Belt Buckles and Sad Songs: Manifesting the Past in Annie Proulx’s “Brokeback Mountain”
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By Daniel Abiva Hunt • When I first began writing seriously, I was obsessed with character histories. Nothing would make my character feel more real and fully formed than a detail-oriented past, I felt, and I would turn over…