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Postwestern Cultures Literature, Theory, Space / edited by Susan Kollin.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Postwestern Horizons
- Postwestern horizons
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Multiculturalism in literature.
- Homosexuality in literature.
- Ecology in literature.
- Popular culture in literature.
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--West (U.S.)--History and criticism.
- West (U.S.)--In literature.
- West (U.S.).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Synthesizes topics of contemporary scholarship of the American West. This work examines subjects ranging from the use of frontier rhetoric in Japanese American internment camp narratives to the emergence of agricultural tourism in the New West to the application of geographer J B Jackson's theories to vernacular or abandoned western landscapes.
- Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Spectrality and the Postregional Interface; 2. Everyday Regionalisms inContemporary Critical Practice; 3. Critical Regionalism, Thirdspace,and John Brinckerhoff Jackson'sWestern Cultural Landscapes; 4. Architecture and the Virtual Westin William Gibson's San Francisco; 5. What's Authentic about Western Literature?And, More to the Point, What's Literary?; 6. Some Questions aboutSexless Nature Writing; 7. Backpacking and the Ultralight Solution; 8. Survival, Alaska Style; 9. Scheduling Idealism in Laramie, Wyoming
- 10. Frontier Mythology, Children's Literature,and Japanese American Incarceration11. I'm Just a Lonesome Korean Cowgirl; or, Adoption and National Identity; 12. Cultivating Otowi Bridge; 13. The Romance of Ranching; or,Selling Place-Based Fantasies in and of the West; References; Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-263).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786611092092
- 9781281092090
- 1281092096
- 9780803215764
- 0803215762
- OCLC:
- 476102186
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