Spring 1995 : Center for the Study of the Southwest : Texas State University

Volume XX No. 2 (Spring 1995)

Editors' Page

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Guest Editor's Introduction

The Southwest by Women: Of Wind and Writing
Jay Ann Cox

9

Nonfiction

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Replacing Ceremony: The Poetics of Barbara Kingsolver Janet Bowdan	13
Storytellers, Story-Sellers: Artists, Muses, and Exploitation in the Work of Mary Austin Betsy Klimasmith	21
What Makes a Western Writer? The Case of Katherine Anne Porter Thomas Austenfeld	35
Placing the Self-Effacing Ann Zwinger: Running a Different Course in Run, River, Run Cassandra Kircher	43
A House of One's Own: Shelby Hearon's Texas Heroines Rose Marie Cutting	55
"Entirely different standards apply to the cute": Sarah Bird's Use of the Ugly Woman as Hero Charlotte M. Wright	63
Silko and Parsons: Four "Good Stories" Gioia Elisa Woods	73

Fiction

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Amen
Sunny Nash

85

Poetry

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Four-Poster Carol Coffee Reposa	99
In Parida Cave Carol Coffee Reposa	100
Cicadas Carol Coffee Reposa	102
Swallow Allison deFreese	103

Reviews

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Nina Otero-Warren of Santa Fe by Charlotte Whaley Dick Heaberlin	107
Walking Backwards in the Wind by Helen Mangumi Fields Susan M. Lucas	108
La Canicula, Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera by Norma Carntu Ana Maria Juarez	110
The Candy Vendor's Boy and Other Stories by Beatriz de la Garza Leticia M. Garza-Falcon	112
Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes Jaime Armin Mejia	114
Women Singing in the Snow: A Cultural Analysis of Chicana Literature by Tey Diana Rebolle Leticia M. Garza-Falcon	116
Folk Roots and Mythic Wings in Sarah Orne Jewett and Toni Morrison: The Cultural Function of Narrative by Marilyn Sanders Mobley Priscilla Leder	118
Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians and Myths and Tales of the Chiricabua Apache Indians by Morris Edward Opler John S. Hill	119
The Texas Cherokees by Dianne Everet John S. Hill	121
Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization: The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians by Robert H. Jackson and Edward Castillo Jesus F. de la Teja	122
Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico: From the Aztecs to Independence by Enrique Florescano Jesus F. de la Teja	124
The Massacre at Sand Creek: Narrative Voices by Bruce Cutler Dorys Crow Grover	125
German Seed in Texas Soil: Immigrant Farmers in Nineteenth Century Texas by Terry G. Jordan Mary Agnes Taylor	127
Parson Henry Renfro: Free Thinking on the Texas Frontier by William Clark Griggs James A. Wilson	128
Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas 1862 by Richard B. McCaslin Judith Dykes Hoffmann	129
Under Their Own Vine and Fig-Tree: The African-American Church in the South, 1865-1900 by Wiliam E. Montgomery Peg Hardman	131
El Rancho in South Texas: Continuity and Change from 1750 by Joe S. Graham Steve Davis	133
Land of Plenty: Oklahomans in the Cotton Fields of Arizona, 1933-1942 by Marsha L. Weisiger B.B. Schmick	134
LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War by George C. Herring John S. Hill	135
Essays on the Changing Images of the Southwest by Richard Francaviglia and David Narrett Mark Busby	137
The Prairie in Nineteenth Century American Poetry by Steven Olson Susan K. Jaeger	139
Counting Survivors by Walter McDonald Michael Barnett	140
The Gay Place by Billy Lee Brammer Mark Busby	141
Condor Dreams and Other Stories by Gerald W. Haslam Brad Lucas	143
In an Arid Land by Paul Scott Malone Chris Haven	145
The Late Child by Larry McMurtry Roger Walton Jones	146
Bone Game by Louis Owens Thomas D. Meyers	149
Zia Summer by Rudolfo Anaya Jaime Armin Mejia	150
Contributors	153