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The rhizomatic West : representing the American West in a transnational, global, media age /

Using Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari?s concept of the rhizome, Neil Campbell 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. A region long traversed by various transient peoples...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Campbell, Neil, 1957-
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008.
Colección:Postwestern horizons.
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  • List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Theorizing the Rhizomatic West; 1. Toward an Expanded Critical Regionalism: Contact and Interchange; 2. Feasts of Wire: Rubén Martinez and the Transfrontera Contact Zone; 3. Welcome to Westworld: Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West; 4. The 'Western' in Quotes: Generic Variations; 5. Dialogical Landscapes:; 6. Strata and Routes: Living on Reservation X; 7. Postwestern Generations? Douglas Coupland's; Conclusion: On; Notes; Index.