Session Details
Wednesday, 28 December
311. Insularities and Diaspora: Recent Trends in Puerto Rican Cultural Criticism
7:15–8:30 p.m., Independence, Washington Hilton
Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Puerto Rican Literature and Culture
Presiding: Daniel Torres, Ohio Univ., Athens
1. “Reconfiguraciones del discurso crítico de los estudios puertorriqueños,” Myrna García-Calderón, Cornell Univ.
2. “Escrito en el 98: La traumática interculturalidad de Arcadio Díaz Quiñones y Carlos Pabón,” Leo F. Cabranes-Grant, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
3. “Crítica literaria e improductividad,” Guillermo Bey Irizarry Díaz, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
4. “Boricua Unbound: Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Giannina Braschi’s Yo-Yo Boing,” Dara E. Goldman, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana