Worlding the Western : contemporary US Western fiction and the global community / Neil Campbell.

"Worlding the Western takes the fiction of the Western United States as a focal point for a re-examination of the consequences of exceptionalism and closed borders in the Trump Era. At a time of bounded individualism, new nativism, climate emergency, and migration crises, author Neil Campbell argues...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Campbell, Neil, 1957- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Reno ; Las Vegas : University of Nevada Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Western stories.
American fiction > West (U.S.)
Globalization in literature.
West (U.S.) > In literature.
American fiction.
Literature.
West United States.
Physical Description:vii, 235 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : Enter West
  • On worlding
  • "What West?" : Hernan Diaz's In the distance (2017)
  • "What world we making?" : Sebastian Barry's Days without end
  • "The world in all its workings" : Téa Obreht's Inland (2019)
  • "A land of missing things" : C Pam Zhang's How much of these hills is gold
  • To remember otherwise and against : tribalography, Robin Wall Kimmerer, LeAnne Howe and Tommy Orange
  • "The story and the archive of the story" : Valeria Luiselli's Lost children archive
  • Exit West
  • Conclusions perhaps.