![]() ![]() ![]() The fifteen essays collected here apply contemporary critical and cultural theory to western literary history, Native American literature and identities, the visual West, and the imagining of place. True West explores the concept of authenticity as it is used to invent, test, advertise, and read the West. Given the ongoing economic and social transformations in this vast region, the persistent nostalgia and desire for the "real" authentic West suggest regional and national identities at odds with themselves. Though pervasive in literature, popular culture, and history, assumptions about western authenticity have not received adequate critical attention. In no other region of the United States has the notion of authenticity played such an important yet elusive role as it has in the West. ![]()
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