Session Details

Wednesday, 27 December

29. Postbellum, Pre-Harlem: New Approaches to African American Literature and Culture, 1877–1919

5:15–6:30 p.m., Independence Ballroom Salon I, Philadelphia Marriott

A special session

Presiding: Caroline Gebhard, Tuskegee Univ.

1. “New West as New South in Pauline Hopkins’s Winona,” Jeremy Dean, Univ. of Texas, Austin

2. “Sex and Sewing in the Short Fiction of Alice Dunbar-Nelson,” Hellen Lee, California State Univ., Sacramento

3. “Sutton Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio and the Search for an African American Utopia,” Marlene D. Allen, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

Respondent: Barbara Ann McCaskill, Univ. of Georgia

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