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Southwestern literature / editor, William Brannon, Collin College, Texas.
- Format:
- Book
- 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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