![]() ![]() ![]() The essays in Weird Westerns analyze a wide range of texts, including those by Native American authors Stephen Graham Jones (Blackfeet) and William Sanders (Cherokee) the cult television series Firefly and The Walking Dead the mainstream feature films Suicide Squad and Django Unchained the avant-garde and bizarre fiction of Joe R. Despite frequent declarations of the western’s death, the genre is now defined in part by its zombie-like ability to survive in American popular culture in weird, reanimated, and reassembled forms. ![]() Weird Westerns is an exploration of the hybrid western genre-an increasingly popular and visible form that mixes western themes, iconography, settings, and conventions with elements drawn from other genres, such as science fiction, horror, and fantasy. Walker Prize from the Western Literature Association Joshua Smith’s chapter “Uncle Tom’s Cabin Showdown” won the 2021 Don D. 2021 Top Ten Finalist for the Locus Awards in Nonfiction ![]()
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