Journeys (Fall 2016; Volume 6, Issue 2)

Welcome to the Fall 2016 issue (Volume 6, Issue 2), our Journeys issue. The new CFP involves the theme of "Survival," and will be up on January 15, 2017. We hope you will look forward to it.

Natalie Garza, Editor
Letter from the Editor

Table of Contents

Contributors' Biographies

Notes from the Field


A Journey into Our Own Backyards: Helping Students Discover Their Voices and the Treasures of Home
Karina Stiles-Cox

Scholarly Articles

The Topography of Borders: Hybridity, Queerness, and Mexican-American Identity in Rigoberto González’s Butterfly Boy
Gabriela Almendarez

Impossible Reconciliations: The Postcolonial Paradoxes of Journeys in Maryse Condé’s Heremakhonon
Melissa Sande

The Master of the Mississippi, The King of the Klondike!: History and Authenticity in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck
Peter Cullen Bryan

Sherman Alexie’s Reservation Blues: The Native American Journey Reflected in Dreams
Tiffany E. Price

The Journey Home: Dangers of Displacement in Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow
Kavon Franklin

“Making the Land Shiver:” Ana Castillo’s Ecological Politics in The Guardians
James M. Cochran

Book Reviews

Review of Love’s True Colors by Tiffany Price
Mary-Lynn Chambers

Review of Worlding America: A Transnational Anthology of Short Narratives Before 1800 by Oliver Scheiding and Martin Seidl
R. Mac Jones

Review of Language Policy by David Cassels Johnson
Alexandre Couture Gagnon

Call for Papers

Survival