{"product_id":"unhomely-wests-essays-from-a-to-z-paperback-softback-9781496238924","title":"Unhomely Wests; Essays from a to Z (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496238924","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eUnhomely Wests\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEssays from a to Z\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eStephen Tatum (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496238924\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 July 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e376 pages, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.568 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eUnhomely Wests\u003c\/i\u003e offers scholars and public intellectuals an important new means for approaching critical regional studies. In this engaging and insightful work, Stephen Tatum provides an innovative model for assessing the complexities of life under ecologically destructive and dehumanizing conditions that are shaping the region today.”-Susan Kollin, author of \u003ci\u003eCaptivating Westerns: The Middle East in the American West\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Given that both its content and its form can help us think more expansively about the U.S. West and about the concepts of homelessness and unhomeliness that sit at the center of this study, \u003ci\u003eUnhomely Wests\u003c\/i\u003e is an important and necessary book. Its approach and structure are unique and compelling, as is its centering of certain key concepts.”-Sylvan Goldberg, professor of English at Colorado College\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn \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 produce uncanny literary effects and bear witness to the entangled capitalist, geopolitical, and ecological crises that shape our external world and our “unhomely” textual worlds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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, a trope, an 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”\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e About this book\u003cbr\u003e An alphabet of unhomely wests\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003c\/b\u003elphabet\/Abecedario, una ofrenda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eB\u003c\/b\u003eoredoms, generational and otherwise\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eC\u003c\/b\u003eryptography, or the architectonics of the crypt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eD\u003c\/b\u003eiapers and loading docks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eE\u003c\/b\u003exposure, a poetics of\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eF\u003c\/b\u003ereeways and highways, a literary collision\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eG\u003c\/b\u003eraves and gravestones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eH\u003c\/b\u003eotel life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI\u003c\/b\u003edyll of the idle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ\u003c\/b\u003eunkspaces, outtakes from an unhomely archive\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eK\u003c\/b\u003eotex, Keds, ketchup, and dead kids\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eL\u003c\/b\u003eipstick traces\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eM\u003c\/b\u003eotel noir\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eN\u003c\/b\u003eoir motel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eO\u003c\/b\u003eil rich, core samples from a personal ledger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eP\u003c\/b\u003esychometropolis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQ\u003c\/b\u003eueues for the gallows, sing the praises of the hallowed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eR\u003c\/b\u003eivers, all my tears like water flown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eS\u003c\/b\u003ecene of the crime\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eT\u003c\/b\u003eelevision, the slow parade of fears\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eU\u003c\/b\u003erbicide, what the master plan was\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eV\u003c\/b\u003eagabondage, all this venturing in the slipstream\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eW\u003c\/b\u003eindows\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eX\u003c\/b\u003e-ray, let us talk crossly now\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eY\u003c\/b\u003eellow ribbons, yellow light\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eZ\u003c\/b\u003eombieland\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52600286970136,"sku":"9781496238924","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/unhomely-wests-essays-from-a-to-z-paperback-softback-9781496238924","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}