Narrating the American West: New Forms of Historical Memory
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Synecdochic Life Writing in Fight Back: For the Sake of the People, For the Sake of the Land

65

Chapter 3: Wounding, Survival, and Authorship in William Kittredge’s Hole in the Sky: A Memoir and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Storyteller

89

Breaking Down the Mythology of Ownership: Confession and Disempowerment in Hole in the Sky: A Memoir

89

The Web of Survival: Multiform Autobiography as Resistance in Storyteller

109

Chapter 4: “Like all emigrants caught between here and there”: Crossing Borders in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo

127

Weaving Collective Identities

133

Challenging Generic Boundaries

136

Reworking Gender Relations

137

Revising Rigid Notions of Race

140

Destabilizing the Geographic Nation

144

Reading Literature as History

145

Borderland Dislocations in the New West

147

Conclusion: Multiform Narratives and the Rewriting of History

151

Notes

159

Bibliography

173

Index

205