In an era we might define as postwestern, that is, coming after and going beyond those traditional mythic frameworks and their attendant ideologies, it is appropriate that this edition begins to chart a new and different critical landscape-one that, rather ironically, has always been there.įinancial support by the University of Derby Faculty of Arts, Design and Technology, UK, made possible the color reproduction for the Tom M Johnson Portfolio. There is an urgent need to reflect critically on suburbia as intrinsic to the West in the twenty-first century, for without its presence we simply perpetuate long-held mythologies of sparsely populated, wide-open 'frontier' territory. Waldie), poetry (Jo Gill), fiction (Tim Foster), music (Robert Bennett), and photography (Tom M Johnson) to interrogate and reassess the significance of suburbia to western studies. They were stories then for displaced Okies and Arkies, Jews who knew the pain of exclusion, Catholics who thought they did, and anyone white with a steady job. In what follows, this special issue employs discussions of memoir (D. Waldie, Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir 1 likes Like Where I live is one of the places where suburban stories were first mass-produced. Waldie The City as New as Tomorrow: Lakewood 50 D. Waldie The Lakewood Story: History, Traditions, Values D.

Waldie's Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir, which challenges us all to think again about the world around us and, in particular, to notice the everyday relations and deep histories of suburbia. Waldie Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles D. This special interdisciplinary edition of Western American Literature examines the disregarded spaces of the western suburbs. into a memoir due to the instantaneous growth and development that his suburban neighborhood.

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