Western American Literature 52:2

Western American Literature 52:2

Edited by Tom Lynch

Table Of Contents

Contents

Essays
A Failed Uncle Tom’s Cabin for the Indian: Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona and the Power of Paratext
Kimberly E. Armstrong

The Interconnected Bioregion: Transregional Networks in Mary Austin’s The Ford
John Peterson

Amid the Mockingbird’s Laughter: Non-Indian Removals in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Depression-Era Novels
Amy S. Fatzinger

Review Essay
Cormac McCarthy: Prophecy and Metaphysics
Nell Sullivan

Book Reviews
Jon Gordon, Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts and Fictions
Nicholas Bradley

Jeffrey Bilbro, Loving God’s Wildness: The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature
Will Lombardi

Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue, Southwest Asia: The Transpacific Geographies of Chicana/o Literature
Crystal Parikh

Ángel Chaparro Sainz and Amaia Ibarraran Bigalondo, eds., Transcontinental Reflections on the American West: Words, Images, Sounds beyond Borders
Stephen J. Mexal

John E. Carter, ed., Solomon D. Butcher: Photographing the American Dream
Audrey Goodman

Ken Ilgunas, Trespassing Across America: One Man’s Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike across the Heartland
Don Scheese

Doreen Pfost, This River Beneath the Sky: A Year on the Platte
Doug Meigs

Richard Shelton, Nobody Rich or Famous: A Family Memoir
W. T. Pfefferle

Shelley Armitage, Walking the Llano: A Texas Memoir of Place
Cynthia Brandimarte

Melissa A. Sevigny, Mythical River: Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest
Hal Crimmel

WLA Conference Information

Submissions