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A prolific author and screenwriter, Josefina Niggli primarily wrote poetry and narrative fiction in the mid-twentieth century. Her oeuvre stretched from the improbable sets of CBS’s “Have Gun, Will Travel” to her collection of short stories Mexican Village, which became a major motion picture for MGM entitled Sombrero in 1953, starring Ricardo Montalbán and Cyd Charisse. In the wake of the movement to translate her fictions into mainstream media, Niggli was forgotten as a literary figure, and the body of her works remains largely unstudied to date.
2010 will mark the centennial of Niggli’s birth, and in an effort to revive
interest in her significant contributions to mid-century literature and
film, we are soliciting submissions for an edited volume of essays on any
subject related to her works, but especially those that discuss the
following:
-national identity, hybridity, and biculturalism;
-empowerment of women characters;
-Niggli as a precursor to contemporary Mexican American and Chicano
literature;
-Mexican costumbrismo written for a (mostly) white Anglo audience.
Please submit one page abstracts to Dr. Jamie Davis
(jddavis@email.wcu.edu) and Dr. Lori Oxford (lfoxford@email.wcu.edu) by
03/28/10.
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