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Speculative Wests - Popular Representations Of A Region And Genre

by Michael K. Johnson

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 Speculative Wests investigates representations of the American West in terms of both region and genre, looking at speculative westerns (science fiction, fantasy, and horror) as well as at other speculative texts that feature western settings.
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Out Here On Our Own - An Oral History Of An American Boomtown

by J. J. Anselmi

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 J.J. Anselmi tells the story of Rock Springs, Wyoming, a mining boomtown with a history of brutal racial violence, widespread addiction, prostitution, and a staggeringly high per-capita suicide rateâ€"yet a place that has proven remarkably resilient.
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Teaching Western American Literature

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 The pioneering essays in Teaching Western American Literature give instructors entrÃ©e into the classrooms, syllabi, and assignments of leading scholars in the field.
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Manifest Destiny 2.0 - Genre Trouble In Game Worlds

by Sara Humphreys

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 Examining the social and cultural implications of noir and Western narratives in video games, Manifest Destiny 2.0 explores the performative literacy of gaming as a means by which Western and noir genres continue to influence twenty-first-century attitudes and global culture.
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Places Of Modernity In Early Mexican American Literature, 1848-1948

by Jose F. Aranda

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 JosÃ© F. Aranda Jr. demonstrates how the burdens of modernity become the dominant discursive logic for understanding why people of Mexican descent nonetheless wrote and invested in print culture without any guarantee of its social, cultural, or political efficacy.
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Planetary Lens - The Photo-Poetics Of Western Women'S Writing

by Audrey Goodman

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 A Planetary Lens explores how women writers and photographers revise and reimagine landscape, identity, and history in the U.S. West.
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Post-Westerns - Cinema, Region, West

by Neil Campbell

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 Employing the ideas of critics such as Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques RanciÃ¨re, Neil Campbell examines the haunted inheritance of the Western in contemporary US culture. His book reveals how close examination of certain postwar films reconfigures our notions of region and nation, the Western, and indeed the West itself.
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We Who Work The West - Class, Labor, And Space In Western American Literature

by Kiara Kharpertian

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 We Who Work the West examines literary representations of class, labor, and space in the American West from 1885 to 2012.
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Teaching Western American Literature

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 The pioneering essays in Teaching Western American Literature give instructors entrÃ©e into the classrooms, syllabi, and assignments of leading scholars in the field.
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Weird Westerns - Race, Gender, Genre

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 Weird Westerns is an exploration of the hybrid western genre-an increasingly popular and visible form that mixes western themes, iconography, settings, and conventions with elements drawn from other genres, such as science fiction, horror, and fantasy.
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In The Mean Time - Temporal Colonization And The Mexican American Literary Tradition

by Erin Murrah-Mandril

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 Taking a cue from Latina/o and borderlands spatial theories, In the Mean Time argues that time, like space, is a socially constructed, ideologically charged medium of power in the Southwest. This book draws on literature, autobiography, political documents, and historical narratives composed between 1870 and 1940 to examine the way U.S. colonization altered time in the borderlands.
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In The Mean Time - Temporal Colonization And The Mexican American Literary Tradition

by Erin Murrah-Mandril

~~25,39€~~ 20,31€ 20% OFF

 Taking a cue from Latina/o and borderlands spatial theories, In the Mean Time argues that time, like space, is a socially constructed, ideologically charged medium of power in the Southwest. This book draws on literature, autobiography, political documents, and historical narratives composed between 1870 and 1940 to examine the way U.S. colonization altered time in the borderlands.
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Dirty Words In Deadwood - Literature And The Postwestern

