The opening part of a three part book series, and what feels like was written initially with this book only in mind, this cultural history by Richard Slotkin takes on the notion of “myth making” in American history and literature. The book was published in the early 1970s, so it predates (and perhaps prefigures) a few seminal post-modernist texts like Lyotard’s Postmodernism, so the terminology some times feels a little lacking. What is not lacking is the thoroughness of the reading and the thoroughness of […]