Session Details

Monday, 28 December

140. Criticism as Method: Mediating Literature and Politics

8:30–9:45 a.m., 405, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Graduate Student Caucus

Presiding: Alysia Garrison, Univ. of California, Davis

1. “Fanon’s Literary Criticism: Thoughts on Critical Method and Politics,” Ben Etherington, Univ. of Cambridge, King’s Coll.

2. “‘Knowing the Difference’: Situating a Chinese Feminist Epistemological Position,” Li Guo, Univ. of Iowa

3. “Allegories of Overdevelopment: Philippine Postcoloniality against the Time of Modernization,” Paul Nadal, Univ. of California, Berkeley

4. “A Literary-Historical Approach to the Browning of America,” Swati Rana, Univ. of California, Berkeley

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