Saturday, 5 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Liberty C, Sheraton
A special session
Presiding: Jennifer Griffiths, New York Inst. of Tech., Manhattan
1. "'My Portrait Was Gold': Resiliency and the Crisis of the Black Child's Image in Dael Orlandersmith's The Gimmick,"
Jennifer Griffiths
2. "'The Least of These': The Spectacle of Violence and the Black Child in For Colored Girls and Precious,"
Carol E. Henderson,
Univ. of Delaware, Newark
3. "The Absence of Violence: Black Childhood and Confession in Leaving Atlanta,"
GerShun Avilez,
Yale Univ.
Subjects:
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American Literature – General
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American Literature – Twentieth Century
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