04705nam 2200805 450 991058459370332120230124141107.09781773852690(electronic bk.)978177385267610.1515/9781773852690(MiAaPQ)EBC7015918(Au-PeEL)EBL7015918(CKB)23736684100041EBL7015918(AU-PeEL)EBL7015918(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/90037(PPN)267232675(DE-B1597)664095(DE-B1597)9781773852690(EXLCZ)992373668410004120230124d2022 uy 1engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe American Western in Canadian literature /Joel DeshayeCalgary, Alberta :University of Calgary Press,[2022]©20221 online resource (426 pages)West series (Calgary, Alta.)Description based upon print version of record.Print version: Deshaye, Joel The American Western in Canadian Literature Calgary : University of Calgary Press,c2022 9781773852676 Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Scaling and Spacing the Genre -- Tom King’s John Wayne -- The Northwestern Cross -- From Law to Outlaw -- CanLit’s Postmodern Westerns -- Degeneration through Violence -- Mining the Western in the Twenty-First Century -- Works Reproduced in Part -- Works Consulted -- IndexThe 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.West series (Calgary, Alta.)Canadian fictionCanadian literatureWestern stories, Canadianamerican literature.canadian literature.cowboy.cowgirl.cultural evolution.cultural history.cultural studies.indigenous.literary criticism.literary studies.north american literature.northern.popular culture.post-western.pulp fiction.western culture.western films.western movies.western-like.western.Canadian fiction.Canadian literature.Western stories, Canadian.813.6Deshaye Joel1977-1355019MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910584593703321The American Western in Canadian literature3359044UNINA