{"product_id":"unhomely-wests-stephen-tatum-9781496237187","title":"Unhomely Wests: Essays from A to Z","description":"In \u003ci\u003eUnhomely Wests\u003c\/i\u003e Stephen Tatum presents twenty-six essays exploring selected literary, visual art, cinematic, and musical representations of homelessness as a theme, a trope, an affliction, a threat, and a condition of alienation in the late modern and postmodern American West. Arranged in alphabetical order from \"Alphabet\/Abecedario\" to \"Zombieland,\" Tatum's essays aim to discover how his eclectic selection of texts both produces uncanny literary effects and bears witness to the entangled capitalist, geopolitical, and ecological crises that shape our external world and our \"unhomely\" textual worlds. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In keeping with the etymological and conceptual linkage between the unhomely and the uncanny, Tatum's critical meditations focus on both uncanny textual architectures and architecturally unhomely junkspaces of abandonment and ruin, of corporeal displacement, and of cognitive or affective disorientation. And since an emergent unhomely structure of feeling exposes how our lived present is saturated with history's apparitional revenants, this collection of essays comprising a new lexicon of unhomely Wests conveys a hauntology--underwritten by spectrality as a theme, trope, and image. Committed to revising the conventional academic text, \u003ci\u003eUnhomely Wests\u003c\/i\u003e exemplifies Roland Barthes's directive that we consider the alphabetic order as a call to \"\u003ci\u003eCut! Resume the story in another way!\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Tatum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496237188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496237187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 378\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Stephen Tatum","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45478570754303,"sku":"9781496237187","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_52fdbadf-0632-4e97-b01a-619cc729cf3c.jpg?v=1715935374","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unhomely-wests-stephen-tatum-9781496237187","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}