Western in the Global South

<p><em>The Western in the Global South </em>investigates the Western film genre's impact, migrations, and reconfigurations in the Global South. Contributors explore how cosmopolitan directors have engaged with, appropriated, and subverted the tropes and conventions of Hollywood and Italian Westerns, and how Global South Westerns and Post-Westerns in particular address the inequities brought about by postcolonial patriarchy, globalization and neoliberalism. The book offers a wide range of historical engagements with the genre, from African, Caribbean, South and Southeast Asian, Central and South American, and transnational directors. The contributors employ interdisciplinary cultural studies approaches to cinema, integrating aesthetic considerations with historical, political, and gender studies readings of the international appropriations and U.S. re-appropriations of the Western genre.</p> <p>Preface <em>Neil Campbell </em>Introduction <em>MaryEllen Higgins, Rita Keresztesi, and Dayna Oscherwitz </em><strong>Part 1: Colonial Circulations of the Western in the Global South</strong> 1. The Western in Colonial Southern Africa <i>James Burns </i>2. Cassava Westerns: Theorizing the Pleasures of Playing the Outlaw in Africa <i>Tsitsi Jaji </i>3. The Italian (Southern) Western: From Colonial Cinema to Spaghetti Western <i>Giovanna Trento </i>4. From <i>Django</i> to <i>Django Unchained </i>– Love Narratives in the Global South <i>Clifford T. Manlove </i><b>Part 2: The Western in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean </b>5. In the Crossfire: Africa, Cinema, and Violence in Abderrahmane Sissako’s <i>Bamako</i> (2006) <i>Dayna Oscherwitz </i>6. Trashing the Western’s Revenge Narrative in Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s <i>Daratt MaryEllen Higgins </i>7. Cowboys and West Indians: Decolonizing the Western and Perry Henzell’s <em>The Harder They Come Rita Keresztesi </em><strong>Part 3: The Western in Australia and Asia </strong>8. Aboriginal Cowboys? On the Possibilities of the Western in Australia’s Far West <i>Andrew W. Hurley </i>9. <i>Tears of the Black Tiger</i>: The Western and Thai Cinema <i>Jesus Jimenez-Varea</i> and <i>Milagros Expósito-Barea </i>10. Tamil B Movie Westerns: The Global South and Genre Subversion<strong> </strong><i>Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai </i><b>Part 4: South American, Mexican and Borderlands Westerns </b>11. An ‘Imperfect' Genre: Rethinking Politics in Latin American Westerns <i>Chelsea Wessels </i>12. Landscaping the Western: Ciro Guerra’s <i>The Wind Journeys </i>(2009) <i>Carlos G. Torres-Rodríguez </i>13. Carlos Bolado’s <i>Bajo California</i>: Crossing Borders and Dislocating the Western Tradition <i>Carolina Rueda </i>14. Disinterring the Western in <i>Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada</i> and <i>No Country for Old Men Brent Strang</i></p>