Weird Westerns
Race, Gender, Genre
Herausgeber: Fine, Kerry; Spurgeon, Sara L; Lush, Rebecca M; Johnson, Michael K
Weird Westerns
Race, Gender, Genre
Herausgeber: Fine, Kerry; Spurgeon, Sara L; Lush, Rebecca M; Johnson, Michael K
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Weird Westerns is an exploration of the hybrid western genre—an increasingly popular and visible form that mixes western themes, iconography, settings, and conventions with elements drawn from other genres, such as science fiction, horror, and fantasy.
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Weird Westerns is an exploration of the hybrid western genre—an increasingly popular and visible form that mixes western themes, iconography, settings, and conventions with elements drawn from other genres, such as science fiction, horror, and fantasy.
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Nebraska
- Seitenzahl: 468
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2020
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 30mm
- Gewicht: 651g
- ISBN-13: 9781496221780
- ISBN-10: 1496221788
- Artikelnr.: 58021094
- Verlag: Nebraska
- Seitenzahl: 468
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2020
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 30mm
- Gewicht: 651g
- ISBN-13: 9781496221780
- ISBN-10: 1496221788
- Artikelnr.: 58021094
Kerry Fine is an instructor in the Department of English at Arizona State University. Michael K. Johnson is a professor of English at the University of Maine–Farmington. Rebecca M. Lush is an associate professor at California State University, San Marcos. Sara L. Spurgeon is a professor of American literature at Texas Tech University.
Introduction: Westworld(s): Race, Gender, Genre in the Weird Western
Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, and Sara L. Spurgeon
Part 1. The Weird West, Past and Present
1. Attack of the Monstrous Vegetable: Bret Harte’s Pioneer Nightmare and
“Miscegenation” Dream
Tara Penry
2. Strange Country: Sexuality and the Feminine in Robert Coover’s Ghost
Town
Eric Meljac and Alex Hunt
3. A Selective History: Identity and Identification in Deadlands
Nicholas William Moll
Part 2. Native Reclamations and Representations
4. Mongrel Transmotion: The Werewolf and the Were/Wear/Where-West in
Stephen Graham Jones’s Mongrels
Joshua T. Anderson
5. Indianizing the Western: Semiotic Tricksterism in William Sanders’s
Journey to Fusang 000
Sara L. Spurgeon
6. Magnificence and Metas in Professional Westerns
Domino Renee Perez
Part 3. Surrogate indians and Other Indigenous Metaphors
7. Defamiliarizing the Western on the Extraterrestrial Frontier: Jonathan
Lethem’s Girl in Landscape
Johannes Fehrle
8. Shining the Light of Civilization: The Savage Other of the Frontier in
Firefly and Serenity 000
Meredith Harvey
9. Racial Metaphors and Vanishing indians in Wynonna Earp, Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, and Emma Bull’s Territory
Rebecca M. Lush
Part 4. The African American Presence in the Weird Western
10. The Mad Black Woman in Stephen King’s The Dark Tower
Jacob Burg
11. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Showdown: Stowe, Tarantino, and the Minstrelsy of the
Weird West 000
Joshua D. Smith
12. Race and Gender in the Time Travel Western
Michael K. Johnson
Part 5. The Undead in the Weird Western
13. Go West, Old Man: Or, Buffalo Bill and the “Yellow Peril” in Zeppelins
West
Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper
14. amc’s The Walking Dead and the Restructuring of Gender and Race on the
Neofrontier000 Scott Pearce
15. Afterword: This Is (Not) the End
Stephen Graham Jones
Contributors
Index
Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, and Sara L. Spurgeon
Part 1. The Weird West, Past and Present
1. Attack of the Monstrous Vegetable: Bret Harte’s Pioneer Nightmare and
“Miscegenation” Dream
Tara Penry
2. Strange Country: Sexuality and the Feminine in Robert Coover’s Ghost
Town
Eric Meljac and Alex Hunt
3. A Selective History: Identity and Identification in Deadlands
Nicholas William Moll
Part 2. Native Reclamations and Representations
4. Mongrel Transmotion: The Werewolf and the Were/Wear/Where-West in
Stephen Graham Jones’s Mongrels
Joshua T. Anderson
5. Indianizing the Western: Semiotic Tricksterism in William Sanders’s
Journey to Fusang 000
Sara L. Spurgeon
6. Magnificence and Metas in Professional Westerns
Domino Renee Perez
Part 3. Surrogate indians and Other Indigenous Metaphors
7. Defamiliarizing the Western on the Extraterrestrial Frontier: Jonathan
Lethem’s Girl in Landscape
Johannes Fehrle
8. Shining the Light of Civilization: The Savage Other of the Frontier in
Firefly and Serenity 000
Meredith Harvey
