Center for the Study of American West announces 2020 winner for Outstanding Western Book
From WTAMU Newsroom
CANYON West Texas A&M University’s Center for the Study of the American West announces the winner of its second annual CSAW Award for Outstanding Western Book: Josh Garrett-Davis’s “What is a Western?: Region, Genre, Imagination.”
CSAW will host a virtual award reception and lecture with Garrett-Davis at March 4, 2021, via Zoom (visit wtamu.edu/csaw to register). Signed copies will be available for purchase at Burrowing Owl Books.
Published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2019, Garrett-Davis’s book is comprised of a probing series of essays that explores representations of the American West in popular culture, from Hollywood to Japan, from Native America to Dr. Seuss, and beyond.