{"product_id":"9781496233509","title":"Speculative Wests","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2024 Thomas J. Lyon Book Award \u003c\/b\u003e  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. \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 V�a'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.","brand":"Nebraska","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59612908749132,"sku":"9781496233509","price":90.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/4163\/2076\/files\/9781496233509-0e8b253e2814b26f_front.webp?v=1793216397","url":"https:\/\/foxandfable.com\/fr-eu\/products\/9781496233509","provider":"Fox \u0026 Fable","version":"1.0","type":"link"}