{"product_id":"western-journeys-9781647690953","title":"Western Journeys","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWestern Journeys\u003c\/i\u003e, Teow Lim Goh charts her journeys immigrating from Singapore and spending the last fifteen years living in and exploring the American West. Goh chronicles her lived experiences while building on the longer history of immigrants from Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, bringing various, and often new insights to places, the historical record, and memory. These vital essays consider how we access truth in the face of erasure. In exploring history, nature, politics, and art, Goh asks, “What does it mean for an immigrant to be at home?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Looking beyond the captivating landscapes of the American West, Goh uncovers stories of the Chinese people who came to America during the exclusion era, the Indigenous peoples who have been written out of popular narratives, and the mountaineers’ merciless ambitions, among many others. She examines the links between the transcontinental railroad, the cowboy myth, and the anti-Chinese prejudice that persists today. These essays explore such subjects as the early efforts to climb Colorado’s highest peaks, the massacre of Chinese miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, and the increasingly destructive fire seasons in the West. Goh’s essays create a complex, varied, and sometimes contradictory story of people and landscape that asks more questions than it answers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWestern Journeys \u003c\/i\u003eis compelling, powerful, and important. The erasure that Goh wants to combat can only be addressed one word at a time. That is the power and the pain of recovery—it is slow—but once the hidden gets pulled into the light it cannot be lost again. Each of these essays is an act of hauling the past into the present, of naming what many might prefer to ignore or deny.\"—Jennifer Sinor, author of \u003ci\u003eSky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Trauma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The writing in \u003ci\u003eWestern Journeys\u003c\/i\u003e is gorgeous, alternatingly spare and lush, in explicating how Teow Lim Goh found her writerly voice as an immigrant enthralled by an American West built upon the legislated and violent erasure of non-whites.\"—Michelle Liu, University of Washington\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eI: Beyond the Myths\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHollywood Pilgrims\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCoastlines\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDreams of Golden Mountain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFirecracker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAt the Ruins\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eII: Ordinary Legacies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWestern Journeys\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAscent\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Ideology of Paradise\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Memory of Hills\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAt the Ponds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII: Visions of Land\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Road Home: On Christo and Jeanne- Claude’s Over the\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRiver\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFlowers of Prison: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSplit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFootsteps on the Sea\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLetter to the Arctic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV: Apocalypses\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBorders and Citizens\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRefuge: Rocky Flats, Colorado\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Ghosts of Bitter Creek\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHome Lands\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFire Season\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eV: Off the Page\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Stories that Bind Us\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Subjective Passions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLost and Found: On Kate Zambreno’s Heroines\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn Tenacity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Dehumanizing Politics of Likability\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Utah Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50469702664535,"sku":"9781647690953","price":19.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781647690953.jpg?v=1744896019","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/western-journeys-9781647690953","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}