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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.
List of contents
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 God's Country: Political Ecology And Naturalism In Annie Proulx's Wyoming Fiction - Martin Simonson and Jon Alkorta, Earthsea: Ursula K. Le Guin's Reconfiguration of the American West - Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz, Paulette Jiles's News of The World: Giving Voice To The 'Cultural Other' In The West - Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo - Can a Western Be Feminist? Kelly Reichardt's Meek's 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 Martínez-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 Rivera's Work - Gorka Braceras, Cold and Darkness Travel West: Black Metal Expands its Frontier To Meet the American Wild West - Amaya Fernández 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 - Ángel Chaparro Sainz, I twat I twat a Towboy: The Representation of the American West in 21st Century Spanish Television for Kids - Jesús Ángel González , Spanish Westerns and Post-Westerns: National Identity and Conflicts - David Rio, Real and Allegorical Frontiers In Contemporary Spanish Drama: Juan Carlos Rubio's Arizona - Maite Aperribay-Bermejo, Narcocorridos De Batea, The Galician Recontextualization Of Narcocorridos - Francisco Sáez de Adana, The New West in European Comics
About the author
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.
