Crisscrossing borders in literature of the American West /
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: new models for western literary studies / Reginald Dyck
- A postnational West: new challenges to old stories. Electronic pioneers and Silicon gunslingers: constructing histories of the U.S. computer industry / Jeffrey A. Sartain
- - From the far side of the urban frontier: the detective fiction of Chester Himes and Walter Mosley / Robert Crooks
- American outsiders at the center: Mormons and the West / Rüdiger Heinze
- Middlebrow readers and pioneer heroines: Willa Cather's My Ántonia, Bess Streeter Aldrich's A lantern in her hand, and the popular fiction market / Melissa Homestead
- Intersecting stories: The working-class West. Indigenous ways of knowing capitalism in Simon Ortiz's Fight back / Reginald Dyck
- Louis Owens's representations of working-class consciousness / Renny Christopher
- The American West in red and green: the forgotten literary history of social justice environmentalism / Steven Rosendale
- Transnational Wests: engaging the hemisphere, crossing the ocean. Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona: a transnational reading of the Old West / Robert McKee Irwin
- Possessing La Santa de Cabora: The union of sacred, human, and transnational identities / Desirée A. Martín
- Manifold destinies: Isabel Allende's Daughter of fortune and Toni Morrison's Paradise / Cheli Reutter
- The lonesome German cowboy: negotiating German skepticism about America, 1893-2001 / Hubertus Zander.