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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Reno :
University of Nevada Press,
[2022].
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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.