S161. CANCELLED: Border Crossing: Racial, Culture, and Social borders in Working-Class Fiction

Status: Not Accepted

Room 211, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
Saturday, March 7, 2020
10:35 am to 11:50 am

 

Issues of race and culture are growing topics in the USA. However, mainstream outlets rarely consider how these issues are addressed in working-class literature. Writers from poor and working-class backgrounds read stories and novel excerpts that address the various conceptual and literal borders that their characters face in day to day lives in south Texas, California’s east bay, and rural Michigan.


Participants

Moderator:

Daniel M. Mendoza is the editor of Stray Dogs: Interviews with Working-Class Writers. He is an assistant editor at Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing. His fiction and essays have appeared in journals across the country.

Joseph D. Haske is a writer and critic whose debut novel is North Dixie Highway. His fiction appears in journals such as Boulevard, Fiction International, the Texas Review, the Four Way Review, Pleiades, and in the Chicago Tribune's literary supplement, Printers Row.

Keenan Norris is the author of the novel Brother and the Dancer and the story collection by the lemon tree. Keenan was a 2017 Marin Headlands Artist-in-Residence. He's also the editor of Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape. He holds a PhD from University of California, Riverside and teaches at San Jose State University.

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