Western American Literature

Papers
(The TQCC of Western American Literature is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Cattle Country: Livestock in the Cultural Imagination by Kathryn Cornell Dolan1
Voice to Voice in the Dark by Tim Hunt (review)1
58th Western Literature Association Conference1
The Starlight Hotel Casino by William A. Douglass (review)0
Help Indians Help Themselves: The Later Writing of Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša) by P. Jane Hafen0
Rural Asian American Wests: Racial Distance, Cross-Racial Encounter, and Settler Solidarity in the Fiction of Hisaye Yamamoto, Jung Yun, and Linda Sue Park0
Perfectly Designed for Connections: Zine Making in Denver Shelters0
Necro-Settler Coloniality in Texan Mythology and Identity: Forgetting the Alamo0
The Parthian Legacy: Irish Catholicism and Remaking Identity in Willa Cather’s My Mortal Enemy0
“Shackle-Breakers” and “Adventure-Makers”: Fantasies of the US West at Oregon Health and Science University0
“Taken from Their Self-found Paths”: Captivity and Creation in Mary Hallock Foote’s Idaho Fiction0
Hold It Real Still: Clint Eastwood, Race, and the Cinema of the American West by Lawrence P. Jackson (review)0
California, A Slave State by Jean Pfaelzer (review)0
Knowing Animals, Knowing Land: Interspecies Affectivity and Environment in The Call of the Wild0
Reading Aridity in Western American Literature eds. by Jada Ach and Gary Reger (review)0
Scales of Captivity: Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child by Mary Pat Brady0
New Poetry Collections Grapple with Western Timescapes0
The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis by Melissa J. Homestead0
Saints, Sinners, and Sovereign Citizens: The Endless War over the West's Public Lands by John L. Smith (review)0
Speaking for the People: Native Writing and the Question of Political Form by Mark Rifkin0
Burning the Breeze: Three Generations of Women in the American West by Lisa Hendrickson0
We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration by Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura (review)0
Deer Season by Erin Flanagan0
"All That Her Name Recalls": Sexual Violence, the Archive, and the Art of Indirection in My Ántonia0
Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies by Molly P. Rozum0
Topographies of Western Violence in Claire Vaye Watkins’s Battleborn0
A Black Woman's West: The Life of Rose B. Gordon by Michael K. Johnson (review)0
“Asian American and Pacific Islander” Studies in Boston and Hilo: Student Activism, Radical Imaginings, and Critical Ethnic Studies0
Eagle Voice Remembers: An Authentic Tale of the Old Sioux World by John G. Neihardt0
The Leave-Takers by Steven Wingate0
Valley of Giants: Stories from Women at the Heart of Yosemite Climbing ed. by Lauren Delaunay Miller (review)0
58th Western Literature Association Conference0
Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry eds. by Elizabeth Bradfield, CMarie Fuhrman, and Derek Sheffield (review)0
The North American West in the Twenty-First Century ed. by Brenden W. Rensink (review)0
The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Tracing Mexican American Environmental Concerns in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don0
Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos by Myrriah Gómez (review)0
Peregrination 20360
Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times by Kate Rigby (review)0
Viva Texas Rivers!: Adventure, Misadventures, and Glimpses of Nirvana along Our Storied Waterways ed. by Steven L. Davis and Sam L. Pfiester0
Visible Borders, Invisible Economies: Living Death in Latinx Narratives by Kristy L. Ulibarri (review)0
Our Osage Hills: Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century by John Joseph Mathews0
A Fable of the Anthropocene: The Disturbing Naturalist Humanity in Frank Norris’s The Octopus0
Willa Cather’s Pittsburgh: Cather Studies 13 ed. by Timothy W. Bintrim, James A. Jaap, and Kimberly Vanderlaan0
Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and Just Transition by Matthew S. Henry (review)0
Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West ed. by Gregory E. Smoak0
Louise Erdrich’s Justice Trilogy: Cultural and Critical Contexts ed. by Connie A. Jacobs and Nancy J. Peterson (review)0
Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre by Michael K. Johnson (review)0
Twenty Miles of Fence: Blueprint of a Cowboy by Bob West (review)0
El feliz ingenio neomexicano: Felipe M. Chacón and Poesía y prosa by Anna M. Nogar and A. Gabriel Meléndez0
In a Land of Awe: Finding Reverence in the Search for Wild Horses by Chad Hanson (review)0
After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands by Margaret D. Jacobs (review)0
"Pink Eye Was All the Rage": Colonial Identity Sickness in Stephen Graham Jones's The Bird Is Gone:A Monograph Manifesto0
