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Author Kharpertian, Kiara, 1985-2016, author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjqVXC6b3qJt3JbPqCYhgX

Title We who work the West : class, labor, and space in Western American literature / Kiara Kharpertian ; edited by Carlo Rotella and Christopher P. Wilson.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Postwestern horizons
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: How to tell a Western story -- Naturalism's handiwork : labor, class, and space in Frank Norris's McTeague : a story of San Francisco -- Civic identity and the ethos of belonging : MarĂ­a Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The squatter and the Don and Raymond Barrio's The plum plum pickers -- Watching the West erode in the 1930s : Sanora Babb's Whose names are unknown, Frank Waters's Below grass roots, and John Fante's Wait until spring, Bandini and ask the dust -- He was a good cowboy : identity and history on the post-World War II Texas ranch in Larry McMurtry's Horseman, pass by, Elmer Kelton's The time it never rained, and Cormac McCarthy's All the pretty horses -- Tradition and modernization battle it out on rocky soil : Sherman Alexie's The lone ranger and Tonto fistfight in Heaven, Stephen Graham Jones's The bird is gone, and Linda Hogan's Mean spirit -- From prairie to oil : hybridization and belonging via class, labor, and space in Philipp Meyer's The son.
Summary "We Who Work the West examines literary representations of class, labor, and space in the American West from 1885 to 2012"-- Provided by publisher
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Western stories -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism.
Working class in literature.
Labor in literature.
West (U.S.) -- In literature.
Work in literature.
Work in literature
American fiction
Labor in literature
Literature
Western stories
Working class in literature
West United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Rotella, Carlo, 1964- editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJp6bvHxTPfJvHBD8mFtKd
Wilson, Christopher P. (Christopher Pierce), 1952- editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjFDGmvmfrhkgdYqkqR3Qq
Other Form: Print version: Kharpertian, Kiara, 1985-2016. We who work the West. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020] 9781496208842 (DLC) 2019044425 (OCoLC)1125832086
ISBN 9781496220936 (electronic bk.)
1496220935 (electronic bk.)
9781496208842
1496208846
9781496220943 (mobi)
9781496220950 (pdf)