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

Other author Kollin, Susan.
Format Book
Publication InfoLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007.
Descriptionxix, 267 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

SeriesPostwestern horizons
Postwestern horizons. ^A563724
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [245]-263).
LCCN 2007011384
ISBN9780803211148 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0803211147 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780803260443 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN080326044X (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS 271 .P57 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold