Postwestern cultures
Subtitle: literature, theory, space
By: edited by Susan Kollin
Contributors: Kollin, Susan
Series: Postwestern horizons
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780803211148; 9780803260443
Subjects: American literature -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism; American literature -- History and criticism; Popular culture in literature; Ecology in literature; Homosexuality in literature; Multiculturalism in literature; West (U.S.) -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-263)
Table of contents: title: Introduction: postwestern studies, dead or alive / Susan Kollin. Pt. 1. Newer new Wests. Spectrality and the postregional interface / Stephen Tatum; title: Everyday regionalisms in contemporary critical practice / Krista Comer; title: Critical regionalism, thirdspace, and John Brinckerhoff Jackson's Western cultural landscapes / Neil Campbell; title: 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; title: Some questions about sexless nature writing / Davide Oates; title: Backpacking and ultralight solution / Capper Nichols. Pt. 3. Contested Wests. Scheduling idealism in Laramie, Wyoming / Beth Loffreda; title: Frontier mythology, children's literature, and Japanese American incarceration / John Streamas; title: I'm just a lonesome Korean cowgirl; or adoption and national identity / Melody Graulich; title: Cultivating Otowi Bridge / Audrey Goodman; title: The romance of ranching; or, selling place-based fantasies in and of the West / Nancy Cook