Session Details

Thursday, 29 December

573. Urban Sensibilities: Transformations of the City in Latin America

7:15–8:30 p.m., Georgetown East, Washington Hilton

Program arranged by the Division on Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature

Presiding: María Rosa Olivera-Williams, Univ. of Notre Dame

1. “Deseo y representación del espacio urbano en la escritura modernista ríoplatense,” Carla E. Giaudrone, Rutgers Univ., Camden

2. “A New Urban Subjective Configuration: Fernando Vallejo’s Constitution of the Queer Subject in Latin America’s Urban Spaces,” Arturo Arias, Univ. of Redlands

3. “‘Hoy encontraremos algo valioso’: Havana’s Rhetoric of Ruins,” Vicky Unruh, Univ. of Kansas

4. “Memory, Subjectivity, and Place in Postdictatorial Fictions of the Southern Cone,” Michael J. Lazzara, Univ. of California, Davis

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