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  • Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 1by Philip A. Greasley

    Indiana University Press 2001; US$ 47.95

    The Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume One, surveys the lives and writings of nearly 400 Midwestern authors and identifies some of the most important criticism of their writings. The Dictionary is based on the belief that the literature of any region simultaneously captures the experience and influences the worldview of its people, reflecting as well as shaping the evolving sense of individual and collective identity, meaning, and values. Volume One presents individual lives and literary orientations and offers a broad survey of the Midwestern experience as expressed by its many diverse peoples over time.Philip A. ... more...

  • Elizabeth Robinsby Angela V. John

    Routledge 1995; US$ 89.95

    Elizabeth Robins considers this extraordinary actress within the context of her times, relating her own work to wider social and political issues, giving an account of the British and American cultural history of the period. more...

  • Native American and Chicano/a Literature of the Americanby Christina M. Hebebrand

    Routledge 2004; US$ 90.00

    This book studies Native American and Chicano writers of the American Southwest as a coherent cultural group with common features and distinct efforts to deal with and to resist the dominant Euro-American culture. more...

  • Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary Westby William R. Handley; Albert Gelpi; Ross Posnock

    Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 30.00

    In Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West, William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the western American past. Handley examines works of historiography, as well as writing by Zane Grey, Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner and Joan Didion among others. more...

  • California and the Fictions of Capitalby George L. Henderson

    Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 125.00

    Essays on California's economy, culture, and literature from the 1880s to the 1920s, showing how rural places were made over in the image of capital. They examine the geography and political economy of agrarian capitalism and literature before John Steinbeck redefined the scene in the 1930s. more...

  • Continental Dividesby Anne Goldman

    Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 80.00

    This book calls for a new iconography of region that unseats New England’ s status as cultural center of the United States and originary metaphor for national identity. No single territorial or political axis can adequately describe the complex regional relationships that comprise the nation, Anne Goldman argues. Goldman's arguments question critical sectionalism as extensively as they do regional divisions, by blurring generic distinctions, by reading across literary periods, and by juxtaposing writers who explore the same set of social issues during the same historical moment, but who are conventionally located in separate literary traditions: sentimental literature, the African American novel, literary modernism, early Mexican... more...

  • Postwestern Culturesby Susan Kollin

    University of Nebraska Press 2007; US$ 19.95

    Synthesizes topics of contemporary scholarship of the American West. This work 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 vernacular or abandoned western landscapes. more...

  • Traces of Goldby Nicolas S. Witschi

    The University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 23.95

    Broadening our understanding of what constitutes "realism," Nicolas Witschi artfully demonstrates the linkage of American literary realism to the texts, myths, and resources of the American West. From Gold Rush romances to cowboy Westerns, from hard-boiled detective thrillers to nature writing, the American West has long been known mainly through hackneyed representations in popular genres. But a close look at the literary history of the West reveals a number of writers who claim that their works represent the "real" West. As Nicolas Witschi shows, writers as varied as Bret Harte, John Muir, Frank Norris, Mary Austin, and Raymond Chandler have used claims of textual realism to engage, replicate, or challenge commonly held assumptions... more...

  • All Our Stories Are Hereby Brady Harrison

    University of Nebraska Press 2009; US$ 50.00

    This wide-ranging collection of essays addresses a diverse and expanded vision of Montana literature, offering new readings of both canonical and overlooked texts. Although a handful of Montana writers such as Richard Hugo, A. B. Guthrie Jr., D’Arcy McNickle, and James Welch have received considerable critical attention, sizable gaps remain in the analysis of the state’s ever-growing and ever-evolving canon. The twelve essays in All Our Stories Are Here not only build on the exemplary, foundational work of other writers but also open further interpretative and critical conversations. more...

  • Dirty Warsby John Beck

    University of Nebraska Press 2009; US$ 55.00

    Since World War II, the American West has become the nation’s military arsenal, proving ground, and disposal site. Through a wide-ranging discussion of recent literature produced in and about the West, Dirty Wars explores how the region’s iconic landscapes, invested with myths of national virtue, have obscured the West’s crucial role in a post–World War II age of “permanent war.” more...