Worlding the Western : contemporary US Western fiction and the global community /

Worlding the Western takes the fiction of the western United States as a focal point for a reexamination of the consequences of exceptionalism and closed borders in the Trump Era. At a time of bounded individualism, new nativism, climate emergency and migration crises, author Neil Campbell argues th...

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Main Author: Campbell, Neil, 1957- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2022].
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Summary:Worlding the Western takes the fiction of the western United States as a focal point for a reexamination of the consequences of exceptionalism and closed borders in the Trump Era. At a time of bounded individualism, new nativism, climate emergency and migration crises, author Neil Campbell argues that fiction offers opportunities to put the world back in ways that challenge the dark side of globalization and proposes worlding as a different and more open form of politics.
Physical Description:vii, 235 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781647790554
1647790557