Session E (1:30-2:45 Friday)

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Lost in the Supermarket

Chair: Laurie Ricou, University of British Columbia

Anne L. Kaufman, University of Maryland: ��Lost in the Supermarket�: Literature of the Local in Duncan, McPhee, and Produce Signs�

Nancy Cook, University of Rhode Island: ��To Market, to Market�: Fast Food, Slow Food, and the Edible West�

Laurie Ricou, University of British Columbia: �Culinarily Homeless�

Modernism, Urbanism, and �Genius� in Cather

Chair: Robert Thacker, St. Lawrence University

Catherine Holmes, College of Charleston: ��Poisonous Reticence�: Modernist Experience and Expression in One of Ours�

Matthias Schubnell, University of the Incarnate Word: �Willa Cather�s Quarrel with Urbanism�

Matthew Hokom, Fairmont State College: �Roman Conceptions of Genius in Cather�s O Pioneers!�

Narrative and Healing From the East

Chair: Nancy Owen Nelson, Henry Ford Community College

Nancy Owen Nelson, Henry Ford Community College: �The �Enormity� of the Moment: Bruce Weigl�s Buddhist Journey in The Circle of Hanh�

Peter Kearly, Henry Ford Community College: �Having a Bone to Pick: Grieving Female Labor Abuses in Chinatown�

Ed Demerly, Henry Ford Community College: �Eastern Thoughts in the Western World: Butler�s Vietnamese Voice�

Lyrical Borderlands

Chair: David Fenimore, University of Nevada, Reno

O. Alan Weltzien, Western Montana University: �Accordion North and South: Flaco Jimenez, TexMex, and New Fusions�

Christine Hill Smith, Longmont, Colorado: ��I�m headed for the border, man, I�m going down in style�: Borders, Freedom(s), and the (Folk) Music of Texan Robert Earl Keen, Jr.�

David Fenimore, University of Nevada, Reno: ��No soy un desarraigado�: The Narcocorrido Returns to Its Roots�

Charles Bowden: Probing the Borderlands

Chair: David Cremean, Black Hills State University

David Cremean, Black Hills State University: �Take It To the Limit, but Never Take It Easy: Charles Bowden and the Artifice of Borderlands Literal and Metaphorical�

Christine Shearer-Cremean, Black Hills State University: �Capitalism as Murder, Incorporated: The Murdered Women of Mexico in Charles Bowden�s Juarez: The Laboratory of Our Future�

Kent Meyers, Black Hills State University: �Charles Bowden, A Writer�s Writer�

Power� Struggles and Violence a la Peckinpah and McCarthy

Chair: Leonard Engel, Quinnipiac University

Joint Presentation - Leonard Engel and John Gourlie, Quinnipiac University: �O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?  Peckinpah�s Death Scenes� (two time slots)

Ken Melichar, Piedmont College: �A Socio-Cultural Comparative Study of McCarthy and Peckinpah�

American Fathers, Sons, and Their Daughters

Chair: Walter Isle, Rice University

Gary Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico: �Moodie, My Dad, Allen Ginsberg, and Me: Reflections on Wichita and �Wichita Vortex Sutra��

Stephen Cook, California State University, Sacramento: �An American Son - A Family Memoir and Oral History�

New Directions in Western Studies

Chair: John Gonzales, University of Texas, Austin

Lourdes Alberto, Rice University: �The Secret Mexico: The Erotics of Touring the �Indigenous��

Matt Herman, Stone Child College: �Receiving Indian Literature: Sherman Alexie Teaches Reviewers a Few Lessons�

Ram�n Javier Guerra, University of Nebraska. Lincoln: �A Border Ballad Hero As Inspiration: An Analysis of Resistant Action in Am�rico Paredes� With His Pistol in His Hand�

Cowboys and Other Western Heroes

Chair: TBA

Carole Quaas, University of Nebraska, Omaha: �Will Rogers: Poet Lariat or Successful Sociolinguist?�

Christopher Schaberg, University of California, Davis: �Brad Pitt's Contested West(s)�

Eric Chilton, University of Arizona: �The Perilous Survey of Nature in John Wesley Powell�s Grand Canyon Narrative