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Author:   Stephen Tatum
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
ISBN:  

9781496238924

ISBN 10:   1496238923
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   01 July 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments About this book An alphabet of unhomely wests Alphabet/Abecedario, una ofrenda Boredoms, generational and otherwise Cryptography, or the architectonics of the crypt Diapers and loading docks Exposure, a poetics of Freeways and highways, a literary collision Graves and gravestones Hotel life Idyll of the idle Junkspaces, outtakes from an unhomely archive Kotex, Keds, ketchup, and dead kids Lipstick traces Motel noir Noir motel Oil rich, core samples from a personal ledger Psychometropolis Queues for the gallows, sing the praises of the hallowed Rivers, all my tears like water flown Scene of the crime Television, the slow parade of fears Urbicide, what the master plan was Vagabondage, all this venturing in the slipstream Windows X-ray, let us talk crossly now Yellow ribbons, yellow light Zombieland Notes Bibliography Index  

Reviews

“Unhomely Wests offers scholars and public intellectuals an important new means for approaching critical regional studies. In this engaging and insightful work, Stephen Tatum provides an innovative model for assessing the complexities of life under ecologically destructive and dehumanizing conditions that are shaping the region today.”—Susan Kollin, author of Captivating Westerns: The Middle East in the American West “Given that both its content and its form can help us think more expansively about the U.S. West and about the concepts of homelessness and unhomeliness that sit at the center of this study, Unhomely Wests is an important and necessary book. Its approach and structure are unique and compelling, as is its centering of certain key concepts.”—Sylvan Goldberg, professor of English at Colorado College

Author Information

Stephen Tatum is professor emeritus of English at the University of Utah and the author and editor of several books, including Morta Las Vegas: “CSI” and the Problem of the West (Nebraska, 2017) with Nathaniel Lewis; In the Remington Moment (Nebraska, 2010); and Reading “The Virginian” in the New West (Nebraska, 2003) with Melody Graulich.  

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