{"product_id":"unhomely-wests-essays-from-a-to-z-hardcover","title":"Unhomely Wests: Essays from A to Z - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStephen Tatum\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\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, 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\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Tatum\u003c\/b\u003e is professor emeritus of English at the University of Utah and the author and editor of several books, including \u003ci\u003eMorta Las Vegas: \"CSI\" and the Problem of the West\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2017) with Nathaniel Lewis; \u003ci\u003eIn the Remington Moment\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2010); and \u003ci\u003eReading \"The Virginian\" in the New West\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2003) with Melody Graulich. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 376\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703900991795,"sku":"9781496237187","price":185.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/GZFeY80GI9781496237187.webp?v=1763344621","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/unhomely-wests-essays-from-a-to-z-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}