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About the Book:
What Wildness is This:
Women Write
About the Southwest
Publication date: March, 2007
University of Texas Press
Exhibit: What Wildness is This
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A Land Full of Stories
A Conference & Celebration of Writing
about Place and Personal History
June 7-9, 2007
Alkek Library, Southwestern Writers Collection
Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
WHAT WILDNESS IS THIS
A SPECIAL EXHIBIT
on display at the Southwestern Writers Collection
Special Collections of the Albert B. Alkek Library
Texas State University
San Marcos TX
June 1-July 31, 2007
Celebrating the publication of What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest, the Southwestern Writers Collection is mounting a special exhibit that highlights this newest volume in the SWWC Book Series.
What Wildness is This illuminates the rich diversity of environments of the Southwest, as well as the extraordinary range of women's voices and women's experiences of the land. The book was created by the Story Circle Network, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping women share the stories of their lives and to raising public awareness of the importance of women's personal histories. The Story Circle Network is donating its archives from the making of What Wildness is This to the Southwestern Writers Collection.
The artifacts on display include manuscripts, photographs, excerpts from the book, biographies of selected writers, and numerous books that showcase women's writing in the southwest. Also on display: materials documenting the ten-year history of the Story Circle Network.
Steve Davis is the Assistant Curator of the Southwestern Writers Collection at Texas State University-San Marcos, a position he's held since 1997. He has curated numerous exhibits, including "Flores del nopal: Mexican American Voices in Texas," "Scene of the Crime: Mystery/Detective Fiction in Texas," "Gringos in Mexico: American Writers South of the Border," and many others. He is also the author of Texas Literary Outlaws: Six Writers in the Sixties and Beyond, published by TCU Press in 2004.
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