The Society for Critical Exchange
 
2001 North East Modern Language Association Panels
30-31 March
Hartford, CT
 
Conceiving "Americanness"
 

Conceiving "Americanness" I:
Modalities of Americanness

Chair: Scott DeShong, Quinebaug Valley Community College spdes[at]conncoll.edu

(1) "An Early 'Spirit of Americanism': The DAR, the SAR, and their Lost Inclusionary Nationalism" Woden Teachout, Harvard University
(2) "The Space of the Autonomous American: Privacy, Territory, and Legal Identity" Valerie Karno, University of Rhode Island

(3) "Represent: Hip-Hop Culture, Black Folk, and the 'American' Art Form" R. Scott Heath, University of Michigan
 

Conceiving "Americanness" II:
Transnational and Immigrant Contexts

Chair: Jose Gonzales, U. S. Coast Guard Academy
jgonzalez[at]exmail.uscga.edu

(1) "Anzia Yezierska's Immigrant Autobiographies as Failed Conversion Narratives" Julia Klimek, University of California at Davis
(2) "Accented Bodies, Exilic Selves, and Trespassing Transnationalisms: Julia Alvarez' How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent" Katarzyna Marciniak, Ohio University
(3) "Continents strain to unloose themselves: Teaching Transnational Connections in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban" Amy Novak, Texas Christian University

 



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