Baja Oklahoma | Literary Precedents

Baja Oklahoma Literary Precedents

Baja Oklahoma claims the same literary precedents as all of Jenkins's fiction: the traditions of comedy and satire and the conventions of Southwestern idiom and values. Additionally, this novel owes much to the conventions of country-and-western song lyrics. Jenkins brings to his novel the traditional subject matter of those lyrics: cheating, love gone wrong, and a profound sense of self as somehow different because Southern.