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Southwestern literature / editor, William Brannon, Collin College, Texas.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Brannon, William, 1972- editor.
Series:
Critical insights.
Critical insights
Gale eBooks
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
American literature--Southwest, New--History and criticism.
American literature.
American literature--Southwest, Old--History and criticism.
American literature--Mexican American authors.
Indians in literature.
Southwest, New--In literature.
Southwest, New.
Southwest, Old--In literature.
Southwest, Old.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxvi, 239 pages).
Place of Publication:
Salem Press
Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2016]
Summary:
This book provides readers with essays that present an overview of scholarship regarding Southwestern literature and its themes and motifs. A list of "Works Cited," along with endnotes, is also included.
Contents:
About this volume / William Brannon
On Southwestern literature / William Brannon
The polychotomous Southwest / Mark Busby
Understanding Southwestern literature : critical approaches and major works / William Brannon
Chicana "feminist architecture" in the works of Sandra Cisneros / T. Jackie Cuevas
Writing (and righting) the desert Southwest : literary legacies and the restoration of Glen Canyon / Laura Smith
The Indian captivity narrative : a genre of the Southwest / Randi Lynn Tanglen
"Balances and harmonies always shifting" : an ecopostcolonial borderlands reading of Silko's Ceremony / Wilma Shires
Mapping the territory : Mexican American memoir / Paul Guajardo
Resisting dominant national narratives : recovering María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's Squatter and the Don and (re)writing Mexican American history / Annette Portillo
Ecological martyrs : ecocritical considerations beside spiritual mestizaje in Ana Castillo's So Far from God / Mike Lemon
Willa Cather and Southwestern aesthetics / John Samson
Creative genius : Willa Cather's characters and the influence of the American desert Southwest / Max Despain
Of judges and fairybook beasts : the male mentor and violence in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian / Maria O'Connell
The haunted frontier : Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy / Cordelia E. Barrera
Coming to terms with death in the west : anticipation of death and the effects of loss in the novels of Larry McMurtry / Roger Walton Jones
Additional works of Southwestern literature.
Notes:
Edition statement supplied by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781619258433
1619258439
OCLC:
946724249

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