Bruno Cartosio Mito e storia - Università degli studi di Bergamo
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xii . John G. Cawelti, Adventure, Mystery, and Romance. Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture,<br />
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1977, p. 193.<br />
xiii . Stephen Tatum, Inventing Billy the Kid. Visions of the Outlaw in America, 1881-1981,<br />
Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1982, pp. 41-2.<br />
xiv . Ibidem. Però non è propriamente turneriana la <strong>di</strong>alettica stessa che Tatum istituisce tra le<br />
opposte forze della wilderness e della civiltà.<br />
xv . “New York Herald”, 8 ottobre 1847 e New York “Sun”, 22 ottobre 1847, cit. in F. Merk, Manifest<br />
Destiny and Mission in American History, New York, Vintage Books, 1966, pp. 122-23.<br />
xvi . Si vedano David J. Weber, “Scarce More Than Apes”: Historical Roots of Anglo-American<br />
Stereotypes of Mexicans, in Id., Myth and the History of the Hispanic Southwest, Albuquerque, University of<br />
New Mexico Press, 1990 (“Poco più che scimmie”. Ra<strong>di</strong>ci storiche <strong>degli</strong> stereotipi angloamericani sui<br />
messicani delle zone <strong>di</strong> frontiera, in “Ácoma”, Anno II, N. 4, Primavera 1995, pp. 25-33); Ronald Takaki, Iron<br />
Cages. Race and Culture in 19th-Century America, New York, Oxford University Press, 1990; Reginald<br />
Horsman, Race and Manifest Destiny. The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism, Cambridge, Mass.,<br />
Harvard University Press, 1981.<br />
xvii . “Herald” cit. in R. Slotkin, The Fatal Environment, cit., p. 188; Calhoun e “Post” cit. in F. Merk,<br />
Manifest Destiny, cit., pp. 162, 158.<br />
xviii . Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest. The Unbroken Past of the American West,<br />
New York, W.W. Norton, 1987, p. 26.<br />
xix . Ivi, p. 27.<br />
xx . R. Barthes, Miti d’oggi, cit., p. 223.<br />
xxi . R. Slotkin, Regeneration Through Violence. The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860,<br />
Hanover, NH, Wesleyan University Press, 1973, p. 269.<br />
xxii . R. Slotkin, Myth and the Production of History, in Myra Jehlen and Sacvan Bercovitch, eds.,<br />
Ideology and Classic American Literature, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987, pp. 70, 74.<br />
xxiii . R. Slotkin, Regeneration Through Violence, cit., p. 278.<br />
xxiv . Ivi, p. 321. John Filson, The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke...To Which Is<br />
Added, an Appen<strong>di</strong>x, Containing, I. The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon..., Wilmington, Del., James Adams,<br />
1784.<br />
xxv . Si veda Michael Denning, Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in<br />
America, London, Verso, 1987: anche se l’oggetto della sua analisi non sono i romanzi western, le sue<br />
osservazioni sulla <strong>di</strong>alettica industria culturale-pubblico sono pertinenti al <strong>di</strong>scorso qui svolto.