Session Details

Friday, 28 December

153. Primitivism in Theory

8:30–9:45 a.m., Missouri, Sheraton Chicago

Program arranged by the Division on Anthropological Approaches to Literature

Presiding: Kathy Alexis Psomiades, Duke Univ.

1. “Indians, Anthropologists, and New Critics: Culture and/as Poetic Form in American Modernism,” Eric Aronoff, Michigan State Univ.

2. “Existential Indians and the Narrative of ‘Cultural Devastation,’” Susan Hegeman, Univ. of Florida

3. “Pieces of Babel: Brazilian Primitivist Modernism and the Resignification of Paris,” Patricia Soler, Georgetown Univ.

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