The Comic Book Western
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The Comic Book Western

New Perspectives on a Global Genre

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The Comic Book Western

New Perspectives on a Global Genre

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About This Book

2023 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular and American Culture One of the greatest untold stories about the globalization of the Western is the key role of comics. Few American cultural exports have been as successful globally as the Western, a phenomenon commonly attributed to the widespread circulation of fiction, film, and television. The Comic Book Western centers comics in the Western's international success. Even as readers consumed translations of American comic book Westerns, they fell in love with local ones that became national or international sensations. These essays reveal the unexpected cross-pollinations that allowed the Western to emerge from and speak to a wide range of historical and cultural contexts, including Spanish and Italian fascism, Polish historical memory, the ideology of sh?jo manga from Japan, British post-apocalypticism and the gothic, race and identity in Canada, Mexican gender politics, French critiques of manifest destiny, and gaucho nationalism in Argentina. The vibrant themes uncovered in The Comic Book Western teach us that international comic book Westerns are not hollow imitations but complex and aesthetically powerful statements about identity, culture, and politics.

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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781496232229
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Comics & Graphic Novels Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Part 1
  10. 1. Italian Western Comics and the Myth of the Open Frontier
  11. 2. Comic Book Westerns and the Melodramatic Imagination in Mexico
  12. 3. German Western Readers and the Transnational Imagination
  13. 4. Beyond Parody
  14. 5. Blueberry
  15. Part 2
  16. 6. Argentina’s Outlaws and the Revisionist Western
  17. 7. British Comics and the Western
  18. 8. Canada’s Triumph Comics and David Garneau’s MĂ©tis Response to the “Indian” of the Comic Book Western
  19. 9. A Spanish View of the American Weste
  20. 10. Faraway So Close
  21. Contributors
  22. Index
  23. About Christopher Conway
  24. About Antoinette Sol
  25. Series List