Session Details

Thursday, 28 December

214. Engendering Race

1:45–3:00 p.m., Commonwealth Hall A1, Loews

Program arranged by the Division on Nineteenth-Century French Literature

Presiding: Adrianna M. Paliyenko, Colby Coll.

1. “Cet audacieux cri de liberté: Performances de l’émancipation féminine et raciale (1789–1848),” Catherine M. J. Nesci, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

2. “A Black Cutout against a Captive Blue Sky: Re-visioning the Venus Hottentot,” Alison Perry, Univ. of Texas, Austin

3. “Race, Fecundity, Empire: Jewish Seduction and the French Colonial Project,” Dorian F. Bell, Univ. of Pennsylvania

4. “Peau blanche, masques noirs: Gender and Race in Colonial Women’s Writing in North Africa,” Leonard R. Koos, Univ. of Mary Washington

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