Old Southwest/New Southwest : essays on a region and its literature / edited by Judy Nolte Lensink.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Temple, Judy Nolte, 1948- editor.

Schimmel, Caroline F., associated name, donor.

Tucson Public Library, publisher.

National Endowment for the Humanities, sponsor.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Conference Name:

Old Southwest/New Southwest Conference (1985 : Tucson, Ariz.) http://viaf.org/viaf/149009990

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Southwestern States--History and criticism--Congresses.

American literature.

Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Southwestern States--Congresses.

Authors, American.

Southwestern States--In literature--Congresses.

Southwestern States.

Southwestern States--Intellectual life--Congresses.

Southwest, Old--Congresses.

Southwest, Old.

Southwest, New--Congresses.

Southwest, New.

Authors, American--Homes and haunts.

Intellectual life.

Literature.

New Southwest.

United States--Old Southwest.

United States--Southwestern States.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Galley proofs.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel 7550)

Physical Description:

xii, 167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Distribution:

Tucson : Distributed by the University of Arizona Press

Place of Publication:

Tucson : Tucson Public Library, 1987.

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.

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.

Credits:

Designed by A. Tracy Row.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Schimmel 7550: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Chuck Bowden's autograph on half title.

Contains:

Container of: Momaday, N. Scott, 1934-2024. Landscape with words in the foreground.

Container of: Waters, Frank, 1902-1995. Roots and literary influences.

Container of: Lavender, David, 1910-2003. Tyranny of facts.

Container of: García, Juan Ramon. Hollywood and the West : Mexican images in American films, 1894-1983.

Container of: Eastlake, William. Failure of Western writing.

Container of: Nichols, John Treadwell, 1940-2023. Writer as revolutionary.

Container of: Anaya, Rudolfo A. An American Chicano in King Arthur's court.

Container of: Bowden, Charles, 1945-2014. Useless deserts & other goals.

Container of: Zwinger, Ann. Writers of the purple figwort.

Container of: Powell, Lawrence Clark, 1906-2001. Fountain and the well : sources of southwestern literature.

ISBN:

0961784903

9780961784904

OCLC:

14904412