Session Details

Wednesday, 29 December

399. Diasporic “America”: Dislocating the Nation

10:15–11:30 a.m., Independence Ballroom Salon III, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society

Presiding: Timothy W. Marr, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

1. “Verses of Amerika: Political Poetry of German Immigrant Anarchists,” Tom Goyens, Univ. of Leuven

2. “Ends of Empires: Pacific Circulations of the American(ized) Multicultural Nation,” Seri I. K. Luangphinith, Univ. of Hawai‘i, Hilo

3. “Symbols of the ‘New African’: Drum Magazine, African American Popular Culture, and the Construction of Black Urban Subjectivity in 1950s South Africa,” Colette Guldimann, Queen Mary Univ. of London

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