Crisscrossing Borders in Literature of the American West

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Crisscrossing Borders in Literature of the American West is written by R. Dyck and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0230619541 (ISBN 10) and 9780230619548 (ISBN 13).

In one consequential volume, Crisscrossing Borders in Literature of the American West presents the cross-section of a fast-changing and greatly expanded field. Through interdisciplinary essays, this volume on the post-national West challenges the idea of a unified national story sustained by strategic exclusions. Contributors analyze the economic and environmental exploitation depicted in working-class Western literature, emphasize the transnational by approaching both the North/South and cross-Atlantic axes grapple with the role of Mormons, and dissect the new masculinity of "Silicon Gunslingers." Each essay successfully and compellingly models a new and fruitful way of engaging the West.