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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Pre-apocalypse Now: Gold Fame Citrus as Weird Western Cli-Fi1
Topographies of Western Violence in Claire Vaye Watkins’s Battleborn1
Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West by Ryanne Pilgeram1
Guest Editor’s Introduction: What Happens in California Cli-Fi1
“A Land of Missing Things”: Extraction, Belonging, and Chinese Immigrant Labor in C Pam Zhang’s How Much of These Hills Is Gold1
“Don’t Leave out the Cowboys!”: Black Urban Cowboydom and Didactic Afrofuturist Countermemories in Ghetto Cowboy (2011) and Concrete Cowboy (2021)1
Solitary Walking as Feminist Practice: Mary Austin’s “The Walking Woman” and Cheryl Strayed’s Wild1
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz1
What Is a Western? Region, Genre, Imagination by Josh Garrett-Davis0
Fraught Prospects: California Landscape Poetry During and After the Gold Rush0
Cattle Country: Livestock in the Cultural Imagination by Kathryn Cornell Dolan0
Learning to Fly-Cast: Icarus and Myth in Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It0
57th Western Literature Association Conference: Home on the Rez: Sovereignty and Sustainability0
Valley of Giants: Stories from Women at the Heart of Yosemite Climbing ed. by Lauren Delaunay Miller (review)0
Speaking for the People: Native Writing and the Question of Political Form by Mark Rifkin0
Willa Cather’s Pittsburgh: Cather Studies 13 ed. by Timothy W. Bintrim, James A. Jaap, and Kimberly Vanderlaan0
Native American Rhetoric ed. by Lawrence W. Gross0
Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West by Blake Allmendinger0
Boarding School Voices: Carlisle Indian School Students Speak by Arnold Krupat0
The Toughest Kid We Knew: The Old New West, a Personal History by Frank Bergon0
They Met at Wounded Knee: The Eastmans’ Story by Gretchen Cassel Eick0
Written by the Body: Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-Cis Masculinities by Lisa Tatonetti0
Thinking the US South: Contemporary Philosophy from Southern Perspectives ed. by Shannon Sullivan0
Oklahoma Odyssey: A Novel by John Mort (review)0
Native America Mystery Writing: Indigenous Investigations by Mary Stoecklein0
Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World by Jennifer Sinor0
The Metahybrid Environment: Rewilding, Religion, and the Buffalo Commons Novel0
Helmi’s Shadow: A Journey of Survival from Russia to East Asia to the American West by David Horgan0
The Deadliest Shortcut by Lee Bergthold0
WLA Awards0
“There Is No Plan B”: Anthropocene Architecture in T. C. Boyle’s The Terranauts0
Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West by Justin Farrell0
“theirs is a kind of ecological esthetics”: Three Mountain Poems by Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen0
“Asian American and Pacific Islander” Studies in Boston and Hilo: Student Activism, Radical Imaginings, and Critical Ethnic Studies0
Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land by Toni Jensen0
Changed Forever: American Boarding-School Literature by Arnold Krupat0
The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Tracing Mexican American Environmental Concerns in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don0
Writing/Righting History: Twenty-Five Years of Hispanic Literary Heritage by Antonia Castañeda and Clara Lomas0
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Personal and Pedagogical Perspectives0
Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots by DJ Lee0
Dao Strom’s Grass Roof, Tin Roof as Settler Refugee Critique0
The Essential J. Frank Dobie ed. by Steven L. Davis0
Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties by Suzanne Roberts (review)0
More City Than Water: A Houston Flood Atlas ed. by Lacy M. Johnson and Cheryl Beckett (review)0
Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond ed. by Miranda A. Green-Barteet and Anne K. Phillips0
Reimagining the West in/and the First-Year Writing Course0
Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River by John N. Maclean0
American Dude Ranch: A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West by Lynn Downey (review)0
The Starlight Hotel Casino by William A. Douglass (review)0
Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land by Taylor Brorby0
From the Editors0
Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western by Mia Mask (review)0
Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre by Michael K. Johnson (review)0
Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West ed. by John Wills and Esther Wright (review)0
Lost in the New West: Performing Western Identity in Thomas McGuane’s Deadrock Novels0
Post Nature Ecology in Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57 and Nightland0
Steinbeck's Imaginarium: Essays on Writing, Fishing, and Other Critical Matters by Robert DeMott (review)0
Tall Tale and Anti-Capitalist (Post) Western Storytelling in Douglas Coupland's Generation X0
Performing Gender in the Bleeding Kansas Novels of Jane Smiley and James McBride0
"Pink Eye Was All the Rage": Colonial Identity Sickness in Stephen Graham Jones's The Bird Is Gone:A Monograph Manifesto0
The North American West in the Twenty-First Century ed. by Brenden W. Rensink (review)0
The American Western in Canadian Literature by Joel Deshaye (review)0
Unknown No More: Recovering Sanora Babb eds. by Joanne Dearcopp and Christine Hill Smith (review)0
The Garden Palimpsest: Space, Time, and the Anthropocene in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes0
Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century by Kai Bosworth (review)0
Tributary Voices: Literary and Rhetorical Exploration of the Colorado River by Paul A. Formisano (review)0
Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and Just Transition by Matthew S. Henry (review)0
“Trees are better than stone”: Vital Commemoration in Octavia Butler’s Parable Novels0
WLA Conference and Awards Information0
Across the West and Toward the North: Norwegian and American Landscape Photography by Shannon Egan and Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad (review)0
The Comic Book Western: New Perspectives on a Global Genre ed. by Christopher Conway and Antoinette Sol (review)0
The Most Beautiful Place on Earth: Wallace Stegner in California by Matthew D. Stewart (review)0
Peregrination 20360
Surrender: The Call of the American West by Joanna Pocock0
The Parthian Legacy: Irish Catholicism and Remaking Identity in Willa Cather’s My Mortal Enemy0
58th Western Literature Association Conference0
Sundown at Faith Regional by Barbara Schmitz0
Necro-Settler Coloniality in Texan Mythology and Identity: Forgetting the Alamo0
Walking the High Desert: Encounters with Rural America along the Oregon Desert Trail by Ellen Waterston0
The Last Layer of the Ocean: Kayaking through Love and Loss on Alaska’s Wild Coast by Mary Emerick0
Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies by Molly P. Rozum0
Bears Ears: Landscape of Refuge and Resistance by Andrew Gulliford (review)0
“Shackle-Breakers” and “Adventure-Makers”: Fantasies of the US West at Oregon Health and Science University0
“Do the Right Thing Always”: Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Global Pandemics of 1918 and 20200
Cuban Quartermoon by Ann Putnam (review)0
Private Way: A Novel by Ladette Randolph0
El feliz ingenio neomexicano: Felipe M. Chacón and Poesía y prosa by Anna M. Nogar and A. Gabriel Meléndez0
In the Mean Time: Temporal Colonization and the Mexican American Literary Tradition by Erin Murrah-Mandril0
Uncenter Yourselves: Revisiting Robinson Jeffers’s Inhumanism in the Age of The Overstory0
A Report on the Living West as Feminists Project0
Enchantments of the Mississippi: A Contemplative Journey of Time and Place by Thomas Becknell (review)0
Women in the Writings of Mari Sandoz ed. by Renée M. Laegreid and Shannon D. Smith0
Faraway Women and the Atlantic Monthly by Cathryn Halverson0
History and Bakhtin's Chronotopes in Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop0
Perfectly Designed for Connections: Zine Making in Denver Shelters0
Visions of a Basque American Westerner: International Perspectives on the Writings of Frank Bergon ed. by Xabier Irujo and Iñaki Arrieta Baro0
Old Chestnuts: Seeding Alternative Communities and Alternative Futures in/with The Overstory0
Knowing Animals, Knowing Land: Interspecies Affectivity and Environment in The Call of the Wild0
The Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History by James H. Cox0
A Body without a Story: The Immortal Spectacle in The Ballad of Little Jo0
The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848–1948 by José F. Aranda Jr0
Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier: The Prose Writings of Eoin Ua Cathail by Patrick J. Mahoney0
