| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 40.1

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 40.1 | The History Cooperative

*Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space*. Postwestern Horizons Series. Edited by Susan Kollin. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xix + 267 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography. $35.00, CAN$43.95, £22.99, cloth; $19.95, CAN$24.95, £10.99, paper.)
Like a showdown in an old western, a meeting between post-prefixed studies and the West was just plain inevitable. Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space stages a version of the event, and anyone interested in the American West ought to study the result.	1
Main Street never looked so diverse. Surfer girls, backpackers, Japanese "evacuees," and a Korean cowgirl command center stage, along with familiar figures such as John Muir, Edward Abbey, and John Wayne. Like a John Ford film, the contributors to the volume speak in a variety of voices. Discussing William Gibson's cyberpunk novel Virtual Light, Michael Beehler posits "a virtual West as the (future) other, or as the other ('s) future" (p. 93). Krista Comer writes, "Surfing, I submit, is very much in play in this historical moment as both a western American and a global signifying system" (p. 36). Capper Nichols begins: "Each spring, at the end of a long winter, I try to fit a backpacking trip into a busy schedule" (p. 127). Readers will naturally cotton to some voices over other voices, but Kollin deserves praise for trying to present the range of western conversation in this new millennium.	. . .

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