Blake Allmendinger is a professor of English at the University of California–Los Angeles. He is the author of several books, including Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West (Nebraska, 2021), The Melon Capital of the World (Nebraska, 2015), Imagining the African American West (Nebraska, 2008), and The Cowboy: Representations of Labor in an American Work Culture.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAuthor’s Note Introduction: The Language of Blood1. Crypts and Inscriptions2. The Trees of Knowledge3. Aboriginal Voices, Apparitional Worlds4. Every Fence Is Just a Fence, but Every Post Hole Is Different5. Immigrants, Aliens, and ExtraterrestrialsConclusion: A User’s Guide for Future Basque American Writers NotesBibliographyIndex

“Blake Allmendinger’s decision to focus on Basque American literature in its broadest dimension rather than just on Basque American authors allows Tongues of Settlement to cover a wider variety of authors, regardless of their nationality or the language they use in their books. This choice is useful to explore some of the most meaningful cultural and literary transfers between the American West and the Basque Country.”-David RÍo, author of Robert Laxalt: The Voice of the Basques in American Literature

Blake Allmendinger is a professor of English at the University of California–Los Angeles. He is the author of several books, including Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West (Nebraska, 2021), The Melon Capital of the World (Nebraska, 2015), Imagining the African American West (Nebraska, 2008), and The Cowboy: Representations of Labor in an American Work Culture.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAuthor’s Note Introduction: The Language of Blood1. Crypts and Inscriptions2. The Trees of Knowledge3. Aboriginal Voices, Apparitional Worlds4. Every Fence Is Just a Fence, but Every Post Hole Is Different5. Immigrants, Aliens, and ExtraterrestrialsConclusion: A User’s Guide for Future Basque American Writers NotesBibliographyIndex

“Blake Allmendinger’s decision to focus on Basque American literature in its broadest dimension rather than just on Basque American authors allows Tongues of Settlement to cover a wider variety of authors, regardless of their nationality or the language they use in their books. This choice is useful to explore some of the most meaningful cultural and literary transfers between the American West and the Basque Country.”-David RÍo, author of Robert Laxalt: The Voice of the Basques in American Literature

Blake Allmendinger is a professor of English at the University of California–Los Angeles. He is the author of several books, including Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West (Nebraska, 2021), The Melon Capital of the World (Nebraska, 2015), Imagining the African American West (Nebraska, 2008), and The Cowboy: Representations of Labor in an American Work Culture.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAuthor’s Note Introduction: The Language of Blood1. Crypts and Inscriptions2. The Trees of Knowledge3. Aboriginal Voices, Apparitional Worlds4. Every Fence Is Just a Fence, but Every Post Hole Is Different5. Immigrants, Aliens, and ExtraterrestrialsConclusion: A User’s Guide for Future Basque American Writers NotesBibliographyIndex

“Blake Allmendinger’s decision to focus on Basque American literature in its broadest dimension rather than just on Basque American authors allows Tongues of Settlement to cover a wider variety of authors, regardless of their nationality or the language they use in their books. This choice is useful to explore some of the most meaningful cultural and literary transfers between the American West and the Basque Country.”-David RÍo, author of Robert Laxalt: The Voice of the Basques in American Literature