Session Details

Monday, 28 December

299. Practices of the Ethnic Archive

3:30–4:45 p.m., 310, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada

Presiding: Dana Williams, Howard Univ.

1. “Rhetorics of Discovery, Nineteenth-Century African American Literature, and the Archive,” Eric Scott Gardner, Saginaw Valley State Univ.

2. “Missing Subjects: Reconsidering the Journals of the Society of American Indians,” Kathleen G. Washburn, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque

3. “Making a Canon Crazier: Eleanor Wong Telemaque and Asian American Literary Studies,” Josephine D. Lee, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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