NS Witschi
John Wiley & Sons
e druk, 2011
9781405187336
A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West
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John Wiley & Sons |
e druk, 2011
ISBN13: 9781405187336
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America′s western states.
Offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of cultural expressions originating in the west
Focuses on the intersections, complexities, and challenges found within and between the different historical and cultural groups that define the west′s various distinctive regions
Addresses traditionally familiar icons and ideas about the west (such as cowboys, wide–open spaces, and violence) and their intersections with urbanization and other regional complexities
Features essays written by many of the leading scholars in western American cultural studies
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ISBN13:9781405187336
Taal:Engels
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Aantal pagina's:578
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Notes on Contributors viii
<p>Part I: Introduction 1</p>
<p>1 Imagining the West 3<br /> Nicolas S. Witschi</p>
<p>Part II: Regions and Histories 11</p>
<p>2 Exploration, Trading, Trapping, Travel, and Early Fiction, 1780 1850 13<br /> Edward Watts</p>
<p>3 Worlds of Wonder and Ambition: Gold Rush California and the Culture of Mining Bonanzas in the North American West 29<br /> Peter J. Blodgett</p>
<p>4 The Literate West of Nineteenth–Century Periodicals 48<br /> Tara Penry</p>
<p>5 A History of American Women s Western Books, 1833 1928 63<br /> Nina Baym</p>
<p>6 Literary Cultures of the American Southwest 81<br /> Daniel Worden</p>
<p>7 Literary Cartography of the Great Plains 98<br /> Susan Naramore Maher</p>
<p>8 The Literary Northern Rockies as The Last Best Place 115<br /> O. Alan Weltzien</p>
<p>9 North by Northwest: The Last Frontier of Western Literature 130<br /> Eric Heyne</p>
<p>10 Chronotopes of the Asian American West 145<br /> Hsuan L. Hsu</p>
<p>11 African American Literature and Culture and the American West 161<br /> Michael K. Johnson</p>
<p>12 Mythical Frontiers: Manifest Destiny, Aztlán, and the Cosmic Race 177<br /> John L. Escobedo</p>
<p>13 Writing the Indigenous West 191<br /> Kathleen Washburn</p>
<p>14 Framing Class in the Rural West: Cowboys, Double–wides, and McMansions 213<br /> Nancy Cook</p>
<p>15 Postcolonial West 229<br /> Alex Hunt</p>
<p>16 New West, Urban and Suburban Spaces, Postwest 244<br /> Krista Comer</p>
<p>Part III: Varieties and Forms 261</p>
<p>17 What We Talk About When We Talk About Western Art 263<br /> Brian W. Dippie</p>
<p>18 All Hat and No Cattle : Romance, Realism, and Late Nineteenth–Century Western American Fiction 281<br /> Gary Scharnhorst</p>
<p>19 The Coyote Nature of Cowboy Poetry 297<br /> Barbara Barney Nelson</p>
<p>20 The Wind Blew Them Away : Folksinging the West, 1880 1930 316<br /> David Fenimore</p>
<p>21 Autobiography 336<br /> Gioia Woods</p>
<p>22 Housing the American West: Western Women s Literature, Early Twentieth Century and Beyond 353<br /> Cathryn Halverson</p>
<p>23 The Apple Doesn t Fall Far from the Tree: Western American Literature and Environmental Literary Criticism 367<br /> Hal Crimmel</p>
<p>24 Detective Fiction 380<br /> Nicolas S. Witschi</p>
<p>25 The American Western Film 395<br /> Corey K. Creekmur</p>
<p>26 Post–Western Cinema 409<br /> Neil Campbell</p>
<p>Part IV: Issues, Themes, Case Studies 425</p>
<p>27 America Unscripted: Performing the Wild West 427<br /> Jefferson D. Slagle</p>
