Session Details

Wednesday, 29 December

424. The City in African Literatures

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

Program arranged by the Division on African Literatures

Presiding: Olakunle George, Brown Univ.

1. “A Dream Deferred: Postapartheid Urban Literature,” Ashley James Dawson, Coll. of Staten Island, City Univ. of New York

2. “(Post)Colonial Sex and Western(ized) City: Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North,” Katja Hawlitschka, Wayne State Coll.

3. “Urban Erasure: Sophiatown in Bloke Modisane’s Blame Me on History and Marlene Van Niekerk’s Triomf,” Emma K. Hunt, Univ. of Toronto

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