Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing and the Nuclearization of the American Southwest: A Discourse Analytic Approach to W.W.H. Davis's El Gringo New Mexico and Her People

Travel narratives of the nineteenth century frequently became vehicles for colonialist discourse, strategically representing the Other(s) in order to justify their subjugation, and their land as a site of opportunity. W.W.H. Davis's travel narrative, El Gringo: New Mexico and Her People (1857)...

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Main Author: Norstad, Lille Kirsten
Other Authors: Hall, Anne-Marie
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/145450