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Postwestern cultures : literature, theory, space /

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 theo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kollin, Susan
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007.
Colección:Postwestern horizons.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.