??I would argue for postwestern, as I am thinking you refer to that amorphous thing we are still figuring out--an ethos, a moment, a phenomenon, right?  A theoretical framework?  Do you think Susan Kollin made a case for using a single, unhyphenated word in Postwestern Cultures??  If so, there is precedent for this neologism.  If not, then of course that is interesting, too.


If you are referring more specifically to something following the Western as a genre, then i would agree with Drucilla. But I understood your query differently.


Best,

Jennifer


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Jennifer S. Tuttle
Dorothy M. Healy Professor of Literature and Health
Faculty Director, Maine Women Writers Collection
Editor, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers

Department of English
University of New England
11 Hills Beach Rd.
Biddeford, Maine 04005
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An editor's question:

postwestern or
post-western, or
post-Western?

And why?

-Tom
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