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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 50, Number 1, Spring 2015Table of Contents

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View A Chaotic and Dark Vitalism: A Case Study of Cormac McCarthy’s Psychopaths amid a Geology of Immorals
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View Social Space and the Suburb in Mike Cahill’s King of California: Mapping Race, Neoliberalism, and Narratives of the Past in the Southern California Landscape
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View Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos: Conceptions of the African American West by Michael K. Johnson (review)
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View New Border Voices: An Anthology ed. by Brandon D. Shuler, Robert Johnson, Erika Garza-Johnson (review)
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View Chronicling the West for Harper’s: Coast to Coast with Frenzeny & Tavernier in 1873–1874 by Claudine Chalmers (review)
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View Reading for Liberalism: The Overland Monthly and the Writing of the Modern American West by Stephen J. Mexal (review)
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View Native Performers in Wild West Shows: From Buffalo Bill to Euro Disney by Linda Scarangella McNenly (review)
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View Dry River: Stories of Life, Death, and Redemption on the Santa Cruz by Ken Lamberton (review)
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View Rolando Hinojosa’s Klair City Death Trip Series: A Retrospective, New Directions ed. by Stephen Miller, José Pablo Villalobos (review)
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ISSN | 1948-7142 |
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Print ISSN | 0043-3462 |
Launched on MUSE | 2015-06-21 |
Open Access | No |