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Manifest and Other Destinies
Territorial Fictions of the Nineteenth-Century United States
Häftad, 2008
317 kr
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Manifest and Other Destinies critiques Manifest Destiny's exclusive claim as an explanatory national story in order to rethink the meaning and boundaries of the West and of the United States' national identity. Stephanie LeMenager considers the American West before it became a trusted symbol of …
Unsettling the Literary West
Authenticity and Authorship
Häftad, 2008
317 kr
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The test of western literature has invariably been Is it real? Is it accurate? Authentic? The result is a standard anything but literary, as Nathaniel Lewis observes in this ambitious work, a wholesale rethinking of the critical terms and contexts—and thus of the very nature—of western writing. Why …
Dirty Wars
Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature
Av John Beck
Inbunden, 2009
918 kr
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Since World War II, the American West has become the nation’s military arsenal, proving ground, and disposal site. Through a wide-ranging discussion of recent literature produced in and about the West, Dirty Wars explores how the region’s iconic landscapes, invested with myths of national virtue, …
Captivating Westerns
The Middle East in the American West
Av Susan Kollin
Inbunden, 2015
723 kr
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Tracing the transnational influences of what has been known as a uniquely American genre, “the Western,” Susan Kollin’s Captivating Westerns analyzes key moments in the history of multicultural encounters between the Middle East and the American West. In particular the book examines how experiences …
Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins
Waste and Contamination in Contemporary U.S. Ethnic Literatures
Inbunden, 2012
652 kr
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In this innovative study, Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins, John Blair Gamber examines urbanity and the results of urban living—traffic, garbage, sewage, waste, and pollution—arguing for a new recognition of all forms of human detritus as part of the natural world and thus for a broadening …
María Amparo Ruiz De Burton
Critical and Pedagogical Perspectives
Av Amelia María de la Luz Montes, Anne Elizabeth Goldman
Inbunden, 2004
463 kr
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Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832–95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and …
Post-Westerns
Cinema, Region, West
Inbunden, 2013
847 kr
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During the post-World War II period, the Western, like America's other great film genres, appeared to collapse as a result of revisionism and the emergence of new forms. Perhaps, however, as theorists like Gilles Deleuze suggest, it remains, simply "maintaining its empty frame." Yet this frame is …
Westerns
A Women's History
Inbunden, 2016
723 kr
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At every turn in the development of what we now know as the western, women writers have been instrumental in its formation. Yet the myth that the western is male-authored persists. Westerns: A Women’s History debunks this myth once and for all by recovering the women writers of popular westerns who …
Rhizomatic West
Representing the American West in a Transnational, Global, Media Age
Häftad, 2011
382 kr
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Is the American West in Sergio Leone's "spaghetti westerns" the same American West we find in Douglas Coupland's Generation X? In Jim Jarmusch's movies? In Calexico's music? Or is the American West, as this book tells us, a constantly moving, mutating idea within a complex global culture? And what, …
True West
Authenticity and the American West
Av William R. Handley, Nathaniel Lewis
Häftad, 2007
225 kr
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In no other region of the United States has the notion of authenticity played such an important yet elusive role as it has in the West. Though pervasive in literature, popular culture, and history, assumptions about western authenticity have not received adequate critical attention. Given the …
Postwestern Cultures
Literature, Theory, Space
Av Susan Kollin
Häftad, 2007
268 kr
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Postwestern Cultures synthesizes the most critical topics of contemporary scholarship of the American West within a single volume. This interdisciplinary anthology features leading scholars in the varied fields of western American literary studies and includes new regional studies, global studies, …
Dirty Words in Deadwood
Literature and the Postwestern
Av Melody Graulich, Nicolas S. Witschi
Häftad, 2013
512 kr
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Dirty Words in “Deadwood” showcases literary analyses of the Deadwood television series by leading western American literary critics. Whereas previous reaction to the series has largely addressed the question of historical accuracy rather than intertextuality or literary complexity, Melody Graulich …
Manifest Destiny 2.0
Genre Trouble in Game Worlds
Inbunden, 2021
1291 kr
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At a time when print and film have shown the classic Western and noir genres to be racist, heteronormative, and neocolonial, Sara Humphreys’s Manifest Destiny 2.0 asks why these genres endure so prolifically in the video game market. While video games provide a radically new and exciting medium for …
Horizons of Catastrophe in the American West
Inbunden, 2026
1291 kr
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Horizons of Catastrophe in the American West contributes to discussions in the environmental humanities and western U.S. studies about how we read past cultural history in the light of our determined yet unknown future under climate catastrophe. Examining an eclectic but interrelated and …
Morta Las Vegas
CSI and the Problem of the West
Av Nathaniel Lewis, Stephen Tatum
Inbunden, 2017
685 kr
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Through all its transformations and reinventions over the past century, “Sin City” has consistently been regarded by artists and cultural critics as expressing in purest form, for better or worse, an aesthetic and social order spawned by neon signs and institutionalized indulgence. In other words, …
Late Westerns
The Persistence of a Genre
