Editor: Amy Hamilton
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 |
Summer 2022 (WAL 57.2)
Special Issue: Emerging Writers
Guest Edited by Surabhi Balachander and Jillian Moore
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Personal and Pedagogical Perspectives | Surabhi Balachander & Jillian Moore |
ESSAYS | |
Talking Tacos: Borderlands Culinary Rhetoric in A Taco Testimony | Alyssa Revels |
“Don’t leave out the cowboys!”: Black Urban Cowboydom and didactic Afrofuturist Countermemories in Ghetto Cowboy (2011) and Concrete Cowboy (2021) | Tracey Salisbury and Stefan Rabitsch |
Reimagining the West in/and the First-Year Writing Course | Sarah Jane Kerwin |
“Asian American and Pacific Islander” Studies in Boston and Hilo: Student Activism, Radical Imaginings, and Critical Ethnic Studies | Leanne Day |
Perfectly Designed for Connections: Zine Making in Denver Shelters | Alison Turner |
A Report on the Living West as Feminists Project | Zainab Abdali |
Peregrination 2036 | Mika Kennedy |
Afterword: Precarity, Pedagogy, and the Public | Krista Comer |
REVIEWS | |
Rafael Acosta Morales, Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes: Violent Myths of the U.S.-Mexico Frontier | Cordelia E. Barrera |
Curtis Bradley Vickers, This Here Is Devil’s Work: A Novel | Jeffrey Chisum |
Mary Emerick, The Last Layer of the Ocean: Kayaking through Love and Loss on Alaska’s Wild Coast | Sjana Schanning |
David Horgan. Helmi’s Shadow: A Journey of Survival from Russia to East Asia to the American West | David Rio |
Maximilian Werner, Wolves, Grizzlies, and Greenhorns: Death & Coexistence in the American West | Dan Aadland |
Astrid Haas, Lone Star Vistas: Travel Writing on Texas, 1821-1861 | Jennifer Dawes |
Patrick J. Mahoney, Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier: The Prose Writings of Eoin Ua Cathail | Jill Brady Hampton |
Arnold Krupat, Boarding School Voices: Carlisle Indian School Students Speak | Susan D. Rose |
Jane Hafen, Help Indians Help Themselves: The Later Writing of Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša) | Julianne Newmark |
Fall 2022 (WAL 57.3)
ESSAYS | |
Fraught Prospects: California Landscape Poetry During and After the Gold Rush | Caroline Gelmi |
Necro-Settler Coloniality in Texan Mythology and Identity: Forgetting the Alamo | Chaney Hill |
“Theirs is a kind of ecological esthetics”: Three Mountain Poems by Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen | Todd Giles |
REVIEWS | |
Lisa Tatonetti, Written by the Body: Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-Cis Masculinities | Tereza M. Szeghi |
Estella Gonzalez, Chola Salvation | Juan-Danniel Hernandez |
Bintrim, Timothy W., James A. Jaap, and Kimberly Vanderlaan, eds., Willa Cather’s Pittsburgh: Cather Studies | Elizabeth Turner |
Mary Clearman Blew, Waltzing Montana: A Novel | Randi Lynn Tanglen |
Sullivan, Shannon, Ed. Thinking the US South: Contemporary Philosophy from Southern Perspectives | Cristina Hernández Oliver |
John G. Neihardt, Eagle Voice Remembers: An Authentic Tale of the Old Sioux World | Sam Stoeltje |
Steven Wingate, The Leave-Takers | Rebecca Paredes |
Miriam C. Brown Spiers, Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction | Sara L. Spurgeon |
Oscar Mancinas, To Live and Die in El Valle | Sophia Martinez-Abbud |
Mark Rifkin, Speaking for the People: Native Writing and the Question of Political Form | Caitlin Simmons |
Winter 2023 (WAL 57.4)
ESSAYS | |
Mapping Intergenerational Diné Beauty: Reading Hózhǫ́ in the Poetry of Tacey M. Atsitty | Michael P. Taylor and Elena Arana |
“Do the Right Thing Always”: Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Global Pandemics of 1918 and 2020 | Amy Fatzinger |
Dao Strom’s Grass Roof, Tin Roof as Settler Refugee Critique | Michele Janette |
REVIEWS | |
Molly P. Rozum, Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies | Tracy Sanford Tucker |
Steven L. Davis and Sam L. Pfiester, eds., Viva Texas Rivers! Adventure, Misadventures, and Glimpses of Nirvana along Our Storied Waterways | Chaney Hill |
Jada Ach, Sand, Water, Salt: Managing the Elements in Literature of the American West | Jenna Gersie |
Mary Pat Brady, Scales of Captivity: Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child | Sarah J. Ropp |
Blake Allmendinger, Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West | Christine Bold |
Lawrence W. Gross, Native American Rhetorics | Danielle Donelson |
José F. Aranda Jr., The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848–1948 | Sandra Dahlberg |
Lee Bergthold, The Deadliest Shortcut | Thomas J. Lyon |
Melissa J. Homestead, The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis | Jada Ach |
Ladette Randolph, Private Way: A Novel | Manish Pandey |
Spring 2023 (WAL 58.1)
ESSAYS | |
Lost in the New West: Performing Western Identity in Thomas McGuane’s Deadrock Novels | Mark Asquith |
Shackle-Breakers and Adventure-Makers: Fantasies of the U.S. West at Oregon Health & Science University | Pamela Pierce |
Daring to Dream: Contextualizing B. M. Bower’s The Eagle’s Wing with Colorado River Compact History | Patricia J. Rettig |
REVIEWS | |
Kathryn Cornell Dolan, Cattle Country: Livestock in the Cultural Imagination | Tom Hertweck |
John Joseph Mathews, Our Osage Hills: Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century, ed. by Michael Snyder | Sheldon Yeakley |
Taylor Brorby, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land | O. Alan Weltzien |
Anna M. Nogar and A. Gabriel Meléndez, El feliz ingenio neomexicano: Felipe M. Chacón and Poesía y prosa | Juan M. Gallegos |
Tracy Daugherty, 148 Charles Street: A Novel | Max Frazier |
Gregory Smoak, Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West | Emily Gowen |
Michael P. Branch, On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World’s Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer | Hal Crimmel |
Mary Dartt, On the Plains, and Among the Peaks, or, How Mrs. Maxwell Made Her Natural History Collection | Erica Hannickel |
Barbara Schmitz, Sundown at Faith Regional | Mark Sanders |
Cordelia E. Barrera, The Haunted Southwest: Towards an Ethics of Place in Borderlands Literature | Bailey Moorhead |