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State of Minds: Texas Culture and Its Discontents (review)

State of Minds: Texas Culture and Its Discontents (review) Alex MacPhail. COWBOY READING MORNING PAPER, IDAHO FALLS, IDAHO, JULY 1974. Courtesy Alex MacPhail, American Photographs. See photographingamerica.blogspot.com. Book REVIEWs State of Minds: Texas Culture and Its Discontents. By Don Graham. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. 200 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Andrew Husband Texas Tech University, Lubbock The state of Texas has some kick to it. A statement such as this, of course, exclaims nothing new, for even the state's non-denizens from the other forty-seven members of the lower forty-eight, Hawaii, Alaska, the remainder of the north American continent, and contemporary Western civilization at large know of Texas's "kicking" character. Despite the world's familiarity with Texas, however, Don Graham has taken it upon himself to compile a decade's worth of his own critical writings into State of Minds: Texas Culture and Its Discontents. As suggested by the carefully selected final word of the book's subtitle, Graham hopes to drive the final nail into the coffin of the state's aesthetic, cultural, and intellectual naysayers. A task almost as large as Texas itself, Graham's attempt ultimately succeeds in presenting an original portrait of a state that is often stereotyped along with its diverse cultures and its discontents. Graham's collected http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Western American Literature The Western Literature Association

State of Minds: Texas Culture and Its Discontents (review)

Husband, Andrew.
Western American Literature , Volume 47 (3) – Nov 21, 2012
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Alex MacPhail. COWBOY READING MORNING PAPER, IDAHO FALLS, IDAHO, JULY 1974. Courtesy Alex MacPhail, American Photographs. See photographingamerica.blogspot.com. Book REVIEWs State of Minds: Texas Culture and Its Discontents. By Don Graham. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. 200 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Andrew Husband Texas Tech University, Lubbock The state of Texas has some kick to it. A statement such as this, of course, exclaims nothing new, for even the state's non-denizens from the other forty-seven members of the lower forty-eight, Hawaii, Alaska, the remainder of the north American continent, and contemporary Western civilization at large know of Texas's "kicking" character. Despite the world's familiarity with Texas, however, Don Graham has taken it upon himself to compile a decade's worth of his own critical writings into State of Minds: Texas Culture and Its Discontents. As suggested by the carefully selected final word of the book's subtitle, Graham hopes to drive the final nail into the coffin of the state's aesthetic, cultural, and intellectual naysayers. A task almost as large as Texas itself, Graham's attempt ultimately succeeds in presenting an original portrait of a state that is often stereotyped along with its diverse cultures and its discontents. Graham's collected

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