| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 267 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Postwestern horizons |
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Postwestern horizons.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-263). |
| Contents |
Introduction: postwestern studies, dead or alive / Susan Kollin. part 1. Newer new Wests. Spectrality and the postregional interface / Stephen Tatum -- Everyday regionalisms in contemporary critical practice / Krista Comer -- Critical regionalism, thirdspace, and John Brinckerhoff Jackson's Western cultural landscapes / Neil Campbell -- Architecture and the virtual West in William Gibson's San Francisco / Michael Beehler. part 2. Nature and culture. What's authentic about Western literature? And more to the point, what's literary? / Lee Clark Mitchell -- Some questions about sexless nature writing / Davide Oates -- Backpacking and ultralight solution / Capper Nichols. part 3. Contested Wests. Scheduling idealism in Laramie, Wyoming / Beth Loffreda -- Frontier mythology, children's literature, and Japanese American incarceration / John Streamas -- I'm just a lonesome Korean cowgirl; or adoption and national identity / Melody Graulich -- Cultivating Otowi Bridge / Audrey Goodman -- The romance of ranching; or, selling place-based fantasies in and of the West / Nancy Cook. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| 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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
American literature -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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West (U.S.) -- In literature.
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Popular culture in literature.
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Ecology in literature.
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Homosexuality in literature.
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Multiculturalism in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
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Ecology in literature. (OCoLC)fst00901557
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Homosexuality in literature. (OCoLC)fst00959825
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Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
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Multiculturalism in literature. (OCoLC)fst01028865
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Popular culture in literature. (OCoLC)fst01071396
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United States, West. (OCoLC)fst01243255
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Kollin, Susan.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Postwestern cultures. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007 9780803211148 0803211147 (DLC) 2007011384 (OCoLC)105436036 |
| ISBN |
9780803215764 (electronic bk.) |
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0803215762 (electronic bk.) |
| Sudoc No. |
U5001 T974 .0005 -2007 nbdocs |
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