Preliminary Material / Christopher Conway -- Copyright page / Christopher Conway -- Notes on Contributors / Christopher Conway -- Mapping the Western in World Literature / Christopher Conway -- Postmodern Nation-Building: Popular Westerns in English-Canadian Literature / Johannes Fehrle -- Rumor and the Celebrity of American Historical Figures in Contemporary Women’s Canadian Westerns / Joel Deshaye -- “A Hidden Past of Unfiltered Sunlight and Space”: Reclaiming the Black West in Shelton Johnson’s Gloryland / Shelly Jarenski -- Magical Realism, Postcolonialism, and the Western in Téa Obreht’s Inland / Christopher Conway -- The Slowed-Down Showdown: Energopower in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive (2019) and Álvaro Enrigue’s Ahora me rindo y eso es todo (2018) / Emily Hind -- Old and New Voices on the Gaucho Frontier: Undoing the Legacy of Silence in Las aventuras de la China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara / Manuela Borzone -- The Sealsfield Enigma and the Narrative Politics of the Transatlantic Western / Steffen Wöll -- Reading James Fenimore Cooper in the USSR : The American Western Frontier and Native Americans in Soviet Imagination and Cultural Practices / Sergei I. Zhuk -- Poles on the American Frontier: A Short History of a Literary Fantasy / Marek Paryż -- Into the Errant West: Carys Davies’ West / Neil Campbell -- Rewriting Western Mythology in Contemporary Spanish Literature: Jon Bilbao’s Basilisco / David Rio -- Matteo Righetto’s Soul of the Border : A “Western Novel” Italian Style / Flavia Brizio-Skov -- Christine Montalbetti’s Showdown / Warren Motte -- My Heart Is in the West but I Am on the Eastern Edge: Hebrew Pulp Westerns and the Sabra Cowboy / Rachel Leket-Mor -- Empty Form: Transculturating the Western / Samir Dayal -- Hunter’s Drifts and Far-Off Places: South African Fiction and the Failure of the Literary Western Tradition / Zbigniew Białas -- J.M. Coetzee’s Unmooring of the Western in Waiting for the Barbarians / MaryEllen Higgins -- Frontier Van Diemen’s Land: Lenny Bartulin’s Infamy / Andrew Nette -- Country without Western: How a Genre Transplanted in New Zealand / Alex Calder -- Index / Christopher Conway.

This groundbreaking collection of essays tells the surprising story of how the American Western has shaped world literature, fueling provocative novels and reflections about national identity, settler colonialism, and violence. Containing nineteen chapters spanning Asia, Africa, the Americas, Australia, Europe, Israel, and New Zealand, as well as a guiding, critical introduction, this book opens an exciting new chapter in the study of popular culture, literature, and globalization. Through this international lens, the literary Western casts off the categories of juvenilia and formula to come into focus as a vital and creative statement about identity, power, and history. Contributors are: Zbigniew Białas, Manuela Borzone, Flavia Brizio-Skov, Alex Calder, Neil Campbell, Christopher Conway, Samir Dayal, Joel Deshaye, Johannes Fehrle, MaryEllen Higgins, Emily Hind, Shelly Jarenski, Rachel Leket-Mor, Warren Motte, Andrew Nette, Marek Paryż, David Rio, Steffen Wöll, and Sergei Zhuk

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