Keywords

American West, transnational discourse, France

Abstract

Transnational Frontiers has a great opening line. “The American West,” writes the author, art historian Emily C. Burns, “is a slippery concept, particularly in international settings.” This initial sentence gets to the heart of the challenge of discussing the West, which has long existed as an idea as much as an actual place. It also touches on the ways in which many of the myths of the West were supported and even shaped abroad. As Burns successfully demonstrates, from beginning to end, this is especially true in France where the West was “not a fixed concept but rather a transnational discourse.”

Original Publication Citation

Emily C. Burns, Transnational Frontiers: The American West in France, TransAtlantica: Revue d’Études Américaines/American Studies Journal 1:2018 (Fall, 2019). See https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/11786