Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre

by Michael K. Johnson and Michael K. Johnson

Book Overview

2024 Thomas J. Lyon Book Award Winner, sponsored by Western Literature Association

Looking across the cultural landscape of the twenty-first century, its literature, film, television, comic books, and other media, we can see multiple examples of what Shelley S. Rees calls a "changeling western," what others have called "weird westerns," and what Michael K. Johnson refers to as "speculative westerns"--that is, hybrid western forms created by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496234588
• ISBN13: 9781496234582
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"