Old Southwest/New Southwest : essays on a region and its literature /

Old Southwest/New Southwest : essays on a region and its literature /

Essays from the Old Southwest/New Southwest Conference held Nov. 14-17, 1985 in Tucson, Ariz. and sponsored by the Tucson Public Library and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Old Southwest/New Southwest Conference, Tucson Public Library, National Endowment for the Humanities
Other Authors: Temple, Judy Nolte, 1948- (Editor), Momaday, N. Scott, 1934-, Waters, Frank, 1902-1995, Lavender, David, 1910-2003, García, Juan Ramon, Eastlake, William, Nichols, John Treadwell, 1940-, Anaya, Rudolfo A., Bowden, Charles, 1945-2014, Zwinger, Ann, Powell, Lawrence Clark, 1906-2001
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Tucson : Tucson Public Library, 1987.
Subjects:
American literature > Southwestern States > History and criticism > Congresses.
Authors, American > Homes and haunts > Southwestern States > Congresses.
American literature.
Authors, American > Homes and haunts.
Intellectual life.
Literature.
Southwestern States > In literature > Congresses.
Southwestern States > Intellectual life > Congresses.
Southwest, Old > Congresses.
Southwest, New > Congresses.
Southwest, New.
United States > Southwest, Old.
United States > Southwestern States.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Judy Nolte Lensink
  • Landscape with words in the foreground / N. Scott Momaday
  • Roots and literary influences / Frank Waters
  • The other American literatures / Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
  • The author as image maker for the Southwest / Arrell Morgan Gibson
  • Angles of vision : enhancing our perspectives on the Southwest / Janice Monk and Vera Norwood
  • Hispanic women writers of the Southwest : tradition and innovation / Tey Diana Rebolledo
  • The tyranny of facts / David Lavender
  • Hollywood and the West : Mexican images in American films, 1894-1983 / Juan R. García
  • The failure of Western writing / William Eastlake
  • The writer as revolutionary / John Nichols
  • An American Chicano in King Arthur's court / Rudolfo A. Anaya
  • Beyond the frontier mind / Thomas J. Lyon
  • Useless deserts & other goals / Charles Bowden
  • Writers of the purple figwort / Ann Zwinger
  • Having it all : partisan greed and possession of the desert / Reyner Banham
  • The fountain and the well : sources of southwestern literature / Lawrence Clark Powell.