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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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(1) |
"An
Early 'Spirit of Americanism': The DAR, the SAR, and their Lost
Inclusionary Nationalism" Woden Teachout, Harvard University |
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(2) |
"The
Space of the Autonomous American: Privacy, Territory, and Legal
Identity" Valerie Karno, University of Rhode Island |
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(3) |
"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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(1) |
"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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