Session C (4:15-5:30 Thursday)
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Chair: Barbara Nelson, Sul Ross State University
Twister Marquiss, Texas State University, San Marcos: “Westward Ho! (Chi Minh): Tim O’Brien and the Demise of the American Cowboy Mythos”
Pat Matteson, Southern Utah University: “Gaping Fish or Chameleon?: Andrew X. Pham’s Cycle of Passage in Catfish and Mandala”
Michael Hobbs, Northwest Missouri State University: “West of the Imagination: Walt McDonald’s ‘Aesthetic du Mal’”
The Frontier, the Chicana, and the Third Space: The Discomfort of History and Society
Chair: Andrea Tinnemeyer, Utah State University
Maria C. Gonzalez, University of Houston: “Sexuality and the Chicana Historical Novel: Sor Juana’s Other Dream”
Elizabeth Kessler Rodriguez, California State University: “Coatlique Reincarnated: Las Artistas Guadalupanas y las Otras”
Anne Perrin, University of Houston: “Soul-Speech: Issues of Performance and Control in the Spiritual Journals of 19th Century Frontier Women”
“Real” Places, Ghost Spaces, and the Problem of Sustainability
Chair: Ann Ronald, University of Nevada, Reno
Cheryll
Glotfelty, University of Nevada, Reno:
“Urban Environmentalism and Dead Cities: Reading Ghost Towns”
Anna Guiffre, Utah State University: "Bridge Between Troubled Waters: Navigating the Intellectual and Environmental Landscapes of the Dumbarton Bridge."
David G. Jurkiewicz, University of Tulsa: “The Illinois River: Model for Environmental Concerns”
The Regional Politics of Music
Chair: Michon Benson, Rice University
Shawn Holliday, Alice Lloyd College: “Lawson Fusao Inada, West Coast Jazz, and the Politics of Identity Formation”
Richard Hunt, Delaware Valley College: “‘Save a Few for Lefty Too’: The Matter of Judgment in the Songs of Townes Van Zandt”
Philip
R. Coleman-Hull, Bethany College: “Lyrical
Communication: Sinclair Ross’s Use of Music in Sawbones Memorial”
Chair: Stephen Tatum, University of Utah
Marissa Lopez, University of California, Berkeley: “The Wild, Wild West: Hollywood and Mexican Migrant Labor”
Matt Burkhart, University of Arizona: “Rewriting the West(ern): Shane, Jane, and Agricultural Change in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine”
Molly Robey, Rice University: “Eminem Knocks Out Hollywood: Racial Crossdressing, White Adulthood, and the Film Industry”
“All of Us Remembering What We Have Heard Together”: Tensions between Western Narrative Forms and Tribal Storytelling
Chair: Lisa Slappey, Rice University
Bud Hirsch, University of Kansas: “‘A Community of Words’: Self and Story in American Indian Autobiographical Writing”
John Miller-Purrenhage, Michigan State University: “Two Ways of Coming Home in Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine”
Greg Wright, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: “Rethinking Literary Theory in James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk”
Edgar H. Thompson, Emory & Henry College: “The Creation of Voice in Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire”
Sarah Vause, Utah State University: “Celebration and Sorrow: Women’s Voices in the Literature of Mountaineering”
Dickie Heaberlin, Texas State University, San Marcos: “Metamorphoses: From Cowboys to Oilmen in Western Fiction”
Roundtable: Canonicity, Commercialism, and Hipness in Contemporary Southwestern Literature
Conveners: David Dunaway, University of New Mexcio
Sara Spurgeon, University of Arizona
The experience of researching and producing a revised
edition of Writing the Southwest (2003, University of New Mexico Press)
forced this roundtable’s conveners to tackle issues of canonicity and
commercial appeal. What does it mean to
be a marginalized writer within a marginalized canon? Has Western/Southwestern literature now become so hip that it is
trendy and not marginal at all?
Discussion: Audience