Happy to report that the latest issue of WAL, 49.1, spring 2014, is now up on Project Muse. (Not sure why they don't have 48.4 up yet.)  It's a special issue on "Indigenous Wests: Literary and Visual Aesthetics" guest edited by Susan Bernardin. 

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/western_american_literature/toc/wal.49.1.html

If it hasn't already, it should be appearing in your mailbox  shortly.
-Tom

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Indigenous Wests: Literary and Visual Aesthetics  SUSAN BERNARDIN (Guest Editor)

The Significance of the Frontier in Comanche Poetry  SCOTT ANDREWS

The End (of the Trail) is the Beginning: Stephen Graham Jones’s The Bird is Gone  JOHN GAMBER

 

“This Is Our Playground”: Skateboarding, DIY Aesthetics, and Apache Sovereignty in Dustinn Craig’s 4wheelwarpony  JOANNA HEARNE

 

“Just by doing it, we made it appear”: Dustinn Craig on We Shall Remain: Geronimo, 4wheelwarpony, and the Apache Scouts Project   Interview JOANNA HEARNE and DUSTINN CRAIG

 

It’s a Good Day to Bike: Indigenous Futures in Ramona Emerson’s Opal   SUSAN BERNARDIN

 




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Tom Lynch
Associate Professor
Chair, Undergraduate Studies
Editor, Western American Literature
Department of English
202 Andrews Hall
P.O. Box 880333
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Lincoln, NE  68588-0333
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