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Closing the Circle between Past and Present

Closing the Circle between Past and Present José F. Aranda Jr. Western American Literature, Volume 35, Number 1, Spring 2000, pp. 5-19 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2000.0035 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/534669/summary Access provided at 24 Feb 2020 18:14 GMT from JHU Libraries C l o s i n g t h e C i r c l e b e t w e e n P a s t a n d P r e s e n t J o s é F . A r a n d a J r . S p e c i a l I s s u e E d i t o r W here does one begin in telling the story o f a M exican A m erican West? W ith maps and shifting borders? O r with an invading army and a resisting “n ative” population? For me, the m ost instructive place to begin is where history and myth collide in the production o f culture. For exam ple, there is this apocryphal story o f C o lo n el W illiam Barret Travis at the A lam o. T h e story goes that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Western American Literature University of Nebraska Press

Closing the Circle between Past and Present

Aranda, José F.
Western American Literature , Volume 35 (1) – Oct 4, 2017
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José F. Aranda Jr. Western American Literature, Volume 35, Number 1, Spring 2000, pp. 5-19 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2000.0035 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/534669/summary Access provided at 24 Feb 2020 18:14 GMT from JHU Libraries C l o s i n g t h e C i r c l e b e t w e e n P a s t a n d P r e s e n t J o s é F . A r a n d a J r . S p e c i a l I s s u e E d i t o r W here does one begin in telling the story o f a M exican A m erican West? W ith maps and shifting borders? O r with an invading army and a resisting “n ative” population? For me, the m ost instructive place to begin is where history and myth collide in the production o f culture. For exam ple, there is this apocryphal story o f C o lo n el W illiam Barret Travis at the A lam o. T h e story goes that

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