Interview with Richard Slotkin

Authors

  • Giulio Segato University of Udine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2022.i19.1206

Keywords:

Richard Slotkin, Violence, Gunfighter, Westerns, American Myth

Abstract

Interview with Richard Slotkin held through email exchanges from January 15th and March 25th, 2022.

References

Slotkin, Richard. “Fiction for the Purposes of History.” Rethinking History 9.2/3 (2005): 221-

---. Gunfighter Nation: Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998.

---. Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of American Frontier, 1600-1860. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1973.

---. The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985.

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Published

2022-06-25

Issue

No. 19 (2022): Coastlines, Oceans and Rivers of North America: Encounters and Ecocrises

Section

Interviews

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Copyright (c) 2022 Giulio Segato

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