Preparatory materials for a paper given by Tidwell at the Modern Language Association conference in 1993. Includes manuscript and reader reviews for "Frank Marshall Davis and the 1960s Counterculture"; correspondence from conference attendees; manuscript abstract of "Confirmed Nonconformity: Frank Marshall Davis and 1960s Counter Culture" by Tidwell; photocopy of "Ad Astra Per Aspera: Frank Marshall Davis" by Tidwell; and photocopies of 2, 20, 22, and 30 from The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, the introduction by G. Legman to My Secret Life, "Feminism, Criticism, and Foucault" by Biddy Martin, "The Second Time Around" by Harriet B. J. Ottenheimer, "What is an Author?" from Truth and Method, "Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography" by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; and "In A Word: Interview" by Ellen Rooney.