"Local to where, across the river?": Detroit, Borderlands, and Cycles of Dispossession in Elmore Leonard's Killshot.

This article considers American crime novelist Elmore Leonard's Killshot (1989) as an "urban western" on the Windsor/Detroit international border. Drawing on Gloria E. Anzaldúa's work on the borderlands, Greg Grandin's work on frontiers in the US imagination, and Holly Karibo's research on illicit e...

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Published in:	Canadian Review of American Studies Vol. 55; no. 3; pp. 198 - 215
Main Author:	Jansen, Brian
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	University of Toronto Press Dec2025
Subjects:	Borderlands in literature Killshot (Book) Canada-United States border Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013 Indigenous ethnic identity Native American reservations American identity 20th century (Literary period) Detroit (Mich.)
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