Talking Tacos: Borderlands Culinary Rhetoric in A Taco Testimony0
Fraught Prospects: California Landscape Poetry During and After the Gold Rush0
Worlding the Western: Contemporary US Western Fiction and the Global Community by Neil Campbell (review)0
Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West by Ryanne Pilgeram0
Native American Rhetoric ed. by Lawrence W. Gross0
Learning to Fly-Cast: Icarus and Myth in Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It0
Outback and Out West: The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary by Tom Lynch (review)0
Frontier Fake News: Nevada's Sagebrush Humorists and Hoaxsters by Richard Moreno (review)0
Thelma and Louise by Susan Kollin (review)0
Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes: Violent Myths of the U.S.-Mexico Frontier by Rafael Acosta Morales0
WLA Awards0
Thinking the US South: Contemporary Philosophy from Southern Perspectives ed. by Shannon Sullivan0
Biblical Allusions in On the Banks of Plum Creek : The Artistry of Wilder's Characterizations of Pa and Ma0
American Energy Cinema ed. by Robert Lifset, Raechel Lutz, and Sarah Stanford-McIntyre (review)0
A Report on the Living West as Feminists Project0
The Wrong Reader's Guide to Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses by Peter Josyph (review)0
Young, Tough, Beautiful, and a Little Bit Crazy: The Forestry of Norman Maclean's Prose in USFS 1919: The Ranger, The Cook, and a Hole in the Sky0
Sand, Water, Salt: Managing the Elements in Literature of the American West, 1880–1925 by Jada Ach0
Indigenous Homelands and Global Refugees: Unpacking Joy Harjo's Solidary Poetics in An American Sunrise0
Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West ed. by John Wills and Esther Wright (review)0
Dao Strom’s Grass Roof, Tin Roof as Settler Refugee Critique0
A Turn in the Fog: Gertrude Atherton Reads Henry James0
58th Western Literature Association Conference0
All Is Leaf: Essays and Transformations by John T. Price (review)0
Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties by Suzanne Roberts (review)0
Afterword: Precarity, Pedagogy, and the Public0
Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora by Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández0
Bears Ears: Landscape of Refuge and Resistance by Andrew Gulliford (review)0
“theirs is a kind of ecological esthetics”: Three Mountain Poems by Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen0
Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River by John N. Maclean0
Visions of a Basque American Westerner: International Perspectives on the Writings of Frank Bergon ed. by Xabier Irujo and Iñaki Arrieta Baro0
The Most Beautiful Place on Earth: Wallace Stegner in California by Matthew D. Stewart (review)0
To Live and Die in El Valle by Oscar Mancinas0
The Films of Wallace Fox ed. by Gary D. Rhodes and Joanna Hearne (review)0
The Haunted Southwest: Towards an Ethics of Place in Borderlands Literature by Cordelia E. Barrera0
Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West by Blake Allmendinger0
A Little Bit of Land by Jessica Gigot (review)0
From Dust They Came: Government Camps and the Religion of Reform in New Deal California by Jonathan H. Ebel (review)0
Produce Wagon: New and Selected Poems by Roy Scheele (review)0
Lost in the New West: Performing Western Identity in Thomas McGuane’s Deadrock Novels0
Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones (review)0
Performing Gender in the Bleeding Kansas Novels of Jane Smiley and James McBride0
California Dreams and American Contradictions: Women Writers and the Western Ideal by Monique McDade (review)0
"A Convenient Hallway for Men to Pass Through": Chicana Adolescence and the San Diego City Space in Patricia Santana's Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility0
The Conservative Aesthetic: Theodore Roosevelt, Popular Darwinism, and the American Literary West by Stephen J. Mexal (review)0
Lost in the New West: Reading Williams, McCarthy, Proulx and McGuane by Mark Asquith (review)0
Tall Tale and Anti-Capitalist (Post) Western Storytelling in Douglas Coupland's Generation X0
The Comic Book Western: New Perspectives on a Global Genre ed. by Christopher Conway and Antoinette Sol (review)0
On the Plains, and Among the Peaks, or, How Mrs. Maxwell Made Her Natural History Collection by Mary Dartt0
2023 WLA Award Recipients0
Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming by Carly Thomsen0
The American Western in Canadian Literature by Joel Deshaye (review)0
Post Nature Ecology in Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57 and Nightland0
This Contested Land: The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America's National Monuments by McKenzie Long (review)0
Oklahoma Odyssey: A Novel by John Mort (review)0
