Annual Bibliography of Studies in Western American Literature

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Annual Bibliography of Studies in Western American Literature Editor: Thomas Austenfeld, Drury College Assistant Bibliographers: Robert Brophy, California State University; Kate Boyes, Jane Reilly, and Tom Lyon, Utah State University; Michael Hobbs and Giuli Coniglio, Northwest Missouri State University; Joel Martineau, University of British Columbia; Linda Ross, Sheridan College; Joe Wydeven, Bellevue College; Michael Kowalewski, Carleton College; Don Barclay, University of Houston. PLEASE NOTE: Authors of books and articles are encouraged to notify Thomas Austenfeld (Drury College; 900 N. Benton Avenue; Springfield, MO 65802) of items for inclusion in the 1997 bibliography. Abbey, Edward. Cahalan, James M. “Edward Abbey, Appalachian Easterner.” Western American Literature 31.3 (1996): 233-53. Knott, John R. “Edward Abbey and the Romance of Wilderness.” Western American Literature 30.4 (1996): 331-51. Metting, Fred. “Edward Abbey’s Unique Road.” South Dakota Review 34.1 (1996): 85-102. Payne, Daniel G. “Monkey Wrenching, Environmental Extremism, and the Problematical Edward Abbey.” Southwestern American Literature 21.1 (1995): 195-208. Wild, Peter. “Sentimentalism in the American Southwest: John C. Van Dyke, Mary Austin, and Edward Abbey.” Kowalewski, Michael (ed.). Reading the West: New Essays on the Literature of the American West. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996, 127-43. Alexie, Sherman. Gillan, Jennifer. “Reservation Home Movies: Sherman Alexie’s Poetry.” American Literature 68.1 (1996): 91-110. 322 Western American Literature Allen, Paula Gunn. Ferrell, Tracy J. Prince. “Transformation, Myth, and Ritual in Paula Gunn Allen’s Grandmothers of the Light.” North Dakota Quarterly 63.1 (1996): 77-88. Asian-American / Asian-Canadian. Beauregard, Guy. “Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms and the Politics of Writing Diaspora.” West Coast Line 29.3 (1995-96): 47-62. Berson, Misha. “Fighting the Religion of the Present: Western Motifs in the First Wave of Asian American Plays.” Kowalewski, Michael (ed.). Reading the West: New Essays on the Literature of the American West. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996, 251-72. Chao, Lien. “Anthologizing the Collective: The Epic Struggles to Establish Chinese Canadian Literatures in English.” Essays on Canadian Writing 57 (1995): 145-70. Georgelos, Peter. “Deterritorialization in Evelyn Lau’s Runaway.” Open Letter 9.4 (1995): 15-31. Hesford, Walter. “Thousand Pieces of Gold'. Competing Fictions in the Representation of Chinese-American Experience.” Western American Literature 31.1 (1996): 49-62. Kanefsky, Rachelle. “Debunking a Postmodern Conception of History: A Defence of Humanist Values in the Novels of Joy Kogawa.” Canadian Literature 148 (1996): 11-36. Morgan, Nina Y. “The Chinatown Aesthetic and the Architecture of Racial Identity.” San Francisco in Fiction: Essays in a Regional Literature. Ed. David Fine and Paul Skenazy. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995, 217-40. Stanley, Sandra Kumamoto. “Ethnicity and Ethnography: The Artist’s Fiction as Cultural Artifact in the Works of Maxine Hong Kingston.” Literature and Life: Fact and Fiction 58.1 (1995): 17-24. Atwood, Margaret. Atwood, Margaret. Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature. Oxford: Clarendon, 1995. Cooper, Pamela. “Sexual Surveillance and Medical Authority in Two Versions of The Handmaid’ s Tale.” Journal of Popular Culture 28.4 (1995): 49-66. Annual Bibliography 323 Austin, Mary. Hoyer, Mark T. ‘“To Bring the World Into Divine Focus’: Syncretic Prophecy in The Land of Little Rain.” Western American Literature 31.1 (1996): 3-31. ---------. “Prophecy in a New West: Mary Austin and the Ghost Dance Religion.” Western American Literature 30.3 (1995): 235-55. ---------. “Weaving the Story: Northern Paiute Myth and Mary Austin’s The Basket Woman.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 19.1 (1995): 133-51. O’Grady, John P. “The Death and Lives of Mary Austin.” Southwestern American Literature 21.1 (1995): 175-86. Stout, Janis P. “Willa Cather and Mary Austin: Intersections and Influence.” Southwestern American Literature 21.2 (1996): 39-59. Wild, Peter. “Sentimentalism in the American Southwest: John C. Van Dyke, Mary Austin, and Edward Abbey.” Kowalewski, Michael (ed.). Reading the West: New Essays on the Literature of the American West. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996, 127-43. Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Schubnell, Matthias. “The Inner Landscape of the Self in Jimmy Santiago Baca’s Martin.” Southwestern American Literature 21.1 (1995): 167-73. Bibliography. Austenfeld, Thomas. “Annual Bibliography of Studies in Western American Literature.” Western...