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xv, 413 pages ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-396) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Historicizing the American literary West / Susan Kollin -- Indigenous memories and Western American literary history / Susan Bernadin -- The recovery project and the role of history in Chicano/a literary studies / José F. Aranda Jr. -- Domestic frontiers : settler narratives by European American women writers / Nicole Tonkovich -- Labor and the land : narratives of trading, mining, and ranching / Nathaniel Lewis -- Nature writing and the American West / Sarah Jaquette Ray -- Tall tales and short stories / Nicolas S. Witschi -- The popular Western / Daniel Worden -- Literature of the Great Plains : nature, culture, and community / Susan Naramore Maher -- Southwest literary borderlands / Audrey Goodman -- Imagining the Rocky Mountain region / Nancy S. Cook -- Writing the Pacific Northwest / Stephanie LeMenager -- The far North : literatures of Alaska and Canada / Ernestine Hayes -- The problem of the critical in global Wests / Krista Comer -- Early cinematic Westerns / Christine Bold -- The environmental novel of the American West / Dana Phillips -- Hard-boiled fiction and noir narratives / Lee Clark Mitchell -- The Beats and the American West / Robert Bennett -- Contested Wests : indigenous Americans and the literature of sovereignty / John Gamber -- Asian American writers and the making of the Western U.S. landscape / Jane Hseu -- African American literature : recasting region through race / Jonathan Munby -- Hollywood Westerns : 1930s to the present / Andrew Patrick Nelson -- Urban new Wests / Stephen Tatum -- Queer frontiers : gender and sexuality in the American West / David Agruss -- Postwestern literature and criticism / Neil Campbell. |
| Subject |
American literature -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism.
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West (U.S.) -- In literature.
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American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
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Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
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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, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781107083851 (hardback) |
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1107083850 (hardback) |
| Standard No. |
40025521505 |
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