Session Details

Tuesday, 29 December

495. Race, Space, and Sexuality

1:45–3:00 p.m., Independence Salon I, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature

Presiding: Richard T. Rodríguez, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana

1. “‘A Man’s World’: Nightclubs in Ann Petry’s The Street,” Delphine Gras, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

2. “Ethics of Connectedness: James Baldwin’s and Gloria Anzaldúa’s Grotesque Underground,” Mikko J. Tuhkanen, Texas A&M Univ., College Station

3. “Geography and Sexual Transgressions in Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee,” Xiaojing Zhou, Univ. of the Pacific

4. “Cartographies of Desire: Queer Spaces in Novels by Samuel Delany and Darieck Scott,” GerShun Avilez, Univ. of Pennsylvania

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