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Coyote Country

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Description for Coyote Country Paperback. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; DSK; JFC; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
For most North Americans—Canadians as well as Americans—the term "Western" evokes images of the frontier, brave sheriffs and ruthless outlaws, good cowboys and bad Indians. As Arnold E. Davidson shows in this groundbreaking study, a number of Canada’s most interesting and experimental Western writers parody, reverse, or otherwise defuse the paraphernalia of the classic U.S. Western. Lacking both a real and imagined frontier—Canadian settlers rode trains into the new territory, already policed by Mounties—the writers of Canadian Westerns were set a different task from their American counterparts and were subsequently freed to create some of the most complex and engrossing ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
New Americanists
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822314691
SKU
V9780822314691
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About Arnold E. Davidson
Arnold E. Davidson is Research Professor of Canadian Studies at Duke University. He is the author of four previous books and editor of three, most of them on Canadian literature.

Reviews for Coyote Country
"Coyote Country is an outstanding work, one that adds significantly to the discourse surrounding writing from Western Canada. By grounding his discussion in contemporary theory—especially that of post-colonialism—Davidson’s argument will be most welcome by those interested in western fiction, both in Canada and the United States."—Robert Thacker, St. Lawrence University "Arnold E. Davidson succeeds in impressing his reader with the ... Read more

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