Inbunden, 2018
627 kr
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For more than a century the cinematic western has been America’s most familiar genre, always teetering on the verge of exhaustion and yet regularly revived in new forms. Why does this outmoded vehicle-with the most narrowly based historical setting of any popular genre-maintain its appeal? In Late …
We Who Work the West
Class, Labor, and Space in Western American Literature
Av Kiara Kharpertian, Carlo Rotella m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
785 kr
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We Who Work the West examines literary representations of class, labor, and space in the American West from 1885 to 2012. Moving from MarÍa Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s representations of dispossessed Californio ranchers in the mid-nineteenth century to the urban grid of early twentieth-century San …
In the Mean Time
Temporal Colonization and the Mexican American Literary Tradition
Inbunden, 2020
656 kr
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2020 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which transferred more than a third of Mexico’s territory to the United States, deferred full U.S. citizenship for Mexican Americans but promised, “in the mean time,” to protect their property and liberty. Erin …
Captivating Westerns
The Middle East in the American West
Av Susan Kollin
Häftad, 2019
380 kr
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Tracing the transnational influences of what has been known as a uniquely American genre, “the Western,” Susan Kollin’s Captivating Westerns analyzes key moments in the history of multicultural encounters between the Middle East and the American West. In particular the book examines how experiences …
Comic Book Western
New Perspectives on a Global Genre
Av Christopher Conway, Antoinette Sol
Inbunden, 2022
1287 kr
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2023 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular and American CultureOne of the greatest untold stories about the globalization of the Western is the key role of comics. Few American cultural exports have been as successful globally as the Western, a phenomenon commonly …
Teaching Western American Literature
Av Brady Harrison, Randi Lynn Tanglen
Häftad, 2020
282 kr
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In this volume experienced and new college- and university-level teachers will find practical, adaptable strategies for designing or updating courses in western American literature and western studies. Teaching Western American Literature features the latest developments in western literary …
Weird Westerns
Race, Gender, Genre
Av Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
915 kr
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2021 Top Ten Finalist for the Locus Awards in Nonfiction Joshua Smith’s chapter “Uncle Tom’s Cabin Showdown” won the 2021 Don D. Walker Prize from the Western Literature AssociationWeird Westerns is an exploration of the hybrid western genre-an increasingly popular and visible form that mixes …
Weird Westerns
Race, Gender, Genre
Av Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
445 kr
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2021 Top Ten Finalist for the Locus Awards in Nonfiction Joshua Smith’s chapter “Uncle Tom’s Cabin Showdown” won the 2021 Don D. Walker Prize from the Western Literature AssociationWeird Westerns is an exploration of the hybrid western genre-an increasingly popular and visible form that mixes …
Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848–1948
Inbunden, 2022
1287 kr
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Named a 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIn The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848–1948, JosÉ F. Aranda Jr. describes the first one hundred years of Mexican American literature. He argues for the importance of interrogating the concept of modernity in light of what …
Manifest Destiny 2.0
Genre Trouble in Game Worlds
Häftad, 2021
316 kr
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At a time when print and film have shown the classic Western and noir genres to be racist, heteronormative, and neocolonial, Sara Humphreys’s Manifest Destiny 2.0 asks why these genres endure so prolifically in the video game market. While video games provide a radically new and exciting medium for …
Planetary Lens
The Photo-Poetics of Western Women's Writing
Inbunden, 2021
850 kr
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Thomas J. Lyon Book Award from the Western Literature AssociationA Planetary Lens delves into the history of the photo-book, the materiality of the photographic image on the page, and the cultural significance of landscape to reassess the value of print, to locate the sites where stories resonate, …
Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848–1948
Häftad, 2022
380 kr
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Named a 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIn The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848–1948, JosÉ F. Aranda Jr. describes the first one hundred years of Mexican American literature. He argues for the importance of interrogating the concept of modernity in light of what …
Comic Book Western
New Perspectives on a Global Genre
Av Christopher Conway, Antoinette Sol
Häftad, 2022
380 kr
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2023 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular and American CultureOne of the greatest untold stories about the globalization of the Western is the key role of comics. Few American cultural exports have been as successful globally as the Western, a phenomenon commonly …
Speculative Wests
Popular Representations of a Region and Genre
Inbunden, 2023
946 kr
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Winner of the 2024 Thomas J. Lyon Book Award Looking across the cultural landscape of the twenty-first century, its literature, film, television, comic books, and other media, we can see multiple examples of what Shelley S. Rees calls a “changeling western,” what others have called “weird …
Speculative Wests
Popular Representations of a Region and Genre
Häftad, 2023
380 kr
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Winner of the 2024 Thomas J. Lyon Book Award Looking across the cultural landscape of the twenty-first century, its literature, film, television, comic books, and other media, we can see multiple examples of what Shelley S. Rees calls a “changeling western,” what others have called “weird …
