Session Details

Monday, 28 December

263. The Politics of Language

1:45–3:00 p.m., Adams, Loews

Program arranged by the Division on Chicana and Chicano Literature

Presiding: Domino Renee Perez, Univ. of Texas, Austin

1. “Performing Identities and Social Transformation: Caló and Aesthetic Innovation in Chicana/o Poetry,” Beth Hernandez, Univ. of California, Merced

2. “Tropicalizing the Maghreb: North Africa, the Caribbean, and Hybridity in the Poetry of Victor Hernández Cruz,” Marisel C. Moreno, Univ. of Notre Dame

3. “‘The Gloss Indeed Destroys the Text’: Exploring the Role of the Glossary in Latina/o Texts,” Allison E. Fagan, Loyola Univ., Chicago

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