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The American Western in Canadian Literature

2022 Joel Deshaye ;ISBN: 9781773852676 ;ISBN: 1773852671 ;EISBN: 1773852698 ;EISBN: 9781773852690 ;DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv2nwq978 ;OCLC: 1330934974 ;LCCallNum: PS8191.W4 D47 2022

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Title:
The American Western in Canadian Literature
Author: Deshaye, Joel
Subjects: American influences ; Biography, Literature and Literary studies ; Book Industry Communication ; Canada, Western ; Canadian fiction ; Canadian literature ; canadian literature; western; post-western; northern; pulp fiction; western-like; literary criticism; literary studies; cultural studies; cultural history; popular culture; cultural evolution; north american literature; american literature; western movies; western films; western culture; indigenous; cowboy; cowgirl ; History and criticism ; In literature ; Language & Literature ; Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 ; Literary studies: from c 1900 ; Literary studies: general ; Literature & literary studies ; Literature: history & criticism ; Literature: history and criticism ; thema EDItEUR ; Western stories, Canadian
Description: 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 phenomenon. 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.
Related Titles: The West
Publisher: Calgary: University of Calgary Press
Creation Date: 2022
Format: 424
Language: English
Identifier: ISBN: 9781773852676
ISBN: 1773852671
EISBN: 1773852698
EISBN: 9781773852690
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv2nwq978
OCLC: 1330934974
LCCallNum: PS8191.W4 D47 2022
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The American Western in Canadian Literature

2022 Joel Deshaye ;ISBN: 9781773852676 ;ISBN: 1773852671 ;EISBN: 1773852698 ;EISBN: 9781773852690 ;DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv2nwq978 ;OCLC: 1330934974 ;LCCallNum: PS8191.W4 D47 2022

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