Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western American Culture

Ángel Chaparro Sainz was born in Barakaldo, Basque Country, Spain, in 1976. He holds a degree in English Philology from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and a Ph.D. from that same university. He is presently Associate Professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in the English Studies department. His book Parting the Mormon Veil: Phyllis Barber’s Writing was published by the Biblioteca Javier Coy in 2013. He has also co-edited the book Transcontinental Reflections on the American West: Words, Images, Sounds beyond Borders in 2015. He has also published in journals such as Miscelánea, Odisea, Lectora, Vasconia, RCEI or Women’s Studies. His research deals mostly with Western American Literature and culture, being a member of REWEST Research Group at the University of the Basque Country, ecocriticism, popular music, gender studies and translation studies, even though he is also interested in a variety of topics dealing with poetry, life writing, punk studies and minority literatures.

• List of ContributorsINTRODUCTION: Ángel Chaparro Sainz: “The West Travels Within and Beyond: Conversations in Many Tongues”MOVING IMAGESSergei I. Zhuk: “Reinventing the American Western in the USSR: The Adventures of One American Film Genre in the Soviet Geo-Political Space”Marek Paryz: ““Lame” Westerns: Disability and Genre in The Ballad of Lefty Brown and In a Valley of Violence”James Deutsch: “Old West Settings and New West Concerns in Bad Day at Black Rock”Natalia Mirón-Florido: “Where West Meets East: Asian Identities and the Building of An International Western Frontier in Shanghai Noon (2000)”COMPETING WORDSAriadna García Carreño: An Idealized California: George Sterling’s View of the American West as the Poets’ ParadiseIsabel Oliveira: “Annie Proulx’s Wyoming Stories: (De) constructing Male and Female Roles in the American West”Garbiñe Maruri Pérez: “Lena Lingard and Tiny Soderball: from Hired Girls to Girlbosses”David Río Raigadas: A Reinterpretation of American Geographic Mobility: Willy Vlautin’s The Motel LifeDIFFERING VOICESEider Gómez Sainz: Silence about the Past and the Discovery of His Parents’ Truth: Ben Ohara, the Lone Survivor of a Family, and His Journey in Search of the TruthKalenda Eaton: “There equity triumphs:” Kenneth Young’s Travel Narrative and Nine-teenth-Century African American Mobility on the Great PlainsAmaia Soroa-Bacaicoa: A Dream for All? Reyna Grande and Julissa Arce’s (Re)Vision of the American DreamSilvia Martínez-Falquina: “Resurgence and Relation in Contemporary Native American Literature: Susan Power’s Sacred Wilderness”DRAWING ARTGala Knörr: “Mechanisms of Storytelling through the Western Genre in Contemporary Basque Art”Susan Bernardin: “The West that Never is: Arigon Starr’s Super Indians & Indigenous World-Making”Index