The Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is
an instantly recognizable American genre that has achieved
worldwide success. Cultures around the world have embraced but also
adapted and critiqued the Western as part of their own national
literatures, reinterpreting and expanding the genre in curious
ways. Canadian Westerns are almost always in conversation with
their American cousins, influenced by their tropes and traditions,
responding to their politics, and repurposing their structures to
create a national literary tradition. The American Western in
Canadian Literature examines over a century of the development of
the Canadian Western as it responds to the American Western, to
evolving literary trends, and to regional, national, and
international change. Beginning with Indigenous perspectives on the
genre, it moves from early manifestations of the Western in
Christian narratives of personal and national growth, and its
controversial pulp-fictional popularity in the 1940s, to its
postmodern and contemporary critiques, pushing the boundary of the
Western to include Northerns, Northwesterns, and post-Westerns in
literature, film, and wider cultural imagery. The American Western
in Canadian Literature is more than a simple history. It uses genre
theory to comment on historical perspectives on nation and region.
It includes overviews of Indigenous and settler-colonial critiques
of the Western, challenging persistent attitudes to Indigenous
people and their traditional territories that are endemic to the
genre. It illuminates the way that the Canadian Western enshrines,
hagiographies, and ultimately desacralizes aspects of Canadian
life, from car culture to extractive industries to assumptions
about a Canadian moral high ground. This is a comprehensive, highly
readable, and fascinating study of an underexamined genre.
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