American Mythologies [electronic resource] : Essays on Contemporary Literature
Blazek, William.
Glenday, Michael.
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,
2005.
In United States culture, myth has played a significant role in representing the dominant ideologies of the nation as it emerged from colonial dependence to self-created superstate. In the period following the Vietnam War, however, such foundation myth has been radically challenged by the emergence of a range of new myths that set out to express America's multicultural ethos. This essay collection questions the legacy of triumphalist mythology and explores the emergence of a more pluralistic, syncretic mythology that is central to the continual re-imagining of American communities. The thirtee
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Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1: Indians with Voices: Revisiting Savagism and Civilization; 2: Wild Hope: Love, Money and Mythic Identity in the Novels of Louise Erdrich; 3: Float like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee: Mythologies of Representation in Selected Writings on Boxing by Norman Mailer; 4: The Secret Sharing: Myth and Memory in the Writing of Jayne Anne Phillips; 5: The Individual's Ghost: Towards a New Mythology of the Postmodern; 6: 'Cheap, On Sale, American Dream': Contemporary Asian American Women Writers' Responses to American Success Mythologies
7: 'No Way Back Forever': American Western Myth in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy8: Native American Visions of Apocalypse: Prophecy and Protest in the Fiction of Leslie Marmon Silko and Gerald Vizenor; 9: The Brave New World of Computing in Post-war American Science Fiction; 10: Mythologies of 'Ecstatic immersion': America, The Poem and the Ethics of Lyric in Jorie Graham and Lisa Jarnot; 11: Whose Myth is it Anyway? Coyote in the Poetry of Gary Snyder and Simon J. Ortiz; 12: Aging, Anxious and Apocalyptic: Baseball's Myths for the Millennium
13: Finding a Voice, Telling a Story: Constructing Communal Identity in Contemporary American Women's WritingNotes on Contributors; Index
In United States culture, myth has played a significant role in representing the dominant ideologies of the nation as it emerged from colonial dependence to self-created superstate. In the period following the Vietnam War, however, such foundation myth has been radically challenged by the emergence of a range of new myths that set out to express America's multicultural ethos. This essay collection questions the legacy of triumphalist mythology and explores the emergence of a more pluralistic, syncretic mythology that is central to the continual re-imagining of American communities. The thirtee
American literature.
Indian mythology in literature.
Race in literature.