Session Details

Wednesday, 29 December

345. Revolution

8:30–9:45 a.m., 406, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Presiding: Christopher D. Castiglia, Loyola Univ., Chicago

1. “Displacing Revolution in/to the Tropics,” Rick Rodriguez, Loyola Univ., Chicago

2. “William Wells Brown and Haiti in the Wake of Dred Scott,” Robert S. Levine, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

3. “‘Scenes of Carnage and Horror’: The Haitian Revolution and the American Civil War,” Linda Anne Frost, Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham

4. “Revenant of the Political Impossible: The Haitian Revolution as Ideological Rupture,” Sara Clarke Kaplan, Univ. of California, Berkeley

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