Session Details

Tuesday, 28 December

194. Evidence and (Literary/Ethnological) Objects

1:45–3:00 p.m., Commonwealth Hall C, Loews

Program arranged by the Division on Anthropological Approaches to Literature

Presiding: Eric Aronoff, State Univ. of New York, Inst. of Tech.

1. “Uneasy Deconstructions: The Banal Object in Anglophone Indian Writing,” Saikat Majumdar, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick

2. “Thresholds of Belonging: Literary and Ethnological (Con)Fusions in Mexican Indegenismo and Testimonio,” Analisa Taylor, Univ. of Oregon

3. “Texts against Contexts: African Literature and Colonial Anthropology,” Apollo Amoko, Univ. of Florida

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