This collection studies the American West from a transdisciplinary and transnational perspective. Starting from the premise that the West as a space and as a concept is undergoing a profound revision and that its impact in the USA and internationally is unquestionable, it aims to contribute to this re-description through a Spanish perspective.
This volume delves into the study of the American West from a Spanish perspective. Starting from the premise that the West as a geographical space and as a concept is undergoing a profound revision and that its impact, both in the USA and internationally, is unquestionable, it aims to contribute to this re-description through a contemporary Spanish standpoint. It looks into the hypothesis that, just as the "Old West" as myth and reality served as a cohesive element of "the American identity" and its values, and that its international impact was spectacular, the "New West" is currently being exported and assimilated internationally, extending the revision of the myth, and thus, its relationship with said identity.
Table of Contents - Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo, Everyone Remembers
Westerns - Part One. Contemporary Representations of the West in US Cinema
And Literature - Maja Daniel, Welcome to the Wide-Open Spaces ff Gods
Country: Political Ecology And Naturalism In Annie Proulxs Wyoming Fiction -
Martin Simonson and Jon Alkorta, Earthsea: Ursula K. Le Guins
Reconfiguration of the American West - Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz, Paulette
Jiless News of The World: Giving Voice To The Cultural Other In The West -
Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo - Can a Western Be Feminist? Kelly Reichardts
Meeks Cutoff (2010) - Ibon Robles Isasi, Black Cowboys in Recent Western
Films. More Than Just Characters - Black Cowboys in Recent Western Films.
More Than Just Characters - Silvia Martķnez-Falquina, Not (Just) (An)Other
(2018): New Indigenous Views For The New West - Amaia Soroa-Bacaicoa, Yo Soy
America." Identity, Belonging And The American West In Gabby Riveras Work -
Gorka Braceras, Cold and Darkness Travel West: Black Metal Expands its
Frontier To Meet the American Wild West - Amaya Fernįndez Menicucci,
Shapeshifting Natives and Alien Frontiers: Conquest, Settlement and The
Posthuman in Altered Carbon and Raised by Wolves - Monika Madinabeitia,
Representations of Basqueness Through Art - Part Three. The New West And its
Global Impact: Spanish And European Re-Presentations - Įngel Chaparro Sainz,
I twat I twat a Towboy: The Representation of the American West in 21st
Century Spanish Television for Kids - Jesśs Įngel Gonzįlez , Spanish Westerns
and Post-Westerns: National Identity and Conflicts - David Rio, Real and
Allegorical Frontiers In Contemporary Spanish Drama: Juan Carlos Rubios
Arizona - Maite Aperribay-Bermejo, Narcocorridos De Batea, The Galician
Recontextualization Of Narcocorridos - Francisco Sįez de Adana, The New West
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Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo is a Professor at the University of the Basque Country, where she teaches US Literature and Culture. She is a member of the REWEST research group (Research Group in Western American Literature). She is author of Mexican American Women, Dress and Gender: Pachucas, Chicanas, Cholas (2019) and editor of The New American West in Literature and the Arts (2020), Transcontinental Reflections on the American West: Words, Images, Sounds beyond Borders (2015), The Neglected West (2012), among others.
