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Special Issue on Western Suburbia

Special Issue on Western Suburbia Neil Campbell Guest Editor This special interdisciplinary edition of Western American Literature examines the disregarded spaces of the western suburbs. The inspiration for this project was D. J. Waldie's Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir, which challenges us all to think again about the world around us and, in particular, to notice the everyday relations and deep histories of suburbia. In what follows, this special issue employs discussions of memoir (D. J. Waldie), poetry (Jo Gill), fiction (Tim Foster), music (Robert Bennett), and photography (Tom M Johnson) to interrogate and reassess the significance of suburbia to western studies. There is an urgent need to reflect critically on suburbia as intrinsic to the West in the twenty-first century, for without its presence we simply perpetuate long-held mythologies of sparsely populated, wide-open "frontier" territory. In an era we might define as postwestern, that is, coming after and going beyond those traditional mythic frameworks and their attendant ideologies, it is appropriate that this edition begins to chart a new and different critical landscape--one that, rather ironically, has always been there. Financial support by the University of Derby Faculty of Arts, Design and Technology, UK, made possible the color reproduction for the Tom M Johnson Portfolio. Please post any comments on the website www.critical-regionalism.com, where you'll find a discussion thread on suburbia. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Western American Literature University of Nebraska Press

Special Issue on Western Suburbia

Campbell, Neil
Western American Literature , Volume 46 (3) – Dec 7, 2011
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Neil Campbell Guest Editor This special interdisciplinary edition of Western American Literature examines the disregarded spaces of the western suburbs. The inspiration for this project was D. J. Waldie's Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir, which challenges us all to think again about the world around us and, in particular, to notice the everyday relations and deep histories of suburbia. In what follows, this special issue employs discussions of memoir (D. J. Waldie), poetry (Jo Gill), fiction (Tim Foster), music (Robert Bennett), and photography (Tom M Johnson) to interrogate and reassess the significance of suburbia to western studies. There is an urgent need to reflect critically on suburbia as intrinsic to the West in the twenty-first century, for without its presence we simply perpetuate long-held mythologies of sparsely populated, wide-open "frontier" territory. In an era we might define as postwestern, that is, coming after and going beyond those traditional mythic frameworks and their attendant ideologies, it is appropriate that this edition begins to chart a new and different critical landscape--one that, rather ironically, has always been there. Financial support by the University of Derby Faculty of Arts, Design and Technology, UK, made possible the color reproduction for the Tom M Johnson Portfolio. Please post any comments on the website www.critical-regionalism.com, where you'll find a discussion thread on suburbia.

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Western American Literature – University of Nebraska Press

Published: Dec 7, 2011

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