Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western American Culture

The Nomadic West

Author: Ángel Chaparro Sainz Series: Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture

Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western American Culture

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The book offers a diverse and rich picture of current research on the literature and culture of the American West. The book privileges transnational and interdisciplinary approaches, aiming to understand how Western iconography has moved well beyond both national limits and literary borders, becoming nomadic. A selection of internationally renowned experts on Western American studies will consider the literary and artistic representation of the complex interaction between the mythic dimension of the West and its real, historical, social, and cultural features, both inside American culture and as it converses with other cultures. The book also addresses other cultural and artistic manifestations that interact, overlap, and interrelate with Western writing in complex, often dialogic ways, as exemplified by cinema, art and comics; and it also explores how different voices and/or experiences have complicated and diversified the potential definitions of the American West.

About the Author

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.