Demystifying American West | How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang

Demystifying American West in new western literature with the focus on How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang, longlisted for 2020 Booker Prize.

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Books mentioned:

How Much of These Hills is Gold
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45895362-how-much-of-these-hills-is-gold

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
by Cormac McCarthy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394535.Blood_Meridian_or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West

All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy #1) by Cormac McCarthy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/469571.All_the_Pretty_Horses

The Crossing (The Border Trilogy #2) by Cormac McCarthy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/365990.The_Crossing

Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy #3) by Cormac McCarthy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40470.Cities_of_the_Plain
Sources:

Introduction: Storying the West in Postfrontier Literature
David Rio and Øyunn Hestetun

“Cormac McCarthy’s The Road : Rewriting the Myth of the American West 1
Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz”

ANGLING FOR REPOSE:
WALLACE STEGNER AND THE DE-MYTHOLOGIZING OF THE AMERICAN WEST by Jennie A. Camp
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1004&context=dps_fac

Chinese Railroad Workers Were Almost Written Out of History. Now They’re Getting Their Due.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/us/golden-spike-utah-railroad-150th-anniversary.html

How a Chinese-American Novelist Wrote Herself Into the Wild West
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/books/c-pam-zhang-how-much-of-these-hills-is-gold.html
The myth of the cowboy
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/20/myth-of-the-cowboy

Chinese Immigrants and the Gold Rush
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goldrush-chinese-immigrants/

Barcley Owens
Western Myths in “All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing”.

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