Western American Literature

Papers
(The TQCC of Western American Literature is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
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58th Western Literature Association Conference1
Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry eds. by Elizabeth Bradfield, CMarie Fuhrman, and Derek Sheffield (review)1
Voice to Voice in the Dark by Tim Hunt (review)1
Cattle Country: Livestock in the Cultural Imagination by Kathryn Cornell Dolan1
Cuban Quartermoon by Ann Putnam (review)0
The American Western in Canadian Literature by Joel Deshaye (review)0
Frontier Fake News: Nevada's Sagebrush Humorists and Hoaxsters by Richard Moreno (review)0
On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World’s Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer by Michael P. Branch0
Thelma and Louise by Susan Kollin (review)0
Willa Cather, Academic Populism, and the Land-Grab University0
The Recursive Frontier: Race, Space, and the Literary Imagination of Los Angeles by Michael Docherty (review)0
Necro-Settler Coloniality in Texan Mythology and Identity: Forgetting the Alamo0
We Are the Stars: Colonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition by Sarah Hernandez (review)0
“Shackle-Breakers” and “Adventure-Makers”: Fantasies of the US West at Oregon Health and Science University0
Dao Strom’s Grass Roof, Tin Roof as Settler Refugee Critique0
New Poetry Collections Grapple with Western Timescapes0
2023 WLA Award Recipients0
The Films of Wallace Fox ed. by Gary D. Rhodes and Joanna Hearne (review)0
58th Western Literature Association Conference0
More City Than Water: A Houston Flood Atlas ed. by Lacy M. Johnson and Cheryl Beckett (review)0
Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West ed. by John Wills and Esther Wright (review)0
Rural Asian American Wests: Racial Distance, Cross-Racial Encounter, and Settler Solidarity in the Fiction of Hisaye Yamamoto, Jung Yun, and Linda Sue Park0
Enchantments of the Mississippi: A Contemplative Journey of Time and Place by Thomas Becknell (review)0
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Personal and Pedagogical Perspectives0
Deer Season by Erin Flanagan0
Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century by Kai Bosworth (review)0
Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes: Violent Myths of the U.S.-Mexico Frontier by Rafael Acosta Morales0
WLA Awards0
Biblical Allusions in On the Banks of Plum Creek : The Artistry of Wilder's Characterizations of Pa and Ma0
Produce Wagon: New and Selected Poems by Roy Scheele (review)0
Boarding School Voices: Carlisle Indian School Students Speak by Arnold Krupat0
Topographies of Western Violence in Claire Vaye Watkins’s Battleborn0
Bears Ears: Landscape of Refuge and Resistance by Andrew Gulliford (review)0
Peregrination 20360
Sand, Water, Salt: Managing the Elements in Literature of the American West, 1880–1925 by Jada Ach0
Fight or Flight: Poems by Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum (review)0
A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars ed. by Erin Sharkey (review)0
Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory by Rose Miron (review)0
A Turn in the Fog: Gertrude Atherton Reads Henry James0
Aster of Ceremonies: Poems by JJJJJerome Ellis (review)0
Native America Mystery Writing: Indigenous Investigations by Mary Stoecklein0
We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood by Jennifer Case (review)0
Western Journeys by Teow Lim Goh (review)0
Cather and Opera by David McKay Powell (review)0
In a Land of Awe: Finding Reverence in the Search for Wild Horses by Chad Hanson (review)0
Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir by Thomas C. Gannon (review)0
“Do the Right Thing Always”: Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Global Pandemics of 1918 and 20200
Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West by Blake Allmendinger0
Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier: The Prose Writings of Eoin Ua Cathail by Patrick J. Mahoney0
"Pink Eye Was All the Rage": Colonial Identity Sickness in Stephen Graham Jones's The Bird Is Gone:A Monograph Manifesto0
Quilting the West: Willa Cather and the Madonna of the Train0
Reading Aridity in Western American Literature eds. by Jada Ach and Gary Reger (review)0
Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times by Kate Rigby (review)0
California Dreams and American Contradictions: Women Writers and the Western Ideal by Monique McDade (review)0
Reading the Texas Bioregion: The Ecological Housewife in The Tree of Life0
A Fable of the Anthropocene: The Disturbing Naturalist Humanity in Frank Norris’s The Octopus0
Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West by Ryanne Pilgeram0
Post Nature Ecology in Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57 and Nightland0
Perfectly Designed for Connections: Zine Making in Denver Shelters0
Welcome to Oxnard: Race, Place, and Chicana Adolescence in Michele Serros's Writings by Cristina Herrera (review)0
American Energy Cinema ed. by Robert Lifset, Raechel Lutz, and Sarah Stanford-McIntyre (review)0
Indigenous Homelands and Global Refugees: Unpacking Joy Harjo's Solidary Poetics in An American Sunrise0
Of Cather Biographies0
Lost in the New West: Performing Western Identity in Thomas McGuane’s Deadrock Novels0
Thinking the US South: Contemporary Philosophy from Southern Perspectives ed. by Shannon Sullivan0
Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon by Yolonda Youngs (review)0
The North American West in the Twenty-First Century ed. by Brenden W. Rensink (review)0
Worlding the Western: Contemporary US Western Fiction and the Global Community by Neil Campbell (review)0
Speaking for the People: Native Writing and the Question of Political Form by Mark Rifkin0
“Taken from Their Self-found Paths”: Captivity and Creation in Mary Hallock Foote’s Idaho Fiction0
The Garden Palimpsest: Space, Time, and the Anthropocene in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes0
Bad Roads and Burial Grounds: Feral Transport Media and Narrative Erasure in Willa Cather's Migrant Tales0
Tall Tale and Anti-Capitalist (Post) Western Storytelling in Douglas Coupland's Generation X0
We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration by Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura (review)0
The Selected Works of Ora Eddleman Reed: Author, Editor, and Activist for Cherokee Rights ed. by Cari M. Carpenter and Karen L. Kilcup (review)0
Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties by Suzanne Roberts (review)0
Hold It Real Still: Clint Eastwood, Race, and the Cinema of the American West by Lawrence P. Jackson (review)0
To Live and Die in El Valle by Oscar Mancinas0
Saints, Sinners, and Sovereign Citizens: The Endless War over the West's Public Lands by John L. Smith (review)0
El feliz ingenio neomexicano: Felipe M. Chacón and Poesía y prosa by Anna M. Nogar and A. Gabriel Meléndez0
Think of Horses by Mary Clearman Blew (review)0
Young, Tough, Beautiful, and a Little Bit Crazy: The Forestry of Norman Maclean's Prose in USFS 1919: The Ranger, The Cook, and a Hole in the Sky0
The Wrong Reader's Guide to Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses by Peter Josyph (review)0
Reclaiming the Americas: Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory by Tatiana Reinoza (review)0
Unhomely Wests: Essays from A to Z by Stephen Tatum (review)0
The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848–1948 by José F. Aranda Jr0
Reimagining the West in/and the First-Year Writing Course0
Escape from Taos Reality: Mass Tourism, Paradise, and Enclosure in Mabel Dodge Luhan's Winter in Taos0
Oklahoma Odyssey: A Novel by John Mort (review)0
Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies by Molly P. Rozum0
Across the West and Toward the North: Norwegian and American Landscape Photography by Shannon Egan and Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad (review)0
Performing Gender in the Bleeding Kansas Novels of Jane Smiley and James McBride0
Land of the Dead: How the West Changed Death in America by Terry Hamburg (review)0
Native American Rhetoric ed. by Lawrence W. Gross0
Critical Regionality and(Mis-)Translation: The Modernist Elision of Pueblo Source Material in Mary Austin’s Later Career0
Hammer of the Dogs by Jarret Keene (review)0
Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora by Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández0
"All That Her Name Recalls": Sexual Violence, the Archive, and the Art of Indirection in My Ántonia0
A Black Woman's West: The Life of Rose B. Gordon by Michael K. Johnson (review)0
The Conservative Aesthetic: Theodore Roosevelt, Popular Darwinism, and the American Literary West by Stephen J. Mexal (review)0
"That Way Lies Madness": Authenticity and the Limits of Insanity in Little Big Man0
The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Tracing Mexican American Environmental Concerns in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don0
On the Plains, and Among the Peaks, or, How Mrs. Maxwell Made Her Natural History Collection by Mary Dartt0
Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River by John N. Maclean0
Daring to Dream: Contextualizing B. M. Bower’s The Eagle’s Wing with Colorado River Compact History0
58th Western Literature Association Conference0
