{"product_id":"we-who-work-the-west-kiara-kharpertian-9781496208842","title":"We Who Work the West: Class, Labor, and Space in Western American Literature","description":"\u003ci\u003eWe Who Work the West\u003c\/i\u003e examines literary representations of class, labor, and space in the American West from 1885 to 2012. Moving from Mar? Amparo Ruiz de Burton's representations of dispossessed \u003ci\u003eCalifornio\u003c\/i\u003e ranchers in the mid-nineteenth century to the urban grid of early twentieth-century San Francisco in Frank Norris's \u003ci\u003eMcTeague \u003c\/i\u003eto working and unemployed cowboys in the contemporary novels of Cormac McCarthy and Larry McMurtry, Kiara Kharpertian provides a panoramic look at literary renderings of both individual labor--physical, tangible, and often threatened handwork--and the epochal transformations of central institutions of a modernizing West: the farm, the ranchero, the mine, the rodeo, and the Native American reservation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The West that emerges here is both dynamic and diverse, its on-the-ground organization of work, social class, individual mobility, and collective belonging constantly mutating in direct response to historical change and the demands of the natural environment. The literary West thus becomes more than a locus of mythic nostalgia or consumer fantasy about the American past. It becomes a place where the real work of making that West, as well as the suffering and loss it often entailed, is reimagined. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kiara Kharpertian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496208846\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496208842\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 06\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Kiara Kharpertian","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43941087346943,"sku":"9781496208842","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_7d4b5664-37c1-4085-9314-d02744abbb60.jpg?v=1681450834","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/we-who-work-the-west-kiara-kharpertian-9781496208842","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}