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Best Ice Cream West of the Mississippi |
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Introduction: (A) Traveling West |
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Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo |
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Trends in Western American Studies, or the Road as Seen from the Borrow Pit |
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PART 1 The West Travels Across Myths |
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1 Forging the Future, Forgetting the Human, or What the Los Angeles Freeways Erased: Oblivion in Helena Maria Viramontes's Their Dogs Came with Them |
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23 | (13) |
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2 Diasporic Native Americans in Sherman Alexie's Short Stories: Roots and Routes in Urban Contexts |
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Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz |
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3 Nature, Environment, and Direct Action in the American West: Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang |
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69 | (1) |
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4 Mary Hallock Foote's Reimagining of the Woman's West |
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70 | (14) |
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5 Crossing Time, Crossing Space: Traumatic Memory in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred |
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PART 2 The West Travels Across Boundaries |
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102 | (31) |
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6 "New Blood Time Now": The American West in Marlon James's A Brief History of Seven Killings |
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103 | (17) |
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7 Behind the Mask of Zorro: The Americanization of the Legend and Isabel Allende's Anticolonial Revision |
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120 | (13) |
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2.2 Intercontinental Journeys |
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8 Pynchon Stretches West to East in Against the Day |
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134 | (13) |
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9 No Country for Young Men: Geographies of Anxiety in My Own Private Idaho |
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147 | (14) |
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10 Exit West to a Borderless Frontier |
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161 | (16) |
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2.3 Transcontinental Journeys |
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11 The Western Before the Western: Sir Walter Scott's Waverley (1814) as a Paradigm of Pre-Western Fiction |
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178 | (13) |
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12 Beyond the Atlantic: The American West in Twenty-First-Century Southwestern European Literature |
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191 | (15) |
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13 Uncovering the Western: Pastoralism, Conflict, and Revenge in Agnieszka Holland's Film Spoor |
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206 | (15) |
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PART 3 The West Travels Across Disciplines |
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221 | (1) |
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Visual and Aural Journeys |
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222 | (57) |
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14 Looking Beyond the West from the Dairy Queen: Local Apertures, Planetary Visions |
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223 | (18) |
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15 "Comanches in Spain!": (Re)visiting a Spanish Exhibition on the "Far West" |
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241 | (11) |
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Juan Ignacio Guijarro Gonzalez |
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16 Genre Revision and Hybridity: Westerns and the West in Twenty-First-Century American Television |
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252 | (15) |
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17 The Basque Far West: Expressions Through Art and Music |
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267 | (12) |
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