Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Larry McMurtry and a Myth-haunted West 30
1.1 Introduction of the Lonesome Dove Series 35
1.2 Larry McMurtry and the American Western Myth 44
1.3 Lonesome Dove Series:Moccasin Walking Out of Dilemma 58
1.3.1 Regeneration of the Sense of Place 58
1.3.2 Casting Off the Shadow of the Formula 63
Chapter 2 Reconstructing the Fictional Landscape of American West 69
2.1 McMurtry's Deconstruction of the Western Formula Narrative 70
2.2 Reconstruction of the Formula Narrative 79
2.2.1 Landscape to"Langscape" 79
2.2.2 Landscape to"Facescape" 90
2.2.3 A Face-changing Myth 94
Chapter 3 Reconstructing the Physical Landscape of American West 109
3.1 Defamiliarization of the Physical Landscape of the West 115
3.1.1 Fictionalization of the Histroy 117
3.1.2 "Mestiza"Consciousness 125
3.2 Remapping the Gender Landscape of the West 131
3.2.1 Gender in the West:The Veiled History 132
3.2.2 Female Appealing:A Possibility of Rewriting Western History 136
Chapter 4 Reconstructing the Symbolic Landscape of American West 148
4.1 West in the Genealogy of American National Narrative 152
4.2 Rupture of Genealogy in Lonesome Dove Series 159
4.2.1 Death of Father:Rupture in Individual Psyche 159
4.2.2 Death of Sons:Rupture in Families 164
4.2.3 Rupture in Groups 171
4.2.4 Rupture of Heroism 176
Epilogue 183
Bibliography 198
Acknowledgements 209