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Following upon the spurs of Sara Humphreys's I Manifest Destiny 2.0 i (2021) and Christopher Conway and Antoinette Sol's I The Comic Book Western i (2022), both published in the University of Nebraska Press's "Postwestern Horizons" series and both examining global manifestations of the Western in a specific nonliterary medium (video games and comic books, respectively), Joel Deshaye's I The American Western in Canadian Literature i , the latest addition to the University of Calgary Press's "The West" series, moves the critical debate on the Western genre back to literature and takes a "nationalist" approach - in a way. Chapter 4, "From Law to Outlaw: The Second World War, Westerns, and the '40s Pulps", constitutes another highlight of I The American Western in Canadian Literature i . At the same time, Deshaye seeks to trace the development of the Canadian Western, from the fiction of Ralph Connor and H.A. Cody at the beginning of the 20 SP th sp century via 1940s pulp Westerns, postmodern Westerns from the late 1960s through the early 1990s, and First Nations perspectives on the genre from the 1990s through the early 2000s, to the contemporary "resurgence" (347) of the (post-)Western in Canada in the wake of Robert Kroetsch's I The Man from the Creeks i (1998). [Extracted from the article]

In the article, the author discusses postmodern Western genre in Canadian literature. Other topics include the changes in media and communication during the postmodernism period, the postmodernism in the American Western as seen in the novel "Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down" by Ishmael Reed and the films "Blazing Saddles" and "Little Big Man," and the development of neoliberalism and capitalism.

In the article, the author discusses the Western genre in the Canadian literary market in the 21st century. Other topics include the importance of cultural studies like literature and films in influencing how to protect the environment and how to shift away from plastics and fossil fuels, and the focus on some novels like "The Outlander," "The Sisters Brothers," and "Saltwater Cowboys."

In the article, the author discusses the depiction of the outlaw-lawman in Western films and literature, particularly in Canada, as seen in films like "High Noon," "Green Grass, Running Water," and "The Long Patrol: A Tale of the Mounted Police." Also cited are the perspectives of Indigenous filmmakers as seen in their works like "Injun," "Maliglutit," and "The Searchers."

The article discusses the topics of transnationalism and Christianity in early Canadian Western literature and films. Other topics include the modern axis of colonialism in North America, the portrayal of symbolic law enforcers in Canadian Westerns, and the symbolism of the image of the cross based on genre, geography, and religion in Canadian and American films and literature.

In the article, the author discusses the issues of transnationalism, regionalism, and nationalism in the Western genre of films and literature. Other topics include the growth and globalization of literary studies, the relationship of Canadian literature with other national literatures and cultures, and how American Western films were inspired by Japan as seen in films like "The Magnificent Seven" and "Eastern Westerns."