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 María 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.