WEST OF HERE:
Critical Perspectives on Montana Literature
Contributions are invited for West of Here: Critical Perspectives on Montana
Literature, a volume of scholarly essays on the writers and literature of
Montana. In pioneering works such as The Last Best Place (1988) and Ten
Tough Trips (1990), scholars and writers such as William Kittredge, Annick
Smith, and William Bevis not only called into being a canon of Montana
literature, but also explored the tensions between the myths of the West and
the sometimes austere realities of Montana. This volume builds upon these
seminal texts, and seeks to expand not only the canon of Inland Northwest
writers, but also the critical and theoretical approaches to the poems,
plays, essays, personal narratives, stories, and novels of Montana. Essays
may explore the work of such well-known writers as Mary Clearman Blew, James
Lee Burke, James Crumley, Ivan Doig, Leslie Fiedler, Richard Ford, Patricia
Goedicke, A.B. Guthrie, Richard Hugo, Dorothy Johnson, Norman MacLean, D’
Arcy McNickle, Mourning Dove, James Welch, and others, or the work of
contemporary and emerging poets, novelists, playwrights, and essayists such
as Sandra Alcosser, Judy Blunt, Kevin Canty, David James Duncan, Debra
Earling, Dan Flores, Pete Fromm, Deirdre McNamer, Greg Pape, Jenny Siler,
Bill Yellow Robe, and others. Contributors may explore the work of a single
author and/or address such possible topics as Montana as
colonial/postcolonial space, historical fiction, the “rez,” nature, the
land, Montana noir or detective fiction, the New Western, and others. Of
particular interest are essays that draw upon recent developments in Native
American, Postcolonial, and American Studies and that complicate and extend
our understanding of race, place, identity, history, gender, and genre in
Montana writing. Send 500-word abstracts or completed papers (20+ pages in
length) by March 31, 2002 to Brady Harrison or David L. Moore, Department of
English, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, 59812; abstracts may also
be sent as e-mail attachments to harrison@selway.umt.edu or
dlmoore@selway.umt.edu.
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