Southwestern American Literature

Volume XXI No. 2 (Spring 1996)

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*Nonfiction*

Mapping the New Ethnicity: The Resurgence of Myth and the Apotheosis of Place Robert F. Gish	9

This Stubborn Soil: Texas Earth and Texas Culture Tom Pilkington	23

Willa Cather and Mary Austin: Intersections and Influence Janis P. Stout	39

Archives of Southwestern Writers: Larry L. King at Harper's Richard Holland	61

On Snakes and Sex and Playing in the Rain Clay Reynolds	73


Fiction

Getting in the Business Charlie McMurtry	83

Shooting Straight Donley Watt	89


*Poetry*

detail: David, the observatory Jill Thomas	99

Shedding Janice Northerns	100

The Hall Robert Adon Fink	102

Historia Brian Clements	104

Rough Country Robert A. Ayres	106

Symphony Luke Shanahan	108


Reviews

Earth is My Mother, Sky is My Father: Space, Time, and Astronomy in Navajo Sandpainting by Trudy Griffin-Pierce Thomas Meyers	111

Navajo Pictorial Weaving 1880-1950 by Tyrone Campbell and Joel and Kate Kopp Elizabeth Elam Roth	112

The Navajo Hopi Land Dispute: An American Tragedy by David Brugge Jennifer Jones	114

Singing an Indian Song: A Biography of D'Arcy McNickle by Dorothy Parker Thomas Meyers	115

Trickster in the Land of Dreams by Zeese Papanikolas Marie-Madeleine Schein	117

Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531-1797 by Stafford Poole Jesus F. de la Teja	120

Black Texas Women: 150 years of Trial and Triumph by Ruthe Winegarten Priscilla Leder	121

The Life and Adventures of Nat Love by Nat Love Elvin Holt	122

The Ku Klux Klan in the Southwest by Charles C. Alexander B. B. Schmick	124

Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States by Jorge Durand and Douglas S. Massey Mary Agnes Taylor	125

Texas Weather: Second Edition, Revised by George W. Bonar Richard A. Earl	126

Cesar Chavez: A Triumph of Spirit by Richard Griswold del Castillo and Richard A. Garcia John Tiefenbacher	129

Barren, Wild, and Worthless: Living in the Chihuahuan Desert by Susan J. Tweit Jeff Lash	130

Tom Lea: An Oral History by Rebecca Craver and Adair Margo Susan Griffith	131

Who is Witter Bynner? A Biography by James Kraft The Selected Witter Bynner: Poems, Plays, Translations, Prose, and Letters James Kraft ed. Robert F. Gish	134

John Ford: Hollywood's Old Master by Ronald L. Davis John S. Hill	136

The Texas Stories of Nelson Algren by Bettina Drew, ed. Steve Davis	138

Caballero: A Historical Novel by Jovita Gonzalez and Eve Raleigh, Jose E. Limon and Maria Cotera, eds. Leticia M. Garza-Falcon	140

Madonna, Maleva by Ewing Campbell Mark Busby	143

Semi-Private Rooms by Jim Sanderson Brad Lucas	144

Generations and other True Stories by Bryan Woolley Cheryl Clements	146

KenteCloth by Sherry McGuire and John R. Posey, eds. Elvin Holt	147

Dead Man's Walk by Larry McMurtry Roger Walton Jones	148

Larry McMurtry and the Victorian Novel by Roger Walton Jones Dick Heaberlin	151

Comanche Midnight by Steve Harrigan Steve Davis	152

Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon by Ann Haywood Zwinger Susan Lucas	153

A Certain Slant of Light: Regionalism and the Form of Southern and Midwestern Fiction by David Marion Holman Charles Peek	155


Contributors	158

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