Session Details

Saturday, 30 December

702. Midwestern Writers Engaging History and Politics

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 303, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature

Presiding: David D. Anderson, Michigan State Univ.

1. “History Lessons in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon,” Marilyn Judith Atlas, Ohio Univ., Athens

2. “‘The Whole Damn Bunch’: Attraction and Revulsion in The Emperor Jones and The Great Gatsby,” John Rohrkemper, Elizabethtown Coll.

3. “Sinclair Lewis: Rejecting the Pulitzer, Accepting the Nobel,” Jayne E. Waterman, Bexley, OH

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