Journal of the Southwest articles from March 1998

Journal of the Southwest archives from March 1998

The thick and the thin: enclosure for the Sonoran Desert. (southern Arizona)
March 22, 1998... The stark, fluorescent-white sun wraps southern Arizona with its blazing luminosity. It is 110 degrees Fahrenheit today. The thick walls of our adobe house do not protect us from such heat, for last night was not cool enough. The air...

Mythologies compared: Pima, Maricopa, and Yavapai.
March 22, 1998... INTRODUCTION Seventeen years ago, without exciting much notice, I wrote on the "whole past" as narrated in a Yavapai mythology of twenty-four sequential tales (Bahr 1981), and four years ago I did the same for a Pima work of thirty-six...

On the multicultural frontier with Washington Matthews.
March 22, 1998... We need to remember that postmodernists did not invent multiculturalism. Like other trends, it is neither recent discovery nor new creation. While the term itself may be ours, a marginalized presence in mainstream society is fixed in history,...

Remembered backward, repeated forward: J.P. Rael's "Los Pobladores de Questa."
March 22, 1998... The northern Taos County town of Questa was founded several times between 1815 and the mid-1840s, for whenever the Ute Indians realized that the Hispanics had invaded their hunting lands, they promptly unfounded the town, chasing the settlers...

Tragic glory: L. D. Clark's existential vision.
March 22, 1998... If I am still of this earth, it is the earth as history and the earth as dust. A Bright Tragic Thing (300) L. D. Clark has written four novels and several short stories about the Cross Timbers country of Texas. His latest--and...