Coyote Country: Fictions of the Canadian West

by Arnold E. Davidson

Book Overview

For most North Americans--Canadians as well as Americans--the term "Western" evokes images of the frontier, brave sheriffs and ruthless outlaws, good cowboys and bad Indians. As Arnold E. Davidson shows in this groundbreaking study, a number of Canada's most interesting and experimental Western writers parody, reverse, or otherwise defuse the paraphernalia of the classic U.S. Western. Lacking both a real and imagined frontier--Canadian settlers rode...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082231469X
• ISBN13: 9780822314691
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"