<p>28 Revising Public Memory in the American West: Native American Performance in the Ramona Outdoor Play 443<br /> Karen E. Ramirez</p>
<p>29 Omnimedia Marketing: The Case of The Lone Ranger 462<br /> Chadwick Allen</p>
<p>30 The Nuclear Southwest 483<br /> Audrey Goodman</p>
<p>31 Ranging over Stegner s Arid West: Mobility as Adaptive Strategy 499<br /> Bonney MacDonald</p>
<p>32 The Global West: Temporality, Spatial Politics, and Literary Production 514<br /> Susan Kollin</p>
<p>33 Tumbling Dice: The Problem of Las Vegas 528<br /> Stephen Tatum and Nathaniel Lewis</p>
<p>Index 547</p>
<p>Part I: Introduction 1</p>
<p>1 Imagining the West 3<br /> Nicolas S. Witschi</p>
<p>Part II: Regions and Histories 11</p>
<p>2 Exploration, Trading, Trapping, Travel, and Early Fiction, 1780 1850 13<br /> Edward Watts</p>
<p>3 Worlds of Wonder and Ambition: Gold Rush California and the Culture of Mining Bonanzas in the North American West 29<br /> Peter J. Blodgett</p>
<p>4 The Literate West of Nineteenth–Century Periodicals 48<br /> Tara Penry</p>
<p>5 A History of American Women s Western Books, 1833 1928 63<br /> Nina Baym</p>
<p>6 Literary Cultures of the American Southwest 81<br /> Daniel Worden</p>
<p>7 Literary Cartography of the Great Plains 98<br /> Susan Naramore Maher</p>
<p>8 The Literary Northern Rockies as The Last Best Place 115<br /> O. Alan Weltzien</p>
<p>9 North by Northwest: The Last Frontier of Western Literature 130<br /> Eric Heyne</p>
<p>10 Chronotopes of the Asian American West 145<br /> Hsuan L. Hsu</p>
<p>11 African American Literature and Culture and the American West 161<br /> Michael K. Johnson</p>
<p>12 Mythical Frontiers: Manifest Destiny, Aztlán, and the Cosmic Race 177<br /> John L. Escobedo</p>
<p>13 Writing the Indigenous West 191<br /> Kathleen Washburn</p>
<p>14 Framing Class in the Rural West: Cowboys, Double–wides, and McMansions 213<br /> Nancy Cook</p>
<p>15 Postcolonial West 229<br /> Alex Hunt</p>
<p>16 New West, Urban and Suburban Spaces, Postwest 244<br /> Krista Comer</p>
<p>Part III: Varieties and Forms 261</p>
<p>17 What We Talk About When We Talk About Western Art 263<br /> Brian W. Dippie</p>
<p>18 All Hat and No Cattle : Romance, Realism, and Late Nineteenth–Century Western American Fiction 281<br /> Gary Scharnhorst</p>
<p>19 The Coyote Nature of Cowboy Poetry 297<br /> Barbara Barney Nelson</p>
<p>20 The Wind Blew Them Away : Folksinging the West, 1880 1930 316<br /> David Fenimore</p>
<p>21 Autobiography 336<br /> Gioia Woods</p>
<p>22 Housing the American West: Western Women s Literature, Early Twentieth Century and Beyond 353<br /> Cathryn Halverson</p>
<p>23 The Apple Doesn t Fall Far from the Tree: Western American Literature and Environmental Literary Criticism 367<br /> Hal Crimmel</p>
<p>24 Detective Fiction 380<br /> Nicolas S. Witschi</p>
<p>25 The American Western Film 395<br /> Corey K. Creekmur</p>
<p>26 Post–Western Cinema 409<br /> Neil Campbell</p>
<p>Part IV: Issues, Themes, Case Studies 425</p>
<p>27 America Unscripted: Performing the Wild West 427<br /> Jefferson D. Slagle</p>
<p>28 Revising Public Memory in the American West: Native American Performance in the Ramona Outdoor Play 443<br /> Karen E. Ramirez</p>
<p>29 Omnimedia Marketing: The Case of The Lone Ranger 462<br /> Chadwick Allen</p>
<p>30 The Nuclear Southwest 483<br /> Audrey Goodman</p>
<p>31 Ranging over Stegner s Arid West: Mobility as Adaptive Strategy 499<br /> Bonney MacDonald</p>
<p>32 The Global West: Temporality, Spatial Politics, and Literary Production 514<br /> Susan Kollin</p>
<p>33 Tumbling Dice: The Problem of Las Vegas 528<br /> Stephen Tatum and Nathaniel Lewis</p>
<p>Index 547</p>