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Philosophy Embedded in Space: Rethinking the Frontier in Percival Everett's Western Novels
- African American Review
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 52, Number 1, Spring 2019
- pp. 87-100
- 10.1353/afa.2019.0007
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
This article places Frederick Jackson Turner's theory of the frontier into conversation with John Locke's thinking about individualism and colonial America in order to examine what Percival Everett's representations of the frontier in his Western novels tell us about familiar claims of manifest destiny and American identity.
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