Panel: Corrals and Fences

Presenter Information

James Welch
Joy Harjo
Ralph Beer

Location

Memorial Union Ballroom

Event Website

http://www.undwritersconference.org

Start Date

20-3-1987 12:00 PM

End Date

20-3-1987 1:00 PM

Description

In this audiovisual recording from Friday, March 20, 1987, as part of the 18th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Writers of the Purple Sage,” James Welch, Joy Harjo, and Ralph Beer participate in a panel called “Corrals and Fences.” The panelists discuss bar scenes in their work, writing chaotic situations, spirituality in their work, culture in the American west, why they choose the life of writing, issues facing American Indian writers, the role of the arts in modern society, racial and national memory, subtext, writing as cultural preservation, using inherited stories, feasibility and authenticity in myths of the American West, and mediating inspiration.

Moderated by Dr. Joseph E. DeFlyer.

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Panel: Corrals and Fences

Memorial Union Ballroom

In this audiovisual recording from Friday, March 20, 1987, as part of the 18th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Writers of the Purple Sage,” James Welch, Joy Harjo, and Ralph Beer participate in a panel called “Corrals and Fences.” The panelists discuss bar scenes in their work, writing chaotic situations, spirituality in their work, culture in the American west, why they choose the life of writing, issues facing American Indian writers, the role of the arts in modern society, racial and national memory, subtext, writing as cultural preservation, using inherited stories, feasibility and authenticity in myths of the American West, and mediating inspiration.

Moderated by Dr. Joseph E. DeFlyer.

https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/1987/day4/2