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.
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.
List of Contributors
INTRODUCTION: Įngel Chaparro Sainz: The West Travels Within and Beyond:
Conversations in Many Tongues
MOVING IMAGES
Sergei I. Zhuk: Reinventing the American Western in the USSR: The Adventures
of One American Film Genre in the Soviet Geo-Political Space
Marek Paryz: Lame Westerns: Disability and Genre in The Ballad of Lefty
Brown and In a Valley of Violence
James Deutsch: Old West Settings and New West Concerns in Bad Day at Black
Rock
Natalia Mirón-Florido: Where West Meets East: Asian Identities and the
Building of An International Western Frontier in Shanghai Noon (2000)
COMPETING WORDS
Ariadna Garcķa Carreńo: An Idealized California: George Sterlings View of
the American West as the Poets Paradise
Isabel Oliveira: Annie Proulxs Wyoming Stories: (De) constructing Male and
Female Roles in the American West
Garbińe Maruri Pérez: Lena Lingard and Tiny Soderball: from Hired Girls to
Girlbosses
David Rķo Raigadas: A Reinterpretation of American Geographic Mobility: Willy
Vlautins The Motel Life
DIFFERING VOICES
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
Kalenda Eaton: There equity triumphs: Kenneth Youngs Travel Narrative and
Nine-teenth-Century African American Mobility on the Great Plains
Amaia Soroa-Bacaicoa: A Dream for All? Reyna Grande and Julissa Arces
(Re)Vision of the American Dream
Silvia Martķnez-Falquina: Resurgence and Relation in Contemporary Native
American Literature: Susan Powers Sacred Wilderness
DRAWING ART
Gala Knörr: Mechanisms of Storytelling through the Western Genre in
Contemporary Basque Art
Susan Bernardin: The West that Never is: Arigon Starrs Super Indians &
Indigenous World-Making
Index
Įngel Chaparro Sainz was born in Barakaldo, Basque Country, Spain, in 1976. He holds a degree in English Philology from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and a Ph.D. from that same university. He is presently Associate Professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in the English Studies department. His book Parting the Mormon Veil: Phyllis Barbers Writing was published by the Biblioteca Javier Coy in 2013. He has also co-edited the book Transcontinental Reflections on the American West: Words, Images, Sounds beyond Borders in 2015. He has also published in journals such as Miscelįnea, Odisea, Lectora, Vasconia, RCEI or Womens Studies. His research deals mostly with Western American Literature and culture, being a member of REWEST Research Group at the University of the Basque Country, ecocriticism, popular music, gender studies and translation studies, even though he is also interested in a variety of topics dealing with poetry, life writing, punk studies and minority literatures.
