Session Details

Friday, 07 January

198. The Topography of Ethnicity: History, Culture, and Mobility

8:30–9:45 a.m., Platinum Salon H, J. W. Marriott

Program arranged by MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States

Presiding: Wenxin Li, Suffolk County Community Coll., Ammerman Campus, NY

1. “Life among the Oil Fields: Race and the Landscapes of Automobility,” Hsuan L. Hsu, Univ. of California, Davis

2. “Transforming into Natives: Crèvecoeur and Marrant on Becoming Indian,” Katherine L. Chiles, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville

3. “Remodeling the Race House: Domestic Topographies in Contemporary American Novels,” Kristin J. Jacobson, Richard Stockton Coll. of New Jersey

Respondent: Wenying Xu, Florida Atlantic Univ.

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