Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space ГУМАНИТАРНЫЕ НАУКИ, КУЛЬТУРА и ИСКУССТВО,НАУКА и УЧЕБА Автор: Edited by Susan Kollin Название: Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space Издательство: University of Nebraska Press Год: 2007 Формат: pdf (rar + 3%) Размер: 1.10 Мб Язык: АнглийскийPostwestern 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.0
Author(s): Susan Kollin
Series: Postwestern Horizons
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Year: 2007
Language: English
Commentary: 1181178713
Pages: 288
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
1. Spectrality and the Postregional Interface......Page 24
2. Everyday Regionalisms inContemporary Critical Practice......Page 51
3. Critical Regionalism, Thirdspace,and John Brinckerhoff Jackson’sWestern Cultural Landscapes......Page 80
4. Architecture and the Virtual Westin William Gibson’s San Francisco......Page 103
5. What’s Authentic about Western Literature?And, More to the Point, What’s Literary?......Page 118
6. Some Questions aboutSexless Nature Writing......Page 136
7. Backpacking and the Ultralight Solution......Page 148
8. Survival, Alaska Style......Page 164
9. Scheduling Idealism in Laramie, Wyoming......Page 180
10. Frontier Mythology, Children’s Literature,and Japanese American Incarceration......Page 193
11. I’m Just a Lonesome Korean Cowgirl;or, Adoption and National Identity......Page 207
12. Cultivating Otowi Bridge......Page 227
13. The Romance of Ranching; or,Selling Place-Based Fantasies in and of the West......Page 244
References......Page 266
Contributors......Page 286
