Session Details

Friday, 07 January

304. American Military Intervention Abroad and Literary Reintervention

1:45–3:00 p.m., Platinum Salon I, J. W. Marriott

A special session

Presiding: Linda Margarita Greenberg, California State Univ., Los Angeles

1. “América Is in the Archipelago: World War II and the Last Filipino-American Novels in Spanish,” Adam Lifshey, Georgetown Univ.

2. “Citizen, Colonial, Soldier: Resistance and Nationalisms in the Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora,” Stacy Reardon, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst

3. “From Guatemalan Death Squads to the 1992 Los Angeles Riots: Remapping the Terrains of War in Héctor Tobar’s The Tattooed Soldier,” Linda Margarita Greenberg

Respondent: Victor Bascara, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

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