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Author:   Christopher Conway ,  Marek Paryż ,  David Rio
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   5
Weight:   0.755kg
ISBN:  

9789004521834

ISBN 10:   9004521836
Pages:   366
Publication Date:   01 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Notes 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 Index

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Christopher 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.

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