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

Title
Old Southwest/New Southwest : essays on a region and its literature / edited by Judy Nolte Lensink.
Publication
  • Tucson : Tucson Public Library, 1987.
  • Tucson : Distributed by the University of Arizona Press

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Additional Authors
  • Temple, Judy Nolte, 1948-
  • Momaday, N. Scott, 1934-
  • Waters, Frank, 1902-1995.
  • Lavender, David, 1910-2003.
  • García, Juan Ramon.
  • Eastlake, William.
  • Nichols, John Treadwell, 1940-2023.
  • Anaya, Rudolfo A.
  • Bowden, Charles, 1945-2014.
  • Zwinger, Ann.
  • Powell, Lawrence Clark, 1906-2001.
  • Tucson Public Library.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities.
  • Old Southwest/New Southwest Conference (1985 : Tucson, Ariz.)
Description
xii, 167 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
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.
Subject
  • 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
  • New Southwest
  • United States > Old Southwest
  • United States > Southwestern States
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Galley proofs.
Note
  • 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.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Credits (note)
  • Designed by A. Tracy Row.
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.
ISBN
  • 0961784903
  • 9780961784904
LCCN
86027260
OCLC
  • ocm14904412
  • 14904412
  • SCSB-1169923
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library