A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American by Nicolas S. Witschi

By Nicolas S. Witschi

A spouse to the Literature and tradition of the yank West offers a sequence of essays that discover the ancient and modern cultural expressions rooted in America's western states.

  • Offers a complete method of the wide variety of cultural expressions originating within the west
  • Focuses at the intersections, complexities, and demanding situations came across inside of and among different ancient and cultural teams that outline the west's quite a few specific regions
  • Addresses routinely widely used icons and concepts in regards to the west (such as cowboys, wide-open areas, and violence) and their intersections with urbanization and different nearby complexities
  • Features essays written by means of a few of the major students in western American cultural studies

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