Session Details

Monday, 29 December

553. Postcolonial Comparisons: Geography and History

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Nob Hill B, Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture

Presiding: Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

1. “Geographies of Trauma: Literature and the Partitions of India and Palestine,” Jennifer Yusin, Drexel Univ.

2. “Adaptation/Translation: Toward a Comparative Americas Studies,” Susan K. Gillman, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz

3. “Bridging the Islands: Ecocriticism, Cartography, and Landscape in the Caribbean Regional Imagination,” Lizabeth Paravisini, Vassar Coll.

Respondent: Deepika Bahri, Emory Univ.

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