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Weird Westerns : race, gender, genre / edited by Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, and Sara L. Spurgeon.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Postwestern horizons
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Western stories--History and criticism.
- Western stories.
- Western television programs--United States--History and criticism.
- Western television programs.
- Western films--United States--History and criticism.
- Western films.
- United States.
- Race in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Race on television.
- Women on television.
- Race in motion pictures.
- Women in motion pictures.
- West (U.S.)--In literature.
- West (U.S.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (453 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction: West world(s) : race and gender in the Weird Western / Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, and Sara L. Spurgeon
- Attack of the monstrous vegetable : Bret Harte's Pioneer nightmare and miscegenation dream / Tara Penry
- "Strange country" : sexuality and the feminine in Robert Coover's Ghost town / Eric Meljac and Alex Hunt
- A selective history : identity and identification in deadlands : the weird West / Nicholas William Moll
- Mongrel transmotion : the werewolf and the were/wear/where-West in Stephen Graham Jones's Mongrels / Joshua T. Anderson
- Indianizing the Western : semiotic tricksterism in William Sanders' Journey to Fusang / Sara L. Spurgeon
- Magnificence and metas in professional Westerns / Domino Renee Perez
- Defamiliarizing the Western on the extraterrestrial frontier : Jonathan Lethem's Girl in landscape / Johannes Fehrle
- "Shining the light of civilization" : the savage other of the frontier in Whedon's Firefly and Serenity / Meredith Harvey
- Racial metaphors and vanishing Indians in Wynonna Earp, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Emma Bull's Territory / Rebecca M. Lush
- The mad black woman in Stephen King's The dark tower / Jacob Burg
- Uncle Tom's cabin showdown : Stowe, Tarantino, and the minstrelsy of the weird West / Joshua D. Smith
- Race and gender in the time travel Western / Michael K. Johnson
- Go West, old man : or, Buffalo Bill and the "yellow peril" in Zeppelins West / Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper
- AMC's The walking dead and the redistribution of gender performance on the NeoFrontier / Scott Pearce.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781496221766
- 1496221761
- Publisher Number:
- 40030050286
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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