Crisscrossing Borders in Literature of the American West

Dyck, R.; Reutter, C.

In one consequential volume, Crisscrossing Borders in Literature of the American West presents the cross-section of a fast-changing and greatly expanded field. Through interdisciplinary essays, this volume on the post-national West challenges the idea of a unified national story sustained by strategic exclusions. Contributors analyze the economic and environmental exploitation depicted in working-class Western literature, emphasize the transnational by approaching both the North/South and cross-Atlantic axes grapple with the role of Mormons, and dissect the new masculinity of "Silicon Gunslingers." Each essay successfully and compellingly models a new and fruitful way of engaging the West.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2015-11-09

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349377985

DOI: 10.1057/9780230619548

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 243