Session Details

Wednesday, 27 December

75. Who Was the First African American Woman Novelist?

8:45–10:00 p.m., Liberty Ballroom Salon C, Philadelphia Marriott

A special session

Presiding: William Leake Andrews, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

1. “What Matters the Colors of the Tiger’s Stripes?” Frances Smith Foster, Emory Univ.

2. “Our Nig’s Generic Genealogies,” P. Gabrielle Foreman, Occidental Coll.

3. “Editing Julia Collins’s The Curse of Caste,” Joycelyn K. Moody, Saint Louis Univ.

4. “Could Frances Harper Be the First African American Woman Novelist?” DoVeanna Sherie Fulton, Arizona State Univ., Tempe

For copies of abstracts, write to wandrews@unc.edu.

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