Southwest/Texas
Popular and American Culture Association

Call for Papers: Southwestern Literature

The Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Association invites papers on Southwestern Literature for its 31st annual conference to be held February 10-13, 2010, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Southwestern Literature is an admittedly broad topic. For the purposes of this conference we rely on J. Frank Dobie’s 1934 definition: “Arizona, New Mexico, most of Texas, some of Oklahoma, and anything else north, south, east, or west that anybody wants to bring in.”

Papers in past sessions have ranged widely: race riots; a survey of river literature; Honky Tonk dancing; the effects of the JFK assassination on Texas writers. Papers on specific writers are also welcome. Past papers have covered writers ranging from Ralph Ellison and Katherine Anne Porter to Leslie Marmon Silko and Willa Cather. In short, we welcome any paper, broad or narrow, that contributes to our understanding of the Southwest through its literature.

Please send a 100-word abstract by December 15, 2009, to the Area Chair:

Steve Davis
Assistant Curator, Southwestern Writers Collection
Albert B. Alkek Library
Texas State University
San Marcos, TX 78666
sdavis@txstate.edu

Submission Deadline 12/15/09, Priority Registration Deadline 11/01/09
Conference Hotel: Hyatt Regency Albuquerque, 330 Tijeras, Albuquerque, NM 87102, phone (505) 842-1234
For more information check out the conference website at: http://www.swtxpca.org