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1 online resource (371 p.) |
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European Perspectives on the United States Ser |
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European Perspectives on the United States Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Mapping the Western in World Literature -- 1 The Literary Western and the Global Legacies of Settler Colonialism -- 2 The Literary Western in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century -- 3 Contemporary Westerns -- 4 Overview of Chapters -- Works Cited -- Part 1 The Americas: Contemporary Reinventions of the Literary Western across Borders -- Postmodern Nation-Building: Popular Westerns in English-Canadian Literature -- Works Cited -- Rumor and the Celebrity of American Historical Figures in Contemporary Women's Canadian Westerns -- Works Cited |
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"A Hidden Past of Unfiltered Sunlight and Space": Reclaiming the Black West in Shelton Johnson's Gloryland -- 1 What Is a Cowboy? -- 2 Where the Deer and the Antelope Play -- 3 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Magical Realism, Postcolonialism, and the Western in Téa Obreht's Inland -- 1 Introduction: Decentering the American West -- 2 Reading and Misreading -- 3 Ghosts, Water, and the Magical Powers of Fiction -- 4 Magical Realism and the Globalization of the Western -- Works Cited |
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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) -- Works Cited -- Old and New Voices on the Gaucho Frontier: Undoing the Legacy of Silence in Las aventuras de la China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Old and New Voices on the Frontier -- 3 The Risks of Silence -- Works Cited -- Part 2 Europe: The Literary Western between Romantic Adventurism and Postmodern Travesty -- The Sealsfield Enigma and the Narrative Politics of the Transatlantic Western -- 1 Introduction |
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2 "What's New in America?": Charles Sealsfield's Transatlantic Lives -- 3 Indian Removal and "Herrenvolk Democracy" in Tokeah -- or the White Rose -- 4 Teaching the Jacksonian Vocabulary in Der Legitime und die Republikaner -- 5 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Reading James Fenimore Cooper in the USSR: The American Western Frontier and Native Americans in Soviet Imagination and Cultural Practices -- Works Cited -- Personal Documents -- Interviews -- Published Sources -- Poles on the American Frontier: A Short History of a Literary Fantasy |
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1 A Clash of Archetypes: "Across the Plains" by Henryk Sienkiewicz -- 2 The Polish Pocahontas Story: Eagle Talon by Bolesław Zieliński -- 3 Makers of History: The Pass of Horror by Longin Jan Okoń -- 4 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Into the Errant West: Carys Davies' West -- Works Cited -- Rewriting Western Mythology in Contemporary Spanish Literature: Jon Bilbao's Basilisco -- 1 Introduction: The American West in Spanish Literature -- 2 Revising Western Mythology: From the New West to the Old West -- 3 Beyond the West -- 4 Conclusion -- Works Cited |
| Summary |
This 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 |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Matteo Righetto's Soul of the Border: A "Western Novel" Italian Style |
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Western stories -- History and criticsm
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Literature, Modern -- American influences
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American fiction -- Appreciation
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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American fiction -- Appreciation
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Postcolonialism in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Paryż, Marek
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Rio, David
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| ISBN |
9789004525306 |
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9004525300 |
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