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 PitPart 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 KindredPart 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 Revision2.2. 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 Frontier2.3. 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 DisciplinesVisual 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