Southwestern literature / 
editor, William Brannon, Collin College, Texas. 
 - Ipswich, Massachusetts :  Amenia, NY :  Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ;  Grey House Publishing,  2016 
 - xxvi, 239 pages ;  24 cm. 
 - Critical insights .
 - Critical insights. .
<br/><br/> Edition statement supplied by publisher. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>About this volume / William Brannon -- On Southwestern literature / William Brannon -- The polychotomous Southwest / Mark Busby -- Understanding Southwestern literature : critical approaches and major works / William Brannon -- Chicana "feminist architecture" in the works of Sandra Cisneros / T. Jackie Cuevas -- Writing (and righting) the desert Southwest : literary legacies and the restoration of Glen Canyon / Laura Smith -- The Indian captivity narrative : a genre of the Southwest / Randi Lynn Tanglen -- "Balances and harmonies always shifting" : an ecopostcolonial borderlands reading of Silko's Ceremony / Wilma Shires -- Mapping the territory : Mexican American memoir / Paul Guajardo -- Resisting dominant national narratives : recovering Mar�ia Amparo Ruiz de Burton's Squatter and the Don and (re)writing Mexican American history / Annette Portillo -- Ecological martyrs : ecocritical considerations beside spiritual mestizaje in Ana Castillo's So Far from God / Mike Lemon -- Willa Cather and Southwestern aesthetics / John Samson -- Creative genius : Willa Cather's characters and the influence of the American desert Southwest / Max Despain -- Of judges and fairybook beasts : the male mentor and violence in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian / Maria O'Connell -- The haunted frontier : Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy / Cordelia E. Barrera -- Coming to terms with death in the west : anticipation of death and the effects of loss in the novels of Larry McMurtry / Roger Walton Jones -- Additional works of Southwestern literature. 
<br/><br/> Presents a collection of original essays with a goal of providing an overview of scholarship regarding Southwestern literature. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781619258426 1619258420 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2016479836 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American literature--History and criticism.--Southwest, New<br/>American literature--History and criticism.--Southwest, Old<br/>American literature--Mexican American authors.<br/>Indians in literature.<br/>Literature.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Southwest, New--In literature.<br/>Southwest, Old--In literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Criticism, interpretation, etc.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS 277  / .S67 2016