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In the past twenty-five years many Native American writers have retold the traditional stories of powerful mythological women: Corn Woman, Changing Woman, Serpent Woman, and Thought Woman, who with her sisters created all life by thinking it into being. Within and in response to these evolving traditions, Leslie Marmon Silko takes from her own tradition, the Keres of Laguna, the Yellow Woman. Yellow Woman stories, always female-centered and always from the Yellow Woman's point of view, portray a figure who is adventurous, strong, and often alienated from her own people. She is the spirit of...

Although the origins of the western are as old as colonial westward expansion, it was Owen Wister s novel The Virginian, published in 1902, that established most of the now-familiar conventions of the genre. On the heels of the classic western s centennial, this collection of essays both re-examines the text of The Virginian and uses Wister s novel as a lens for studying what the next century of western writing and reading will bring. The contributors address Wister s life and travels, the novel s influence on and handling of gender and race issues, and its illustrations and various...

The successful New York author describes the epic journey she undertook in 1923, when she left her East Coast home at the age of fifty-five to travel through the southwestern United States, where she had lived as a child and where she would later retire. Part memoir, part travel narrative, part historical investigation, and part ecological study, T