| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.3

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Book Review

Exploding the Western: Myths of Empire on the Postmodern Frontier. By Sara L. Spurgeon. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. x + 168 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $40.00, cloth; $17.95, paper.)

Sara L. Spurgeon's Exploding the Western argues for the importance of the frontier myth to three contemporary western writers, Cormac McCarthy, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ana Castillo. Through readings of six novels, Spurgeon demonstrates that these writers remake the frontier myth to accommodate shifts toward the transnational, the global, and the postmodern. Contributing to and complicating western literary history, Exploding the Western offers a convincing argument for the persistence of the American frontier myth in contemporary western literature while demonstrating the frontier myth's own transnational roots.

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