Southwestern American Literature

Volume XXII No. 2 (Spring 1997)

Editors' Page	4

Guest Editor's Introduction: Native Voices of the Southwest Marie-Madeleine Schein	5


Nonfiction

Constructing the Self through Language and Vision in N. Scott Momaday's The Ancient Child Philip Heldrich	11

"The Current of Their Common Blood": Reading Beyond the Empire of the Mind Michael Hobbs	21

Returning and Remembering: The Recovery of the Maternal in Leslie Silko's Ceremony Nancy Von Rosk	33

Reintegration and Regeneration through Ritual in Silko's Ceremony Robin Cohen	49

Metaphor and Meaning in Anna Lee Walters' "The Sun is Not Merciful" Howard Meredith	63

The Feminist Journey in Paula Gunn Allen's The Woman Who Owned the Shadows Barbara Cook	69

Luci Tapahonso and Simon Ortiz: Allegory, Symbol, Language, Poetry Dean Rader	75

The Stories Walls Tell Carole McAllister and Carlon Andre	93

For Now It's Enough: Late Night at the ARA House: Thank God I'm Alive Simon J. Ortiz	101


Poetry

Light Simon J. Ortiz	105


Reviews

Dancing on Common Ground: Tribal Cultures and Alliances on the Southern Plains by Howard Meredith John Scenters-Zapico	109

Comanche Political History: An Ethnohistorical Perspective 1706-1875 by Thomas W. Kavanagh Clay Reynolds	111

Beyond Bounds: Cross Cultural Essays on Anglo, American Indian, & Chicano by Robert Franklin Gish Nueva Granada: Paul Horgan and the Southwest by Robert Franklin Gish Verne Huser	114

Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition by Kimberly M. Blaeser Marie-Madeleine Shein	116

All the Buffalo Returning by Dorothy M. Johnson Esther Broughton	116

The Encomenderos of New Spain, 1521-1555 by Robert Himmerich y Valencia Donald E. Chipman	118

Bordering on Chaos: Guerrillas, Stockbrokers, Politicians and Mexico's Road to Prosperity by Andres Oppenheimer Josh Busby	119

The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City by Matthew C. Guttmann Muy Macho: Latino Men Confront Their Manhood edited and with an introduction by Ray Gonzalez John C. Miller	122

Re-lmagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History, and Art by Richard W. Etulain Charles Peek	123

The Abstract Wild by Jack Turner Verne Huser	125

Cruising Paradise by Sam Shepard Mark Busby	127


Contributors	129

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