Session Details

Saturday, 29 December

411. Violence, Terrorism, and the Human Rights

8:30–9:45 a.m., Toronto, Hyatt Regency

Program arranged by the Division on English Literature Other Than British and American

Presiding: Pradyumna S. Chauhan, Arcadia Univ.

1. “The Importance of the Inexplicable: Understanding Violence, Rage, and Terror in Salman Rushdie’s Fury and Shalimar the Clown,” Nancy Comorau, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

2. “‘Hold the Thought, Hold It’: Maniza Naqvi’s Globalized Modernist Masterpiece Stay with Me,” Linda E. Chown, Grand Valley State Univ.

3. “On the Blurry Edges of the Republic: Violence and Terror in Siddharth Deb’s An Outline of the Republic and Mitra Phukan’s The Collector’s Wife,” Rajender Kaur, Ridgefield, CT

For copies of abstracts, write to chauhanp@comcast.net.

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