Fall 2008
Volume XXXIV No. 1 (Fall 2008)
| Editors’ Page: Waiting for the Bomb | v |
Special Section: The Atomic Southwest
| Titles | Page Number |
|---|---|
| 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
| Titles | Page Number |
|---|---|
| Wildlife Rehabilitation Lowell Mick White |
85 |
| Roach Boy David LeMaster |
93 |
Poetry
| Titles | Page Number |
|---|---|
| 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
| Titles | Page Number |
|---|---|
| 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 |