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T1 Regeneration through Violence: Echoes of the Myth of the West in Jim Harrison’s A Good Day to Die
T2 La regeneración a través de la violencia: los ecos del mito del Oeste en A Good Day to Die de Jim Harrison
A1 Horodyska, Elżbieta
K1 Jim Harrison
K1 American West
K1 Regeneration through violence
K1 Road Novel
K1 The Nez Percé
AB This essay analyzes some of the reverberations of the myth of the West present in Jim Har-rison’s early novel A Good Day to Die (1973), where the myth is put to the test of compatibilitywith the real world. Richard Slotkin’s notion of regeneration through violence as well asJane Tompkins’s observations regarding depictions of masculinity in 20th century popularwesterns find affirmation in the novel’s narrative. Despite the contemporaneous concernfor increasing technology-aided control of nature, evident in other novels, it is remarkablehow A Good Day to Die recreates many of the aspects of the myth of the West. Arguably,the novel simultaneously proposes that the kind of perspective that Donna Haraway terms“situated knowledges” in the end allows the unnamed narrator to maintain a more realisticconnection with reality than what the myth offers.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de La Laguna
SN e-2530-8335
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/37136
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 17-jul-2024