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Published by the Western Literature Association (https://www.westernlit.org) in partnership with the University of Nebraska Press.
Since 1965, Western American Literature has been the leading peer-reviewed journal in the literary and cultural study of the North American West, defined broadly to include western Canada and northern Mexico. The journal constantly looks for new theoretical approaches to canonical figures as well as studies of emerging authors, filmmakers, and others who are expanding the canon of western literary and cultural production. While remaining grounded in the geography of the North American West, it continues to explore new approaches to literary and cultural studies more broadly, such as groundbreaking work in ecocriticism and scholarly support for the Hispanic Literary Heritage Recovery Project.
In a desire to further this tradition of integrating western studies into global scholarly conversations, there is special interest in publishing theoretical and critical articles in areas such as critical regionalism, global indigeneity, settler-colonialism, digital humanities, cinema and new media, global wests, and other cutting edge approaches.
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Volume 48, Number 4, Winter 2014Table of Contents

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View Winners of the WLA 2013 Awards: Presented at the 48th Annual WLA Conference in Berkeley, California
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View “Nothing but land”: Women’s Narratives, Gardens, and the Settler-Colonial Imaginary in the US West and Australian Outback
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View “Learn to Talk Yaqui”: Mexico and the Cherokee Literary Politics of John Milton Oskison and Will Rogers
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View All the Pretty Mexican Girls: Whiteness and Racial Desire in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses and Cities of the Plain
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View Autobiography, Ecology, and the Well-Placed Self: The Growth of Natural Biography in Contemporary American Life Writing by Nathan Straight (review)
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View Sight Unseen: How Frémont’s First Expedition Changed the American Landscape by Andrew Menard (review)
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View Gunfight at the Eco-Corral: Western Cinema and the Environment by Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann (review)
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View Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins: Waste and Contamination in Contemporary U.S. Ethnic Literatures by John Blair Gamber (review)
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View The Suppressed Memoirs of Mabel Dodge Luhan: Sex, Syphilis, and Psychoanalysis in the Making of Modern American Culture by Lois Palken Rudnick (review)
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View The Writings of Eusebio Chacón Reintroduced, trans., and ed. by A. Gabriel Meléndez and Francisco Lomelí (review)
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View Willa Cather and Aestheticism: From Romanticism to Modernism ed. by Ann Moseley and Sarah Cheney Watson (review)
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View Styles of Extinction: Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” ed. by Julian Murphet and Mark Steven (review)
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View In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908–09 by Mary Ellicott Arnold and Mabel Reed, with an introduction by Susan Bernardin (review)
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ISSN | 1948-7142 |
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Print ISSN | 0043-3462 |
Launched on MUSE | 2014-07-03 |
Open Access | No |