Unhomely Wests : essays from A to Z / Stephen Tatum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tatum, Stephen, 1949- author.

Series:

Postwestern horizons

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

West (U.S.)--In literature.

West (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Other Title:

Path to Open

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2024]

Summary:

Incorporating readings of key cultural texts from the environmental humanities, studies of globalization and economics, postmodernism, psychoanalytic criticism, and feminist theory, Stephen Tatum addresses the ongoing crises of displacement and loss of home in the modern urban West.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

An alphabet of unhomely Wests

Alphabet/Abecedario, una ofrenda

Boredoms, generational and otherwise

Cryptography, the architectonics of the crypt

Diapers and loading docks

Exposure, a poetics of

Freeways and highways, a literary collision

Graves and gravestones

Hotel life

Idyll of the idle

Junkspaces, an unhomely archive

Kotex, Keds, ketchup, and dead kids

Lipstick traces

Motel noir

Noir motel

Oil rich, core samples from a personal ledger

Psychometropolis

Queues for the gallows, sing the praises of the hallowed

Rivers, all my tears like water flown

Scene of the crime

Television, the slow parade of fears

Urbicide, what the master plan was

Vagabondage, all this venturing in the slipstream

Windows

X-ray, let us talk crossly now

Yellow ribbons, yellow light

Zombieland.

Notes:

Title from online title page (viewed on November 7, 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781496239341

1496239342

OCLC:

1453872157

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.