Crisscrossing borders in literature of the American West
By: edited by Reginald Dyck and Cheli Ruetter.
Contributors: Dyck, Reginald.; Ruetter, Cheli.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: American literature -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- HIstory and criticism; West (U.S.) -- In literature; Transnationalism in literature; Cultural pluralism in literature; Working class in literature; West (U.S.) -- Intellectual life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: new models for western literary studies / Reginald Dyck; title: A post-national West: new challenges to old stories. Electronic pioneers and Silicon gunslingers: constructing histories of the US computer industry / Jeffrey Sartain; title: - From the far side of the urban frontier: the detective fiction of Chester Himes and Walter Mosley / Robert Crooks; title: American outsiders at the center: Mormons and the West / Rüdiger Heinze; title: Middlebrow readers and pioneer heroines: Willa Cather's My Antonia, Bess Streeter Aldrich's A lantern in her hand and the popular fiction market / Melissa Homestead; title: Intersecting stories: The working-class West. Indigenous ways of knowing capitalism in Simon Ortiz's Fight back / Reginald Dyck; title: Louis Owens' representations of working-class consciousness / Renny Christopher; title: The American West in red and green: the forgotten literary history of social justice environmentalism / Steven Rosendale; title: Transnational Wests: engaging the hemisphere, crossing the ocean. Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona: A transnational reading of the Old West / Robert McKee Irwin; title: Possessing La Santa de Cabora: Towards the construction of the western borderlands / Desirée A. Martín; title: Manifold destinies: Isabel Allende's Daughter of fortune and Toni Morrison's Paradise / Cheli Reutter; title: The lonesome German cowboy: negotiating German skepticism about America, 1893-2001 / Hubertus Zander.