Session Details

Wednesday, 29 December

418. Multilingualism and Modernism

10:15–11:30 a.m., Commonwealth Hall D, Loews

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English

Presiding: Yunte Huang, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

1. “Coming to Terms: The Yiddish Avant-Garde and American Modernism,” Nikki Halpern, Univ. of Paris VII, Charles V

2. “‘Parallel Yellow’: Mesquakie and the No Passing Zone of the Novels of Ray A. Young Bear,” Candace J. Waid, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

3. “The Monarchy, Modernism, and the Progress of Pidgin Poetry,” Shelley Armitage, Univ. of Texas, El Paso

4. “Standard Deviation: The Multilingual Modernism of Gertrude Stein,” Erika Rachel Nanes, Univ. of Southern California

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