Southwestern American Literature

Volume XX No. 2 (Spring 1995)

Editors' Page	iv

Guest Editor's Introduction The Southwest by Women: Of Wind and Writing Jay Ann Cox	9


*Nonfiction*

Replacing Ceremony: The Poetics of Barbara Kingsolver Janet Bowdan	13

Storytellers, Story-Sellers: Artists, Muses, and Exploitation in the Work of Mary Austin Betsy Klimasmith	21

What Makes a Western Writer? The Case of Katherine Anne Porter Thomas Austenfeld	35

Placing the Self-Effacing Ann Zwinger: Running a Different Course in Run, River, Run Cassandra Kircher	43

A House of One's Own: Shelby Hearon's Texas Heroines Rose Marie Cutting	55

"Entirely different standards apply to the cute": Sarah Bird's Use of the Ugly Woman as Hero Charlotte M. Wright	63

Silko and Parsons: Four "Good Stories" Gioia Elisa Woods	73


Fiction

Amen Sunny Nash	85


*Poetry*

Four-Poster Carol Coffee Reposa	99

In Parida Cave Carol Coffee Reposa	100

Cicadas Carol Coffee Reposa	102

Swallow Allison deFreese	103


Reviews

Nina Otero-Warren of Santa Fe by Charlotte Whaley Dick Heaberlin	107

Walking Backwards in the Wind by Helen Mangumi Fields Susan M. Lucas	108

La Canicula, Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera by Norma Carntu Ana Maria Juarez	110

The Candy Vendor's Boy and Other Stories by Beatriz de la Garza Leticia M. Garza-Falcon	112

Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes Jaime Armin Mejia	114

Women Singing in the Snow: A Cultural Analysis of Chicana Literature by Tey Diana Rebolle Leticia M. Garza-Falcon	116

Folk Roots and Mythic Wings in Sarah Orne Jewett and Toni Morrison: The Cultural Function of Narrative by Marilyn Sanders Mobley Priscilla Leder	118

Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians and Myths and Tales of the Chiricabua Apache Indians by Morris Edward Opler John S. Hill	119

The Texas Cherokees by Dianne Everet John S. Hill	121

Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization: The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians by Robert H. Jackson and Edward Castillo Jesus F. de la Teja	122

Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico: From the Aztecs to Independence by Enrique Florescano Jesus F. de la Teja	124

The Massacre at Sand Creek: Narrative Voices by Bruce Cutler Dorys Crow Grover	125

German Seed in Texas Soil: Immigrant Farmers in Nineteenth Century Texas by Terry G. Jordan Mary Agnes Taylor	127

Parson Henry Renfro: Free Thinking on the Texas Frontier by William Clark Griggs James A. Wilson	128

Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas 1862 by Richard B. McCaslin Judith Dykes Hoffmann	129

Under Their Own Vine and Fig-Tree: The African-American Church in the South, 1865-1900 by Wiliam E. Montgomery Peg Hardman	131

El Rancho in South Texas: Continuity and Change from 1750 by Joe S. Graham Steve Davis	133

Land of Plenty: Oklahomans in the Cotton Fields of Arizona, 1933-1942 by Marsha L. Weisiger B.B. Schmick	134

LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War by George C. Herring John S. Hill	135

Essays on the Changing Images of the Southwest by Richard Francaviglia and David Narrett Mark Busby	137

The Prairie in Nineteenth Century American Poetry by Steven Olson Susan K. Jaeger	139

Counting Survivors by Walter McDonald Michael Barnett	140

The Gay Place by Billy Lee Brammer Mark Busby	141

Condor Dreams and Other Stories by Gerald W. Haslam Brad Lucas	143

In an Arid Land by Paul Scott Malone Chris Haven	145

The Late Child by Larry McMurtry Roger Walton Jones	146

Bone Game by Louis Owens Thomas D. Meyers	148

Zia Summer by Rudolfo Anaya Jaime Armin Mejia	150


Contributors	153

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