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Imagining Bigfoot

Imagining Bigfoot Gregory L. Morris Western American Literature, Volume 42, Number 3, Fall 2007, pp. 277-292 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2007.0002 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/535213/summary Access provided at 24 Feb 2020 19:04 GMT from JHU Libraries I m a g i n i n g B i g f o o t G r e g o r y L. M o r r i s D e s p it e his reputation for being fervently publicly shy, Bigfoot— in name and in image— is a pervasive and persistent presence in our popu­ lar culture. We see versions o f the creature in advertisements for pizza, beef jerky, and beer. He shows up in episodes o f The Simpsons and has given his nam e to an oversized golf club. He has figured in films such as Harry and the Hendersons (1987), where he is “adopted” by a middle-class A m erican family, and The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972), a movie once sophisticatedly described by a student o f mine as being “really crappy.” A s the subject o f written narrative, Bigfoot has found his way (as we will see later http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Western American Literature The Western Literature Association

Imagining Bigfoot

Morris, Gregory L.
Western American Literature , Volume 42 (3) – Oct 4, 2017
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Gregory L. Morris Western American Literature, Volume 42, Number 3, Fall 2007, pp. 277-292 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2007.0002 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/535213/summary Access provided at 24 Feb 2020 19:04 GMT from JHU Libraries I m a g i n i n g B i g f o o t G r e g o r y L. M o r r i s D e s p it e his reputation for being fervently publicly shy, Bigfoot— in name and in image— is a pervasive and persistent presence in our popu­ lar culture. We see versions o f the creature in advertisements for pizza, beef jerky, and beer. He shows up in episodes o f The Simpsons and has given his nam e to an oversized golf club. He has figured in films such as Harry and the Hendersons (1987), where he is “adopted” by a middle-class A m erican family, and The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972), a movie once sophisticatedly described by a student o f mine as being “really crappy.” A s the subject o f written narrative, Bigfoot has found his way (as we will see later

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