Session E (1:30-2:45 Friday)
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Lost in the Supermarket
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”
Ramón Javier Guerra, University of Nebraska. Lincoln: “A Border Ballad Hero As Inspiration: An Analysis of Resistant Action in Américo 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”