{"product_id":"geographic-personas-self-transformation-and-performance-in-the-american-west-hardback-9781496225061","title":"Geographic Personas; Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West (Hardback) 9781496225061","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGeographic Personas\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSelf-Transformation and Performance in the American West\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBlake Allmendinger (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496225061\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 June 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e228 pages, Index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Blake Allmendinger's \u003ci\u003eGeographic Personas\u003c\/i\u003e offers a well-researched and engaging analysis of reinvention and self-transformation in the American West.\"-Susan Kollin, \u003ci\u003eWestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Allmendinger interweaves a bevy of first-hand, contemporaneous accounts with more-recent literary examinations.\"-K. Edgerton, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"An engaging and insightful story.\"-Richard Stott, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Arizona History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Allmendinger’s chapters combine literary and cultural criticism with brief, pungent biographies. The endnotes alone provide a rich tour of some strange and illuminating byways. The learning is carried very lightly and provides another welcome installment in the Allmendinger project.”-David Wyatt, author of \u003ci\u003eWhen America Turned: Reckoning with 1968\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDuring the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as the American West underwent a series of transformations, certain pivotal figures also undertook a process of self-transformation. \u003ci\u003eGeographic Personas\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a practice of public performance, impersonation, deception, and fraud, exposing the secret lives of men and women who capitalized on changes occurring in the region. These changes affected the arts; land ownership; scientific exploration; definitions of race, gender, and sexual orientation; and relations between the United States and other countries throughout the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In addition to well-known figures such as Clarence King and Willa Cather, \u003ci\u003eGeographic Personas\u003c\/i\u003e examines lesser-known players in the performative process of westward expansion, including Isadora Duncan, the founder of modern American dance; Polish actress Helena Modjeska; Adolf Hitler’s favorite author, Karl May; Japanese poet Yone Noguchi; Sylvester Long, a mixed-race star of Native American silent films whose mother was born into slavery; and the perpetrator of the greatest land grant hoax in U.S. history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e While scholars have written about the environmental, demographic, and economic changes that occurred in the West during the nineteenth century, Allmendinger adds a crucial piece to this dialogue. He brings to light the experiences of artists, dancers, film stars, con men, and criminals in stories of self-transformation that are often sad, tragic, and poignant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: The Map and the Territory\u003cbr\u003e 1. Geographic Personas: The Passing of Clarence King\u003cbr\u003e 2. Lord of the Limber Tongue: The Great Spanish Land Grant Fraud and the Barony of Arizona\u003cbr\u003e 3. A French Canadian Cowboy: Branding Will James\u003cbr\u003e 4. Making an Indian: The Case of Sylvester Long\u003cbr\u003e 5. L’\u003cbr\u003eOuest BohÈ\u003cbr\u003eme: Willa Cather’\u003cbr\u003es Transnational Prairie\u003cbr\u003e 6. A Homeless Snail: Yone Noguchi and Japanese Self-Invention\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Past Is the Biggest Country of All: Remembering Helena Modjeska\u003cbr\u003e 8. Deutschland Ü\u003cbr\u003eber Alles: Germany’\u003cbr\u003es Literary Colonization of the U.S. Frontier\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Problem of Representation: Isadora Duncan Sleeps With the Russian Navy\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Burials and Exhumations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599913349400,"sku":"9781496225061","price":36.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/geographic-personas-self-transformation-and-performance-in-the-american-west-hardback-9781496225061","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}