Manifest and other destinies
Subtitle: territorial fictions of the nineteenth-century United States
By: Stephanie LeMenager.
Series: Postwestern horizons
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Literature and history -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century; American fiction -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism; Western stories -- History and criticism; Frontier and pioneer life in literature; West (U.S.) -- In literature; United States -- Territorial expansion -- History -- 19th century
Description: "Manifest and Other Destinies critiques Manifest Destiny's exclusive claim as an explanatory national story in order to rethink the meaning and boundaries of the West and of the United States' national identity. Stephanie LeMenager considers the American West before it became a trusted symbol of U.S. national character or a distinct literary region in the later nineteenth century, back when the West was undeniably many wests, defined by international economic networks linking diverse territories and peoples from the Caribbean to the Pacific coast."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-274) and index.