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

  1. Rio Raigadas, David
Buch:
The Comic Book Western: New Perspectives on a Global Genre

Verlag: University of Nebraska Press

ISBN: 978-1-4962-3223-6

Datum der Publikation: 2022

Seiten: 249-276

Art: Buch-Kapitel

DOI: 10.2307/J.CTV2FCCSXD.14 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen Access editor

Zusammenfassung

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...