Volume 58, Number 2, Summer 2023
Contents
Essays
Topographies of Western Violence in Claire Vaye Watkins’s Battleborn
Sofía Martinicorena
Critical Regionality and (Mis-)Translation: The Modernist Elision of Pueblo Source Material in Mary Austin’s Later Career
D. Seth Horton
A Fable of the Anthropocene: The Disturbing Naturalist Humanity in Frank Norris’s The Octopus
Daichi Sugai
Book Reviews
Asquith, Mark. Lost in the New West: Reading Williams, McCarthy, Proulx and McGuane
Scott Pearce
Connie A. Jacobs and Nancy J. Peterson, eds. Louise Erdrich’s Justice Trilogy: Cultural and Critical Contexts
Alison Turner
John Mort, Oklahoma Odyssey: A Novel
Steve Yates
Stephen J. Mexal, The Conservative Aesthetic: Theodore Roosevelt, Popular Darwinism, and the American Literary West
Matthew Evertson
John Joseph Mathews, The Short Stories of John Joseph Mathews, an Osage Writer, edited and with an introduction by Susan Kalter
Alexander Steele
Thomas Becknell, Enchantments of the Mississippi: A Contemplative Journey of Time and Place
Susan Naramore Maher
Roy Scheele, Produce Wagon: New and Selected Poems
Mark Sanders
Ann Putnam, Cuban Quartermoon
Sarah Driscoll
Christopher Conway and Antoinette Sol, eds., The Comic Book Western: New Perspectives on a Global Genre
Daniel Pinti
Paul A. Formisano, Tributary Voices: Literary and Rhetorical Exploration of the Colorado River
Ned Schaumberg
Lynn Downey, American Dude Ranch: A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West
Stephen P. Cook
2023 WLA Conference Announcement