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This wide-ranging collection of essays addresses a diverse and expanded vision of Montana literature, offering new readings of both canonical and overlooked texts. The twelve essays in All Our Stories Are Here not only build on the exemplary, foundational work of other writers but also open further interpretative and critical conversations.

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"Harrison's collection includes a range of critical perspectives that invite both the general reader and the academic scholar to reconsider the richness of Montana writing."—Linda K. Karell, Montana, the Magazine of Western History
"This remarkable collection of essays offers something for every reader interested in Montana literature, from the well read to newcomers to the field. . . . Editor Brady Harrison deserves thanks and praise for a job very well done."—Sue Hart, Great Plains Quarterly

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Toward a Postpopulist Criticism

Part I: Does Place Matter?

1. Burning Montana: Richard Ford’s Wildlife and Regional Crisis

Tamas Dobozy

2. All My Stories Are Here: Four Montana Poets

Roger Dunsmore

3. West of Éire: Butte’s Irish Ethos

Matthew L. Jockers

Part II: Women Writing Montana

4. Home on the Range: Montana Romances and Geographies of Hope

Nancy Cook

5. Feminism and Postmodernism in the New West: Mary Blew and Montana Women’s Writing since 1990

William W. Bevis

Part III: Gay and Lesbian Literature Under a Big Sky

6. West of Desire: Queer Ambivalence in Montana Literature

Karl Olson

7. “Just Regular Guys”: Homophobia, the Code of the West, and Constructions of Male Identity in Thomas Savage and Annie Proulx

O. Alan Weltzien

Part IV: Native Revisions/The Problems of History

8. “He Never Wanted to Forget It”: Contesting the Idea of History in D’Arcy McNickle’s The Surrounded

Jim Rains

9. A Haunted Nation: Cultural Narratives and the Persistence of the Indigenous Subject in James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk

Andrea Opitz

10. “I Have Had Some Satisfactory Times”: The Yellowstone Kelly Novels of Peter Bowen

Gregory L. Morris

Part V: Hugo-Land

11. Richard Hugo’s Montana Poems: Blue Collars, Indians, and Tough Style

Steve Davenport

12. Semicolonial Moments: The History and Influence of the University of Montana Creative Writing Program

Lois M. Welch

Select Bibliography of Montana Writing

Contributors

Index

All Our Stories Are Here Critical Perspectives

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      Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/06/2009
      ISBN13: 9780803213906, 978-0803213906
      ISBN10: 0803213905

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This wide-ranging collection of essays addresses a diverse and expanded vision of Montana literature, offering new readings of both canonical and overlooked texts. The twelve essays in All Our Stories Are Here not only build on the exemplary, foundational work of other writers but also open further interpretative and critical conversations.

      Trade Review
      "Harrison's collection includes a range of critical perspectives that invite both the general reader and the academic scholar to reconsider the richness of Montana writing."—Linda K. Karell, Montana, the Magazine of Western History
      "This remarkable collection of essays offers something for every reader interested in Montana literature, from the well read to newcomers to the field. . . . Editor Brady Harrison deserves thanks and praise for a job very well done."—Sue Hart, Great Plains Quarterly

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction: Toward a Postpopulist Criticism

      Part I: Does Place Matter?

      1. Burning Montana: Richard Ford’s Wildlife and Regional Crisis

      Tamas Dobozy

      2. All My Stories Are Here: Four Montana Poets

      Roger Dunsmore

      3. West of Éire: Butte’s Irish Ethos

      Matthew L. Jockers

      Part II: Women Writing Montana

      4. Home on the Range: Montana Romances and Geographies of Hope

      Nancy Cook

      5. Feminism and Postmodernism in the New West: Mary Blew and Montana Women’s Writing since 1990

      William W. Bevis

      Part III: Gay and Lesbian Literature Under a Big Sky

      6. West of Desire: Queer Ambivalence in Montana Literature

      Karl Olson

      7. “Just Regular Guys”: Homophobia, the Code of the West, and Constructions of Male Identity in Thomas Savage and Annie Proulx

      O. Alan Weltzien

      Part IV: Native Revisions/The Problems of History

      8. “He Never Wanted to Forget It”: Contesting the Idea of History in D’Arcy McNickle’s The Surrounded

      Jim Rains

      9. A Haunted Nation: Cultural Narratives and the Persistence of the Indigenous Subject in James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk

      Andrea Opitz

      10. “I Have Had Some Satisfactory Times”: The Yellowstone Kelly Novels of Peter Bowen

      Gregory L. Morris

      Part V: Hugo-Land

      11. Richard Hugo’s Montana Poems: Blue Collars, Indians, and Tough Style

      Steve Davenport

      12. Semicolonial Moments: The History and Influence of the University of Montana Creative Writing Program

      Lois M. Welch

      Select Bibliography of Montana Writing

      Contributors

      Index

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