Susan Kollin
Biographic Data
| ID | 976450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Kollin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Kollin |
| SIGNATURE | KOLLIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Montana State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West. By Blake Allmendinger
Blake Allmendinger’s Geographic Personas offers a well-researched and engaging analysis of reinvention and self-transformation in the American West. Using case studies drawn from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he recounts how rapid transformations gave rise to a profound sense of mourning about lost places and foreclosed ideals. These developments created conditions that enabled a diverse group of individuals— Clarence King, J…
Uncertain Wests: Kelly Reichardt, Settler Sensibilities, and the Challenges of Feminist Filmmaking
Director Kelly Reichardt has been celebrated as an independent filmmaker who takes risks in developing complicated and often fraught storylines, especially for her female characters. In Meek’s Cutoff (2010), she uses the aesthetics of slow cinema to show details frequently overlooked in the Western. In doing so, the film lays bare the violence of the settler-colonial West, highlighting the underside of European-American dreams of progress and pro…
A History of Western American Literature
The American West is a complex region that has inspired generations of writers and artists. Often portrayed as a quintessential landscape that symbolizes promise and progress for a developing nation, the American West is also a diverse space that has experienced conflicting and competing hopes and expectations. While it is frequently imagined as a place enabling dreams of new beginnings for settler communities, it is likewise home to long-standin…
Captivating Westerns: The Middle East in the American West
History of Western American Literature
Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space
Nature's State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier
Journal Article Nature's State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier Get access Nature's State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier. By Susan Kollin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xvii + 224 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, biography, index. $39.95, cloth; $16.95, paper.) Victoria Wyatt Victoria Wyatt University of Victoria Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quar…
The First White Women in the Last Frontier: Writing Race, Gender, and Nature in Alaska Travel Narratives
Susan Kollin, "The First White Women in the Last Frontier": Writing Race, Gender, and Nature in Alaska Travel Narratives, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2, Intersections of Feminisms and Environmentalisms (1997), pp. 105-124
North to the West: Jack London and the Literature of U.S. Expansion in Canada
Adventure is the energizing myth of empire . . . the American adventure stories represent. . . the policies and compromises, the punishments and rewards, and the stresses and problems involved in advancing a frontier at the expense of native populations and against natural obstacles. To read the adventures was to prepare oneself to go west and take part in the national work. (Green 1984, 4) The specifically American construction of the modern wil…
Ansel Adams and the American Landscape: A Biography
Journal Article Ansel Adams and the American Landscape: A Biography Get access Ansel Adams and the American Landscape: A Biography. By Spaulding Jonathan. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xv + 516 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.) Susan Kollin Susan Kollin Montana State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 4, Winter …
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North to the West: Jack London and the Literature of U.S. Expansion in Canada
Adventure is the energizing myth of empire . . . the American adventure stories represent. . . the policies and compromises, the punishments and rewards, and the stresses and problems involved in advancing a frontier at the expense of native populations and against natural obstacles. To read the adventures was to prepare oneself to go west and take part in the national work. (Green 1984, 4) The specifically American construction of the modern wil…
Ansel Adams and the American Landscape: A Biography
Journal Article Ansel Adams and the American Landscape: A Biography Get access Ansel Adams and the American Landscape: A Biography. By Spaulding Jonathan. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xv + 516 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.) Susan Kollin Susan Kollin Montana State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 4, Winter …
The First White Women in the Last Frontier: Writing Race, Gender, and Nature in Alaska Travel Narratives
Susan Kollin, "The First White Women in the Last Frontier": Writing Race, Gender, and Nature in Alaska Travel Narratives, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2, Intersections of Feminisms and Environmentalisms (1997), pp. 105-124
Nature's State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier
Journal Article Nature's State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier Get access Nature's State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier. By Susan Kollin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xvii + 224 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, biography, index. $39.95, cloth; $16.95, paper.) Victoria Wyatt Victoria Wyatt University of Victoria Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quar…
Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space
A History of Western American Literature
The American West is a complex region that has inspired generations of writers and artists. Often portrayed as a quintessential landscape that symbolizes promise and progress for a developing nation, the American West is also a diverse space that has experienced conflicting and competing hopes and expectations. While it is frequently imagined as a place enabling dreams of new beginnings for settler communities, it is likewise home to long-standin…
Captivating Westerns: The Middle East in the American West
History of Western American Literature
Uncertain Wests: Kelly Reichardt, Settler Sensibilities, and the Challenges of Feminist Filmmaking
Director Kelly Reichardt has been celebrated as an independent filmmaker who takes risks in developing complicated and often fraught storylines, especially for her female characters. In Meek’s Cutoff (2010), she uses the aesthetics of slow cinema to show details frequently overlooked in the Western. In doing so, the film lays bare the violence of the settler-colonial West, highlighting the underside of European-American dreams of progress and pro…
Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West. By Blake Allmendinger
Blake Allmendinger’s Geographic Personas offers a well-researched and engaging analysis of reinvention and self-transformation in the American West. Using case studies drawn from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he recounts how rapid transformations gave rise to a profound sense of mourning about lost places and foreclosed ideals. These developments created conditions that enabled a diverse group of individuals— Clarence King, J…
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