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Informationen zum Autor Susan Kollin is an associate professor of English at Montana State University and the author of Nature's State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier. Contributors: Michael Beehler, Neil Campbell, Krista Comer, Nancy Cook, Audrey Goodman, Melody Graulich, Susan Kollin, Beth Loffreda, Lee Clark Mitchell, Capper Nichols, David Oates, John Streamas, and Stephen Tatum. Klappentext Susan Kollin is an associate professor of English at Montana State University and the author of Nature's State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier.¿Contributors: Michael Beehler, Neil Campbell, Krista Comer, Nancy Cook, Audrey Goodman, Melody Graulich, Susan Kollin, Beth Loffreda, Lee Clark Mitchell, Capper Nichols, David Oates, John Streamas, and Stephen Tatum. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Postwestern Studies, Dead or Alive Susan Kollin Part 1: Newer New Wests 1. Spectrality and the Postregional Interface Stephen Tatum2. Everyday Regionalisms in Contemporary Critical Practice Krista Comer3. Critical Regionalism, Thirdspace, and John Brinckerhoff Jackson's Western Cultural Landscapes Neil Campbell4. Architecture and the Virtual West in William Gibson's San Francisco Michael Beehler Part 2: Nature and Culture 5. What's Authentic about Western Literature? And, More to the Point, What's Literary? Lee Clark Mitchell6. Some Questions about Sexless Nature Writing David Oates7. Backpacking and the Ultralight Solution Capper Nichols8. Survival, Alaska Style Susan Kollin Part 3: Contested Wests 9. Scheduling Idealism in Laramie, Wyoming Beth Loffreda10. Frontier Mythology, Children's Literature, and Japanese American Incarceration John Streamas11. I'm Just a Lonesome Korean Cowgirl; or, Adoption and National Identity Melody Graulich12. Cultivating Otowi Bridge Audrey Goodman13. The Romance of Ranching; or, Selling Place-Based Fantasies in and of the West Nancy Cook References Contributors ...
