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We Who Work the West - Class, Labor, and Space in Western American Literature (Hardcover)
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We Who Work the West - Class, Labor, and Space in Western American Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Postwestern Horizons
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We Who Work the West examines literary representations of class,
labor, and space in the American West from 1885 to 2012. Moving
from Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's representations of dispossessed
Californio ranchers in the mid-nineteenth century to the urban grid
of early twentieth-century San Francisco in Frank Norris's McTeague
to working and unemployed cowboys in the contemporary novels of
Cormac McCarthy and Larry McMurtry, Kiara Kharpertian provides a
panoramic look at literary renderings of both individual
labor-physical, tangible, and often threatened handwork-and the
epochal transformations of central institutions of a modernizing
West: the farm, the ranchero, the mine, the rodeo, and the Native
American reservation. The West that emerges here is both dynamic
and diverse, its on-the-ground organization of work, social class,
individual mobility, and collective belonging constantly mutating
in direct response to historical change and the demands of the
natural environment. The literary West thus becomes more than a
locus of mythic nostalgia or consumer fantasy about the American
past. It becomes a place where the real work of making that West,
as well as the suffering and loss it often entailed, is reimagined.
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