Session Details
Thursday, 29 December
573. Urban Sensibilities: Transformations of the City in Latin America
7:15–8:30 p.m., Georgetown East, Washington Hilton
Program arranged by the Division on Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Presiding: María Rosa Olivera-Williams, Univ. of Notre Dame
1. “Deseo y representación del espacio urbano en la escritura modernista ríoplatense,” Carla E. Giaudrone, Rutgers Univ., Camden
2. “A New Urban Subjective Configuration: Fernando Vallejo’s Constitution of the Queer Subject in Latin America’s Urban Spaces,” Arturo Arias, Univ. of Redlands
3. “‘Hoy encontraremos algo valioso’: Havana’s Rhetoric of Ruins,” Vicky Unruh, Univ. of Kansas
4. “Memory, Subjectivity, and Place in Postdictatorial Fictions of the Southern Cone,” Michael J. Lazzara, Univ. of California, Davis