{"product_id":"speculative-wests-popular-representations-of-a-region-and-genre-9781496234582","title":"Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael K. Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of American literature at the University of Maine-Farmington. He is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eHoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos: Conceptions of the African American West\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlack Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Black Woman's West: The Life of Rose B. Gordon\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50388623622418,"sku":"9781496234582","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_40bc4a59-59c0-405c-8cc6-5304e4ef24b4.jpg?v=1728903715","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/speculative-wests-popular-representations-of-a-region-and-genre-9781496234582","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}