CFP: The American Outlaw and the Cultural Landscape (3/25/05;
collection)  full name / name of organization:  Keagan LeJeune
contact email:  The American Outlaw and the Cultural Landscape
The interest in the American outlaw and outlaw studies has a
long = history. Scholars have considered the importance of the
American outlaw = in the construction or development of the
American mind-set. They have = also considered the importance of
this figure throughout history and its = emergence in
literature, film, music, and art. However, the work in = outlaw
studies seems to have taken on three major directions. First, a
= great many of the studies have focused on the life and
exploits of a = single outlaw figure, major or minor-Jesse
James, Billy the Kid, Pancho = Villa, Pretty Boy Floyd, Railroad
Bill, so on. Second, other works, = while they have considered
more than one outlaw, have focused on a = specific region of the
American landscape-most often the American West, = but also the
Southwest, the Mexican/American