A Spanish View of the American West: El Coyote and His Comic Magazine

Rio Raigadas, David

doi:10.2307/J.CTV2FCCSXD.14

A Spanish View of the American West: El Coyote and His Comic Magazine

Rio Raigadas, David

Libro:

The Comic Book Western: New Perspectives on a Global Genre

Editorial: University of Nebraska Press

ISBN: 978-1-4962-3223-6

Año de publicación: 2022

Páginas: 249-276

Tipo: Capítulo de Libro

DOI: 10.2307/J.CTV2FCCSXD.14 GOOGLE SCHOLAR Acceso abierto editor

Resumen

The Spanish fascination with the American West can be traced back to the earliest writings about this region by explorers and conquistadors, as exemplified by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s Relación de los naufragios y comentarios (1542), a book that has been translated into English as Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America. This narration epitomizes the early transnational dimension of the American West, a borderland territory that, as Janne Lahti argued, “was international before it became national, and … became known and placed in a global context of empires, markets, epidemics, and knowledge before it was claimed by the...