Worlding the Western: Contemporary Us Western Fiction and the Global Community (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781647790554)

Worlding the Western views the fiction of the Western United States as a focal point for a reexamination of the consequences of the exceptionalism and closed borders of the Trump Era. At a time of bounded individualism, new nativism, climate emergency, and migration crises, author Neil Campbell argues that fiction offers opportunities to challenge the dark side of globalization. He proposes worlding as a different and more open form of politics.

Diversity, disparity, and opposition are central to the dynamic frictional fiction considered in this book. The American West provides a powerful test case in which these features are present and yet, historically, have often been masked or denied in the rush toward unanimity and nation building. Worlding is, therefore, a positive, critical concept through which to view the notion of a single world under pressure.


Author: Neil Campbell
ISBN-10: 1647790557
ISBN-13: 9781647790554
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Language: English
Published: 09/13/2022
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.71d