Session Details

Friday, 29 December

509. End of the Family, End of the Nation?

3:30–4:45 p.m., Commonwealth Hall D, Loews

Program arranged by the Division on Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature

Presiding: Jill Suzanne Kuhnheim, Univ. of Kansas

1. “Amores perros: Fratricide, Blood Money, and the Utopia of Filial Love,” Dierdra Reber, Emory Univ.

2. “De mala onda a barrio alto: Políticas y orfandades en la (post) nación,” Daniel Noemi Voionmaa, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

3. “Killing Off the Old Macho Order: Revising the Family and National Space in Delirio by Laura Restrepo,” Georgia S. Seminet, Univ. of Texas, Arlington

Respondent: Jason Summers, Indiana Univ.–Purdue Univ., Fort Wayne

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