Beyond Binaries: Multiplying Genders and Sexualities in American Indian Literatures
Chair: Lisa Tatonetti, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Lisa Tatonetti, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh: “Sovereignty and Sexuality in Craig Womack’s Drowning in Fire”
Julie Stockwell, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh: “Converting Agnes: The Female Priest as a Two-Spirit in Louise Erdrich’s The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse”
Guy Witzel, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh: “Dismantling The Duke: Complicated Sexual Identities in Sherman Alexie’s The Toughest Indian in the World”
Patrice Hollrah, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: “The Slippery Slope of Sexual Orientation in the Novels of Louise Erdrich”
The Legacy of 1848
Chair: David Weber, Southern Methodist University
Jesse Alemán, University of New Mexico: “The (M)other Country: Mexico, the U.S., and the Birth of a National Narrative, 1835-45”
John M. González, University of Texas at Austin: “The Difference Between 1848 and 1938: Coloniality and Postcoloniality in Américo Paredes’s George Washington Gomez”
Spencer Herrera, University of New Mexico: “Territorial Regionalism: ‘Los Tejanos’ and New Mexican Regional Identity”
Andrea Tinnemeyer, Utah State University: “Mis(s) Taken: The Identity Politics of Captivity Narratives After 1848”
The Gender of “Lesser” Literatures: Narrating Female Stories in Diaries and Young People’s Fiction
Chair: Margaret Doane, California State University, San Bernardino
Margaret
Doane, California State University, San
Bernardino: “Reality Rewritten and Romanticized in the Short Stories of May
Stewart Doane”
Rebecca
Feind, James Madison University: “Boston
in Wisconsin: The Domestic Sphere of Caddie Woodlawn and the ‘Settling’ of the
American West”
Jennifer Adkison, Idaho State University: “‘These is my words’…or are they?: Constructing Western Women’s Lives in Two Contemporary Novels”
Living Up to the Fictions of Authenticity
Chair: Tara Penry, Boise State University
Jefferson
D. Slagle, Ohio State University: “America
Unscripted; Or, The Absolute Fake: History, Fiction, and Authenticity in the
Wild West”
Michael Brown, Creighton University: “Foucault’s Flourish and the New Western Regionalism: Why Authenticity to Place can Be Maximally Subversive”
Suzanne Bost, Southern Methodist University: “I Left My Authenticity in New Mexico: ‘Crippled’ Xicanisma and Cold Chicago Winters in the Work of Ana Castillo”
Amy Hamilton, University of Arizona: “Love, Language, and Lowriders: Cultural Essentialism and Self-Creation Michele Serros’ Chicana Falsa and How to be a Chicana Role Model”
Taking the Exceptionalism Out of Western Land, “Natives,” and Ecology
Chair: Susan Kollin, Montana State University
Susan
Kollin, Montana State University: “‘In the
living margin between ice and blood…’: Feminist Ecopolitics in Sherry Simpson’s
The Way Winter Comes”
Vivian
Chin, Mills College: “Starring Hillary
Chan: The Politics of Space and Mobility in Hawaiian Getaway, an Optic
Nerve Comic”
James Barilla, UC Davis: “Bio-Invasion Discourse and Hybridity in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes”
J. Gerard Dollar, Siena College: “So Far From God, So Far From Home: Ana Castillo and the Chicana Search for Origins”
Negotiating Racial Stereotypes in/of Western Film
Chair: Nancy Cook, University of Rhode Island
Vincent Perez, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: “Mexican Los Angeles in Hollywood’s Golden Era: The Autobiography of Anthony Quinn and Leo Carrillo”
Matt Wanat, Denison University: “Point of View and the Rhetoric of Hombre (1967)”
Michael K. Johnson, University of Maine at Farmington: “Chris Eyre: Adapting the Literary West for Film”
Nicolas Witschi, Western Michigan University: “‘Clint Eastwood? What kind of a stupid name is that?’: Back to the Future III, Naming the Land, and the Revisionist Westerns of the 1990s”
Decentering Traditional Notions of the American West: Language, Culture, Geography, Politics
Chair: Linda Lizut Helstern, University of Texas-Pan American
Ann Kennedy, Rice University: “Bitter Geographies: Gender, Nation, and the Frontier in Agnes Smedley”
Karen Ramirez, University of Colorado, Boulder: “Narrative Mappings of the Land as Space, Place, and Partner in Willa Cather’s My Ántonia”
David Messmer, Rice University: “The White, White West: Jack Kerouac’s Racialized Relocation of Narrative in The Subterraneans”
Creative Reading – Spectator Sports, Nonspectator Sports, and a Bit of Comic Relief
Chair: Bev Conner, University of Puget Sound
Seth
Bovey, Louisiana State University,
Alexandria: “Trespassers”
Twister
Marquiss, Texas State University, San
Marcos: “Spectator Sports”
Lawrence Coates, Bowling Green State University: “Readings from The Master of Monterey”