Session Details
Wednesday, 29 December
418. Multilingualism and Modernism
10:15–11:30 a.m., Commonwealth Hall D, Loews
Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English
Presiding: Yunte Huang, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
1. “Coming to Terms: The Yiddish Avant-Garde and American Modernism,” Nikki Halpern, Univ. of Paris VII, Charles V
2. “‘Parallel Yellow’: Mesquakie and the No Passing Zone of the Novels of Ray A. Young Bear,” Candace J. Waid, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
3. “The Monarchy, Modernism, and the Progress of Pidgin Poetry,” Shelley Armitage, Univ. of Texas, El Paso
4. “Standard Deviation: The Multilingual Modernism of Gertrude Stein,” Erika Rachel Nanes, Univ. of Southern California