Western American Literature 51:4

Western American Literature 51:4

Edited by Tom Lynch

Table Of Contents

Contents

From the Editor

Essays
Up from the Ground: Living with/in Petrocultures in the US and Canadian Wests
Jenny Kerber

From Fields of Wheat to Fields of Value: The Energy Unconscious of The Octopus
Jeff Diamanti

Reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s Three Californias Triptych as Petrofiction
Brent Ryan Bellamy

A Formal Spilling: Leaking and Leaching in Warren Cariou’s Petrography and “Tarhands: A Messy Manifesto”
Taylor McHolm

Salvage Ecology: annie ross’s Forest One and Happy Birthday Super Cheaper
Deena Rymhs

Book Reviews
Kenneth K. Brandt and Jeanne Campbell Reesman, eds., Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jack London; Joseph McAleer, Call of the Atlantic: Jack London’s Publishing Odyssey Overseas, 1902–1916
Susan Nuernberg

Jan Whitt, The Redemption of Narrative: Terry Tempest Williams and Her Vision of the West
Katherine R. Chandler

Margery Fee, Literary Land Claims: The “Indian Land Question” from Pontiac’s War to Attawapiskat
Jennifer Henderson

Jean Toomer, A Drama of the Southwest: The Critical Edition of a Forgotten Play by Jean Toomer, edited by Carolyn J. Dekker
Bill D. Toth

José Skinner, The Tombstone Race
Melina Vizcaíno-Alemán

James Terry, Kingdom of the Sun: Stories
Evan Lavender-Smith

Michael P. Branch, Raising Wild: Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness
English Brooks

Shaun T. Griffin, Anthem for a Burnished Land: What We Leave in this Desert of Work and Words
Jeffrey Chisum

George Hodgman, Bettyville: A Memoir
Chase Dimock

Sharon Butala, Wild Rose
Megan Riley McGilchrist

Call for Nominations

WLA Conference Information

Submissions