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We who work the West : class, labor, and space in Western American literature / Kiara Kharpertian ; edited by Carlo Rotella and Christopher P. Wilson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kharpertian, Kiara, 1985-2016, author.
- Series:
- Postwestern horizons
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Western stories--History and criticism.
- Western stories.
- American fiction--West (U.S.)--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Working class in literature.
- Labor in literature.
- West (U.S.)--In literature.
- West (U.S.).
- Literature.
- West United States.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 250 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "We Who Work the West examines literary representations of class, labor, and space in the American West from 1885 to 2012"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: How to tell a Western story
- Naturalism's handiwork : labor, class, and space in Frank Norris's McTeague : a story of San Francisco
- Civic identity and the ethos of belonging : María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The squatter and the Don and Raymond Barrio's The plum plum pickers
- Watching the West erode in the 1930s : Sanora Babb's Whose names are unknown, Frank Waters's Below grass roots, and John Fante's Wait until spring, Bandini and ask the dust
- He was a good cowboy : identity and history on the post-World War II Texas ranch in Larry McMurtry's Horseman, pass by, Elmer Kelton's The time it never rained, and Cormac McCarthy's All the pretty horses
- Tradition and modernization battle it out on rocky soil : Sherman Alexie's The lone ranger and Tonto fistfight in Heaven, Stephen Graham Jones's The bird is gone, and Linda Hogan's Mean spirit
- From prairie to oil : hybridization and belonging via class, labor, and space in Philipp Meyer's The son.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781496208842
- 1496208846
- OCLC:
- 1125832086
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