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Volume 54, No. 2 (Summer 2019)
Contents SPECIAL ISSUE
Writing the Global Western: Circulations and Transformations of the American West in World Literature
Guest edited by David Rio and Christopher Conway
Guest Editors’ Introduction: The Case for Transnationalism in the American Literary West
David Rio and Christopher Conway
Essays What West? Worlding the Western in Hernan Diaz’s
In the Distance Neil Campbell
Captives on the Frontier: Perla Suez and the Cultural Genealogies of the Argentinian Western
Christopher Conway
The American West as a Space of Re-Inscription: Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz’s Polish Adaptation of Mayne Reid’s
The Headless Horseman Marek Paryz
The Norwegian Imagination of the American West as Presented in Louis Masterson’s Morgan Kane
Karoline Aksnes
A Basque Chronicle of Nine Months in the New West: Bernardo Atxaga’s
Nevada Days David Rio
Doomed Quests in the Old West: An Interview with Dominique Scali, Author of
In Search of New Babylon Victoria Addis
Book Reviews Amanda J. Zink,
Fictions of Western Domesticity: Indian, Mexican, and Anglo Women in Print Culture, 1850–1950 Cathryn Halverson
Priscilla Solis Ybarra,
Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment Linda Garcia Merchant
Gary Scharnhorst,
The Life of Mark Twain: The Early Years, 1835–1871 Bonney MacDonald
Anthony Shafton,
The Nevada They Knew: Robert Caples and Walter Van Tilburg Clark Jeffrey Chisum
Tom Lynch, Susan Naramore Maher, Drucilla Wall, and O. Alan Weltzien, eds.,
Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time John Shoptaw
Gary Lantz,
Heart Stays Country: Meditations from the Southern Flint Hills Jim Hoy
Mary Clearman Blew,
Ruby Dreams of Janis Joplin O. Alan Weltzien
Jeff Metcalf,
Back Cast: Fly-Fishing and Other Such Matters Cory Willard
Denise Low,
The Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival Lisa King
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