Stephen Tatum is professor emeritus of English at the University of Utah and the author and editor of several books, including Morta Las Vegas: “CSI” and the Problem of the West (Nebraska, 2017) with Nathaniel Lewis; In the Remington Moment (Nebraska, 2010); and Reading “The Virginian” in the New West (Nebraska, 2003) with Melody Graulich.

“Unhomely Wests offers scholars and public intellectuals an important new means for approaching critical regional studies. In this engaging and insightful work, Stephen Tatum provides an innovative model for assessing the complexities of life under ecologically destructive and dehumanizing conditions that are shaping the region today.”-Susan Kollin, author of Captivating Westerns: The Middle East in the American West “Given that both its content and its form can help us think more expansively about the U.S. West and about the concepts of homelessness and unhomeliness that sit at the center of this study, Unhomely Wests is an important and necessary book. Its approach and structure are unique and compelling, as is its centering of certain key concepts.”-Sylvan Goldberg, professor of English at Colorado College

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbout this bookAn alphabet of unhomely westsAlphabet/Abecedario, una ofrendaBoredoms, generational and otherwiseCryptography, or the architectonics of the cryptDiapers and loading docksExposure, a poetics ofFreeways and highways, a literary collisionGraves and gravestonesHotel lifeIdyll of the idleJunkspaces, outtakes from an unhomely archiveKotex, Keds, ketchup, and dead kidsLipstick tracesMotel noirNoir motelOil rich, core samples from a personal ledgerPsychometropolisQueues for the gallows, sing the praises of the hallowedRivers, all my tears like water flownScene of the crimeTelevision, the slow parade of fearsUrbicide, what the master plan wasVagabondage, all this venturing in the slipstreamWindowsX-ray, let us talk crossly nowYellow ribbons, yellow lightZombielandNotesBibliographyIndex

Stephen Tatum is professor emeritus of English at the University of Utah and the author and editor of several books, including Morta Las Vegas: “CSI” and the Problem of the West (Nebraska, 2017) with Nathaniel Lewis; In the Remington Moment (Nebraska, 2010); and Reading “The Virginian” in the New West (Nebraska, 2003) with Melody Graulich.

“Unhomely Wests offers scholars and public intellectuals an important new means for approaching critical regional studies. In this engaging and insightful work, Stephen Tatum provides an innovative model for assessing the complexities of life under ecologically destructive and dehumanizing conditions that are shaping the region today.”-Susan Kollin, author of Captivating Westerns: The Middle East in the American West “Given that both its content and its form can help us think more expansively about the U.S. West and about the concepts of homelessness and unhomeliness that sit at the center of this study, Unhomely Wests is an important and necessary book. Its approach and structure are unique and compelling, as is its centering of certain key concepts.”-Sylvan Goldberg, professor of English at Colorado College

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbout this bookAn alphabet of unhomely westsAlphabet/Abecedario, una ofrendaBoredoms, generational and otherwiseCryptography, or the architectonics of the cryptDiapers and loading docksExposure, a poetics ofFreeways and highways, a literary collisionGraves and gravestonesHotel lifeIdyll of the idleJunkspaces, outtakes from an unhomely archiveKotex, Keds, ketchup, and dead kidsLipstick tracesMotel noirNoir motelOil rich, core samples from a personal ledgerPsychometropolisQueues for the gallows, sing the praises of the hallowedRivers, all my tears like water flownScene of the crimeTelevision, the slow parade of fearsUrbicide, what the master plan wasVagabondage, all this venturing in the slipstreamWindowsX-ray, let us talk crossly nowYellow ribbons, yellow lightZombielandNotesBibliographyIndex