Southwestern American Literature

Volume XXXIII No. 1 (Fall 2007)

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*Nonfiction*

Blood Meridian’s Man of Many Masks: Judge Holden as Tarot’s Fool Emily J. Stinson	9

Playing Cowboys: Genre, Myth, and Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses Sarah Gleeson-White	23

Unneighborly Behavior: Blood Meridian, Lonesome Dove, and the Problem of Reader Sympathy Christian Kiefer	39

Profiting from the Fall: Larry McMurtry’s Fictional Portrayal of Buffalo Bill Cody in Telegraph Days Roger W. Jones	53


*Fiction*

Winter Meat Gregorio Ames	63

It's for My Daughter Michelle Brooks	69


*Poetry*

Clarity Larry D. Thomas	75

Black-on-Black Larry D. Thomas	76

Mother Tongue Deseree Probasco	77

Charismatic Deseree Probasco	78

Point of Entry Robert L. Jones	79


*Reviews*

Las Soldaderas: Women of the Mexican Revolution by Elena Poniatowska María González	83

Playing the Odds: Las Vegas and the Modern West by Hal K. Rothman Robert Murray Davis	84

Acequia: Water Sharing, Sanctity, and Place by Sylvia Rodriguez Henry F. Lyle III	86

Women and Change at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Mobility, Labor, and Activism edited by Doreen J. Mattingly and Ellen R. Hansen Barbara Lundberg	89

Mark Twain’s Civil War edited by David Rachels Robert Murray Davis	91

Literary Pilgrims: The Santa Fe and Taos Writers’ Colonies 1917-1950 by Lynn Cline Robert Murray Davis	91

From Syria to Seminole: Memoir of a High Plains Merchant by Ed Aryain, edited by J’Nell Pate Jane Manaster	93

Oh, Give Me a Home: Western Contemplations by Ann Ronald Susan Hanson	95

Geronimo after Kas-ki-yeh by Rawdon Tomlinson Linda Lizut Helstern	97

The Death at Awahi: A Novel by Harold Burton Meyers Wallis R. Sanborn III	99

Mama Fela’s Girls: A Novel by Ana Baca Bradford K. Wible	101

Meeting the Dead by Andrew Geyer Julie Gates	102

The Flamenco Academy: A Novel by Sarah Bird Jessica Scheider	104

New Stories from the Southwest edited by D. Seth Horton Steve Davis	106


Contributors	108

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