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{"title":"Cattle Country: Livestock in the Cultural Imagination by Kathryn Cornell Dolan (review)","authors":"T. Hertweck","doi":"10.1353/wal.2023.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2023.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23875,"journal":{"name":"Western American Literature","volume":"58 1","pages":"75 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42567586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lost in the New West: Performing Western Identity in Thomas McGuane’s Deadrock Novels","authors":"Marcus S. Asquith","doi":"10.5040/9781501349553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501349553","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23875,"journal":{"name":"Western American Literature","volume":"58 1","pages":"1 - 27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43755883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World’s Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer by Michael P. Branch","authors":"Hal Crimmel","doi":"10.1353/wal.2023.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2023.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23875,"journal":{"name":"Western American Literature","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48439411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"57th Western Literature Association Conference: Home on the Rez: Sovereignty and Sustainability","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/wal.2023.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2023.0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23875,"journal":{"name":"Western American Literature","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44677962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land by Taylor Brorby (review)","authors":"O. Weltzien, Emeritus","doi":"10.1353/wal.2023.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2023.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23875,"journal":{"name":"Western American Literature","volume":"58 1","pages":"80 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42706244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"148 Charles Street: A Novel by Tracy Daugherty (review)","authors":"Max K. Frazier","doi":"10.1353/wal.2023.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2023.0020","url":null,"abstract":"84 Chacón. Considering the similarities between the two books, this book is highly recommended for those who are familiar with Meléndez and Lomelís’s work. Overall, El feliz ingenion neomexicano opens new avenues of research for those studying the historical literacies of neomexicanos, the Southwest, and Latinxs, whether these literacies are framed by sociocultural, historical, or literary frameworks. It fills an enormous gap in Latinx literary studies, and in many ways serves as a call for the recovery of other American Latinx authors who have gone unacknowledged, underrepresented, and largely unstudied. Juan M. Gallegos New Mexico Highlands University","PeriodicalId":23875,"journal":{"name":"Western American Literature","volume":"58 1","pages":"84 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46224405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On the Plains, and Among the Peaks, or, How Mrs. Maxwell Made Her Natural History Collection by Mary Dartt (review)","authors":"Erica Hannickel","doi":"10.1353/wal.2023.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2023.0023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23875,"journal":{"name":"Western American Literature","volume":"58 1","pages":"91 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41801378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sundown at Faith Regional by Barbara Schmitz","authors":"M. Sanders","doi":"10.1353/wal.2023.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2023.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23875,"journal":{"name":"Western American Literature","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47369547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lost in the New West: Performing Western Identity in Thomas McGuane’s Deadrock Novels","authors":"Mark Asquith","doi":"10.1353/wal.2023.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2023.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Lost in the New WestPerforming Western Identity in Thomas McGuane’s Deadrock Novels Mark Asquith (bio) Getting lost in the New West is easy because nobody seems to know where or even what it is. Even after years of scholarly study, western historian Donald Worster confided in his ironically titled “New West, True West” that “I could not put my finger on the map and say, ‘There is the West’” (143). Perhaps a map is not the best place to start. The Center of the American West’s promisingly titled Atlas of the New West (1997) is full of colorful maps that codify everything from dams, roads, and Native American reservations— but remains elusive in defining what binds them together into a cohesive whole (18). For Frederick Jackson Turner the West was less a place than a process of nation-building, but for the New Historians of the eighties it was the echo chamber of marginalized voices left out by Turner’s Anglo imperialism (Native Americans, African Americans, women in general). Much recent settler colonial criticism has accepted this pluralist vision while simultaneously seeking to replace its tendency toward American exceptionalism with a transnational comparative model that places the West within the context of other colonial projects. Conversely, the approach of post-structuralists has been to reject geography in favor of the West conceived as a signifier endlessly repeated and reinterpreted globally. Neil Campbell coins the term the “rhizomatic West,” which rejects the linearity of Turner (associated with the rootedness of a tree) in favor of the complex underground horizontal root system of the rhizome (which erupts everywhere) (Rhizomatic West 35). Whether a region defined by aridity, an idealistic direction of travel, a political paradigm endorsed through the ideology of “the Frontier,” a romantic “wilderness” promising self-identification (another Anglo-Imperial construct), or a free-floating cultural signifier comprised of kitsch symbols—how could we not get lost! [End Page 1] Thomas McGuane has spent a lifetime exploring the porous texture of the West. He writes in his foreword to William Allard’s photographic collection Vanishing Breed, Photographs of the Cowboy and the West: The West, whatever that is, is still there, believe it or not, in its entirety. It is the leading chimera of our geography. The dead windmills lost behind the high wire of the missile range, the stove-up cowboy at the unemployment office, the interstate that plunges through the homesteads, all bring aches to an American race memory. . . . The West vanished for the Indian and the drover; it vanished for the cowboy. Simultaneously it reappeared in all the same places, and in movies and rodeos. It’s like fire. Hollywood, calf tables, and depreciation schedules can’t kill it. (6–7) This is typical McGuane—the mockery lubricates the dryly serious and adds nuance while the scripted diffidence (“whatever that is”) is both flippant and demanding critical scrutiny. Campbell’s","PeriodicalId":23875,"journal":{"name":"Western American Literature","volume":"201 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134954934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Haunted Southwest: Towards an Ethics of Place in Borderlands Literature by Cordelia E. Barrera (review)","authors":"B. Moorhead","doi":"10.1353/wal.2023.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2023.0025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23875,"journal":{"name":"Western American Literature","volume":"58 1","pages":"95 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46065144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}