Session Details

Sunday, 09 January

807. Los Angeles: Literatures of a Multiethnic Metropolis

1:45–3:00 p.m., Plaza I, J. W. Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature

Presiding: Susan Tomlinson, Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston

1. “The Emerging Global City in Oscar Zeta Acosta’s Revolt of the Cockroach People,” Keith M. Wilhite, Duke Univ.

2. “A Geography of Pain: Reading Their Dogs Came with Them,” Alicia Munoz, Macalester Coll.

3. “The Logic of Sacrifice: Comparative Racialization and Narrativization in the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita, Sesshu Foster, and Nina Revoyr,” Stephen Sohn, Stanford Univ.

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