Short description:

The book offers a diverse and rich picture of current research on the literature and culture of the American West. The book privileges transnational and interdisciplinary approaches, aiming to understand how Western iconography has moved well beyond both national limits and literary borders, becoming nomadic.

Long description:

The book offers a diverse and rich picture of current research on the literature and culture of the American West. The book privileges transnational and interdisciplinary approaches, aiming to understand how Western iconography has moved well beyond both national limits and literary borders, becoming nomadic. A selection of internationally renowned experts on Western American studies will consider the literary and artistic representation of the complex interaction between the mythic dimension of the West and its real, historical, social, and cultural features, both inside American culture and as it converses with other cultures. The book also addresses other cultural and artistic manifestations that interact, overlap, and interrelate with Western writing in complex, often dialogic ways, as exemplified by cinema, art and comics; and it also explores how different voices and/or experiences have complicated and diversified the potential definitions of the American West.

Table of Contents:

List of Contributors

INTRODUCTION: Ángel Chaparro Sainz: ?The West Travels Within and Beyond: Conversations in Many Tongues?

MOVING IMAGES

1. Sergei I. Zhuk: ?Reinventing the American Western in the USSR: The Adventures of One American Film Genre in the Soviet Geo-Political Space?


2. Marek Paryz: ??Lame? Westerns: Disability and Genre in The Ballad of Lefty Brown and In a Valley of Violence?


3. James Deutsch: ?Old West Settings and New West Concerns in Bad Day at Black Rock?


4. Natalia Mirón-Florido: ?Where West Meets East: Asian Identities and the Building of An International Western Frontier in Shanghai Noon (2000)?

COMPETING WORDS

1. Ariadna García Carre?o: An Idealized California: George Sterling?s View of the American West as the Poets? Paradise


2. Isabel Oliveira: ?Annie Proulx?s Wyoming Stories: (De) constructing Male and Female Roles in the American West?


3. Garbi?e Maruri Pérez: ?Lena Lingard and Tiny Soderball: from Hired Girls to Girlbosses?


4. David Río Raigadas: A Reinterpretation of American Geographic Mobility: Willy Vlautin?s The Motel Life

DIFFERING VOICES

1. Eider Gómez Sainz: Silence about the Past and the Discovery of His Parents? Truth: Ben Ohara, the Lone Survivor of a Family, and His Journey in Search of the Truth


2. Kalenda Eaton: ?There equity triumphs:? Kenneth Young?s Travel Narrative and Nine-teenth-Century African American Mobility on the Great Plains


3. Amaia Soroa-Bacaicoa: A Dream for All? Reyna Grande and Julissa Arce?s (Re)Vision of the American Dream


4. Silvia Martínez-Falquina: ?Resurgence and Relation in Contemporary Native American Literature: Susan Power?s Sacred Wilderness?

DRAWING ART

1. Gala Knörr: ?Mechanisms of Storytelling through the Western Genre in Contemporary Basque Art?


2. Susan Bernardin: ?The West that Never is: Arigon Starr?s Super Indians & Indigenous World-Making?

Index