We who work the West : class, labor, and space in Western American literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kharpertian, Kiara, 1985-2016 (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors:	Rotella, Carlo, 1964- (Editor), Wilson, Christopher P. (Christopher Pierce), 1952- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
Series:	Postwestern horizons.
Subjects:	Western stories > History and criticism. American fiction > West (U.S.) > History and criticism. Working class in literature. Labor in literature. West (U.S.) > In literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: How to tell a Western story
Naturalism's handiwork : labor, class, and space in Frank Norris's McTeague : a story of San Francisco
Civic identity and the ethos of belonging : María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The squatter and the Don and Raymond Barrio's The plum plum pickers
Watching the West erode in the 1930s : Sanora Babb's Whose names are unknown, Frank Waters's Below grass roots, and John Fante's Wait until spring, Bandini and ask the dust
He was a good cowboy : identity and history on the post-World War II Texas ranch in Larry McMurtry's Horseman, pass by, Elmer Kelton's The time it never rained, and Cormac McCarthy's All the pretty horses
Tradition and modernization battle it out on rocky soil : Sherman Alexie's The lone ranger and Tonto fistfight in Heaven, Stephen Graham Jones's The bird is gone, and Linda Hogan's Mean spirit
From prairie to oil : hybridization and belonging via class, labor, and space in Philipp Meyer's The son.