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California State University, Los Angeles
\n<\/strong>May 2-3, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Deadline for proposals: January 31, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sponsored by Cal State L.A.’s Gigi Gaucher-Morales Memorial Conference Series, the College of Arts and Letters, the College of Natural and Social Sciences, the Department of Chicano Studies, the Department of English, and the Emeriti Association.<\/p>\n

Call for Papers<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rudolfo A. Anaya (New Mexico, 1937) belongs to the first generation of Chicano writers who pioneered and charted one of the most vigorous and theoretically-grounded ethnic literatures in the United States. Anaya led the way since the early 1970s with his novel Bless Me, Ultima (recipient of the 1971 Quinto Sol Award), followed by other novels, short fiction, essays, poetry, drama, and children\u2019s stories. Anaya\u2019s defining impetus in the development of Chicano literature has been threefold. First of all, Anaya’s writings–deeply embedded in the cultural history of New Mexico–portray the American Southwest and its historical conflicts as central features in an aggressive and often violent national expansionism that spread westwards under the sign of modernity. This founding chapter in the history of the United States is represented in Anaya’s novels through vivid landscape descriptions and traces of autobiography subtly fictionalized and patterned after a literary heritage that includes Mexican\/Chicano cultural history and the myths and literary traditions of the U.S. Southwest. Secondly, Anaya\u2019s reconfiguration and reinvention of the American frontier and the wilderness–symbolic spaces that stand in U.S. history as a break with the past, the reinvention of the self, and the colonization of the alien–achieve in Anaya’s pages their literary representation in a style and narrative vision that have appealed in an equally compelling manner to both nonspecialist and scholarly readers. And third, Anaya\u2019s work has been translated to many world languages, revealing implicit connections to world civilizations through the language of myth, legend, and national histories, and often turning into a critical arena for international scholarly debates on the analysis and interpretation of Chicano literature and, on a national and global levels, of U.S. and world literatures. Anaya’s work is thus an illustration of how ethnic literatures can avoid a narrow or na\u00efve realism caught in the personal or local with no reference points to national and global implications. Anaya has received many awards, including the American Book Award, the National Medal of Arts, New Mexico Governor\u2019s Award for Excellence in the Arts, and the prestigious Kellogg Foundation Fellowship Award.<\/p>\n

The organizers of this conference propose a reexamination of Anaya’s work from the point of view of tradition, modernity, and the literatures of the U.S. Southwest, and according to the several phases of Anaya’s writing, from the early New Mexico trilogy that includes Bless Me Ultima (1972), Heart of Aztl\u00e1n (1976), and Tortuga (1979), to Alburquerque (1992) and the tetralogy based on the four seasons: Zia Summer (1995), Rio Grande Fall (1996), Shaman Winter (1999), and Jemez Spring (2005), a narrative cycle in which Sonny Baca, the main character, functions as a detective and as the great-grandson of the legendary lawman Elfego Baca. Throughout Anaya\u2019s writings the reader discovers and follows allusions to the early history of New Mexico, with references to Spanish explorers like Alvar N\u00fa\u00f1ez Cabeza de Vaca (1490-1557), and Francisco V\u00e1zquez de Coronado (1510-1554), and to conquistadores, such as Juan de O\u00f1ate (1552-1626). Anaya\u2019s narrative also has intertextual affiliations with the Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. literatures of the Southwest, from the epic poem by Gaspar P\u00e9rez de Villagr\u00e1, Historia de la Nueva M\u00e9xico, 1610, and the Native American and Mexican myths and legends of New Mexico, to the seminal writings of James Fenimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and, in the modern era, Cormac McCarthy’s narratives of the Mexico-U.S. border. Included in this proposed reexamination are Anaya’s recent novels, such as Randy L\u00f3pez Goes Home (2011), and The Old Man’s Love Story (2013); the film adaptation of Bless Me, Ultima (2013); and Anaya’s essays, short fiction, plays, poems, and children’s stories.<\/p>\n

Keynote Speaker: <\/strong>
\nRam\u00f3n A. Guti\u00e9rrez, University of Chicago<\/p>\n

Featured Speakers:<\/strong>
\nEnrique R. Lamadrid, University of New Mexico
\nAna Castillo, Independent Writer
\nRolando Hinojosa-Smith, University of Texas at Austin
\nRosaura S\u00e1nchez, University of California, San Diego
\nMario Acevedo, Independent Writer
\nJohn Pohl, University of California, Los Angeles
\nJos\u00e9 E. Lim\u00f3n, University of Notre Dame<\/p>\n

The deadline<\/strong> for a one-page abstract of conference papers is January 31, 2014<\/strong>. The submitted abstracts will be peer-reviewed and their acceptance or rejection will be communicated by email on or before February 14, 2014. All abstracts submitted as electronic attachments should be sent directly to rcantu@calstatela.edu <\/a>.\u00a0By regular mail, send to:<\/p>\n

Dr. Roberto Cant\u00fa
\nProfessor of Chicano Studies and English
\nCalifornia State University, Los Angeles
\n5151 State University Drive
\nLos Angeles, CA 90032<\/p>\n

For more information please visit: http:\/\/rudyanayaatcalstatela.blogspot.de<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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