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1 Online-Ressource (383 pages)
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illustrations
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Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0803243936
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0803217838
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0803215398
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9780803243934
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9780803217836
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9780803215399
Series Statement:
Postwestern horizons
Content:
Using Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari?s concept of the rhizome, Neil Campbell shows how the West (or west-ness) continually breaks away from a mainstream notion of American?rootedness? and renews and transforms itself in various cultural forms. A region long traversed by various transient peoples (from tribes and conquerors to immigrants, traders, and trappers), the West reflects a mythic quest for settlement, permanence, and synthesis?even notions of a national or global identity?at odds with its rootless history, culture, and nature. Crossing the concept of?roots? with?routes,? this boo
Content:
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Theorizing the Rhizomatic West; 1. Toward an Expanded Critical Regionalism: Contact and Interchange; 2. Feasts of Wire: Rubén Martinez and the Transfrontera Contact Zone; 3. Welcome to Westworld: Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West; 4. The 'Western' in Quotes: Generic Variations; 5. Dialogical Landscapes:; 6. Strata and Routes: Living on Reservation X; 7. Postwestern Generations? Douglas Coupland's; Conclusion: On; Notes; Index
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-377) and index
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Campbell, Neil, 1957- Rhizomatic West Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
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Campbell, Neil 1957-
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