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Weird Westerns : race, gender, genre / edited by Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, and Sara L. Spurgeon.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Fine, Kerry, 1974- editor.
Johnson, Michael K. (Michael Kyle), 1963- editor.
Lush, Rebecca M., editor.
Spurgeon, Sara L., editor.
JSTOR (Online Service)
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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