What is a Western? : region, genre, imagination /

What is a Western? : region, genre, imagination /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Garrett-Davis, Josh (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Limerick, Patricia Nelson, 1951- (writer of foreword.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2019]
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism.
American literature.
Literature.
West (U.S.) > In literature.
West United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Closing of the Far Eastern frontier
  • The West's world
  • A posse of soul westerns
  • On The Frisco kid
  • History as genre literature
  • Historical angels
  • The wonders of Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Horse power
  • Standing rock and the museum
  • Calexico : gateway to the borderlands
  • Borderlands II : Aztlan cowboys
  • Borderlands III : a triple landscape
  • An old song : on Oklahoma!
  • What a river knows
  • A California commonist
  • California uber alles : on Joan Didion
  • All our values are shaken
  • A homestead for contemporary art
  • I'm a loner, a rebel
  • Seuss in boots
  • American remains
  • Afterword : once upon a place.