Western American Literature 53:1

Western American Literature 53:1

Edited by Tom Lynch

Table Of Contents

Contents

Introduction: Pasts, Presents, Futures
Krista Comer and Susan Bernardin

Genealogies
The Indigenous Erotics of Riding Bareback, or, the West Has Always Been Queer
Lisa Tatonetti

Toward a Feminist Turn
Krista Comer

Anthropocene Frontiers: The Place of Environment in Western Studies
Sylvan Goldberg

Unhomely Wests: Meditations in Critical Archaeology
Stephen Tatum

Keywords
"Land"
Cheryll Glotfelty

"Mexican"
José F. Aranda Jr.

"Pedagogy"
Randi Lynn Tanglen

"Postwestern"
Susan Kollin

"Queer"
Ryan Wander

"Regionality"
Neil Campbell

"Settler"
Alex Trimble Young

"Sovereignty"
Kirby Lynn Brown

"Visuality"
Audrey Goodman

Methodologies
Lines of Sight in the Western
Joanna Hearne

Outbreak from the Vaudeville Archive
Christine Bold, with Monique Mojica, Gloria Miguel, Muriel Miguel

Book Reviews
Daniel Robert King, Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Evolution: Editors, Agents, and the Crafting of a Prolific American Author
Herb Thompson

Jennifer Sinor, Letters Like the Day: On Reading Georgia O’Keeffe
Luke Morgan

Pete Fromm, The Names of the Stars: A Life in the Wilds
O. Alan Weltzien

Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Mozart’s Starling
Nathaniel Otjen

Jennifer Sinor, Ordinary Trauma: A Memoir
Gaynell Gavin

Melvin R. Adams, Atomic Geography: A Personal History of the Hanford Reservation
Max Frazier

Michael P. Branch, Rants from the Hill: On Packrats, Bobcats, Wildfires, Curmudgeons, a Drunken Mary Kay Lady, and Other Encounters with the Wild in the High Desert
Jeremy Elliott

Brit Bennett, The Mothers
Kalenda Eaton

Awards

WLA Conference Information

Submissions