The Beat Generation and Counterculture
SW/TX Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference
San Antonio, Texas
April 7-10, 2004
Last year in Albuquerque, participants presented papers on topics ranging
from the misperception of musical genres in Jack Kerouac's On the Road to William
S. Burroughs' relations with the natives of Morocco to Diane Di Prima's
female mythology in Loba. This year, the 2004 meeting of the SW/TX PCA/ACA will be
a joint meeting with the National PCA/ACA at the Marriott Rivercenter Hotel in
San Antonio. Suggested topics for papers include (but are no means limited
to) the following:
-The shamanic/beatific vision in Beat literature
-The changing nature of the Beat canon
-Modernism and the Beats
-The influence of folk and ethnic literatures on the Beats
-Blues, jazz and/or folk music and the Beats
-Influence of graphic art on the Beats and vice versa
-Asian religion and literature as an influence on the Beats
-Gender and the Beats
-Ecopoetics and the Beats
-Specific movements, places, and/or personalities
-Beats and travel
-Beats overseas
-Beat influence on the literatures of other countries and cultures
-Beats and postmodernism
Any modern language is welcome for presentations. For details about last
year's meeting, this year's meeting, registration, hotels, and travel, see the web
site at: www.swtexaspca.org
Please post or e-mail a 250 word abstract of your paper (no papers please)
and a brief biography by November 15th (reception deadline, not postmark) to:
Tim Bradford
Department of English
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK 74078
Timarpa@aol.com
This abstract should be headed by a two-part title that moves from general to
specific-for example, "Women of the Beats: Anne Waldman's Performance
Poetics." The biography should be followed by a signature file that includes
university affiliation, mailing address, phone, fax, and e-mail. No paper will be
considered unless all these criteria are fulfilled. I would prefer to receive all
abstracts and biographies as part of the e-mail, but attachments in MS Word or
compatible programs are acceptable. A response will be sent in one week or
less.
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