9. Racial Metaphors and Vanishing indians in Wynonna Earp, Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, and Emma Bull’s Territory
Rebecca M. Lush
Part 4. The African American Presence in the Weird Western
10. The Mad Black Woman in Stephen King’s The Dark Tower
Jacob Burg
11. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Showdown: Stowe, Tarantino, and the Minstrelsy of the
Weird West 000
Joshua D. Smith
12. Race and Gender in the Time Travel Western
Michael K. Johnson
Part 5. The Undead in the Weird Western
13. Go West, Old Man: Or, Buffalo Bill and the “Yellow Peril” in Zeppelins
West
Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper
14. amc’s The Walking Dead and the Restructuring of Gender and Race on the
Neofrontier000 Scott Pearce
15. Afterword: This Is (Not) the End
Stephen Graham Jones
Contributors
Index
Introduction: Westworld(s): Race, Gender, Genre in the Weird Western
Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, and Sara L. Spurgeon
Part 1. The Weird West, Past and Present
1. Attack of the Monstrous Vegetable: Bret Harte’s Pioneer Nightmare and
“Miscegenation” Dream
Tara Penry
2. Strange Country: Sexuality and the Feminine in Robert Coover’s Ghost
Town
Eric Meljac and Alex Hunt
3. A Selective History: Identity and Identification in Deadlands
Nicholas William Moll
Part 2. Native Reclamations and Representations
4. Mongrel Transmotion: The Werewolf and the Were/Wear/Where-West in
Stephen Graham Jones’s Mongrels
Joshua T. Anderson
5. Indianizing the Western: Semiotic Tricksterism in William Sanders’s
Journey to Fusang 000
Sara L. Spurgeon
6. Magnificence and Metas in Professional Westerns
Domino Renee Perez
Part 3. Surrogate indians and Other Indigenous Metaphors
7. Defamiliarizing the Western on the Extraterrestrial Frontier: Jonathan
Lethem’s Girl in Landscape
Johannes Fehrle
8. Shining the Light of Civilization: The Savage Other of the Frontier in
Firefly and Serenity 000
Meredith Harvey
9. Racial Metaphors and Vanishing indians in Wynonna Earp, Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, and Emma Bull’s Territory
Rebecca M. Lush
Part 4. The African American Presence in the Weird Western
10. The Mad Black Woman in Stephen King’s The Dark Tower
Jacob Burg
11. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Showdown: Stowe, Tarantino, and the Minstrelsy of the
Weird West 000
Joshua D. Smith
12. Race and Gender in the Time Travel Western
Michael K. Johnson
Part 5. The Undead in the Weird Western
13. Go West, Old Man: Or, Buffalo Bill and the “Yellow Peril” in Zeppelins
West
Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper
14. amc’s The Walking Dead and the Restructuring of Gender and Race on the
Neofrontier000 Scott Pearce
15. Afterword: This Is (Not) the End
Stephen Graham Jones
Contributors
Index
Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, and Sara L. Spurgeon
Part 1. The Weird West, Past and Present
1. Attack of the Monstrous Vegetable: Bret Harte’s Pioneer Nightmare and
“Miscegenation” Dream
Tara Penry
2. Strange Country: Sexuality and the Feminine in Robert Coover’s Ghost
Town
Eric Meljac and Alex Hunt
3. A Selective History: Identity and Identification in Deadlands
Nicholas William Moll
Part 2. Native Reclamations and Representations
4. Mongrel Transmotion: The Werewolf and the Were/Wear/Where-West in
Stephen Graham Jones’s Mongrels
Joshua T. Anderson
5. Indianizing the Western: Semiotic Tricksterism in William Sanders’s
Journey to Fusang 000
Sara L. Spurgeon
6. Magnificence and Metas in Professional Westerns
Domino Renee Perez
Part 3. Surrogate indians and Other Indigenous Metaphors
7. Defamiliarizing the Western on the Extraterrestrial Frontier: Jonathan
Lethem’s Girl in Landscape
Johannes Fehrle
8. Shining the Light of Civilization: The Savage Other of the Frontier in
Firefly and Serenity 000
Meredith Harvey
9. Racial Metaphors and Vanishing indians in Wynonna Earp, Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, and Emma Bull’s Territory
Rebecca M. Lush
Part 4. The African American Presence in the Weird Western
10. The Mad Black Woman in Stephen King’s The Dark Tower
Jacob Burg
11. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Showdown: Stowe, Tarantino, and the Minstrelsy of the
Weird West 000
Joshua D. Smith
12. Race and Gender in the Time Travel Western
Michael K. Johnson
Part 5. The Undead in the Weird Western
13. Go West, Old Man: Or, Buffalo Bill and the “Yellow Peril” in Zeppelins
West
Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper
14. amc’s The Walking Dead and the Restructuring of Gender and Race on the
Neofrontier000 Scott Pearce
15. Afterword: This Is (Not) the End
Stephen Graham Jones
Contributors
Index