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1 online resource |
Series |
Postwestern horizons
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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.
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American fiction -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism.
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Working class in literature.
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Labor in literature.
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West (U.S.) -- In literature.
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Work in literature.
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Work in literature |
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American fiction |
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Labor in literature |
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Literature |
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Western stories |
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Working class in literature |
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West United States |
Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Added Author |
Rotella, Carlo, 1964- editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJp6bvHxTPfJvHBD8mFtKd
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Wilson, Christopher P. (Christopher Pierce), 1952- editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjFDGmvmfrhkgdYqkqR3Qq
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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.) |
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1496220935 (electronic bk.) |
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9781496208842 |
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1496208846 |
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9781496220943 (mobi) |
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9781496220950 (pdf) |
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