Las Vegas Is a Faithful Mormon City: Phyllis Barber’s Search for Identity through Fiction and Place
Abstract: In Phyllis Barber’s memoir How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir, Las Vegas exercises a pivotal role. The Mormon ideals of purity, modesty and chastity do not come to mind when thinking of Las Vegas. Barber’s literature is a literary search for identity, and identity that allows good and evi...
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Language: | English |
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Universidad de Almeria
2017-03-01
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Series: | Odisea |
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Online Access: | http://ojs.ual.es/ojs/index.php/ODISEA/article/view/310 |