Session Details

Friday, 07 January

327. “Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?”: Food and Desire in Twentieth-Century Literature

3:30–4:45 p.m., Diamond Salon 6, J. W. Marriott

A special session

Presiding: Jennifer Burns Levin, Univ. of Oregon

1. “Iconic Produce, Modernist Skins,” Jennifer Burns Levin

2. “Making Do: Female Desire and the Cookery Books of World War II–Era Britain,” Andrea Adolph, Kent State Univ., Stark Regional Campus

3. “Forbidding Fruit: Of Mangoes in Caribbean Women’s Fiction,” Winnie W. Chan, Virginia Commonwealth Univ.

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