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“If I am native to anything” Settler Colonial Studies and Western American Literature Alex Trimble Young and Lorenzo Veracini In “Th e Problem of the West” Frederick Jackson Turner simultane- ously recognizes and negates the possibility of western regionalism: Th e problem of the West is nothing less than the problem of American development. . . . Th e West, at bottom, is a form of society rather than an area. It is the term applied to the region whose social conditions result from the application of older in- stitutions and ideas to the transforming infl uences of free land. (“Th e Problem” 61) Turner signals the importance of what he calls western “section- alism” but then claims that it is impossible to parse out the prob- lem of the West from the problem of the United States. Th e West, Turner argues, is the superstructural production of the frontier, the site that, before its closure, defi ned the American character and the unique nature of American development. For a writer to imagine a geographically defi ned West is, Turner argues, to “proclaim the writer a provincial” (61). For Turner the West is less a region than a “form
Western American Literature – University of Nebraska Press
Published: Jul 12, 2017
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