Routledge Companion to Transnational Westerns

Marek Paryż is Associate Professor of American Literature at the Institute of English Studies. His current research focuses on the Western across narrative arts.Christopher Conway is Professor of Spanish at the University of Texas at Arlington. His areas of expertise are in postwestern studies, comparative literature, and comics studies.David Rio is Professor of American Literature at the University of the Basque Country (EHU). His scholarship focuses on Western American literature. He coordinates an international research group (REWEST) specialized in the cultures of the U.S. West.

“This dynamic volume reimagines the Western as a truly global genre, tracing its reinventions across multiple cultures, media, and borders. Bringing together the genre’s leading scholars, it reveals the Western’s surprising adaptability and enduring cultural power worldwide.”Amy Wright, author of Serial Mexico: Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to Now“Comprehensive in scope, The Routledge Companion to Transnational Westerns is a remarkable collection of essays—a testament to the universal appeal of the American West.”Sam Haynes, author of Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, The Struggle for Texas“This is a fascinating, comprehensive and groundbreaking volume: it brings together diverse artistic disciplines and viewpoints around a genre that resonates globally, both in academia and in the collective popular imagination.”Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo, editor of The New American West in Literature and the Arts: A Journey Across Boundaries

• The Transnational Western: Critical Trajectories and Histories; PART I Reframing North American Westerns; 1 Always Indigenous: Rewriting the West in Native American Literature; 2 Reclaiming Dinétah Through Navajo Westerns; 3 Five Fingers for Marseilles, Nope, and Black Transnational Westerns; 4 Magic and Horror in the Borderlands: The Western in the Twenty-First Century Mexican American Imagination; 5 Journey to the Western: Asian American Generic Contestations; 6 Masculinity, Civilization, and Apocalypse in Recent Canadian Westerns: Clifford Jackman's The Winter Family and Aaron Tucker's Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys; PART II The Western in Latin American Cinemas; 7 Mexican Westerns / Mexico in Westerns: Vaqueros, Charros, and "Desperados"; 8 The Existential Huaso: Reactions to the Western in Chile, 1903–2023; 9 Brazilian Westerns: From Cangaçeiro Films to Contemporary Post-Westerns; 10 The Western Genre in Contemporary Argentine Cinema and the Narratives of Historical Foundation: Thoughts on El desierto negro and Aballay, el hombre sin miedo; 11 The Western in the World: Jauja (2014) and Strange Way of Life (2023); PART III Narrative Reinventions of the Western in Europe and Beyond; 12 From Fascist Frontiers to Red Resistance: Race, Masculinity, and Nation in German Westerns, 1933–1970s; 13 The Literary Western in Poland; 14 Rewriting the Haunted Wild West: Spanish Weird Westerns; 15 A Western with Irish Accents: Kevin Barry's The Heart in Winter (2024); 16 The Sabra Cowboy Rides Again: Publishing the "Wild West" in Hebrew Pulp Pamphlet Series; PART IV European Cinematic Appropriations of the Western; 17 The Spaghetti Western: Cycles and Subgenres; 18 Teutonic Frontier Fantasies: (West) German Imaginaries of the "West" and Their (Eastern) Others; 19 Finnish Westerns: The Wild Northern Frontier; 20 The New Wave and Its Double: Godard's Breathless and the Western; 21 "He enjoys dressing like cowboys": The Turkish Western from Yılmaz Güney to Nuri Bilge Ceylan; PART V Cinematic Trajectories of the Western in Africa, Asia, and Australia; 22 The Western in Colonial Africa; 23 North Africa as an Alternative West in Hollywood Cinema; 24 Currying Westerns: An Old Recipe, Some New Masala, and Sholay (1975); 25 The Dream Path of Nationalism? The Critical Discourse on the Western in Japan from the 1910s–50s; 26 A Western by Any Other Name: A History of the Australian Western Film; 27 Australian Indigenous Cinema and the Post-Western Turn; PART VI Comic Book Westerns Across Borders; 28 The Western in Italy: From the First Literary Translations to Tex Willer, and Beyond; 29 Franco-Belgian Comic Westerns: Innovation Through Parody in Morris' Lucky Luke and Remi Farnos' Calfboy; 30 Riding into the Wasteland: Rethinking the Post-Western through European Post-Apocalyptic Adventure Comics (Jeremiah, Hombre, and 2000AD); 31 The Transnational Comic Book Western in Argentina and Mexico; PART VII Other Spaces: Globalizing the Western Through Fashion and Music; 32 The Cowboy Hat: On Tour with the Icons of Western Dress; 33 The Spanish Tour: The Western as an Inspiration in Spanish Popular Music