Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western American Culture

List of Contributors

INTRODUCTION: Angel 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 Miron-Florido: "Where West Meets East: Asian Identities and the Building of An International Western Frontier in Shanghai Noon (2000)"

COMPETING WORDS



Ariadna Garcia Carreno: 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"
Garbine Maruri Perez: "Lena Lingard and Tiny Soderball: from Hired Girls to Girlbosses"
David Rio Raigadas: A Reinterpretation of American Geographic Mobility: Willy Vlautin's The Motel Life

DIFFERING VOICES



Eider Gomez 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 Martinez-Falquina: "Resurgence and Relation in Contemporary Native American Literature: Susan Power's Sacred Wilderness"

DRAWING ART



Gala Knoerr: "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