ICW Fiction and History GroupModerator:
William Handley, USC
Description:This colloquium will meet to discuss various aspects of western American and California literary history, particularly with regard to the relationship between the changing literary faces of western historical writing and the historical value of western literature. What historical burdens and aims have western fictions assumed and what do responses to them suggest historically? How have the relationships among western romance, realism, and revisionism changed from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries? Can literary and historical writers and scholars speak productively across the sometimes seemingly wide canyon of their disciplines and assumptions? Meeting quarterly, the colloquium will bring together historians and literary critics, cultural observers, and writers of poetry and fiction to address those and other questions related to western literary cultures past and present. Group members:Erik Avila (UCLA) Past Meetings:January 26, 2008The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and Los Angeles Judith Freeman May 6, 2006 The West, Southern California, and the Modern Imaginary Norman Klein California Institute of the Arts For more information, please contact William Handley.
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