Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American West

Klappentext This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature of the American West, one of the most vibrant and diverse literary traditions. Zusammenfassung This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the vibrant and expansive literature of the American West. Essays cover a diverse group of key texts and authors - including major figures in the Native American! Hispanic! Asian American! and African American movements - with treatments ranging from environmental and ecopoetic to transnational and transcultural. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Steven Frye; 2. Transnational Wests: the literature of Spanish exploration M. Carmen Gomez-Galisteo; 3. Western folk traditions: from colonization to Mark Twain and the San Francisco Circle John Dudley; 4. Settlement, promise, and catastrophe in the middle regions Daniel Worden; 5. Gender and the literature of expansion Cathryn Halverson; 6. The American West and the literature of environmental consciousness Susan Kollin; 7. California in late settlement Pierre Lagayette; 8. The West in modern verse Gioia Woods; 9. Noir fiction and the Western city Lee Clark Mitchell; 10. The Western and film Stacey Peebles; 11. The Native American Renaissance Nicholas Monk; 12. Chicana/o literature in the West Rafael Perez-Torres; 13. Mestiza consciousness of La Frontera/Borderlands in Sandra Cisneros and Helena Maria Viramontes Linda Rader Overman; 14. The West and the Asian American experience Marguerite Nguyen; 15. African-American literature and the early West Eric Gardner; 16. Wallace Stegner and the literature of historical memory Robert Thacker; 17. Cormac McCarthy: narratives and borders Steven Frye.

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• Authors: Steven Frye, Steven (California State University Frye
• Assisted by: Steven Frye (Editor), Steven (California State University Frye (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.2016
• EAN: 9781107479272
• ISBN: 978-1-107-47927-2
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Englisch, USA Westen