Hi all,
The fall issue of Western American Literature (49.3) is in the mail, and available on Project Muse. It features two articles and 16 reviews. Future issues will contain more articles, and fewer reviews, but we were short on space and had a backlog of reviews to publish.


ARTICLES

Far from the Pastoral Myth: Basque Sheepherders in Contemporary Western American Fiction

David Rio


“The Sterility of their art”: Masculinity and the Western in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony

Lydia R. Cooper


REVIEWS

Amaia Ibarraran, Martin Simonson, and David Rio, eds., The Neglected West: Contemporary Approaches to Western American Literature

-Nancy S. Cook

 

David L. Moore, That Dream Shall Have a Name: Native Americans Rewriting America

-O. Alan Weltzien

 

Michelle H. Raheja, Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film

-Scott D. Emmert

 

James H. Cox, The Red Land to the South: American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico

-Lisa Tatonetti

 

Scott Knickerbocker, Ecopoetics: The Language of Nature, the Nature of Language

-Robert Scott

 

William E. Tydeman, Conversations with Barry Lopez: Walking the Path of Imagination

-Jason Hertz

 

Don Waters, Sunland

-Andrea Clark Mason

 

Gerald Vizenor, Chair of Tears

-Andy Meyer

 

N. Scott Momaday, Again the Far Morning: New and Selected Poems

-Matthias Schubnell

 

Mary K. Stillwell, The Life & Poetry of Ted Kooser

-Scott Knickerbocker

 

Jackson J. Benson, Haunted: The Strange and Profound Art of Wright Morris, a Biography and a Photo Gallery

-Rodney P. Rice

 

Evelyn I. Funda, Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament

-Susan H. Swetnam

 

Jean Morgan Meaux, ed., In Pursuit of Alaska: An Anthology of Travelers’ Tales, 1879-1909

-Eric Heyne

 

R. Mark Liebenow, Mountains of Light: Seasons of Reflection in Yosemite

-Scott Herring

 

SueEllen Campbell, et al., The Face of the Earth: Natural Landscapes, Science and Culture

-Ann E. Lundberg

 

William deBuys, A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest

-Sharman Apt Russell


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