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Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: New Models for Western Literary Studies Reginald Dyck 1

Part I A Postnational West: New Challenges to Old Stories

1 Electronic Pioneers and Silicon Gunslingers: Constructing Histories of the U.S. Computer Industry Jeffrey A. Sartain 21

2 From the Far Side of the Urban Frontier: The Detective Fiction of Chester Himes and Walter Mosley Robert Crooks 37

3 American Outsiders at the Center: Mormons and the West Rudiger Heinze 59

4 Middlebrow Readers and Pioneer Heroines: Willa Cather's My Antonia, Bess Streeter Aldrich's A Lantern in Her Hand, and the Popular Fiction Market Melissa Homestead 75

Part II Intersecting Stories: The Working-Class West

5 Indigenous Ways of Knowing Capitalism in Simon Ortiz's Fight Back Reginald Dyck 97

6 Louis Owens's Representations of Working-Class Consciousness Renny Christopher 117

7 The American West in Red and Green: The Forgotten Literary History of Social Justice Environmentalism Steven Rosendale 135

Part III Transnational Wests: Engaging the Hemisphere, Crossing the Ocean

8 Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona: A Transnational Reading of the Old West Robert McKee Irwin 153

9 Possessing La Santa de Cabora: The Union of Sacred, Human, and Transnational Identities Desiree A. Martin 179

10 Manifold Destinies: Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune and Toni Morrison's Paradise Cheli Reutter 197

11 The Lonesome German Cowboy: Negotiating German Skepticism about America, 1893-2001 Hubertus Zander 215

Contributors 233

Index 237