The western in the global literary imagination / edited by Christopher Conway, Marek Paryz and David Rio.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Conway, Christopher B., 1969- editor.

Paryż, Marek, editor.

Río, David, editor.

Series:

European perspectives on the United States, 2666-724X ; vol 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Western stories--History and criticism.

Western stories.

Literature, Modern--American influences.

Literature, Modern.

American fiction--Appreciation.

American fiction.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Genre:

Essays.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

xiv, 364 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 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 Tea Obreht's Inland / Christopher Conway

The Slowed-Down Showdown: Energopower in Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive (2019) and Alvaro Enrigue's Ahora me rindoy 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 Cabezon Camara / Manuela Borzone

pt. 2 Europe: The Literary Western between Romantic Adventurism and Postmodern Travesty

The Sealsfield Enigma and the Narrative Politics of the Transatlantic Western / Steffen Wit

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

pt. 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 / Mary Ellen Higgins

Frontier Van Diemen's Land: Lenny Bartulin's Infamy / Andrew Nette

Country without Western: How a Genre Transplanted in New Zealand / Alex Calder.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Western in the global literary imagination

ISBN:

9789004521834

9004521836

OCLC:

1346124888