The story of the American West is that of a journey. It is the story of a movement of a geographical and human transition of the delineation of a route that would soon become a rooted myth. The story of the American West has similarly journeyed across boundaries in a two-way movement sometimes feeding the idea of that myth sometimes challenging it. This collection of essays relates to the notion of the traveling essence of the myth of the American West from different geographical and disciplinary standpoints. The volume originates in Europe in Spain where the myth traveled was received assimilated and re-presented. It intends to travel back to the West in a two-way cross-cultural journey which will hopefully contribute to the delineation of the New-always self-renewing-American West. It includes the work of authors of both sides of the Atlantic ocean who propose a cross-cultural transdisciplinary dialogue upon the idea the geography and the representation of the American West. |The New American West in Literature and the Arts A Journey Across Boundaries | Literature
