1. Foreword 5 - Scot M. Guenter and Petr Kopecký // 2. Teaching American Women Writers from Inside and Out 9 // 2.1. Finding about Livin’: Teaching Women Writers in Modem American Literature 10 - Karla Simčíková // 2.2. Acknowledgement and Wreaths: Teaching Women Writers in Early American Literature 23 - Karen English // 3. American Reality Television 39 // 3.1. How Real Can the Czechs Get? 40 - Andrea Holešová // 3.2. American Reality TV: A Genre’s Evolution from Schadenfreude to Parody 55 - Scot M. Guenter // 4. Myth and the American (South-)West 69 // 4.1. The Wild West through Czech Eyes: Cowboys and Indians in the Heart of Europe 70 - Petr Kopecký // 4.2. "Culture Vultures: White New Womanhood’s Preserving and Reinterpreting California’s ’Primitive’ Heritage of Native Americans, Mexicans and The Wilderness, 1880s to 1930s" 81 - Margo McBane // 5. US Ethnic Literature in the Context of Two Major Time Periods and Notions of War 99 // 5.1. The Second World War and the Shaping of a Literary Consciousness in the Works of Bellow, Momaday, and Okada 100 - Stanislav Kolář // 5.2. Bridges to the Past: Diaspora and the Cold War in Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban and Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge - Persis M. Karim // 6. Contributors 135