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Through Women's Eyes: Contemporary Women's Fiction About The Old West, Anna Margarete Boettcher
Through Women's Eyes: Contemporary Women's Fiction About The Old West, Anna Margarete Boettcher
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The myth of the West is still very much alive in contemporary America. Lately, there has been a resurgence of new Western movies, TV series, and fiction. Until recently the West has been the exclusive domain of the quintessential masculine man. Women characters have featured only in the margins of the Western hero's tale. Contemporary Western fiction by women, however, offers new perspectives. Women's writing about the Old and New West introduces strong female protagonists and gives voice to characters that are muted or ignored by traditional Western literature and history. Western scholarship has largely been polarized by two approaches. …