ABSTRACT
The story of the American West is that of a journey. It is the story of a movement, of a geographical and human transition, of the delineation of a route that would soon become a rooted myth. The story of the American West has similarly journeyed across boundaries, in a two-way movement, sometimes feeding the idea of that myth, sometimes challenging it. This collection of essays relates to the notion of the traveling essence of the myth of the American West from different geographical and disciplinary standpoints. The volume originates in Europe, in Spain, where the myth traveled, was received, assimilated, and re-presented. It intends to travel back to the West, in a two-way cross-cultural journey, which will hopefully contribute to the delineation of the New—always self-renewing—American West. It includes the work of authors of both sides of the Atlantic ocean who propose a cross-cultural, transdisciplinary dialogue upon the idea, the geography and the representation of the American West.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|79 pages
The West Travels Across Myths
part 1.1|47 pages
Other Western Spaces
chapter 1|13 pages
Forging the Future, Forgetting the Human, or What the Los Angeles Freeways Erased
chapter 2|17 pages
Diasporic Native Americans in Sherman Alexie’s Short Stories
chapter 3|16 pages
Nature, Environment, and Direct Action in the American West
part 1.2|31 pages
Other Western Voices
part 2|120 pages
The West Travels Across Boundaries
part 2.1|31 pages
Continental Journeys
chapter 6|17 pages
“New Blood Time Now”
chapter 7|13 pages
Behind the Mask of Zorro
part 2.2|44 pages
Intercontinental Journeys
part 2.3|44 pages
Transcontinental Journeys
chapter 11|13 pages
The Western Before the Western
chapter 12|15 pages
Beyond the Atlantic
chapter 13|15 pages
Uncovering the Western
part 3|58 pages
The West Travels Across Disciplines
part |57 pages
Visual and Aural Journeys