Session Details

Tuesday, 27 December

90. Beyond the Moderns: Postwar Expatriate Writing in Paris

8:45–10:00 p.m., McKinley, Marriott

A special session

Presiding: Thomas Smyth, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz

1. “The Beats and Poststructuralism: Transatlantic Conversations between Postwar Literary and Theoretical Avant-Gardes,” Joanna Pawlik, Sussex Univ.

2. “Jusqu’au Nouveau Monde: James Baldwin’s Other Parises,” Monika Gehlawat, Univ. of California, Berkeley

3. “Wright’s Writing, Race, and Nation: The Outsider, Fluid Identity, and Post–World War II Paris,” Joseph Fruscione, George Washington Univ.

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