Crisscrossing Borders in Literature of the American West by R. Dyck (English) Ha

Description: Crisscrossing Borders in Literature of the American West by R. Dyck, C. Reutter In one consequential volume, Crisscrossing Borders in Literature of the American West presents the cross-section of a fast-changing and greatly expanded field. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In one consequential volume, Crisscrossing Borders in Literature of the American West presents the cross-section of a fast-changing and greatly expanded field. Through interdisciplinary essays, this volume on the post-national West challenges the idea of a unified national story sustained by strategic exclusions. Contributors analyze the economic and environmental exploitation depicted in working-class Western literature, emphasize the transnational by approaching both the North/South and cross-Atlantic axes grapple with the role of Mormons, and dissect the new masculinity of "Silicon Gunslingers." Each essay successfully and compellingly models a new and fruitful way of engaging the West. Notes This book engages hemispheric approaches, working class perspectives, and transnational comparisons in order to analyze Western literature Author Biography REGINLAD DYCK is English Professor at Capital University, USA. CHELI REUTTER is Assistant Professor of Literature and Languages at Northern Kentucky University, USA. Table of Contents Electronic Pioneers and Silicon Gunslingers: Constructing Histories of the U.S. Computer Industry; J.Sartain From the Far Side of the Urban Frontier: The Detective Fiction of Chester Himes and Walter Mosley; R.Crooks American Outsiders at the Center: Mormons and the West; R.Heinze Middlebrow Readers and Pioneer Heroines: Willa Cathers My Antonia ; B.Streeter Aldrichs A Lantern in Her Hand and the Popular Fiction Market; M.Homestead Review "The variety of provocative approaches, new critical inquiries, and challenges to comfortable but worn ways of thinking embodied in this collection returns to us a variety of American Wests that have much to tell us about our multiple pasts and our various futures." - Great Plains Quarterly"These essays expand one s understanding of western terrain through multiple axes: geographical, political, historical, and cultural. The contributing scholars challenge the received knowledge of the West, offering valuable revisions to concepts like transnationalism, the working class, popular culture, and the canon. This collection does not simply crisscross borders: it engages them, wrestles with them, redefines them, even defies them. Dyck and Reutter offer up a new literary atlas of the West and in doing so redraw the map of western American studies." - Susan Naramore Maher, Peter Kiewit Distinguished Professor of English, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Past President, Western Literature Association"Wide-ranging in many ways, this exciting volume itself crosses borders to gather scholars from various disciplines and locations to explore the works of a selection of important, diverse writers . . .A most valuable volume!" - Emory Elliott, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Riverside"This valuable collection occupies an important area of regionalist studies, with strong essays on ethnicity and class. The worldliness of the volumes contributors and the range of voices are noteworthy." - Guy Reynolds, Professor of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and General Editor of the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition Promotional ROBERT CROOKS RA DIGER HEINZE MELISSA HOMESTEAD JEFFREY SARTAIN BESS STREETER Review Quote "The variety of provocative approaches, new critical inquiries, and challenges to comfortable but worn ways of thinking embodied in this collection returns to us a variety of American Wests that have much to tell us about our multiple pasts and our various futures."-- Great Plains Quarterly "These essays expand ones understanding of western terrain through multiple axes: geographical, political, historical, and cultural. The contributing scholars challenge the received knowledge of the West, offering valuable revisions to concepts like transnationalism, the working class, popular culture, and the canon. This collection does not simply crisscross borders: it engages them, wrestles with them, redefines them, even defies them. Dyck and Reutter offer up a new literary atlas of the West and in doing so redraw the map of western American studies."--Susan Naramore Maher, Peter Kiewit Distinguished Professor of English, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Past President, Western Literature Association "Wide-ranging in many ways, this exciting volume itself crosses borders to gather scholars from various disciplines and locations to explore the works of a selection of important, diverse writers...A most valuable volume!"--Emory Elliott, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Riverside "This valuable collection occupies an important area of regionalist studies, with strong essays on ethnicity and class. The worldliness of the volumes contributors and the range of voices are noteworthy."Guy Reynolds, Professor of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and General Editor of the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition Details ISBN0230613438 Short Title CRISSCROSSING BORDERS IN LITER Language English ISBN-10 0230613438 ISBN-13 9780230613430 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2009 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 243 Place of Publication Basingstoke DOI 10.1604/9780230613430 AU Release Date 2009-03-24 NZ Release Date 2009-03-24 UK Release Date 2009-03-24 Illustrations VIII, 243 p. Author C. Reutter Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Publication Date 2009-03-24 Alternative 9781349377985 DEWEY 810.935878 Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:97218108;

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