Southwestern American Literature

Volume XXXIV No. 1 (Fall 2008)

Editors’ Page: Waiting for the Bomb	v


*Special Section: The Atomic Southwest*

The Atomic Southwest: Guest Editor’s Introduction Linda Lizut Helstern	9

Resisting and Surviving Apocalypse: Simon J. Ortiz’s (Post) Colonial Nuclear Narrative Kyoko Matsunaga	15

Mimesis and the Bomb: Race, Masculinity, and (de)Colonial Identities in Martin Cruz Smith’s Stallion Gate Sara Spurgeon	29

The New Atomic Wilderness: Ed Abbey’s Post-Apocalyptic Southwest Alex Hunt	41

In My Backyard: Nevada’s Literature of Resistance to Atomic Testing and Nuclear Waste Cheryll Glotfelty	55

Tidings Gary Short	65

Nevada No Longer Shaun T. Griffin	66

Nevada Red Blues Adrian C. Louis	68

Representing the Black Place: Towards an Iconography of the Atomic Age Audrey Goodman	69


*Fiction*

Wildlife Rehabilitation Lowell Mick White	85

Roach Boy David LeMaster	93


*Poetry*

Blessing the Animals M. Miriam Herrera	103

La Malinche M. Miriam Herrera	106

Ahuacatl M. Miriam Herrera	109

Horsepower Larry D. Thomas	111

Raptor Larry D. Thomas	112

Bow Hunter Larry D. Thomas	113

Mercy in an East Texas Bar Jeffery C. Alfier	114

Solstice Swamp Tableau No. 049 Jack Vian	116

In the Electric Chair of My Dreams Jack Vian	117

I Smell the Blues of a Creosote Christmas Jack Vian	118


*Reviews*

Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920: Socialists, Populists, Miners, and Wobblies by David R. Berman Bill Cunningham	121

Flash Floods in Texas by Jonathan Burnett Jane Manaster	122

Baseball in America & America in Baseball edited by Donald G. Kyle and Robert B. Fairbanks John S. Hill	124

Dolly & Zane Grey: Letters from a Marriage edited by Candace C. Kant Robert Murray Davis	127

From Greenwich Village to Taos: Primitivism and Place at Mabel Dodge Luhan’s by Flannery Burke Robert Murray Davis	129

The Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farm Workers by Rick Nahmias Jane Zimbaldi	130

Survival Along the Continental Divide: An Anthology of Interviews edited by Jack Loeffler Robert Murray Davis	132

The Rhizomatic West: Representing the American West in a Transnational, Global, Media Age by Neil Campbell Robert Murray Davis	134

Clint Eastwood, Actor and Director: New Perspectives edited by Leonard Engel Robert Headley	135

Pulp Writer: Twenty Years in the American Grub Street by Paul S. Powers and Laurie Powers Cheyenne Mathews	137

Trail of the Red Butterfly: A Novel by Karl H. Schlesier Amanda King	138

The Song of Jonah: A Novel by Gene Guerin Bill Lancaster	140

Shavetail: A Novel by Thomas Cobb Mark Busby	143

The Flowers: A Novel by Dagoberto Gilb Jean Braithwaite	145


Contributors	148

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