The Rhizomatic West – Representing the American West in a Transnational, Global…
The Rhizomatic WestRepresenting the American West in a Transnational, Global, Media Age\nAuthor(s): Neil Campbell\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: Bison Books\nISBN-13: 9780803243934, 978-0803243934\nSynopsis\nIs the American West in Sergio Leone's \""spaghetti westerns\"" the same American West we find in Douglas Coupland's Generation X? In Jim Jarmusch's movies? In Calexico's music? Or is the American West, as this book tells us, a constantly moving, mutating idea within a complex global culture? And what, precisely (or better yet, imprecisely) does it mean?Using Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari's concept of the rhizome, Neil Campbell shows how the West (or west-ness) continually breaks away from a mainstream notion of American \""rootedness\"" and renews and transforms itself in various cultural forms. A region long traversed by various transient peoples (from tribes and conquerors to immigrants, traders, and trappers), the West refl.
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