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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1125832086 Title: We who work the West : class, labor, and space in Western American literature Author: Kiara Kharpertian; Carlo Rotella; Christopher P Wilson Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020] ISBN/ISSN: 9781496208842 1496208846 OCLC:1125832086

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We who work the West : class, labor, and space in Western American literature

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We who work the West : class, labor, and space in Western American literature

Author:	Kiara Kharpertian; Carlo Rotella; Christopher P Wilson
Publisher:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
Series:	Postwestern horizons.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"We Who Work the West examines literary representations of class, labor, and space in the American West from 1885 to 2012"--
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Subjects	Western stories -- History and criticism. American fiction -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism. Working class in literature. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Criticism, interpretation, etc
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Kiara Kharpertian; Carlo Rotella; Christopher P Wilson Find more information about:
ISBN:	9781496208842 1496208846
OCLC Number:	1125832086
Description:	xxix, 250 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:	Introduction: How to tell a Western story -- Naturalism's handiwork : labor, class, and space in Frank Norris's McTeague : a story of San Francisco -- Civic identity and the ethos of belonging : María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The squatter and the Don and Raymond Barrio's The plum plum pickers -- Watching the West erode in the 1930s : Sanora Babb's Whose names are unknown, Frank Waters's Below grass roots, and John Fante's Wait until spring, Bandini and ask the dust -- He was a good cowboy : identity and history on the post-World War II Texas ranch in Larry McMurtry's Horseman, pass by, Elmer Kelton's The time it never rained, and Cormac McCarthy's All the pretty horses -- Tradition and modernization battle it out on rocky soil : Sherman Alexie's The lone ranger and Tonto fistfight in Heaven, Stephen Graham Jones's The bird is gone, and Linda Hogan's Mean spirit -- From prairie to oil : hybridization and belonging via class, labor, and space in Philipp Meyer's The son.
Series Title:	Postwestern horizons.
Responsibility:	Kiara Kharpertian ; edited by Carlo Rotella and Christopher P. Wilson.

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We Who Work the West examines literary representations of class, labor, and space in the American West from 1885 to 2012. Read more...

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"Through readings of literature by well-established and emerging western authors, Kharpertian provides a masterful study of labor and regional belonging that focuses on the struggle for dignity and Read more...

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