Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
Fall 2010
Document Type
Article
Citation
Great Plains Quarterly 30:4 (Fall 2010).
Abstract
With its uninspired Pepto-Bismol pink-colored cover, Crisscrossing Borders in the Literature of the American West might escape attention. That would be a loss because this new collection, edited by Reginald Dyck and Cheli Reutter, is a striking series of essays that simultaneously argue for and model new postnational and transnational approaches to western literary studies. In the introduction, Dyck asks, "Is it possible to have a western literary studies that recognizes the many forms of difference that create borders within and around the region while neither reifying those borders nor discounting their power?" The strategies employed by the various authors suggest that it is-with promising (although not necessarily comforting) examinations of unexpected examples of western literatures.
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