Amy Hamilton is our current editor.
Summer 2021 (WAL 56.2)
Editors’ Letter | Amy Hamilton & Kyle Bladow |
ESSAYS | |
Staying with the White Trouble of Recent Feminist Westerns | Krista Comer |
Text, Encounter, Genre: Returning (Again) to Black Elk Speaks | Sam Stoeltje |
Simons Town as Heterotopia: The Dynamic Interplay of Barrioization and Barriology in The Brick People | Beilei Yan and Longhai Zhang |
REVIEWS | |
Toni Jensen, Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land | Doreen Pfost |
Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, and Sara L. Spurgeon, eds. Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre | Travis Franks |
Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez, Levi Romero, and Spencer Herrera, eds., Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland | Daniel Arbino |
Geneva M. Gano, The Little Art Colony and US Modernism: Carmel, Provincetown, Taos | Robert Thacker |
James H. Cox, The Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History | Joshua T. Anderson |
Brady Harrison and Randi Lynn Tanglen, eds., Teaching Western American Literature | Susan Kollin |
Kiara Kharpertian, We Who Work the West: Class, Labor, and Space in Western American Literature | Daniel Clausen |
Fall 2021/Winter 2022 (WAL 56.3/4)
Special Double Issue: California, Cli-Fi, and Climate Crisis
Guest editor: Daniel D. Clausen
Guest Editor’s Introduction: What Happens in California Cli-Fi |
Daniel D. Clausen |
ESSAYS | |
Pre-apocalypse Now: Gold Fame Citrus as Weird Western Cli-Fi | Jennifer K. Ladino |
Old Chestnuts: Seeding Alternative Communities and Alternative Futures in/with The Overstory | Ryan Hediger |
Uncenter Yourselves: Revisiting Robinson Jeffers’ Inhumanism in the Age of The Overstory | Cory Willard |
“A Land of Missing Things”: Extraction, Belonging, and Chinese Immigrant Labor in C Pam Zhang’s How Much of These Hills Is Gold | Ashley E. Reis |
Cli-Fi Georgic and Grassroots Mutual Aid in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower | Daniel D. Clausen |
“Trees are better than stone”: Vital Commemoration in Octavia Butler’s Parable Novels | Matt Burkhart |
California Dreaming: Reading the Ski Film as Cli-Fi | Kevin Maier |
REVIEWS | |
Antonia Castañeda and Clara Lomas, Writing/Righting History: Twenty-Five Years of Hispanic Literary Heritage | Erin Murrah-Mandril |
Jim Hoy, My Flint Hills: Observations and Reminiscences from America’s Last Tallgrass Prairie | Timothy A. Schuler |
Arnold Krupat, Changed Forever: American Boarding-School Literature, Volume 2 | Lydia Presley |
Spring 2022 (WAL 57.1)
ESSAYS | |
Learning to Fly-Cast: Icarus and Myth in Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It | Stephen B. Dobranski |
“Taken from Their Self-found Paths”: Captivity and Creation in Mary Hallock Foote’s Idaho Fiction | Quinn Grover |
The Parthian Legacy: Irish Catholicism and Remaking Identity in Willa Cather’s My Mortal Enemy | Vera R. Foley |
REVIEWS | |
John N. Maclean, Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River | O. Alan Weltzien |
Xabier Irujo and Iñaki Arrieta Baro, eds. Visions of a Basque American Westerner: International Perspectives on the Writings of Frank Bergon | Michael Kowalewski |
Ryanne Pilgeram, Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West | Jennifer K. Ladino |
Erin Flanagan, Deer Season | Joshua Doležal |
Mary Stoecklein, Native America Mystery Writing: Indigenous Investigations |
Jessica Rios |
Gary Eller, True North | Hank Nuwer |