دانلود کتاب The New American West in Literature and the Arts: A Journey Across Boundaries

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Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Best Ice Cream West of the Mississippi
Introduction: (A) Traveling West
Trends in Western American Studies, or the Road as Seen from the Borrow Pit
PART 1 The West Travels Across Myths
1.1 Other Western Spaces
1 Forging the Future, Forgetting the Human, or What the Los Angeles Freeways Erased: Oblivion in Helena María
2 Diasporic Native Americans in Sherman Alexie’s Short Stories: Roots and Routes in Urban Contexts
3 Nature, Environment, and Direct Action in the American West: Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang
1.2 Other Western Voices
4 Mary Hallock Foote’s Reimagining of the Woman’s West
5 Crossing Time, Crossing Space: Traumatic Memory in Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred
PART 2 The West Travels Across Boundaries
2.1 Continental Journeys
6 “New Blood Time Now”: The American West in Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings
7 Behind the Mask of Zorro: The Americanization of the Legend and Isabel Allende’s Anticolonial Revision
2.2 Intercontinental Journeys
8 Pynchon Stretches West to East in Against the Day
9 No Country for Young Men: Geographies of Anxiety in My Own Private Idaho
10 Exit West to a Borderless Frontier
2.3 Transcontinental Journeys
11 The Western Before the Western: Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley (1814) as a Paradigm of Pre-Western Fiction
12 Beyond the Atlantic: The American West in Twenty- First-Century Southwestern European Literature
13 Uncovering the Western: Pastoralism, Conflict, and Revenge in Agnieszka Holland’s Film Spoor
PART 3 The West Travels Across Disciplines
Visual and Aural Journeys
14 Looking Beyond the West from the Dairy Queen: Local Apertures, Planetary Visions
15 “Comanches in Spain!”: (Re)visiting a Spanish Exhibition on the “Far West”
16 Genre Revision and Hybridity: Westerns and the West in Twenty-First-Century American Television
17 The Basque Far West: Expressions Through Art and Music
Index