A History of Western American Literature

Susan Kollin is Professor of English at Montana State University, Bozeman, and served as President of the Western Literature Association in 2004. Editor of Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space, she is also the author of Nature's State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier.

• 1. Indigenous memories and Western American literary history Susan Bernardin; 2. The recovery project and the role of history in Chicano/a literary studies José F. Aranda, Jr; 3. Domestic frontiers: settler narratives by European American women writers Nicole Tonkovich; 4. Labor and the land: narratives of trading, mining, and ranching Nathaniel Lewis; 5. Nature writing and the American West Sarah Jaquette Ray; 6. Tall tales and short stories Nicolas S. Witschi; 7. The popular western Daniel Worden; 8. Literature of the great plains: nature, culture, and community Susan Naramore Maher; 9. Southwest literary borderlands Audrey Goodman; 10. Imagining the Rocky Mountain region Nancy S. Cook; 11. Writing the Pacific Northwest Stephanie LeMenager; 12. The far north: literatures of Alaska and Canada Ernestine Hayes; 13. The problem of the critical in global wests Krista Comer; 14. Early cinematic westerns Christine Bold; 15. The environmental novel of the American West Dana Phillips; 16. Hardboiled fiction and noir narratives Lee Clark Mitchell; 17. The Beats and the American West Robert Bennett; 18. Contested Wests: indigenous Americans and the literature of sovereignty John Gamber; 19. Asian American writers and the making of the Western US landscape Jane Hseu; 20. African American literature: recasting region through race Jonathan Munby; 21. Hollywood westerns: 1930s to the present Andrew Patrick Nelson; 22. Urban new Wests Stephen Tatum; 23. Queer frontiers: gender and sexuality in the American West David Agruss; 24. Post-western literature and criticism Neil Campbell.