The Child and the Latina Immigrant: Reimagining the Southern California Imaginary in Héctor Tobar’s The Barbarian Nurseries, by Sarah Ropp
Teaching the Hacienda: Juan Rulfo and Mexican American Cultural Memory, by Vincent Pérez
Cultural Regionalism and Chicano Literature, by Carlota Cardenas De Dwyer
Interpreting California and “the West,” by John M. González
Winning the West in Jimmy Santiago Baca’s Black Mesa Poems, by Bernard Quetchenbach
Shaking Awake the Memory: The Gothic Quest for Place in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo, by Paul Wickelson
“An Eloquent and Impassioned Plea”: The Rhetoric of Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don, by Elisa Warford
“Refusing to halt”: Mobility and the Quest for Spatial Justice in Helena María Viramontes’s Their Dogs Came with Them and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange, by Sarah D. Wald
Property and the Ideology of Improvement in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don and California Travel Narratives, by Valerie Sirenko
Literary Didacticism and Collective Human Rights in US Borderlands: Ana Castillo’s The Guardians and Louise Erdrich’s The Round House, by Tereza M. Szeghi
Locating the Modern Mexican in Josefina Niggli’s Step Down, Elder Brother, by Emily Lutenski
Under the Neon Worm: Ideological Consciousness and Code Switching in Juan Felipe Herrera’s Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream, by John Wegner
Writing against Wilderness: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s Elite Environmental Justice, by Karen L. Kilcup
The Enigma of Amado Jesus Muro, by Gerald Haslam
The General’s Pants: A Chicana Feminist (Re)Vision of the Mexican Revolution in Sandra Cisnero’s “Eyes of Zapata,” by Barbara Brinson Curiel
Western American Literature Research 