We who work the West : class, labor, and space in Western American literature, Kiara Kharpertian ; edited by Carlo Rotella and Christopher P. Wilson

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We who work the West : class, labor, and space in Western American literature, Kiara Kharpertian ; edited by Carlo Rotella and Christopher P. Wilson

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class, labor, and space in Western American literature

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Kiara Kharpertian ; edited by Carlo Rotella and Christopher P. Wilson

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• We who work the West : class, labor, and space in Western American literature

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• Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2020

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-243) and index

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Contents

Introduction : How to tell a Western story -- Naturalism's handiwork : labor, class, and space in Frank Norris's McTeague : a story of San Francisco -- Civic identity and the ethos of belonging : María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The squatter and the Don and Raymond Barrio's The plum plum pickers -- Watching the West erode in the 1930s : Sanora Babb's Whose names are unknown, Frank Waters's Below grass roots, and John Fante's Wait until spring, Bandini and ask the dust -- He was a good cowboy : identity and history on the post-World War II Texas ranch in Larry McMurtry's Horseman, pass by, Elmer Kelton's The time it never rained, and Cormac McCarthy's All the pretty horses -- Tradition and modernization battle it out on rocky soil : Sherman Alexie's The lone ranger and Tonto fistfight in Heaven, Stephen Graham Jones's The bird is gone, and Linda Hogan's Mean spirit -- From prairie to oil : hybridization and belonging via class, labor, and space in Philipp Meyer's The son

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1125832086

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24 cm.

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xxix, 250 pages

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9781496208842

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2019044425

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(OCoLC)1125832086