Panel: Homeland as Metaphor
Location
Memorial Union Ballroom
Event Website
http://www.undwritersconference.org
Start Date
26-3-1982 12:00 PM
End Date
26-3-1982 1:00 PM
Description
In this audio recording from Friday, March 26, 1982, as part of the 13th Annual UND Writers Conference: “International Writers,” Arturo Vivante and Thomas McGrath participate in a panel called “Homeland as Metaphor.” The panelists discuss writing place, developing a sense of place through travel, sense of home, and the transformation of places and peoples. McGrath discusses his learning about diversity through interaction with native peoples in North Dakota and across the United States, as well as Chicano people in the Southwest. The panelists respond to audience questions about McGrath's criticism of Joseph Brodsky's endorsement of Richard Nixon, and the effect of distance and time on political perspective. McGrath explains the effect of his family's relation to James Joyce and the importance of learning languages. Vivante explains his interest in various artistic mediums (painting, music, sculpture, among others), the capabilities and resistances of different mediums, and working in limited mediums. John Little closes the panel by reading the first paragraphs of Ellen Gilchrist's “Traveler,” “In the Land of Dreamy Dreams,” and “Indignities.”
Note: This recording is audio only.
Panel: Homeland as Metaphor
Memorial Union Ballroom
In this audio recording from Friday, March 26, 1982, as part of the 13th Annual UND Writers Conference: “International Writers,” Arturo Vivante and Thomas McGrath participate in a panel called “Homeland as Metaphor.” The panelists discuss writing place, developing a sense of place through travel, sense of home, and the transformation of places and peoples. McGrath discusses his learning about diversity through interaction with native peoples in North Dakota and across the United States, as well as Chicano people in the Southwest. The panelists respond to audience questions about McGrath's criticism of Joseph Brodsky's endorsement of Richard Nixon, and the effect of distance and time on political perspective. McGrath explains the effect of his family's relation to James Joyce and the importance of learning languages. Vivante explains his interest in various artistic mediums (painting, music, sculpture, among others), the capabilities and resistances of different mediums, and working in limited mediums. John Little closes the panel by reading the first paragraphs of Ellen Gilchrist's “Traveler,” “In the Land of Dreamy Dreams,” and “Indignities.”
Note: This recording is audio only.
https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/1982/day5/2
Comments
Permissions pending, digitization planned.