

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Tornados cotidianos: mujeres y violencia en el Oeste americano a través de El mapa de los afectos de Ana Merino

Tornados cotidianos: mujeres y violencia en el Oeste americano a través de El mapa de los afectos de Ana Merino

Formulating Western Fiction in Garrett Touch of Texas

Formulating Western Fiction in Garrett <i>Touch of Texas</i>

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