LEADER 04705nam 2200805 450 001 9910584593703321 005 20230124141107.0 010 $a9781773852690$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9781773852676 024 7 $a10.1515/9781773852690 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7015918 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7015918 035 $a(CKB)23736684100041 035 $aEBL7015918 035 $a(AU-PeEL)EBL7015918 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/90037 035 $a(PPN)267232675 035 $a(DE-B1597)664095 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781773852690 035 $a(EXLCZ)9923736684100041 100 $a20230124d2022 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe American Western in Canadian literature /$fJoel Deshaye 210 1$aCalgary, Alberta :$cUniversity of Calgary Press,$d[2022] 210 4$dİ2022 215 $a1 online resource (426 pages) 225 1 $aWest series (Calgary, Alta.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$aPrint version: Deshaye, Joel The American Western in Canadian Literature Calgary : University of Calgary Press,c2022 9781773852676 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tIntroduction -- $tScaling and Spacing the Genre -- $tTom King?s John Wayne -- $tThe Northwestern Cross -- $tFrom Law to Outlaw -- $tCanLit?s Postmodern Westerns -- $tDegeneration through Violence -- $tMining the Western in the Twenty-First Century -- $tWorks Reproduced in Part -- $tWorks Consulted -- $tIndex 330 $aThe Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is an instantly recognizable American genre that has achieved worldwide success. Cultures around the world have embraced but also adapted and critiqued the Western as part of their own national literatures, reinterpreting and expanding the genre in curious ways. Canadian Westerns are almost always in conversation with their American cousins, influenced by their tropes and traditions, responding to their politics, and repurposing their structures to create a national literary phenomenon. The American Western in Canadian Literature examines over a century of the development of the Canadian Western as it responds to the American Western, to evolving literary trends, and to regional, national, and international change. Beginning with Indigenous perspectives on the genre, it moves from early manifestations of the Western in Christian narratives of personal and national growth, and its controversial pulp-fictional popularity in the 1940s, to its postmodern and contemporary critiques, pushing the boundary of the Western to include Northerns, Northwesterns, and post-Westerns in literature, film, and wider cultural imagery. The American Western in Canadian Literature is more than a simple history. It uses genre theory to comment on historical perspectives on nation and region. It includes overviews of Indigenous and settler-colonial critiques of the Western, challenging persistent attitudes to Indigenous people and their traditional territories that are endemic to the genre. It illuminates the way that the Canadian Western enshrines, hagiographies, and ultimately desacralizes aspects of Canadian life, from car culture to extractive industries to assumptions about a Canadian moral high ground. This is a comprehensive, highly readable, and fascinating study of an underexamined genre. 410 0$aWest series (Calgary, Alta.) 606 $aCanadian fiction 606 $aCanadian literature 606 $aWestern stories, Canadian 610 $aamerican literature. 610 $acanadian literature. 610 $acowboy. 610 $acowgirl. 610 $acultural evolution. 610 $acultural history. 610 $acultural studies. 610 $aindigenous. 610 $aliterary criticism. 610 $aliterary studies. 610 $anorth american literature. 610 $anorthern. 610 $apopular culture. 610 $apost-western. 610 $apulp fiction. 610 $awestern culture. 610 $awestern films. 610 $awestern movies. 610 $awestern-like. 610 $awestern. 615 0$aCanadian fiction. 615 0$aCanadian literature. 615 0$aWestern stories, Canadian. 676 $a813.6 700 $aDeshaye$b Joel$f1977-$01355019 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910584593703321 996 $aThe American Western in Canadian literature$93359044 997 $aUNINA