Session Details
Friday, 28 December
272. Multiethnic Literature and Ecofeminism: Intersections
1:45–3:00 p.m., Skyway Suite 260, Hyatt Regency
Program arranged by MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
Presiding: Kim Martin Long, Shippensburg Univ.
1. “Oppression of Land and Body: Environmental Justice in Recent Chicana Literature,” Jeremy Larochelle, Univ. of Mary Washington
2. “Getting Back to the Garden: Ecofeminist Community in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes,” Elizabeth McNeil, Arizona State Univ., Tempe
3. “Her Tubes Were Tied; or, A Brazilian Soap Opera: Conflicting Environmentalisms in Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rainforest,” John Blair Gamber, Coll. of William and Mary
4. “The Perverted Garden: Sweet Home, Ruby, and the Black Female Body in Toni Morrison,” Kim Martin Long