Stephen Tatum

Unhomely Wests

Essays from A to Z

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Produktbeschreibung

Incorporating readings of key cultural texts from the environmental humanities, studies of globalization and economics, postmodernism, psychoanalytic criticism, and feminist theory, Stephen Tatum addresses the ongoing crises of displacement and loss of home in the modern urban West.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9781496238924
• ISBN-10: 1496238923
• Artikelnr.: 68285122

Autorenporträt

Stephen Tatum is professor emeritus of English at the University of Utah and the author and editor of several books, including Morta Las Vegas: “CSI” and the Problem of the West (Nebraska, 2017) with Nathaniel Lewis; In the Remington Moment (Nebraska, 2010); and Reading “The Virginian” in the New West (Nebraska, 2003) with Melody Graulich.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
About this book
An alphabet of unhomely wests
Alphabet/Abecedario, una ofrenda
Boredoms, generational and otherwise
Cryptography, or the architectonics of the crypt
Diapers and loading docks
Exposure, a poetics of
Freeways and highways, a literary collision
Graves and gravestones
Hotel life
Idyll of the idle
Junkspaces, outtakes from an unhomely archive
Kotex, Keds, ketchup, and dead kids
Lipstick traces
Motel noir
Noir motel
Oil rich, core samples from a personal ledger
Psychometropolis
Queues for the gallows, sing the praises of the hallowed
Rivers, all my tears like water flown
Scene of the crime
Television, the slow parade of fears
Urbicide, what the master plan was
Vagabondage, all this venturing in the slipstream
Windows
X-ray, let us talk crossly now
Yellow ribbons, yellow light
Zombieland
Notes
Bibliography
Index