William Carlos Williams and the Question of “America”: 100 Years of In the American Grain
In marking the 100th anniversary of the publication of In the American Grain, we seek papers that offer new readings of this work or consider Williams’s relationship to “Americanness” as a social, literary, or historical concept. Papers may also consider Williams and questions of national borders; national identity; the telling of American history; the American South; America’s literary tradition; or the troubled and violent history that permeates these concepts.
Friday, 10 January 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Kabacoff (Hilton Riverside New Orleans)
Presiding: Mark C. Long, Keene State College
Presentations:
“Williams and the ‘Remapping’ of American Literature and Cultural Studies: In the American Grain at One Hundred,” Stephen Hahn, William Paterson U
“William Carlos Williams, Daniel Boone, and the Shadow of American Colonization,” Florian Gargaillo, Austin Peay State U
“Irredeemable Beauty: An American Counterplot,” Zachary Tavlin, School of the Art Inst. of Chicago
