WhatKamilReads | Demystifying American West | How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang @WhatKamilReads | Uploaded October 2020 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Demystifying American West in new western literature with the focus on How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang, longlisted for 2020 Booker Prize.
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Books mentioned:
How Much of These Hills is Gold
goodreads.com/book/show/45895362-how-much-of-these-hills-is-gold
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
by Cormac McCarthy
goodreads.com/book/show/394535.Blood_Meridian_or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy #1) by Cormac McCarthy
goodreads.com/book/show/469571.All_the_Pretty_Horses
The Crossing (The Border Trilogy #2) by Cormac McCarthy
goodreads.com/book/show/365990.The_Crossing
Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy #3) by Cormac McCarthy
goodreads.com/book/show/40470.Cities_of_the_Plain
Sources:
Introduction: Storying the West in Postfrontier Literature
David Rio and Øyunn Hestetun
“Cormac McCarthy’s The Road : Rewriting the Myth of the American West 1
Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz”
ANGLING FOR REPOSE:
WALLACE STEGNER AND THE DE-MYTHOLOGIZING OF THE AMERICAN WEST by Jennie A. Camp
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1004&context=dps_fac
Chinese Railroad Workers Were Almost Written Out of History. Now They’re Getting Their Due.
nytimes.com/2019/05/14/us/golden-spike-utah-railroad-150th-anniversary.html
How a Chinese-American Novelist Wrote Herself Into the Wild West
nytimes.com/2020/04/04/books/c-pam-zhang-how-much-of-these-hills-is-gold.html
The myth of the cowboy
theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/20/myth-of-the-cowboy
Chinese Immigrants and the Gold Rush
pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goldrush-chinese-immigrants
Barcley Owens
Western Myths in “All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing”.
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Find me at:
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instagram.com/whatkamilreads/?hl=en
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Demystifying American West in new western literature with the focus on How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang, longlisted for 2020 Booker Prize.
---------------------------
Books mentioned:
How Much of These Hills is Gold
goodreads.com/book/show/45895362-how-much-of-these-hills-is-gold
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
by Cormac McCarthy
goodreads.com/book/show/394535.Blood_Meridian_or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy #1) by Cormac McCarthy
goodreads.com/book/show/469571.All_the_Pretty_Horses
The Crossing (The Border Trilogy #2) by Cormac McCarthy
goodreads.com/book/show/365990.The_Crossing
Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy #3) by Cormac McCarthy
goodreads.com/book/show/40470.Cities_of_the_Plain
Sources:
Introduction: Storying the West in Postfrontier Literature
David Rio and Øyunn Hestetun
“Cormac McCarthy’s The Road : Rewriting the Myth of the American West 1
Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz”
ANGLING FOR REPOSE:
WALLACE STEGNER AND THE DE-MYTHOLOGIZING OF THE AMERICAN WEST by Jennie A. Camp
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1004&context=dps_fac
Chinese Railroad Workers Were Almost Written Out of History. Now They’re Getting Their Due.
nytimes.com/2019/05/14/us/golden-spike-utah-railroad-150th-anniversary.html
How a Chinese-American Novelist Wrote Herself Into the Wild West
nytimes.com/2020/04/04/books/c-pam-zhang-how-much-of-these-hills-is-gold.html
The myth of the cowboy
theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/20/myth-of-the-cowboy
Chinese Immigrants and the Gold Rush
pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goldrush-chinese-immigrants
Barcley Owens
Western Myths in “All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing”.
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Find me at:
Instagram:
instagram.com/whatkamilreads/?hl=en
goodreads:
goodreads.com/user/show/23253765-kamil
