Spanish Perspectives on The American West in 21st-Century Literature, Cinema and Culture

Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo is a Professor at the University of the Basque Country, where she teaches US Literature and Culture. 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: Pachucas, Chicanas, Cholas (2019) and editor of The New American West in Literature and the Arts (2020), Transcontinental Reflections on the American West: Words, Images, Sounds beyond Borders (2015), The Neglected West (2012), among others.

• Table of Contents - Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo, Everyone Remembers Westerns - Part One. Contemporary Representations of the West in US Cinema And Literature - Maja Daniel, Welcome to the Wide-Open Spaces ff God’s Country: Political Ecology And Naturalism In Annie Proulx’s Wyoming Fiction - Martin Simonson and Jon Alkorta, Earthsea: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Reconfiguration of the American West - Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz, Paulette Jiles’s News of The World: Giving Voice To The ‘Cultural Other’ In The West - Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo - Can a Western Be Feminist? Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff (2010) - Ibon Robles Isasi, Black Cowboys in Recent Western Films. More Than Just Characters - Black Cowboys in Recent Western Films. More Than Just Characters - Silvia Martínez-Falquina, Not (Just) (An)Other (2018): New Indigenous Views For The New West - Amaia Soroa-Bacaicoa, Yo Soy America." Identity, Belonging And The American West In Gabby Rivera’s Work - Gorka Braceras, Cold and Darkness Travel West: Black Metal Expands its Frontier To Meet the American Wild West - Amaya Fernández Menicucci, Shapeshifting Natives and Alien Frontiers: Conquest, Settlement and The Posthuman in Altered Carbon and Raised by Wolves - Monika Madinabeitia, Representations of Basqueness Through Art - Part Three. The New West And its Global Impact: Spanish And European Re-Presentations - Ángel Chaparro Sainz, I twat I twat a Towboy: The Representation of the American West in 21st Century Spanish Television for Kids - Jesús Ángel González , Spanish Westerns and Post-Westerns: National Identity and Conflicts - David Rio, Real and Allegorical Frontiers In Contemporary Spanish Drama: Juan Carlos Rubio’s Arizona - Maite Aperribay-Bermejo, Narcocorridos De Batea, The Galician Recontextualization Of Narcocorridos - Francisco Sáez de Adana, The New West in European Comics