The rhizomatic West representing the American West in a transnational, global, media age

Campbell, Neil 1957- (Author).

Summary: Using Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari?s concept of the rhizome, Neil Campbell shows how the West (or west-ness) continually breaks away from a mainstream notion of American ?rootedness? and renews and transforms itself in various cultural forms. A region long traversed by various transient peoples (from tribes and conquerors to immigrants, traders, and trappers), the West reflects a mythic quest for settlement, permanence, and synthesis?even notions of a national or global identity?at odds with its rootless history, culture, and nature. Crossing the concept of ?roots? with ?routes,? this boo.

Record details

ISBN: 9780803217836 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0803217838 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780803215399 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (383 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

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General Note:	Multi-User. OldControl:muse9780803217836 Multi-User
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-377) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Theorizing the Rhizomatic West; 1. Toward an Expanded Critical Regionalism: Contact and Interchange; 2. Feasts of Wire: Rubén Martinez and the Transfrontera Contact Zone; 3. Welcome to Westworld: Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West; 4. The 'Western' in Quotes: Generic Variations; 5. Dialogical Landscapes:; 6. Strata and Routes: Living on Reservation X; 7. Postwestern Generations? Douglas Coupland's; Conclusion: On; Notes; Index;
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.