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”
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