{"product_id":"9781496233509-speculative-wests","title":"Speculative Wests","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePopular Representations of a Region and Genre\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2024 Thomas J. Lyon Book Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 merging the western with one or more speculative genres or subgenres, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, and alternate history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpeculative Wests\u003c\/i\u003e investigates both speculative westerns and other speculative texts that feature western settings. Just as “western” refers both to a genre and a region, Johnson’s narrative involves a study of both genre and place, a study of the “speculative Wests” that have begun to emerge in contemporary texts such as the zombie-threatened California of Justina Ireland’s \u003ci\u003eDeathless Divide\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), the reimagined future Navajo nation of Rebecca Roanhorse’s Sixth World series (2018–19), and the complex temporal and geographic borderlands of Alfredo VÉa’s time travel novel \u003ci\u003eThe Mexican Flyboy\u003c\/i\u003e (2016). Focusing on literature, film, and television from 2016 to 2020, \u003ci\u003eSpeculative Wests\u003c\/i\u003e creates new visions of the American West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40837531238497,"sku":"9781496233509","price":61.08,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_37619699_c1e12705-eb35-4a47-adbc-c9df6eff5a89.jpg?v=1762224299","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781496233509-speculative-wests","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}