Session Details

Monday, 29 December

634. Visions of the Pacific Rim

3:30–4:45 p.m., Foothill G1, Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Twentieth-Century French Literature

Presiding: Peter Lawrence Schulman, Old Dominion Univ.

1. “The Other Orient: Sex, Sensuality, and Desire in Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s Autoportrait (à l’étranger),” Arcana J. Albright, Univ. of Pennsylvania

2. “Dreaming Tahiti: Gauguin, Segalen, and Claire Denis and ‘le Destin d’Exotisme,’” Claire Elizabeth F. Schub, Tufts Univ.

3. “Entre saccage et préservation: Le Pacifique de Marguerite Yourcenar,” Nicolas Di Meo, Université Michel de Montaigne

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