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Table of Contents

  1. Introduction: The Case for Transnationalism in the American Literary West
  2. David Rio, Christopher Conway
  3. pp. ix-xiv
  4. DOI: 10.1353/wal.2019.0033
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  1. What West? Worlding the Western in Hernan Diaz's In the Distance
  2. Neil Campbell
  3. pp. 103-121
  4. DOI: 10.1353/wal.2019.0030
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  1. Captives on the Frontier: Perla Suez and the Cultural Genealogies of the Argentinian Western
  2. Christopher Conway
  3. pp. 123-140
  4. DOI: 10.1353/wal.2019.0034
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  1. The American West as a Space of Re-Inscription: Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz's Polish Adaptation of Mayne Reid's The Headless Horseman
  2. Marek Paryz
  3. pp. 141-158
  4. DOI: 10.1353/wal.2019.0035
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  1. The Norwegian Imagination of the American West as Presented in Louis Masterson's Morgan Kane
  2. Karoline Aksnes
  3. pp. 159-173
  4. DOI: 10.1353/wal.2019.0031
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  1. A Basque Chronicle of Nine Months in the New West: Bernardo Atxaga's Nevada Days
  2. David Rio
  3. pp. 175-192
  4. DOI: 10.1353/wal.2019.0036
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  1. Doomed Quests in the Old West: An Interview with Dominique Scali, Author of In Search of New Babylon
  2. Victoria Addis
  3. pp. 193-203
  4. DOI: 10.1353/wal.2019.0032
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 Tom Lynch
     Professor
     Editor, Western American Literature
     Department of English
     202 Andrews Hall
     P.O. Box 880333
     University of Nebraska, Lincoln
     Lincoln, NE  68588-0333
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