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OverviewThis groundbreaking collection of essays tells the surprising story of how the American Western has shaped world literature, fueling provocative novels and reflections about national identity, settler colonialism, and violence. Containing nineteen chapters spanning Asia, Africa, the Americas, Australia, Europe, Israel, and New Zealand, as well as a guiding, critical introduction, this book opens an exciting new chapter in the study of popular culture, literature, and globalization. Through this international lens, the literary Western casts off the categories of juvenilia and formula to come into focus as a vital and creative statement about identity, power, and history. Contributors are: Zbigniew Białas, Manuela Borzone, Flavia Brizio-Skov, Alex Calder, Neil Campbell, Christopher Conway, Samir Dayal, Joel Deshaye, Johannes Fehrle, MaryEllen Higgins, Emily Hind, Shelly Jarenski, Rachel Leket-Mor, Warren Motte, Andrew Nette, Marek Paryż, David Rio, Steffen Wöll, and Sergei Zhuk Full Product DetailsAuthor: Christopher Conway , Marek Paryż , David RioPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 5 Weight: 0.755kg ISBN: 9789004521834ISBN 10: 9004521836 Pages: 366 Publication Date: 01 December 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Mapping the Western in World Literature Christopher Conway, Marek Paryz and David Rio PART 1: The Americas: Contemporary Reinventions of the Literary Western across Borders Postmodern Nation-Building: Popular Westerns in English-Canadian Literature Johannes Fehrle Rumor and the Celebrity of American Historical Figures in Contemporary Women’s Canadian Westerns Joel Deshaye “A Hidden Past of Unfiltered Sunlight and Space”: Reclaiming the Black West in Shelton Johnson’s Gloryland Shelly Jarenski Magical Realism, Postcolonialism, and the Western in Téa Obreht’s Inland Christopher Conway The Slowed-Down Showdown: Energopower in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive (2019) and Álvaro Enrigue’s Ahora me rindo y eso es todo (2018) Emily Hind Old and New Voices on the Gaucho Frontier: Undoing the Legacy of Silence in Las aventuras de la China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara Manuela Borzone PART 2: Europe: The Literary Western between Romantic Adventurism and Postmodern Travesty The Sealsfield Enigma and the Narrative Politics of the Transatlantic Western Steffen Wöll Reading James Fenimore Cooper in the USSR: The American Western Frontier and Native Americans in Soviet Imagination and Cultural Practices Sergei I. Zhuk Poles on the American Frontier: A Short History of a Literary Fantasy Marek Paryz Into the Errant West: Carys Davies’ West Neil Campbell Rewriting Western Mythology in Contemporary Spanish Literature: Jon Bilbao’s Basilisco David Rio Matteo Righetto’s Soul of the Border: A “Western Novel” Italian Style Flavia Brizio-Skov Christine Montalbetti’s Showdown Warren Motte PART 3: Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand: The Literary Western at the Intersection of Local Traditions and Global Imaginings My Heart Is in the West but I Am on the Eastern Edge: Hebrew Pulp Westerns and the Sabra Cowboy Rachel Leket-Mor Empty Form: Transculturating the Western Samir Dayal Hunter’s Drifts and Far-Off Places: South African Fiction and the Failure of the Literary Western Tradition Zbigniew Bialas J.M. Coetzee’s Unmooring of the Western in Waiting for the Barbarians MaryEllen Higgins Frontier Van Diemen’s Land: Lenny Bartulin’s Infamy Andrew Nette Country without Western: How a Genre Transplanted in New Zealand Alex Calder IndexReviewsAuthor InformationChristopher Conway, Ph.D. (1996), is Professor of Spanish at the University of Texas at Arlington. His most recent monograph is Heroes of the Borderlands: The Western in Mexican Film, Comics, and Music (University of New Mexico Press, 2019). His current research is in comparative literature. Marek Paryż, Ph.D. (2001), is Associate Professor of American Literature at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. He co-edited The Post-2000 Film Western: Contexts, Transnationality, Hybridity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). His recent scholarship focuses on the Western across narrative arts. David Rio, Ph.D. (1994), is Professor of American Literature at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). He has published/co-edited several volumes and numerous articles on western American literature. He coordinates an international research group (REWEST) specialized in the cultures of the U.S. West. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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