Western American Literature 55:2

Western American Literature 55:2

Edited by Tom Lynch

Table Of Contents

Volume 55, No. 2 (Summer 2020)

Essays

Gunshots, Indian Scouts, and Train Robberies: Frontier Mythology in William Dean Howells’s A Hazard of New Fortunes
Margie Judd

Queering the Waters: The Subversive Potential in E. Pauline Johnson’s Canoe
Kristen Brown

Pretty Shield’s Thumbprint: Body Politics in Paratextual Territory
Amy Gore

Book Reviews

Sarah D. Wald, David J. Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, and Sarah Jaquette Ray, eds., Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial
Regina Marie Mills

Robert Nichols, Theft Is Property: Dispossession and Critical Theory
Caitlin Simmons

Peter Quigley, The Forbidden Subject: How Oppositional Aesthetics Banished Natural Beauty from the Arts
David Copland Morris

Joe Lockard and A. Robert Lee, eds., Louis Owens: Writing Land and Legacy
Raymond Pierotti

Leslie Miller and Louise Excell, eds., Reimagining a Place for the Wild
James Barilla

John Gifford, Red Dirt Country: Field Notes and Essays on Nature
Rodney Rice

Nick Neely, Alta California: From San Diego to San Francisco, A Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State
O. Alan Weltzien

Mary Clearman Blew, Sweep Out the Ashes: A Novel
Evelyn Funda

Rebecca Wigod, He Speaks Volumes: A Biography of George Bowering
Miriam Nichols

WLA Conference Information