Exploding the Western : Myths of Empire on the Postmodern Frontier

The Frontier Is The Place Where Cultures Meet And Rewrite Themselves Upon Each Other's Texts, Making It A Setting That Many Writers And Readers Of Fiction Are Drawn To. Here Spurgeon Focuses On Three Writers, Cormac Mccarthy, Leslie Marmon Silko, And Ana Castillo, Whose Works Not Only Exemplify The Kind Of Engagement With The Theme Of The Frontier That Modern Authors Make, But Also Show The Range Of Cultural Voices That Are Present In Southwestern Literature. She Considers How The Differing Versions Of The Western Mythic Tales Are Being Recast In A Globalized World And Examines The Ways In Which They Challenge And Accommodate Increasingly Fluid And Even Dangerous Racial, Cultural, And International Borders.