Old Nick Crossed the Mississippi: The Figure of the Devil in Late Cold War Era Novels of the American West

The figure of the devil – employed time and again by Americans as a means of culturally construing the perceived enemy Other, as W. Scott Poole illustrates in his study Satan in America – appears with great frequency within the corpus of the literature of the American West. This essay focuses on Wes...

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Main Author: Michael Walonen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2014-09-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/10335
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