Postwestern Cultures

Postwestern Cultures synthesizes the most critical topics of contemporary scholarship of the American West within a single volume. This interdisciplinary anthology features leading scholars in the varied fields of western American literary studies and includes new regional studies, global studies, studies of popular culture, environmental criticism, gender and queer theory, and multiculturalism. Postwestern Cultures , like all successful studies of western American literature, is necessarily diverse and wide-ranging; it grasps the multifaceted quality of the landscape, literature, and critical analysis by engaging postmodern theory, spatial theory, cultural studies, and transnational and transcultural understandings of the local.
 
This collection emphasizes the importance of understanding the region not as a confined or static space but as a constantly changing entity in both substance and form. It examines subjects ranging from the use of frontier rhetoric in Japanese American internment camp narratives to the emergence of agricultural tourism in the New West to the application of geographer J. B. Jackson's theories to abandoned western landscapes.
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Postwestern Cultures

Postwestern Cultures synthesizes the most critical topics of contemporary scholarship of the American West within a single volume. This interdisciplinary anthology features leading scholars in the varied fields of western American literary studies and includes new regional studies, global studies, studies of popular culture, environmental criticism, gender and queer theory, and multiculturalism. Postwestern Cultures , like all successful studies of western American literature, is necessarily diverse and wide-ranging; it grasps the multifaceted quality of the landscape, literature, and critical analysis by engaging postmodern theory, spatial theory, cultural studies, and transnational and transcultural understandings of the local.
 
This collection emphasizes the importance of understanding the region not as a confined or static space but as a constantly changing entity in both substance and form. It examines subjects ranging from the use of frontier rhetoric in Japanese American internment camp narratives to the emergence of agricultural tourism in the New West to the application of geographer J. B. Jackson's theories to abandoned western landscapes.
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Postwestern Cultures

Postwestern Cultures

by Susan Kollin
Postwestern Cultures

Postwestern Cultures

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Postwestern Cultures synthesizes the most critical topics of contemporary scholarship of the American West within a single volume. This interdisciplinary anthology features leading scholars in the varied fields of western American literary studies and includes new regional studies, global studies, studies of popular culture, environmental criticism, gender and queer theory, and multiculturalism. Postwestern Cultures , like all successful studies of western American literature, is necessarily diverse and wide-ranging; it grasps the multifaceted quality of the landscape, literature, and critical analysis by engaging postmodern theory, spatial theory, cultural studies, and transnational and transcultural understandings of the local.
 
This collection emphasizes the importance of understanding the region not as a confined or static space but as a constantly changing entity in both substance and form. It examines subjects ranging from the use of frontier rhetoric in Japanese American internment camp narratives to the emergence of agricultural tourism in the New West to the application of geographer J. B. Jackson's theories to abandoned western landscapes.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780803215764
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 11/01/2007
Series: Postwestern Horizons
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 805 KB

About the Author


Susan Kollin is an associate professor of English at Montana State University and the author of Nature's State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier .
 
Contributors: Michael Beehler, Neil Campbell, Krista Comer, Nancy Cook, Audrey Goodman, Melody Graulich, Susan Kollin, Beth Loffreda, Lee Clark Mitchell, Capper Nichols, David Oates, John Streamas, and Stephen Tatum.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction: Postwestern Studies, Dead or Alive   Susan Kollin     ix
Newer New Wests
Spectrality and the Postregional Interface   Stephen Tatum     3
Everyday Regionalisms in Contemporary Critical Practice   Krista Comer     30
Critical Regionalism, Thirdspace, and John Brinckerhoff Jackson's Western Cultural Landscapes   Neil Campbell     59
Architecture and the Virtual West in William Gibson's San Francisco   Michael Beehler     82
Nature and Culture
What's Authentic about Western Literature? And, More to the Point, What's Literary?   Lee Clark Mitchell     97
Some Questions about Sexless Nature Writing   David Oates     115
Backpacking and the Ultralight Solution   Capper Nichols     127
Survival, Alaska Style   Susan Kollin     143
Contested Wests
Scheduling Idealism in Laramie, Wyoming   Beth Loffreda     159
Frontier Mythology, Children's Literature, and Japanese American Incarceration   John Streamas     172
I'm Just a Lonesome Korean Cowgirl; or, Adoption and National Identity   Melody Graulich     186
Cultivating Otowi Bridge   Audrey Goodman     206
The Romance ofRanching; or, Selling Place-Based Fantasies in and of the West   Nancy Cook     223
References     245
Contributors     265

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