The New American West in Literature and the Arts

Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo is a lecturer at the University of the Basque Country, where she teaches contemporary North American Literature and Culture. Her research has been focused on the study of Chicana Literature and Culture and has published several articles in international journals. She is a member of the REWEST research group (Research Group in Western American Literature). She is author of Mexican American Women, Dress and Gender: Pachuchas, Chicanas, Cholas (2019) and editor of The Neglected West (2012), Transcontinental Reflections on the American West: Words, Images, Sounds beyond Borders (2015).

Angel Chaparro Sainz, Best Ice Cream West of the Mississippi



Introduction, Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo, (A)Traveling West



Nancy S. Cook, Trends in Western American Studies, or the Road as Seen from the Borrow Pit

Part One. The West Travels Across Myths








Other Western Spaces








Cristina Garrigós, Forging the Future, Forgetting the Human, or What the Los Angeles Freeways Erased: Oblivion in Helena María Viramontes’s Their Dogs Came with Them



Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz, Diasporic Native Americans in Sherman Alexie’s Short Stories: Roots and Routes in Urban Contexts



Gorka Braceras-Martínez, Nature, Environment and Direct Action in the American West: Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang








Other Western Voices








Megan Riley McGilchrist, Mary Hallock Foote’s Reimagining of the Woman’s West



Paula Barba-Guerrero, Crossing Time, Crossing Space: Traumatic Memory in Octavia Butler’s Kindred

Part Two. The West Travels Across Boundaries

2.1. Continental Journeys






Neil Campbell, "New Blood Time Now:" The American West if Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings



Georgia Simakou, Behind the Mask of Zorro: the Americanization of the Legend and Isabel Allende’s Anticolonial Revision

2.2. Inter-continental Journeys






Matthew Cissell, Pynchon Stretches West to East in Against the Day



Fiorenzo Iuliano, No Country for Young Men. Geographies of Anxiety in My Own Private Idaho



Esra Coker Korpez, Exit West to a Borderless Frontier

2.3. Trans-continental Journeys






Alfredo Moro-Martin, The Western Before the Western: Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley (1814) as a Paradigm of Pre-Western Fiction



David Río-Raigadas, Beyond the Atlantic: The American West in Twenty-first Century Southwestern European Literature



Marek Paryz, Uncovering the Western: Pastoralism, Conflict and Revenge in Agnieszka Holland’s Film Spoor

Part Three. The West Travels Across Disciplines

Visual and Aural Journeys






Audrey Goodman, Looking Beyond the West from the Dairy Queen. Local Apertures, Planetary Visions



Nacho Guijarro-González, Comanches in Spain: (Re)visiting a Spanish Exhibition on the "Far West"



Jesús Ángel González, Genre Revisions and Hibridity: Westerns and the West in 21st Century American TV



Monika Madinabeitia, The Basque Far West: Expressions through Art and Music