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Southwestern American Literature

Volume XXIX No. 1 (Fall 2003)



CONTENTS


Editors' Page v
   
   
Special Section: John Graves  
   
Goodbye to a River and American Environmental Literature
Terrell Dixon
9
   
Two Approaches to Ecology and Gender in Goodbye to a River
James Langston
19
   
Of Dachshunds and Dashes: Subjects and Style in E. B. White and John Graves
Dickie Maurice Heaberlin
27
   
   
Nonfiction  
   
A New Mexico Writer's Long Life: Revisiting Frank Waters
Joe Holley
39
   
Absurdism in the Southwest: Edwin Shrake's Blessed McGill
Steve Davis
55
   
Desert Fathers, Desert Sons
David Cremean
63
   
   
Fiction  
   
On Airport Road
Peter Donahue
73
   
   
Poetry  
   
Tears
Dave Oliphant
87
   
Extra Virgin
Dave Oliphant
91
   
Granduncle Cleatus
Larry D. Thomas
94
   
Salt Lick
Larry D. Thomas
95
   
Illusion
Sharie McCune
96
   
   
Reviews  
   
Language Shift Among the Navajos: Identity Politics and Cultural Continuity by Deborah House
Martin Jacobsen
101
   
Charreada: Mexican Rodeo in Texas photographs by Al Rendon, essays by Julia Hambric, Bryan Woolley, and Francis E. Abernethy
Gabrielle Snyder
102
   
Chicana Leadership: The Frontiers Reader edited by Yolanda Flores Niemann with Susan H. Armitage, Patricia Hart, and Karen Weathermon
Andrea Tinnemeyer
104
   
God's Country or Devil's Playground: The Best Nature Writing from the Big Bend of Texas edited by Barney Nelson
Robert A. Ayres
106
   
Smokechasing by Stephen J. Pyne
Miles Wilson
107
   
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
David Cremean
109
   
The Callings by Henry Chappell
Jane Manaster
112
   
Gritos by Dagoberto Gilb
Chad Hammett
114
   
Brownsville: Stories by Oscar Casares
Dickie Maurice Heaberlin
115
   
Circling the Tortilla Dragon by Ray Gonzalez
James Wright
117
   
Small Rocks Rising: A Novel by Susan Lang
Doug Werden
119
   
The Wandering Hill: Volume Two of the Berrybender Narratives by Larry McMurtry
Clay Reynolds
121
   
Horton Foote: A Literary Biography by Charles S. Watson
John Hill
125
   
   
Contributors 130

 
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