Session Details
Friday, 29 December
528. Canonical Intertext in United States Ethnic Literatures
3:30–4:45 p.m., 304, Philadelphia Marriott
Program arranged by MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
Presiding: Fred L. Gardaphe, Stony Brook Univ., State Univ. of New York
1. “What’s Canon Got to Do with It? Segale and Cather in the Southwest,” Mary Jo Bona, Stony Brook Univ., State Univ. of New York
2. “White and Black Patriarchs: Intertextual Subversions of Canonical Assumptions in Faulkner and Morrison,” Sandra K. Stanley, California State Univ., Northridge
3. “Racial Subtexts and Economic Subjects: An Intertextual Reading of Native Speaker and The Great Gatsby,” Arnold L. Pan, Univ. of California, Irvine
4. “The Country of Evanescence: From Cashmere to Kashmir with Emily Dickinson and Agha Shahid,” Mahwash Shoaib, Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York