Pragmatist Individuals and the Nineteenth-Century American West in Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose and John Williams's Butcher's Crossing0
Cli-Fi Georgic and Grassroots Mutual Aid in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower0
Cather and Opera by David McKay Powell (review)0
Outlawed by Anna North (review)0
Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora by Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández0
My Flint Hills: Observations and Reminiscences from America’s Last Tallgrass Prairie by Jim Hoy0
This Here Is Devil’s Work: A Novel by Curtis Bradley Vickers0
Worlding the Western: Contemporary US Western Fiction and the Global Community by Neil Campbell (review)0
Visible Borders, Invisible Economies: Living Death in Latinx Narratives by Kristy L. Ulibarri (review)0
The Haunted Southwest: Towards an Ethics of Place in Borderlands Literature by Cordelia E. Barrera0
Dakotah: The Return of the Future by Charles Bowden0
A Turn in the Fog: Gertrude Atherton Reads Henry James0
Rural Asian American Wests: Racial Distance, Cross-Racial Encounter, and Settler Solidarity in the Fiction of Hisaye Yamamoto, Jung Yun, and Linda Sue Park0
Fight or Flight: Poems by Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum (review)0
Daring to Dream: Contextualizing B. M. Bower’s The Eagle’s Wing with Colorado River Compact History0
Simons Town as Heterotopia: The Dynamic Interplay of Barrioization and Barriology in The Brick People0
Voice to Voice in the Dark by Tim Hunt (review)0
Hold It Real Still: Clint Eastwood, Race, and the Cinema of the American West by Lawrence P. Jackson (review)0
Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times by Kate Rigby (review)0
Western Journeys by Teow Lim Goh (review)0
Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction by Miriam C. Brown Spiers0
We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration by Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura (review)0
58th Western Literature Association Conference0
2023 WLA Award Recipients0
Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos by Myrriah Gómez (review)0
Reading Aridity in Western American Literature eds. by Jada Ach and Gary Reger (review)0
This Contested Land: The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America's National Monuments by McKenzie Long (review)0
The Conservative Aesthetic: Theodore Roosevelt, Popular Darwinism, and the American Literary West by Stephen J. Mexal (review)0
Lost in the New West: Reading Williams, McCarthy, Proulx and McGuane by Mark Asquith (review)0
The Films of Wallace Fox ed. by Gary D. Rhodes and Joanna Hearne (review)0
Exile, Nature, and Transformation in the Life of Mary Hallock Foote by Megan Riley McGilchrist (review)0
California Dreams and American Contradictions: Women Writers and the Western Ideal by Monique McDade (review)0
Talking Tacos: Borderlands Culinary Rhetoric in A Taco Testimony0
On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World’s Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer by Michael P. Branch0
Eagle Voice Remembers: An Authentic Tale of the Old Sioux World by John G. Neihardt0
A Black Woman's West: The Life of Rose B. Gordon by Michael K. Johnson (review)0
Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West ed. by Gregory E. Smoak0
Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland ed. by Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez et al.0
California Dreaming: Reading the Ski Film as Cli-Fi0
Help Indians Help Themselves: The Later Writing of Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša) by P. Jane Hafen0
Text, Encounter, Genre: Returning (Again) to Black Elk Speaks0
Sand, Water, Salt: Managing the Elements in Literature of the American West, 1880–1925 by Jada Ach0
A Little Bit of Land by Jessica Gigot (review)0
Our Osage Hills: Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century by John Joseph Mathews0
Waltzing Montana: A Novel by Mary Clearman Blew0
Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger by Julie Sze0
Afterword: Precarity, Pedagogy, and the Public0
Scales of Captivity: Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child by Mary Pat Brady0
Planet Work: Rethinking Labor and Leisure in the Anthropocene ed. by Ryan Hediger (review)0
Chola Salvation by Estella Gonzalez0
Mapping Intergenerational Diné Beauty: Reading Hózhǫ́ in the Poetry of Tacey M. Atsitty0
