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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Postwestern horizonsPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 267 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780803215764
  • 0803215762
  • 1281092096
  • 9781281092090
  • 9786611092092
  • 6611092099
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Postwestern cultures.DDC classification:
  • 810.9/978 22
LOC classification:
  • PS271 .P57 2007eb
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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.
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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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-263).

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.

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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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