Updating the literary west
12-Nov-2019 01:07
Given in honor of District Governor Hugh Summers and Mrs.
If it is a truism that facing west was the American male version of invoking the Muse, what happened if you were female?Handley argues that although scholarship provides a narrative of western history that counters optimistic story of frontier individualism by focusing on the victims of conquest, twentieth-century American fiction tells a different story of intra-ethnic violence surrounding marriages and families.