Panel: Corrals and Fences
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.
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
Comments
Permissions pending, digitization planned.