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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Main Author: Angel Chaparro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Almeria 2017-03-01
Series:Odisea
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Online Access:http://ojs.ual.es/ojs/index.php/ODISEA/article/view/310