Talking Tacos: Borderlands Culinary Rhetoric in A Taco Testimony0
Life in the Tar Seeps: A Spiraling Ecology from a Dying Sea by Gretchen Ernster Henderson (review)0
Twenty Miles of Fence: Blueprint of a Cowboy by Bob West (review)0
On Our Own Terms: Indigenous Histories of School Funding and Policy by Meredith McCoy (review)0
Valley of Giants: Stories from Women at the Heart of Yosemite Climbing ed. by Lauren Delaunay Miller (review)0
Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape by Dana Fritz (review)0
Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones (review)0
The Hermann Hesse of the American West: Der Steppenwolf as a Companion Piece to Desert Solitaire0
Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West ed. by Gregory E. Smoak0
A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America by Richard Slotkin (review)0
This Contested Land: The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America's National Monuments by McKenzie Long (review)0
Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos by Myrriah Gómez (review)0
California, A Slave State by Jean Pfaelzer (review)0
Wild, Weird, West: Essays on Arid America by Gary Reger (review)0
Written by the Body: Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-Cis Masculinities by Lisa Tatonetti0
Living West as Feminists: Conversations about the Where of Us by Krista Comer (review)0
“Don’t Leave out the Cowboys!”: Black Urban Cowboydom and Didactic Afrofuturist Countermemories in Ghetto Cowboy (2011) and Concrete Cowboy (2021)0
Eagle Voice Remembers: An Authentic Tale of the Old Sioux World by John G. Neihardt0
This Here Is Devil’s Work: A Novel by Curtis Bradley Vickers0
Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making the North American West by E Cram (review)0
Private Way: A Novel by Ladette Randolph0
The Haunted Southwest: Towards an Ethics of Place in Borderlands Literature by Cordelia E. Barrera0
The Arches Reader ed. by Jeffrey D. Nichols (review)0
Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and Just Transition by Matthew S. Henry (review)0
57th Western Literature Association Conference: Home on the Rez: Sovereignty and Sustainability0
The Deadliest Shortcut by Lee Bergthold0
Learning to Fly-Cast: Icarus and Myth in Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It0
Help Indians Help Themselves: The Later Writing of Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša) by P. Jane Hafen0
Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film ed. by Hervé Mayer and David Roche (review)0
Mapping Intergenerational Diné Beauty: Reading Hózhǫ́ in the Poetry of Tacey M. Atsitty0
Viva Texas Rivers!: Adventure, Misadventures, and Glimpses of Nirvana along Our Storied Waterways ed. by Steven L. Davis and Sam L. Pfiester0
Fraught Prospects: California Landscape Poetry During and After the Gold Rush0
American Dude Ranch: A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West by Lynn Downey (review)0
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea: A Novel by Debra Magpie Earling (review)0
True North by Gary Eller0
Wallace Stegner's Unsettled Country: Ruin, Realism, and Possibility in the American West ed. by Mark Fiege, Michael J. Lansing, and Leisl Carr Childers (review)0
The Short Stories of John Joseph Mathews, an Osage Writer by John Joseph Mathews (review)0
The Beach Boys' Postwestern Dirge: The Haunting Terminus of the Beach Boys' Aquatic-Asphalt New Western Frontiers0
The Starlight Hotel Casino by William A. Douglass (review)0
Guest Editor's Introduction: Willa Cather's Uneven Ground0
"The Waste and Wear We Are Powerless to Combat": Willa Cather and the Settler Colonial Politics of Place-Making0
The Point Alma Venus Manuscripts by Robinson Jeffers (review)0
Water Bodies: Love Letters to the Most Abundant Substance on Earth ed. by Laura Paskus (review)0
Afterword: Precarity, Pedagogy, and the Public0
A Report on the Living West as Feminists Project0
The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis by Melissa J. Homestead0
The Racial Railroad by Julia H. Lee (review)0
After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands by Margaret D. Jacobs (review)0
Unknown No More: Recovering Sanora Babb eds. by Joanne Dearcopp and Christine Hill Smith (review)0
Twisting in Air: The Sensational Rise of a Hollywood Falling Horse by Carol Bradley (review)0
The True Account of Myself as a Bird by Robert Wrigley (review)0
Burning the Breeze: Three Generations of Women in the American West by Lisa Hendrickson0
Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo by Elyssa Ford and Rebecca Scofield (review)0
Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre by Michael K. Johnson (review)0
