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The Journal of Western American Literature: Announcements

The Journal of Western American Literature: Announcements Western American Literature, Volume 32, Number 2, Summer 1997, pp. 173-174 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1997.0083 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/535352/summary Access provided at 24 Feb 2020 19:11 GMT from JHU Libraries Notes T H E JO U R N A L OF W ES TE RN AM ER I CA N LIT ERA TU RE Plans two possible special issues for 1998-99. We seek essays on 1) The construction of gender in western American literature and feminist approaches to the study of western American literature and 2) Literary representations (such as María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don) of the ways laws and treaties have defined conceptions of ownership and citizenship in the West, par­ ticularly as they have defined racial or ethnic “space.” Such laws might include the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo; the Land Law of 1851, which established a commission to determine the validity of Spanish-Mexican land grants; the Dawes Act; the Chinese Exclusion Laws; Executive Order 9066, or the Japanese Internment Act; the Indian Relocation Act; Proposition 187; and a host of others. Please submit essays by July 15, 1998, to Melody Graulich, Editor, Western American Literature, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Western American Literature University of Nebraska Press

The Journal of Western American Literature: Announcements

Western American Literature , Volume 32 (2) – Oct 4, 2017
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Western American Literature, Volume 32, Number 2, Summer 1997, pp. 173-174 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1997.0083 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/535352/summary Access provided at 24 Feb 2020 19:11 GMT from JHU Libraries Notes T H E JO U R N A L OF W ES TE RN AM ER I CA N LIT ERA TU RE Plans two possible special issues for 1998-99. We seek essays on 1) The construction of gender in western American literature and feminist approaches to the study of western American literature and 2) Literary representations (such as María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don) of the ways laws and treaties have defined conceptions of ownership and citizenship in the West, par­ ticularly as they have defined racial or ethnic “space.” Such laws might include the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo; the Land Law of 1851, which established a commission to determine the validity of Spanish-Mexican land grants; the Dawes Act; the Chinese Exclusion Laws; Executive Order 9066, or the Japanese Internment Act; the Indian Relocation Act; Proposition 187; and a host of others. Please submit essays by July 15, 1998, to Melody Graulich, Editor, Western American Literature,

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