Michael K. Johnson

Speculative Wests

Popular Representations of a Region and Genre

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Produktbeschreibung

Speculative Wests investigates representations of the American West in terms of both region and genre, looking at speculative westerns (science fiction, fantasy, and horror) as well as at other speculative texts that feature western settings.

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Produktdetails

• Postwestern Horizons
• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 158mm x 237mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9781496233509
• ISBN-10: 1496233506
• Artikelnr.: 63662103

Autorenporträt

Michael K. Johnson is a professor of American literature at the University of Maine–Farmington. He is the author of several books, including Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos: Conceptions of the African American West, Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature, and A Black Woman’s West: The Life of Rose B. Gordon.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Race, Time Travel, and the Western
2. Trauma, Time Travel, and Legacies of Violence
3. Alternate Cartographies of the West(ern) in Indigenous Futurist Works
4. Speculative Borderlands I: Mestizaje, Temporality, and History
5. Speculative Borderlands II: Time Travel and Cartographies of Trauma
6. Speculative Slave Narrative Westerns
Afterword
Notes
Index