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“Trespassing in Sovereign Territory” Place, Patriarchy, and the Ideology of Public Lands in Longmire Luke Morgan Jane Tompkins suggests in West of Everything that Westerns are essentially about “men’s fear of losing their mastery, and hence their identity” and that the genre “tirelessly reinvents” this para- digm (45). Th e TV series Longmire both reifi es and challenges this tendency as it follows the titular sheriff and his deputies in their law enforcement work in rural Wyoming. In a plot arc in later seasons, producers seem to respond to the rise in rhetorical and physical vi- olence of white patriarchy reemergent in American culture during the 2016 presidential election. Th is essay explores how the show re- sponds to the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon from January 2 to February 11, 2016, and the white pa- triarchal ideology advanced by occupiers led by Ammon and Ryan Bundy. In this plot line Longmire seeks to convict, rather than justi- fy, both its own fi ctional Bundy archetype, Chance Gilbert, and the white patriarchal violence this fi gure allegorizes. While the series does not engage public lands as geographic or physical places, it is germane to the
Western American Literature – The Western Literature Association
Published: Jun 18, 2019
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