Crisscrossing Borders in Literature of the American West

In One Consequential Volume, Crisscrossing Borders In Literature Of The American West Presents The Cross-section Of A Fast-changing And Greatly Expanded Field. Through Interdisciplinary Essays, This Volume On The Post-national West Challenges The Idea Of A Unified National Story Sustained By Strategic Exclusions. Contributors Analyze The Economic And Environmental Exploitation Depicted In Working-class Western Literature, Emphasize The Transnational By Approaching Both The North/south And Cross-atlantic Axes Grapple With The Role Of Mormons, And Dissect The New Masculinity Of Silicon Gunslingers; Each Essay Successfully And Compellingly Models A New And Fruitful Way Of Engaging The West. Introduction: New Models For Western Literary Studies / Reginald Dyck -- A Postnational West: New Challenges To Old Stories. Electronic Pioneers And Silicon Gunslingers: Constructing Histories Of The U.s. Computer Industry / Jeffrey A. Sartain --- From The Far Side Of The Urban Frontier: The Detective Fiction Of Chester Himes And Walter Mosley / Robert Crooks -- American Outsiders At The Center: Mormons And The West / Rüdiger Heinze -- Middlebrow Readers And Pioneer Heroines: Willa Cather's My Ántonia, Bess Streeter Aldrich's A Lantern In Her Hand, And The Popular Fiction Market / Melissa Homestead -- Intersecting Stories: The Working-class West. Indigenous Ways Of Knowing Capitalism In Simon Ortiz's Fight Back / Reginald Dyck -- Louis Owens's Representations Of Working-class Consciousness / Renny Christopher -- The American West In Red And Green: The Forgotten Literary History Of Social Justice Environmentalism / Steven Rosendale -- Transnational Wests: Engaging The Hemisphere, Crossing The Ocean. Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona: A Transnational Reading Of The Old West / Robert Mckee Irwin -- Possessing La Santa De Cabora: The Union Of Sacred, Human, And Transnational Identities / Desirée A. Martín -- Manifold Destinies: Isabel Allende's Daughter Of Fortune And Toni Morrison's Paradise / Cheli Reutter -- The Lonesome German Cowboy: Negotiating German Skepticism About America, 1893-2001 / Hubertus Zander. Edited By Reginald Dyck And Cheli Reutter. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 8 Introduction: New Models for Western Literary Studies......Page 10 Part I: A Postnational West: New Challenges to Old Stories......Page 28 1 Electronic Pioneers and Silicon Gunslingers: Constructing Histories of the U.S. Computer Industry......Page 30 2 From the Far Side of the Urban Frontier: The Detective Fiction of Chester Himes and Walter Mosley......Page 46 3 American Outsiders at the Center: Mormons and the West......Page 68 4 Middlebrow Readers and Pioneer Heroines: Willa Cather’s My Ántonia, Bess Streeter Aldrich’s A Lantern in Her Hand, and the Popular Fiction Market......Page 84 Part II: Intersecting Stories: The Working-Class West......Page 104 5 Indigenous Ways of Knowing Capitalism in Simon Ortiz’s Fight Back......Page 106 6 Louis Owens’s Representations of Working-Class Consciousness......Page 126 7 The American West in Red and Green: The Forgotten Literary History of Social Justice Environmentalism......Page 144 Part III: Transnational Wests: Engaging the Hemisphere, Crossing the Ocean......Page 160 8 Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona: A Transnational Reading of the Old West......Page 162 9 Possessing La Santa de Cabora: The Union of Sacred, Human, and Transnational Identities......Page 188 10 Manifold Destinies: Isabel Allende’s Daughter of Fortune and Toni Morrison’s Paradise......Page 206 11 The Lonesome German Cowboy: Negotiating German Skepticism about America, 1893–2001......Page 224 Contributors......Page 242 C......Page 246 D......Page 247 I......Page 248 M......Page 249 O......Page 250 T......Page 251 Z......Page 252 Introduction: new models for western literary studies / Reginald Dyck -- A post-national West: new challenges to old stories. Electronic pioneers and Silicon gunslingers: constructing histories of the US computer industry / Jeffrey Sartain --- From the far side of the urban frontier: the detective fiction of Chester Himes and Walter Mosley / Robert Crooks -- American outsiders at the center: Mormons and the West / Rüdiger Heinze -- Middlebrow readers and pioneer heroines: Willa Cather's My Antonia, Bess Streeter Aldrich's A lantern in her hand and the popular fiction market / Melissa Homestead -- Intersecting stories: The working-class West. Indigenous ways of knowing capitalism in Simon Ortiz's Fight back / Reginald Dyck -- Louis Owens' representations of working-class consciousness / Renny Christopher -- The American West in red and green: the forgotten literary history of social justice environmentalism / Steven Rosendale -- Transnational Wests: engaging the hemisphere, crossing the ocean. Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona: A transnational reading of the Old West / Robert McKee Irwin -- Possessing La Santa de Cabora: Towards the construction of the western borderlands / Desirée A. Martín -- Manifold destinies: Isabel Allende's Daughter of fortune and Toni Morrison's Paradise / Cheli Reutter -- The lonesome German cowboy: negotiating German skepticism about America, 1893-2001 / Hubertus Zander In one consequential volume, Crisscrossing Borders in Literature of the American West presents the cross-section of a fast-changing and greatly expanded field. Through interdisciplinary essays, this volume on the post-national West challenges the idea of a unified national story sustained by strategic exclusions. Contributors analyze the economic and environmental exploitation depicted in working class Western literature emphasize the transnational by approaching both the North/South and cross Atlantic axes, grapple with the role of Mormons, and dissect the new masculinity of "Silicon Gunslingers." Each essay successfully and compellingly models a new, and fruitful way of engaging the West