Session Details
Wednesday, 28 December
341. The Political Implications of Representing Multilingualism in Literary Texts and Films
7:15–8:30 p.m., Monroe West, Washington Hilton
Program arranged by the Division on Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature
Presiding: Martha J. Cutter, Kent State Univ., Kent
1. “‘English Is Broken Here’: The Politics of Bilingualism in Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s Performance Texts,” Jane W. Hseu, Univ. of California, Irvine
2. “Stepping Back from the Borderlands: Multilingualism Suavizado,” Kimberly Ann Nance, Illinois State Univ.
3. “‘Translation-in-Reverse’: Political Translation in United States Latino Fiction,” Marta Esther Sánchez, Arizona State Univ., Tempe
4. “‘Are They Talking about Me?’: Representing the Fear of Multilingualism in Film, Television, and Literary Texts,” Dalia Kandiyoti, Coll. of Staten Island, City Univ. of New York