Session Details

Friday, 29 December

483. Visual Culture and Chicana/o Literature

1:45–3:00 p.m., Regency Ballroom C1, Loews

Program arranged by the Division on Chicana and Chicano Literature

Presiding: Rafael M. Pérez-Torres, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

1. “Visualizing the Noir of Night in Lucha Corpi’s Detective Novels,” María DeGuzmán, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

2. “A New Millennial Xicana Superhero: Comic Book Types That Undo Stereotypes,” Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State Univ., Columbus

3. “Fantasies of Loving Pedro Infante,” Richard T. Rodríguez, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana

4. “Shared Spaces; or, Toward a Process of Critical Interrogation: La Llorona in Two Short Films,” Domino Renee Perez, Univ. of Texas, Austin

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