Session F (3:15-4:30 Friday)

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With His Camera in His Hand: Filmmaker Jim Mendiola's Contingencies of History and Identity in Come and Take It Day

Chair: Kirsten Ostherr, Rice University

Juan J. Alonzo, Texas A&M: “Contingency and Critique in Come and Take It Day

Trinidad Gonzalez, University of Houston: “Come and Take it Day: a Continuation Of Counter-Discourse in the 21st Century”

Priscilla Solis Ybarra, Rice University: “Just telling some (hi)stories: Exploring Contemporary Chicana/o Identity in Jim Mendiola’s Come and Take It Day

Jim Mendiola, Writer/Director: “On Artists and Critics”

 

 

Rethinking Race and Region: La Mestizaje, the African Diaspora, and the Politics of Collaboration

Chair: Neil Campbell, University of Derby, United Kingdom

Joshua Damu Smith, University of Southern California: “Re-thinking Race and Region: Miscegenation and Frontier Adventurism in Black Mystery and Science Fiction”

Theresa Delgadillo, University of Notre Dame: “‘Which collectivity does the daughter of a dark-skinned mother listen to?’: African Diaspora and the Borderlands”

María Cotera, University of Michigan: “Necessary Fictions: Reading the Politics of Collaboration in Jovita Gonzalez and Eve Raliegh’s ‘Caballero’”

 

 

Expanding Critical Boundaries: Cather Studies, Chicano/a Studies, American Indian Studies

Chair: Janis Stout, Texas A&M University

Janis Stout, Texas A&M University: “Brown, White, and Cather: A Call for a Race-Centered Cather Studies”

Reginald Dyck, Capital University: “Love Medicine for Class Conflict”

Amelia de la Luz Montes, University of Nebraska, Lincoln: “New Chicana and Latina Geographic Perspectives: Days of Awe and Caramelo

 

 

Masculinity and Femininity/Western Spaces/Honor

Chair: Forrest Robinson, University of California, Santa Cruz

Virgil Mathes, University of New Mexico: “The Hermeneutics of the Duel: Understanding the Other through Coda Duello”

Keri Overall, DeVry University: “Go West Young Man? The West as Feminine Comforter and Redeemer in the Works of Robert Penn Warren”

Forrest Robinson, University of California, Santa Cruz: “Western Homo Hystericus: Preliminary Reflections”

 

 

Revising 19th Century Folklore and Public Culture

Chair: Bonney MacDonald, Union College

Richard Hutson, University of California, Berkeley: “Cowboys and Contracts: Andy Adams’ The Outlet (1905)”

Tara Penry, Boise State University: “Regionalism and Globalism in Millicent Shinn’s Overland Monthly

Lawrence Coates, Bowling Green State University: “Narratives of ‘Discovery’ and ‘Rediscovery’: Versions of Yosemite in the Nineteenth Century”

 

 

“The Music and the Mirror”: A Gathering of Creative Readings

Chair: Karen Ramirez, University of Colorado, Boulder

Ann Putnam, University of Puget Sound: “The Last Supper: A Memoir”

Beverly Conner, University of Puget Sound: “Falling From Grace”

 

 

Looking for New Models of Chicano Manhood and Womanhood

Chair: Paul Guajardo, University of Houston

Kathryn Kuszmar Franzell, California State University, Fresno: “La Virgen de Guadalupe Sightings: Encounters with Mother Archetypes in the Southwest”

Linda Aguilar Pena, University of Houston: “Forces of the Kings--Female Power in Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo

DeNara Hill University of Nevada, Las Vegas “‘And a man must find out some things for himself’: Masculinity and Cultural Identity in José Antonio Villarreal’s Pocho

 

 

Roundtable: Blackwell’s Regional Literatures of America: Why Now?

Convener:       Charles Crow

Discussants:   Various WLA Contributors to the Volume

This new, substantial (31 essay) collection suggests the increasing status of regional studies. The editor and several contributors invite a discussion of the current status of the field, and the range of critical approaches to it.  Is "regional" still synonymous with "minor?"

Response:      Audience