Session Details

Tuesday, 28 December

168. Performance and Politics

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Independence Ballroom Salon I, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature

1. “Ratcheting Up the Real,” Martha Banta, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

2. “The Propaganda, Pageantry, and Poetry of the Paterson Silk Strike,” Philip Zwerling, Ursinus Coll.

3. “Dramatic Interventions: Rethinking Mob Violence, Mainstream Theater, and African American Drama, 1890–1930,” Koritha Ann Mitchell, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

Respondent: Sarah R. Robbins, Kennesaw State Univ.

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