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Explores a range of conceptions of the Southwest as reflected in American Indian literature and its interactions with, and interpretations by, Anglo literature.

Helen Jaskoski examines Leslie Silko's short stories, focusing on Silko's use of the physical and cultural geography of the Southwest and the history of Laguna Pueblo.

This book describes the poetry and prose of the southwestern Indians, the narratives of the Spanish settlers and explorers, and the tall tales, ballads, poetry, and fiction of the Anglo-Americans. The book is divided into four parts: "Literature before the Anglo-American, to 1800," which examines the traditions and mythology of the southwestern Indians and the Spanish explorers as revealed in early literature; "Literature of Anglo-American Adventurers...

A critical history of Southwestern fiction, 1819-1918, with emphasis on forty major novels. For contents, see Author Catalog.

Early literary works written in Spanish in what is today the American Southwest have been largely excluded from the corpus of American literature, yet these documents are the literary antecedents of contemporary Chicano and Chicana writing. This new collection of essays establishes the importance of this literary heritage through a critical examination of key texts produced in the Southwest from 1542 to 1848. Drawing on research in the archives of...

What the plantation has been to the history and literature of the American South, the hacienda has been to Mexico and the American Southwest. In Remembering the Hacienda, Vincent Přez makes the case that the hacienda offers the emblem of an "antebellum," agrarian social order that predates the United States.