CFP: [Poetry] Langston Hughes: Authenticity, Performance, and the Voice (12/1/07; ALA 08)
Panel--Langston Hughes: Authenticity, Performance, and the Voice
American Literature Association
Memorial Day Weekend 2008
Hyatt Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA
Authenticity as a concept first attained prominence in literary studies
during the 1960s along with the rise of so-called confessional poetry and
anti-war protest poetry. Since then, the idea that literature should
accurately represent the writer’s experiences and views, in fact should
represent his or her own voice on the page, has remained largely dominant
despite some notable detractors.