Session Details

Friday, 29 December

575. Resisting Containment: African American Cold War Fiction

7:15–8:30 p.m., 409, Philadelphia Marriott

A special session

Presiding: Kate Baldwin, Northwestern Univ.

1. “The Failed Logic of Containment in Gloria Naylor’s Bailey’s Café,” Keith Jones, Duke Univ.

2. “The Racial Geographies of Genre: The Cold War Novels of Chester Himes,” Barton C. Keeton, Duke Univ.

3. “Black Neo-Gothic Suburban Containment Narratives,” Riché D. Richardson, Univ. of California, Davis

Respondent: Alan Nadel, Univ. of Kentucky

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