 Response
to the call for papers on this topic was strong enough that both
1998 MLA panels were devoted to it. The papers in these two sessions
suggested a number of ways to theorize gifts which moved beyond
recent impasses in theoretical and anthropological thinking. Work
on a volume on this same subject is in process; see the New
Economic Criticism project description for further details. |
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| The
Question of the Gift I |
| Chair
and Respondent: Paul Alec Marsh, Muhlenberg College |
| 1. |
"The
Economy of the Divine Gift and the Conquest of America," Elvira
Vilches, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee |
| 2. |
"African
Americans, Slavery, and the Gift," Tyrone Williams, Xavier University |
| 3. |
"The
'Gift' of Death," Carole-Anne Tyler, U of California, Riverside |
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| The
Question of the Gift II |
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Chair and Respondent: Max W. Thomas, U of Iowa |
| 1. |
"Early
Modern Bribes and the Gift Economy: The Example of Francis Bacon,"
Luke Andrew Wilson, Ohio State U |
| 2. |
"True
Gifts and Bad Faith: Emersonian Selfhood and Melville's The Confidence
Man," Jennie L. Stearns, Rice U |
| 3. |
"Gift
or Commodity?" Mark Osteen, Loyola College |
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