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              Conceiving 
                "Americanness" I: 
                Modalities of Americanness
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               Chair: 
                Scott DeShong, Quinebaug Valley Community College spdes[at]conncoll.edu 
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            "An 
              Early 'Spirit of Americanism': The DAR, the SAR, and their Lost 
              Inclusionary Nationalism" Woden Teachout, Harvard University | 
          
           
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            "The 
              Space of the Autonomous American: Privacy, Territory, and Legal 
              Identity" Valerie Karno, University of Rhode Island  | 
          
           
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            "Represent: 
              Hip-Hop Culture, Black Folk, and the 'American' Art Form" R. Scott 
              Heath, University of Michigan  | 
          
           
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              Conceiving 
                "Americanness" II: 
                Transnational and Immigrant Contexts
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               Chair: 
                Jose Gonzales, U. S. Coast Guard Academy 
                jgonzalez[at]exmail.uscga.edu 
                 
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              "Anzia Yezierska's Immigrant Autobiographies 
              as Failed Conversion Narratives" Julia 
              Klimek, University of California at Davis | 
          
           
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              "Accented Bodies, Exilic Selves, 
              and Trespassing Transnationalisms: Julia Alvarez' How the Garcia 
              Girls Lost their Accent" 
              Katarzyna Marciniak, Ohio University | 
          
           
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              "Continents strain to unloose themselves: 
              Teaching Transnational Connections in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming 
              in Cuban" Amy 
              Novak, Texas Christian University | 
          
           
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