Worlding the Western: Contemporary US Western Fiction and the Global Community
Neil Campbell, "Worlding the Western: Contemporary US Western Fiction and the Global Community"
English | ISBN: 1647790557 | 2022 | 272 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1647790557 | 2022 | 272 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Worlding the Western views the fiction of the Western United States as a focal point for a reexamination of the consequences of the exceptionalism and closed borders of the Trump Era. At a time of bounded individualism, new nativism, climate emergency, and migration crises, author Neil Campbell argues that fiction offers opportunities to challenge the dark side of globalization. He proposes worlding as a different and more open form of politics.
Diversity, disparity, and opposition are central to the dynamic frictional fiction considered in this book. The American West provides a powerful test case in which these features are present and yet, historically, have often been masked or denied in the rush toward unanimity and nation building. Worlding is, therefore, a positive, critical concept through which to view the notion of a single world under pressure.
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