ABSTRACT
This is the first major collection to remap the American West though the intersectional lens of gender and sexuality, especially in relation to race and Indigeneity. Organized through several interrelated key concepts, The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West addresses gender and sexuality from and across diverse and divergent methodologies. Comprising 34 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Companion is divided into four parts:
- Genealogies
- Bodies
- Movements
- Lands
The volume features leading and newer scholars whose essays connect interdisciplinary fields including Indigenous Studies, Latinx and Asian American Studies, Western American Studies, and Queer, Feminist, and Gender Studies. Through innovative methodologies and reclaimed archives of knowledge, contributors model fresh frameworks for thinking about relations of power and place, gender and genre, settler colonization and decolonial resistance. Even as they reckon with the ongoing gendered and racialized violence at the core of the American West, contributors forge new lexicons for imagining alternative Western futures. This pathbreaking collection will be invaluable to scholars and students studying the origins, myths, histories, and legacies of the American West.
This is a foundational collection that will become invaluable to scholars and students across a range of disciplines including Gender and Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Latinx Studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |22 pages
Monumental Reckonings and Impossible Placeholders
part I|102 pages
Genealogies
chapter 2|11 pages
Re-inscribing a Woman Writer into the West
chapter 3|15 pages
Drifting across Lines in the Sand
chapter 4|11 pages
More Than One Story
part II|130 pages
Bodies
chapter 10|15 pages
“That's History. That's Truth. I Seen It Myself”
chapter 11|16 pages
Disturbing the Peace
chapter 12|12 pages
Native Mother, Daughter, and Granddaughter
chapter 16|13 pages
Blood Tests in the Toxic Wests
chapter 17|18 pages
“The Very Borderland of Our Act”
part III|106 pages
Movements
chapter 21|10 pages
Black Women Writers Reclaiming Western Literature
chapter 22|11 pages
What About the Ingalls? What about La casa de la Pradera?
chapter 24|21 pages
“In-Between Kumeyaay and Brooklyn”
part IV|104 pages
Lands