We Who Work the West
Class, Labor, and Space in Western American Literature
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
Av Kiara Kharpertian, Carlo Rotella, Christopher P. Wilson, Christopher P Wilson
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Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.We Who Work the West examines literary representations of class, labor, and space in the American West from 1885 to 2012. Moving from MarÍa Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s representations of dispossessed Californio ranchers in the mid-nineteenth century to the urban grid of early twentieth-century San Francisco in Frank Norris’s McTeague to working and unemployed cowboys in the contemporary novels of Cormac McCarthy and Larry McMurtry, Kiara Kharpertian provides a panoramic look at literary renderings of both individual labor-physical, tangible, and often threatened handwork-and the epochal transformations of central institutions of a modernizing West: the farm, the ranchero, the mine, the rodeo, and the Native American reservation.The West that emerges here is both dynamic and diverse, its on-the-ground organization of work, social class, individual mobility, and collective belonging constantly mutating in direct response to historical change and the demands of the natural environment. The literary West thus becomes more than a locus of mythic nostalgia or consumer fantasy about the American past. It becomes a place where the real work of making that West, as well as the suffering and loss it often entailed, is reimagined.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2020-06-01
- Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
- Vikt585 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- SeriePostwestern Horizons
- Antal sidor288
- FörlagUniversity of Nebraska Press
- ISBN9781496208842