Contemporary cowboys: Reimagining an American archetype in popular culture.

"Contemporary Cowboys: Reimagining an American Archetype in Popular Culture" is an edited volume that explores the ways in which the cowboy figure has been reimagined in various forms of media, such as film, literature, television shows, and video games. The authors argue that the cowboy, and the American West as a whole, exists on the fringes of its historical contexts and actively tries to reimagine itself as the "true" American ideal. The book also addresses the violent colonial legacy associated with the cowboy and the need for reparative politics in the Western imagination. While the volume disrupts normative theories of the cowboy, it also struggles with tying cowboy popular culture to its settler colonial history. Overall, the book offers a nuanced examination of the cowboy as a symbol of American identity and provides opportunities for reimagining this mythos. [Extracted from the article]

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