Landscapes of the New West: Gender and Geography in Contemporary Women's Writing
Essays in Books and Journals
- “Exceptionalisms, Other Wests, Critical Regionalism,” forthcoming, American Literary History (2010). Advance access: http://alh.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2010/08/24/alh.ajq043.full.pdf...
- “New West, Urban and Suburban Spaces, Postwest,” in Nicolas Witschi, ed. Literatures of the American West, forthcoming Routledge (2011).
- “Western,” in Keywords for American Cultural Studies, eds. Bruce Burgett & Glenn Hendler (New York, NYU Press), 238-42 (2007).
- “Everyday Regionalisms in Contemporary Critical Practice,” in Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space, ed. Susan Kollin (University of Nebraska Press) 30-58 (2007).
- “Wanting to be Lisa: Generational Rifts, Girl Power, and the Globalisation of Surf Culture,” American Youth Cultures, ed. Neil Campbell (NY: Routledge) 237-65 (2004).
- “Taking Feminism and Regionalism Toward the Third Wave,” A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America, ed. Charles Crow (New York: Blackwell Publishing) 111-128 (2003).
- “Western Literature at Century’s End: Sketches in Generation X, Los Angeles, and the Post-Civil Rights Novel,” Pacific Historical Review, August 2003 (72:3) 405-15.
- “Revising Western Criticism through Wanda Coleman.” Western American Literature, Winter 1999 33(4), 357-83. Winner of the Don D. Walker Award for Year’s Best Essay, Sponsored by Western Literature Association.
- “Sidestepping Environmental Justice: ‘Natural’ Landscapes and the Wilderness Plot.” Frontiers, Special issue “Intersections of Feminisms and Environmentalisms,” 18:2 (1997) 73-101. (Reprinted and expanded version of
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“Sidestepping Environmental Justice: ‘Natural’ Landscapes and the Wilderness Plot. . . “ Breaking Boundaries: New Perspectives on Regional Fiction, Sherrie Inness & Diana Royers, eds. (Iowa City: UP Iowa, 1997) 216-236.
- “Literature, Gender Studies, and the New Western History.” Arizona Quarterly, Special Issue, “Assessing the New Western History,” 53:2 (1997) 99-134. Essay named as honorable mention for Year’s Best Essay by Western Literature Association and Western Historical Association. Collection named by MLA & Council of Editors and Learned Journals “Annual Best Special Issue.”
Reprinted in The New Western History: The Territory Ahead. Forrest Robinson, editor (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997) 99-134.
- “Feminism, Women Writers, and the New Western Regionalism: Revising Critical Paradigms.” Updating the Literary West, Compiled by Western Literature Association (Fort Worth: Texas Christian UP, 1997) 17-34.
Reviews
- Review of Kevin R. McNamara, etc. The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles,”forthcoming Pacific Historical Review (2011).
- Review of Blake Allmendinger, Imagining the African American West and Kristen McAndrews, Wrangling Women: Humor and Gender in the American West in American Literature (March 2010, 28:1), 202-04.
- Review of Zeese Papanikolas, Trickster in the Land of Dreams, Western Historical Quarterly 28:2 (1997) 243-4.
- Review of Pat Mora, Nepantla: Essays from Land in the Middle, Western American Literature, 29:2.
- Review of Sylvia Lopez-Medina, Cantora: A Novel, Western American Literature 28:3.
Short Pieces
- “Distinguished Achievement Award to Saldívar Family,” Western American Literature, 40:3 (2005): 342-44.
- “Don’t You Think We Need a Love Story Here? An Interview with Sandra Cisneros” co-authored with José F. Aranda, Jr. Imprint News (Spring 2003): 2-4.
- “Surfergirls.” Girlhood in America: An Encyclopedia. (Denver: ABC-CLIO Publishers, 2001), 627-31.
- “Joan Didion.” The Literary Dictionary, submitted 2001 on line encyclopedic resource. (www.litencyc.com)
- “Lost (and Found) in Disneyland: WLA and Cultural Studies.” Western American Literature 32:2 (Summer 1999) 177-81.
- Biographical essays on Lorna Dee Cervantes, Sandra Cisneros, Américo Paredes, Cherríe Moraga, Luis Valdez. Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature 1, Mary Ellen Brown and Bruce Rosenburg, editors. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO Press, 106-7, 422-3, 491-2, 685-6.
- “Joan Didion’s California.” Updating the Literary West, Compiled by Western Literature Association (Fort Worth: Texas Christian UP, 1997), 346-51.
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