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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Campbell, Neil, 1957- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2022].
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Enter West
  • On worlding
  • "What West?" : Hernan Diaz's In the distance (2017)
  • "What world we making?" : Sebastian Barry's Days without end
  • "The world in all its workings" : Téa Obreht's Inland (2019)
  • "A land of missing things" : C Pam Zhang's How much of these hills is gold
  • To remember otherwise and against : tribalography, Robin Wall Kimmerer, LeAnne Howe and Tommy Orange
  • "The story and the archive of the story" : Valeria Luiselli's Lost children archive
  • Exit West
  • Conclusions perhaps.