The West and the Word : : Imagining, Formatting, and Ordering the American West in Nineteenth-Century Cultural Discourse / / Steffen Wöll.
Western expansion in North America has mainly been described as either a linear sequence energized by nineteenth-century nation-building processes at a moving frontier, or as the practice of settler colonialism and its exploitation of resources and displacement of nonwhite peoples. This book suggest...
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| Place / Publishing House: | München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Dialectics of the Global ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XIV, 301 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- On the Series
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Abstract
- Introduction: Imagining the American West
- Historical Background: The West and the World
- Methods and Theories: Doing Over Geography
- Spatialization Processes: Towards a New Language of Space in Literary and Cultural Studies
- Chapter 1: Integrating the Old Northwest through Utopian, Regionalist, Feminist, and Local Colour Discourse
- Chapter 2: The Incommensurable West between Integration and Separation
- Conclusion: Reimagining the American West
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Figures
- Bibliography
- Index