Landscapes of the New West: Gender and Geography in Contemporary Women's Writing

by Krista Comer

Book Overview

In the early 1970s, empowered by the civil rights and women's movements, a new group of women writers began speaking to the American public. Their topic, broadly defined, was the postmodern American West. By the mid-1980s, their combined works made for a bona fide literary groundswell in both critical and commercial terms. However, as Krista Comer notes, despite the attentions of publishers, the media, and millions of readers, literary scholars have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807848131
• ISBN13: 9780807848135
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"