Session Details

Friday, 07 January

338. Locating African American Radicalism

3:30–4:45 p.m., Platinum Salon I, J. W. Marriott

A special session

Presiding: William Malcuit, Univ. of Wisconsin Colls., Washington County

1. “The Dialectics of Black Radicalism,” Anthony D. Dawahare, California State Univ., Northridge

2. “Resistance and Collectivity in the 1930s: Langston Hughes’s Songs of Communal Selves,” William Malcuit

3. “‘The Unfinished Task of Emancipation’: The South Side Writers Group and the Grassroots of the Chicago Renaissance,” Michelle Gordon, Univ. of Southern California

4. “The Modernist Fiction of Ellison and Morrison: Between Communism and Black Art,” Philip Goldstein, Univ. of Delaware, Wilmington

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