Stories of old : the imagined West and the crisis of historical symbology in the 1970s

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS = 11
• INTRODUCTION : Approaching the Imagined West = 13
• Part Ⅰ
• CHAPTER ONE
• Imagining the American West : History, Ideology, Culture = 19
• History = 20
• Ideology = 22
• Culture = 27
• Conclusion = 31
• CHAPTER TWO
• "The Open Continent" : The Imagined West in Political, Intellectual, and Economic Discourse = 33
• The Lost Frontier c. 1900-1932 = 34
• The New Deal and the Old Frontier = 37
• The Cold War and Mid-Century American Capitalism = 40
• Kennedy's New Frontier = 45
• The Crises of the 1970s = 49
• The Politics of the Marketplace in the 1980s = 53
• Conclusion = 54
• CHAPTER THREE
• Selling Images : The Imagined West in Popular and Commercial Culture = 58
• A New Medium for the Western = 63
• Television and the Cold-WarWestern = 66
• The Western and the Crisis of Historical Symbology = 69
• The Unchanging West of the Formula Western = 70
• Selling the West in Fashion and Advertising = 72
• Conclusion = 76
• CHAPTER FOUR
• Letters of Intent : Rethinking the Imagined West in Literature = 80
• The Literary Origins of the Imagined West = 82
• An Emerging Post-Consensus West = 86
• A New Ethnic West = 88
• The Fabulistic West = 90
• New Western Journeys = 94
• A Remythologized West = 98
• The Environmental Western = 99
• Vietnam and After = 101
• The Gendered West = 104
• Conclusion = 105
• Part Ⅱ
• CHAPTER FIVE
• Unmaking Identities : Going West in Don DeLillo's Americana = 107
• History as Conspiracy = 109
• Cultural Reference as Historical Knowledge = 111
• History and the Commodification of the Self = 116
• Post-Consumerism and the Quest for Identity = 119
• Mediated History = 123
• The Failed Journey to the West = 125
• Conclusion = 134
• CHAPTER SIX
• Redressing History : Telling Tales in Robert Coover's The Public Burning = 136
• Fabula, History, and the Literary Carnival = 138
• Politics and Cold War = 141
• Uncle Sam and Imagined Nationhood = 146
• Reshaping the Popular Image = 150
• Language as History, History as Language = 156
• Political Potency and the Male Imagination = 157
• Conclusion = 160
• CHAPTER SEVEN
• Narrating Place : Geography and Anxiety in Joan Didion's The White Album = 163
• Telling a Geography of Self = 165
• The West as Place and Public Space = 169
• Of Other Western Spaces = 175
• Harnessing Western Nature = 180
• Constructing Geography = 185
• Conclusion = 190
• CHAPTER EIGHT
• Reclaiming the Moral High Ground : Frontiers Old and New in Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff = 193
• Historical Nostalgia in the Late 1970s = 195
• The Return of the Hero Figure = 199
• Social Outlaws and Real Americans = 204
• The Appropriation of the Frontier = 207
• Symbolic Antagonism and the Right to History = 212
• Conclusion = 220
• CONCLUSION : Coming to Terms with the Imagined West = 223
• WORKS CITED = 230
• INDEX = 244