Boyhood Among the Woolies: Growing Up on a Basque Sheep Ranch by Richard W. Etulain (review)0
Unknown No More: Recovering Sanora Babb eds. by Joanne Dearcopp and Christine Hill Smith (review)0
148 Charles Street: A Novel by Tracy Daugherty0
American Dude Ranch: A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West by Lynn Downey (review)0
Lone Star Vistas: Travel Writing on Texas, 1821–1861 by Astrid Haas0
Waltzing Montana: A Novel by Mary Clearman Blew0
Steinbeck's Imaginarium: Essays on Writing, Fishing, and Other Critical Matters by Robert DeMott (review)0
Critical Regionality and(Mis-)Translation: The Modernist Elision of Pueblo Source Material in Mary Austin’s Later Career0
57th Western Literature Association Conference: Home on the Rez: Sovereignty and Sustainability0
Think of Horses by Mary Clearman Blew (review)0
Private Way: A Novel by Ladette Randolph0
Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir by Thomas C. Gannon (review)0
Outlawed by Anna North (review)0
"That Way Lies Madness": Authenticity and the Limits of Insanity in Little Big Man0
“Don’t Leave out the Cowboys!”: Black Urban Cowboydom and Didactic Afrofuturist Countermemories in Ghetto Cowboy (2011) and Concrete Cowboy (2021)0
The True Account of Myself as a Bird by Robert Wrigley (review)0
The Racial Railroad by Julia H. Lee (review)0
More City Than Water: A Houston Flood Atlas ed. by Lacy M. Johnson and Cheryl Beckett (review)0
Exile, Nature, and Transformation in the Life of Mary Hallock Foote by Megan Riley McGilchrist (review)0
Chola Salvation by Estella Gonzalez0
Reimagining the West in/and the First-Year Writing Course0
Helmi’s Shadow: A Journey of Survival from Russia to East Asia to the American West by David Horgan0
Across the West and Toward the North: Norwegian and American Landscape Photography by Shannon Egan and Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad (review)0
Planet Work: Rethinking Labor and Leisure in the Anthropocene ed. by Ryan Hediger (review)0
Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century by Kai Bosworth (review)0
On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World’s Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer by Michael P. Branch0
Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land by Taylor Brorby0
Daring to Dream: Contextualizing B. M. Bower’s The Eagle’s Wing with Colorado River Compact History0
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Personal and Pedagogical Perspectives0
Sundown at Faith Regional by Barbara Schmitz0
Holding Fire: A Reckoning with the American West by Bryce Andrews (review)0
“Do the Right Thing Always”: Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Global Pandemics of 1918 and 20200
The Last Layer of the Ocean: Kayaking through Love and Loss on Alaska’s Wild Coast by Mary Emerick0
Hammer of the Dogs by Jarret Keene (review)0
The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848–1948 by José F. Aranda Jr0
Native America Mystery Writing: Indigenous Investigations by Mary Stoecklein0
Tributary Voices: Literary and Rhetorical Exploration of the Colorado River by Paul A. Formisano (review)0
The Deadliest Shortcut by Lee Bergthold0
Fight or Flight: Poems by Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum (review)0
Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film ed. by Hervé Mayer and David Roche (review)0
Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western by Mia Mask (review)0
Mapping Intergenerational Diné Beauty: Reading Hózhǫ́ in the Poetry of Tacey M. Atsitty0
This Here Is Devil’s Work: A Novel by Curtis Bradley Vickers0
Western Journeys by Teow Lim Goh (review)0
True North by Gary Eller0
Boarding School Voices: Carlisle Indian School Students Speak by Arnold Krupat0
Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making the North American West by E Cram (review)0
Science and Literature in Cormac McCarthy's Expanding Worlds by Bryan Giemza (review)0
The Garden Palimpsest: Space, Time, and the Anthropocene in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes0
Cather and Opera by David McKay Powell (review)0
The Point Alma Venus Manuscripts by Robinson Jeffers (review)0
The Short Stories of John Joseph Mathews, an Osage Writer by John Joseph Mathews (review)0
Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction by Miriam C. Brown Spiers0
Wolves, Grizzlies, and Greenhorns: Death and Coexistence in the American West by Maximilian Werner0
Cuban Quartermoon by Ann Putnam (review)0
Written by the Body: Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-Cis Masculinities by Lisa Tatonetti0
Enchantments of the Mississippi: A Contemplative Journey of Time and Place by Thomas Becknell (review)0
Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier: The Prose Writings of Eoin Ua Cathail by Patrick J. Mahoney0
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