Session Details

Wednesday, 28 December

341. The Political Implications of Representing Multilingualism in Literary Texts and Films

7:15–8:30 p.m., Monroe West, Washington Hilton

Program arranged by the Division on Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature

Presiding: Martha J. Cutter, Kent State Univ., Kent

1. “‘English Is Broken Here’: The Politics of Bilingualism in Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s Performance Texts,” Jane W. Hseu, Univ. of California, Irvine

2. “Stepping Back from the Borderlands: Multilingualism Suavizado,” Kimberly Ann Nance, Illinois State Univ.

3. “‘Translation-in-Reverse’: Political Translation in United States Latino Fiction,” Marta Esther Sánchez, Arizona State Univ., Tempe

4. “‘Are They Talking about Me?’: Representing the Fear of Multilingualism in Film, Television, and Literary Texts,” Dalia Kandiyoti, Coll. of Staten Island, City Univ. of New York

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