Session Details

Friday, 30 December

650. Race, Ethnicity, and Dissent in Midcentury American Fiction

8:30–9:45 a.m., Ethan Allen, Marriott

A special session

Presiding: Cynthia Ann Young, Boston Coll.

1. “‘A Typical Wartime Washington Party’: Forgotten Memories of Bienvenido Santos,” Cynthia H. Tolentino, Univ. of Oregon

2. “Making the Private Public: Miscegenation in Ann Petry’s The Narrows,” Alex Lubin, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque

3. “‘The Emptiness between One and the Other’: Form, Negation, and National Belonging in John Okada’s No-No Boy,” Joseph Entin, Brooklyn Coll., City Univ. of New York

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