Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western American Culture

The Nomadic West
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-83075-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sainz, Ángel Chaparro

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors

INTRODUCTION: Ángel 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 García Carreño: An Idealized California: George Sterling’s View of the American West as the Poets’ Paradise

- Isabel Oliveira: “Annie Proulx’s Wyoming Stories: (De) constructing Male and Female Roles in the American West”

- Garbiñe Maruri Pérez: “Lena Lingard and Tiny Soderball: from Hired Girls to Girlbosses”

- David Río Raigadas: A Reinterpretation of American Geographic Mobility: Willy Vlautin’s 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 Young’s Travel Narrative and Nine-teenth-Century African American Mobility on the Great Plains

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

- Silvia Martínez-Falquina: “Resurgence and Relation in Contemporary Native American Literature: Susan Power’s 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 Starr’s Super Indians & Indigenous World-Making”

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ángel 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 Barber’s 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 Miscelánea, Odisea, Lectora, Vasconia, RCEI or Women’s 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.