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Landscapes of the New West: Gender and Geography in Contemporary Women's Writing (Cultural Studies of the United States)
Krista Comer
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Paperback. A call for the redesign of Western cultural studies - one that engages issues of gender and race. Surveying work by writers such as Joan Didion and Wanda Coleman, it shows how they have mapped new geographical imaginations upon the cultural and social spaces of today's American West. Series: Cultural Studies of the United States. Num Pages: 288 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
In the early 1970s, empowered by the civil rights and women's movements, a new group of women writers began speaking to the American public. Their topic, broadly defined, was the postmodern American West. By the mid-1980s, their combined works made for a bona fide literary groundswell in both critical and commercial terms. However, as Krista Comer notes, despite the attentions of publishers, the media, and millions of readers, literary scholars have rarely addressed this movement or its writers. Too many critics, Comer argues, still enamored of western images that are both masculine and antimodern, have been slow to reckon with ... Read more
In the early 1970s, empowered by the civil rights and women's movements, a new group of women writers began speaking to the American public. Their topic, broadly defined, was the postmodern American West. By the mid-1980s, their combined works made for a bona fide literary groundswell in both critical and commercial terms. However, as Krista Comer notes, despite the attentions of publishers, the media, and millions of readers, literary scholars have rarely addressed this movement or its writers. Too many critics, Comer argues, still enamored of western images that are both masculine and antimodern, have been slow to reckon with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Studies of the United States
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807848135
SKU
V9780807848135
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About Krista Comer
Krista Comer teaches English and women's studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
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