“theirs is a kind of ecological esthetics”: Three Mountain Poems by Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen0
Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land by Taylor Brorby0
Outlawed by Anna North (review)0
Chola Salvation by Estella Gonzalez0
Waltzing Montana: A Novel by Mary Clearman Blew0
The Last Layer of the Ocean: Kayaking through Love and Loss on Alaska’s Wild Coast by Mary Emerick0
The Leave-Takers by Steven Wingate0
The Bower Atmosphere: A Biography of B. M. Bower by Victoria Lamont (review)0
Cast Out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness by Robert Aquinas McNally (review)0
A Little Bit of Land by Jessica Gigot (review)0
From Dust They Came: Government Camps and the Religion of Reform in New Deal California by Jonathan H. Ebel (review)0
Knowing Animals, Knowing Land: Interspecies Affectivity and Environment in The Call of the Wild0
Visible Borders, Invisible Economies: Living Death in Latinx Narratives by Kristy L. Ulibarri (review)0
Lost in the New West: Reading Williams, McCarthy, Proulx and McGuane by Mark Asquith (review)0
Sundown at Faith Regional by Barbara Schmitz0
“Asian American and Pacific Islander” Studies in Boston and Hilo: Student Activism, Radical Imaginings, and Critical Ethnic Studies0
Holding Fire: A Reckoning with the American West by Bryce Andrews (review)0
Echolocation by Sage Marshall (review)0
"A Convenient Hallway for Men to Pass Through": Chicana Adolescence and the San Diego City Space in Patricia Santana's Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility0
Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming by Carly Thomsen0
Science and Literature in Cormac McCarthy's Expanding Worlds by Bryan Giemza (review)0
Genre Hybridity in Jean Luc Herbulot's Saloum (2021)0
The Most Beautiful Place on Earth: Wallace Stegner in California by Matthew D. Stewart (review)0
Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western by Mia Mask (review)0
Helmi’s Shadow: A Journey of Survival from Russia to East Asia to the American West by David Horgan0
The Comic Book Western: New Perspectives on a Global Genre ed. by Christopher Conway and Antoinette Sol (review)0
Boyhood Among the Woolies: Growing Up on a Basque Sheep Ranch by Richard W. Etulain (review)0
Wolves, Grizzlies, and Greenhorns: Death and Coexistence in the American West by Maximilian Werner0
Exile, Nature, and Transformation in the Life of Mary Hallock Foote by Megan Riley McGilchrist (review)0
Temporary Presences on the Mesa: "Tom Outland's Story" and Mesa Verde National Park0
You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis by Kelly Weber (review)0
Visions of a Basque American Westerner: International Perspectives on the Writings of Frank Bergon ed. by Xabier Irujo and Iñaki Arrieta Baro0
"It Ain't My Prairie": Willa Cather and Settler Colonialism0
Mega-Dams in World Literature: Literary Responses to Twentieth Century Dam Building by Margaret Ziolkowski (review)0
Planet Work: Rethinking Labor and Leisure in the Anthropocene ed. by Ryan Hediger (review)0
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk (review)0
Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis: The Industrial Revolution to the Present by Tatiana Konrad (review)0
Louise Erdrich’s Justice Trilogy: Cultural and Critical Contexts ed. by Connie A. Jacobs and Nancy J. Peterson (review)0
Lone Star Vistas: Travel Writing on Texas, 1821–1861 by Astrid Haas0
Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction by Miriam C. Brown Spiers0
Tributary Voices: Literary and Rhetorical Exploration of the Colorado River by Paul A. Formisano (review)0
The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance by Rebecca Clarren (review)0
The Parthian Legacy: Irish Catholicism and Remaking Identity in Willa Cather’s My Mortal Enemy0
Scales of Captivity: Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child by Mary Pat Brady0
Steinbeck's Imaginarium: Essays on Writing, Fishing, and Other Critical Matters by Robert DeMott (review)0
All Is Leaf: Essays and Transformations by John T. Price (review)0
Our Osage Hills: Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century by John Joseph Mathews0
Willa Cather’s Pittsburgh: Cather Studies 13 ed. by Timothy W. Bintrim, James A. Jaap, and Kimberly Vanderlaan0
148 Charles Street: A Novel by Tracy Daugherty0
Animal Texts: Critical Animal Concepts for American Environmental Literature by Lauren E. Perry-Rummel (review)0
The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West by Susan Bernardin (review)0
Outback and Out West: The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary by Tom Lynch (review)0
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