Tongues of Settlement

Auteur

Blake Allmendinger is a professor of English at the University of California–Los Angeles. He is the author of several books, including Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West (Nebraska, 2021), The Melon Capital of the World (Nebraska, 2015), Imagining the African American West (Nebraska, 2008), and The Cowboy: Representations of Labor in an American Work Culture.

Texte du rabat

Tongues of Settlement traces the evolution of Basque American literature from its origins in medieval oral culture through the twenty-first century in the American West.

Contenu

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note

Introduction: The Language of Blood

1. Crypts and Inscriptions
2. The Trees of Knowledge
3. Aboriginal Voices, Apparitional Worlds
4. Every Fence Is Just a Fence, but Every Post Hole Is Different

5. Immigrants, Aliens, and Extraterrestrials
   Conclusion: A User’s Guide for Future Basque American Writers

   Notes
   Bibliography
   Index