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Summer, 2005
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Book Review


True West: Authenticity and the American West. Edited by William R. Handley and Nathaniel Lewis. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xi + 370 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95, £37.95.)
      As I write my review of True West, Michael Moore's film, Fahrenheit 9/11 is opening in movie theaters across the country and the pundits are buzzing about representation and reality, about art and authenticity. If those television talking heads had read this collection, they might better understand the nuances and complexities inherent in such discussions. True West brings together essays by fifteen different scholars who are considering the problems of mimesis. Using separate texts and distinctly different critical points of view, they each consider the ways in which representation can reflect or can skew what we think is real and what we interpret as real. . . .
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