Anything Will Be Easy after This : A Western Identity Crisis (American Lives)

Maile, Bethany

University of Nebraska Press（2020/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781496220219
• DDC分類 978

Full Description

Bethany Maile had a mythological American West in mind when she returned to Idaho after dropping out of college in Boston, only to find a farm-town-turned-suburb instead of the Wild West wonderland she remembered. Haunted by what she had so completely misremembered, Maile resolved to investigate her attachment to the western myth, however flawed.
Deciding to engage in a variety of "western" events, Maile trailed rodeo queens, bid on cattle, fired .22s at the gun range, and searched out wild horses. With lively reportage and a sharp wit, she recounts her efforts to understand how the western myth is outdated yet persistent while ultimately exploring the need for story and the risks inherent to that need. Anything Will Be Easy after This traces Maile's evolution from a girl suckered by a busted-down story to a more knowing woman who discovers a new narrative that enchants without deluding.
 

Contents

Acknowledgments
Going West
Anywhere, USA
How Lady Antebellum Wrecked Country Music
The Slaughterhouse
Anything Will Be Easy after This
The Wild Ones
Ladies' Night at the Shooting Range
True Grit, Country Strong, and Other Lies
The Trouble with Two-Heartedness 
This Will See Us Through
Notes