Southwestern American Literature

Volume XXXIV No. 2 (Spring 2009)

Editors’ Page: Literary Anodynes	v


*Nonfiction*

The Cyborg Coyote: Generating Theory in the Borderlands Sara L. Spurgeon	9

Departure, Arrival, and Varieties of Silence: Narration and Dramaturgy in Horton Foote’s Beginnings and Farewell Robert W. Haynes	29

Brokeback Mountain in My Rear-View Mirror Don Graham	45


*Fiction*

Cinéma Vérité John Blanchard	55


*Special Section: Southwestern Poetry*

Guest Editor’s Introduction: Where Are We Now? Keith Ekiss	63

Mind Paces the Edge of a Flat World (And Thinks It’s Getting Somewhere) Leslie Ullman	65

Mind Telling What It Thinks Are Secrets Leslie Ullman	66

Saving Trees Josh Rathkamp	67

Wrong Sonnet Josh Rathkamp	68

Excerpts from “Flood Song” Sherwin Bitsui	69

Quiet Salt Sara Marie Ortiz	72

Mamie Chee’s Leg C. E. Perry	73

Family Wills Scott Wiggerman	74

Magdalene in the Desert Jennifer Elise Foerster	76

Cardinals, Sabino Canyon Simmons B. Buntin	78

The Coast Carrie Fountain	80

El Camino Real Carrie Fountain	82

The Village Alison Hawthorne Deming	83

Sestina Alison Hawthorne Deming	84

At the Robert Irwin Installation, West Texas Abraham Burickson	86

Howling Kenneth Fields	88

(I Want To Be A) Marxist Cowboy Jonathan Hunt	92


*Reviews*

The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hämäläinen Joel Minor	95

World War II and Mexican American Civil Rights edited by Richard Griswold del Castillo Angela Thompson	97

Exodus/Éxodo words by Charles Bowden, photographs by Julián Cardona David Cremean	99

Violence and Activism at the Border: Gender, Fear, and Everyday Life in Ciudad Juárez by Kathleen Staudt James Wright	101

The Nature of Being Human: From Environmentalism to Consciousness by Harold Fromm Robert Murray Davis	104

Xerophilia: Ecocritical Explorations in Southwestern Literature by Tom Lynch Robert Murray Davis	106

Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature by S. K. Robisch Tom Hertweck	107

Men without Bliss by Rigoberto González Jean Braithwaite	110

The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans: A Feast of Short Fiction by Carmen Tafolla Tammy Gonzales	113

Where Clouds Are Formed: Poems by Ofelia Zepeda Rita and Julia by Jimmy Santiago Baca Kenneth Hada	115


Contributors	119

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