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Title Postwestern cultures : literature, theory, space / edited by Susan Kollin.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 267 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Postwestern horizons
Postwestern horizons.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-263).
Contents Introduction: postwestern studies, dead or alive / Susan Kollin. pt. 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. pt. 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. pt. 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.
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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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject American literature -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism.
American literature.
American literature -- History and criticism.
West (U.S.) -- In literature.
Popular culture in literature.
Popular culture in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Homosexuality in literature.
Homosexuality in literature.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Kollin, Susan.
Other Form: Print version: Postwestern cultures. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007 9780803211148 0803211147 (DLC) 2007011384 (OCoLC)105436036
ISBN 9780803215764 (electronic book)
0803215762 (electronic book)
9780803211148 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0803211147 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780803260443 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
080326044X (paperback ; alkaline paper)
Sudoc No. U5001 T974 .0005 -2007