The Short Stories of John Joseph Mathews, an Osage Writer by John Joseph Mathews (review)0
True North by Gary Eller0
148 Charles Street: A Novel by Tracy Daugherty0
The Leave-Takers by Steven Wingate0
The Great Medicine Road: Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, Part 4: 1856–1869 ed. by Michael L. Tate0
The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis by Melissa J. Homestead0
Critical Regionality and(Mis-)Translation: The Modernist Elision of Pueblo Source Material in Mary Austin’s Later Career0
Staying with the White Trouble of Recent Feminist Westerns0
“Taken from Their Self-found Paths”: Captivity and Creation in Mary Hallock Foote’s Idaho Fiction0
Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre ed. by Kerry Fine et al.0
Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes: Violent Myths of the U.S.-Mexico Frontier by Rafael Acosta Morales0
Burning the Breeze: Three Generations of Women in the American West by Lisa Hendrickson0
Miracle Country: A Memoir by Kendra Atleework0
The Wrong Reader's Guide to Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses by Peter Josyph (review)0
Savage West: The Life and Fiction of Thomas Savage by O. Alan Weltzien0
To Live and Die in El Valle by Oscar Mancinas0
Deer Season by Erin Flanagan0
Wrenched from the Land: Activists Inspired by Edward Abbey ed. by ML Lincoln and Diane Sward Rapaport0
Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherrie Moraga0
Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making the North American West by E Cram (review)0
Boyhood Among the Woolies: Growing Up on a Basque Sheep Ranch by Richard W. Etulain (review)0
The Little Art Colony and US Modernism: Carmel, Provincetown, Taos by Geneva M. Gano0
Treatise on the Whole-World by Édouard Glissant, and: Introduction to a Poetics of Diversity by Édouard Glissant, and: The Baton Rouge Interviews (with Alexandre Leupin) by Édouard Glissant0
Wolves, Grizzlies, and Greenhorns: Death and Coexistence in the American West by Maximilian Werner0
Produce Wagon: New and Selected Poems by Roy Scheele (review)0
Indigenous Homelands and Global Refugees: Unpacking Joy Harjo's Solidary Poetics in An American Sunrise0
On the Plains, and Among the Peaks, or, How Mrs. Maxwell Made Her Natural History Collection by Mary Dartt0
Teaching Western American Literature ed. by Brady Harrison and Randi Lynn Tanglen0
Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones (review)0
Frontier Fake News: Nevada's Sagebrush Humorists and Hoaxsters by Richard Moreno (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
Viva Texas Rivers!: Adventure, Misadventures, and Glimpses of Nirvana along Our Storied Waterways ed. by Steven L. Davis and Sam L. Pfiester0
What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster0
58th Western Literature Association Conference0
After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands by Margaret D. Jacobs (review)0
Outback and Out West: The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary by Tom Lynch (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
Science and Literature in Cormac McCarthy's Expanding Worlds by Bryan Giemza (review)0
The Point Alma Venus Manuscripts by Robinson Jeffers (review)0
All Is Leaf: Essays and Transformations by John T. Price (review)0
American Energy Cinema ed. by Robert Lifset, Raechel Lutz, and Sarah Stanford-McIntyre (review)0
The True Account of Myself as a Bird by Robert Wrigley (review)0
Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry eds. by Elizabeth Bradfield, CMarie Fuhrman, and Derek Sheffield (review)0
Holding Fire: A Reckoning with the American West by Bryce Andrews (review)0
Louise Erdrich’s Justice Trilogy: Cultural and Critical Contexts ed. by Connie A. Jacobs and Nancy J. Peterson (review)0
We Who Work the West: Class, Labor, and Space in Western American Literature by Kiara Kharpertian0
A Fable of the Anthropocene: The Disturbing Naturalist Humanity in Frank Norris’s The Octopus0
Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film ed. by Hervé Mayer and David Roche (review)0
Lone Star Vistas: Travel Writing on Texas, 1821–1861 by Astrid Haas0
Late Westerns: The Persistence of a Genre by Lee Clark Mitchell0
Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming by Carly Thomsen0
Hammer of the Dogs by Jarret Keene (review)0
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