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- Title
Performing the Empty Archive: Feeling and Public Lands in the Bundy Case and Percival Everett's Grand Canyon, Inc.
- Authors
Meylor, Meagan
- Abstract
The article examines how calls of nativism and right to public lands coming from a constituency of mostly white U.S. citizens yearning to reclaim sovereign power contain a performative quality based on an application of performance theory to both a historical and fictional case study. Topics covered include the case of U.S. cattle rancher Cliven Bundy who was known for his role in a 2014 armed standoff and the 2001 novella "Grand Canyon, Inc." by Percival Everett.
- Subjects
NATIVISM; PUBLIC lands; PERFORMANCE theory; BUNDY, Cliven, 1946-; GRAND Canyon, Inc. (Book); EVERETT, Percival, 1956-
- Publication
Western American Literature, 2019, Vol 54, Issue 1, p37
- ISSN
0043-3462
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/wal.2019.0018