Anything Will Be Easy After This - A Western Identity Crisis

This memoir recounts Bethany Maile’s efforts, informed by a steady diet of “western” activities, to understand the ways in which the western myth is outdated yet persistent.
 

Sommario

Acknowledgments
Going West
Anywhere, USA
How Lady Antebellum Wrecked Country Music
The Slaughterhouse
Anything Will Be Easy after This
The Wild Ones
Ladies’ Night at the Shooting Range
True Grit, Country Strong, and Other Lies
The Trouble with Two-Heartedness 
This Will See Us Through
Notes

Info autore

Bethany Maile is a professor of writing at Boise State University. Her work has been published in Shenandoah, the Rumpus, River Teeth, Prairie Schooner, High Desert Journal, and the Normal School.
 

Riassunto

This memoir recounts Bethany Maile’s efforts, informed by a steady diet of “western” activities, to understand the ways in which the western myth is outdated yet persistent.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Bethany Maile
• Editore: University of Nebraska Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781496220219
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-2021-9
• Pagine: 277
• Serie: American Lives
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Saggistica > Storia > Altro