Travel Narratives from New Mexico:  Reconstructing Identity and Truth
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction: Other New Mexico Travel Voices

1

Chapter 1: New Mexico's Genesis as Symbolic Landscape

17

Chapter 2: Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop: Transmitting Roman Catholic and Western Order to an Unregenerate New Mexico

29

Chapter 3: Mabel Dodge Luhan's Edge of Taos Desert: An Escape to Reality: The Return to an Imagined “Time Before” as Cure for the Illness of Western Modernity

71

Chapter 4: Kate Horsley's Crazy Woman: Travel to an In-between State

113

Chapter 5: Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony: Talking Back to Discursive Destruction

145

Conclusion: New Mexico Travel: An Ongoing Narrative

175

Bibliography

185

Index

195