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