Conjunction and Disjunction in Annie Proulx's Post-West: An Affective Critical Approach

Abstract

I came across Annie Proulx's books as a reader, long before even considering ever carrying out any scholarly work on her. Her readings always took me back to a place about which I thought I knew a lot yet I did not: the American West. It was not until a few years after my first reading of Postcards that I ventured into exploring her work, environment and ideas as a writer in a deeper way. There I discovered her approach to place, her attention to the local, language and the weather, as well as her understanding of the West as a region, motivation and credo. All that helped me reassess my traditional assumptions of the West 'which I had visited on quite a few occasions'.