Session Details

Saturday, 29 December

499. Stolen Childhoods: Narratives at Work in the World

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Superior A, Sheraton Chicago

Program arranged by the Division on Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

Presiding: Margaret R. Higonnet, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs

1. “Replacement Children: The Transgenerational Transmission of Traumatic Loss,” Gabriele M. Schwab, Univ. of California, Irvine

2. “Narrative and the Possibilities of Justice for Boy Soldiers and Lost Boys,” Kimberly Ann Nance, Illinois State Univ.

3. “From Displacement to Reconstitution: What Memoirs Can Do,” U. C. Knoepflmacher, Princeton Univ.

Respondent: Daniel Feldman, Yale Univ.

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