Session Details

Sunday, 30 December

712. Monstruario: Teratology and Culture

10:15–11:30 a.m., Colorado, Sheraton Chicago

Program arranged by the Division on Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900

Presiding: Carlos A. Jauregui, Vanderbilt Univ.

1. “New World Teratologies: The Mermaid Metaphor,” Persephone Braham, Univ. of Delaware, Newark

2. “Laboratorios de la población: Retóricas modernas de la monstruosidad,” Gabriel Alejandro Giorgi, Univ. of Southern California

3. “La extravagante lingua franca: Esfera pública y discurso oral en Buenos Aires (1870s–1900s),” Hernán A. Feldman, Emory Univ.

Respondent: Gwen Kirkpatrick, Georgetown Univ.

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