{"product_id":"9781496234582-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\u003eSpeculative Wests investigates representations of the American West in terms of both region and genre, looking at speculative westerns (science fiction, fantasy, and horror) as well as at other speculative texts that feature western settings.\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":40823770251361,"sku":"9781496234582","price":23.62,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_37619484_0d47d83a-71c9-468d-b492-ec2be0d44d26.jpg?v=1762224324","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781496234582-speculative-wests","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}