Searching for Yellowstone: Race, Gender, Family and Memory in the Postmodern West

Norman K. Denzin

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Abstract

Yellowstone. Sacagawea. Lewis & Clark. Transcontinental railroad. Indians as college mascots. All are iconic figures, symbols of the West in the Anglo-American imagination. Well-known cultural critic Norman Denzin interrogates each of these icons for their cultural meaning in this finely woven work. Part autoethnography, part historical narrative, part art criticism, part cultural theory, Denzin creates a postmodern bricolage of images, staged dramas, quotations, reminiscences and stories that strike to the essence of the American dream and the shattered dreams of the peoples it subjugated.

Original languageEnglish (US)
PublisherRoutledge
Number of pages247
ISBN (Electronic)9781315420370
ISBN (Print)9781598743203, 9781598743197
DOIs
StatePublished - May 15 2008

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Social Sciences

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