The new American West in literature and the arts : a journey across boundaries /
"This collection of essays relates to the notion of the traveling essence of the myth of the American West from different geographical and disciplinary standpoints. The volume originates in Europe, in Spain, where the myth traveled, was received, assimilated, and re-presented. It intends to tra...
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New York :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2020.
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| Series: | Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature.
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Table of Contents:
- Best ice cream west of the Mississippi / Angel Chaparro Sainz,
- Introduction. (A)Traveling West / Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo
- Trends in Western American studies, or the road as seen from the borrow pit / Nancy S. Cook
- Forging the future, forgetting the human, or what the Los Angeles Freeways erased : oblivion in Helena María Viramontes's Their dogs came with them / Cristina Garrigós
- Diasporic Native Americans in Sherman Alexie's short stories : roots and routes in urban contexts / Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz
- Nature, environment and direct action in the American West : Edward Abbey's The monkey wrench gang / Gorka Braceras-Martínez
- Mary Hallock Foote's reimagining of the woman's West / Megan Riley McGilchrist
- Crossing time, crossing space : traumatic memory in Octavia Butler's Kindred / Paula Barba-Guerrero
- "New blood time now:" the American West if Marlon James' A brief history of seven killings / Neil Campbell
- Behind the mask of Zorro : the Americanization of the legend and Isabel Allende's anticolonial revision / Georgia Simakou
- Pynchon stretches West to East in against the day / Matthew Cissell
- No country for young men : geographies of anxiety in My own private Idaho / Fiorenzo Iuliano
- Exit West to a borderless frontier / Esra Coker Korpez
- The Western before the Western : Sir Walter Scott's Waverley (1814) As a paradigm of pre-Western fiction / Alfredo Moro-Martin
- Beyond the Atlantic : the American West in twenty-first century Southwestern European literature / David Río-Raigadas
- Uncovering the Western : pastoralism, conflict and revenge in Agnieszka Holland's Film spoor / Marek Paryz
- Looking beyond the West from the dairy queen : local apertures, planetary visions / Audrey Goodman
- Comanches in Spain : (re)visiting a Spanish exhibition on the "Far West" / Nacho Guijarro-González
- Genre revisions and hibridity : westerns and the West in 21st century American TV / Jesús Ángel González
- The Basque Far West : expressions through art and music / Monika Madinabeitia.