Session Details

Wednesday, 29 December

613. Alice Childress: Marking the Tenth Anniversary of the Passing of a Literary Mentor

9:00–10:15 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon I, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Black American Literature and Culture

Presiding: La Vinia Delois Jennings, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville

1. “‘Why Talk about That?’: Ironic Discourse in Alice Childress’s Trouble in Mind,” Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, Univ. of Houston, University Park

2. “The Other Black List: Alice Childress and the Popular Front,” Mary-Helen Washington, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

3. “Alice Childress: The Art of Capturing the Voices of ‘Little People,’” Trudier Harris, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Respondent: R. Baxter Miller, Univ. of Georgia

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