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 Brings a much-needed perspective to Deadwood's representation of the frontier West
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Post-Westerns - Cinema, Region, West

by Neil Campbell

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 Employing the ideas of critics such as Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques RanciÃ¨re, Neil Campbell examines the haunted inheritance of the Western in contemporary US culture. His book reveals how close examination of certain postwar films reconfigures our notions of region and nation, the Western, and indeed the West itself.
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Late Westerns - The Persistence Of A Genre

by Lee Clark Mitchell

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 Lee Clark Mitchell takes a position against those critics looking to attach ""post"" to the all-too-familiar genre. For though the frontier disappeared long ago, though men on horseback have become commonplace, and though films of all sorts have always, necessarily defied generic patterns, the Western continues to enthrall audiences.
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Morta Las Vegas - Csi And The Problem Of The West

by Nathaniel Lewis e Stephen Tatum

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 Through all its transformations and reinventions over the past century, Sin City has consistently been regarded by artists and cultural critics as expressing in purest form, for better or worse, an aesthetic and social order spawned by neon signs and institutionalized indulgence. In other words, Las Vegas provides a codex with which to confront the problems of the West and to track the people, materials, ideas, and virtual images that constitute postregional space.Morta Las Vegas considers Las Vegas and the problem of regional identity in the American West through a case study of a single episode of the television crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Delving deep into the interwoven events of the episode titled 4 4, but resisting a linear, logical case-study approach, the authors draw connections between the city-a layered and complex world-and the violent, uncanny mysteries of a crime scene. Morta Las Vegas reveals nuanced issues characterizing the emergence of a postregional West, moving back and forth between a geographical and a procedural site and into a place both in between and beyond Western identity.
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Westerns - A Women'S History

by Victoria Lamont

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 Using original archival analysis, Westerns: A WomenÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s History provides a revisionist account of the western genre, proving women writers of popular westerns were instrumental in the formation of the genre and used it to subtly critique patriarchy. Ã‚
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Dirty Wars - Landscape, Power, And Waste In Western American Literature

by John Beck

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 Since World War II, the American West has become the nation's military arsenal, proving ground, and disposal site. Through a wide-ranging discussion of recent literature produced in and about the West, Dirty Wars explores how the region's iconic landscapes, invested with myths of national virtue, have obscured the West's crucial role in a post-World War II age of ""permanent war"".
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Rhizomatic West - Representing The American West In A Transnational, Global, Media Age

by Neil Campbell

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 Using Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's concept of the rhizome, this book shows how the West (or west-ness) continually breaks away from a mainstream notion of American "rootedness" and renews and transforms itself in various cultural forms.
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True West - Authenticity And The American West

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 In no other region of the United States has the notion of authenticity played such an important yet elusive role as it has in the West. Though pervasive in literature, popular culture, and history, assumptions about western authenticity have not received adequate critical attention. Given the ongoing economic and social transformations in this vast region, the persistent nostalgia and desire for the "real" authentic West suggest regional and national identities at odds with themselves. True West explores the concept of authenticity as it is used to invent, test, advertise, and read the West. The fifteen essays collected here apply contemporary critical and cultural theory to western literary history, Native American literature and identities, the visual West, and the imagining of place. Ranging geographically from the Canadian Prairies to Buena Park's Entertainment Corridor in Southern California, and chronologically from early tourist narratives to contemporary environmental writing, True West challenges many assumptions we make about western writing and opens the door to an important new chapter in western literary history and cultural criticism.
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Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton - Critical And Pedagogical Perspectives

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 Since the re-publication of her novel "The Squatter and the Don", Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832-95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. This work fetaures essays that appraise a politically complex Mexican American writer.
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Unsettling The Literary West - Authenticity And Authorship

by Nathaniel Lewis

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 Why is western writing virtually missing from the American literary canon, but a frequent success in the marketplace? Dealing with this question, this book contends that the skewed status of western literature can be attributed to the strategies of the region's writers, and these strategies depend consistently on the claim of authenticity.
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Westerns - A Women'S History

by Victoria Lamont

~~20,96€~~ 16,77€ 20% OFF

 Using original archival analysis, Westerns: A WomenÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s History provides a revisionist account of the western genre, proving women writers of popular westerns were instrumental in the formation of the genre and used it to subtly critique patriarchy. Ã‚
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Captivating Westerns - The Middle East In The American West

by Susan Kollin

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 Tracing the transnational influences of what has been known as a uniquely American genre, â€œthe Westernâ€, Susan Kollin's Captivating Westerns analyses key moments in the history of multicultural encounters between the Middle East and the American West.
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