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Speculative Wests investigates representations of the American West in terms of both region and genre, looking at speculative westerns (science fiction, fantasy, and horror) as well as at other speculative texts that feature western settings.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
1. Race, Time Travel, and the Western
2. Trauma, Time Travel, and Legacies of Violence
3. Alternate Cartographies of the West(ern) in Indigenous Futurist Works
4. Speculative Borderlands I:
Mestizaje, Temporality, and History
5. Speculative Borderlands II: Time Travel and Cartographies of Trauma
6. Speculative Slave Narrative Westerns
Afterword
Notes
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Michael K. Johnson is a professor of American literature at the University of Maine–Farmington. He is the author of several books, including
Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos: Conceptions of the African American West,
Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature, and
A Black Woman’s West: The Life of Rose B. Gordon.
Zusammenfassung
Speculative Wests investigates representations of the American West in terms of both region and genre, looking at speculative westerns (science fiction, fantasy, and horror) as well as at other speculative texts that feature western settings.