The Society for Critical Exchange
 
2002 Northeast Modern Language Association Panels
12-13 April
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 
(Re)Presentations of Violence and Aggression
 
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(Re)Presentations of Violence and Aggression I:
Spectacles of Violence

Chair: Charles Batson, Union College

 
(1) "Story of the Arrow: Anxiety and Violence, Sex and St. Sebastian" Charles Batson, Union College
(2) "Hair Imagery and Violence in the Depiction of Holy Women" Roberta Milliken, Shawnee State University
(3) "Visible Violence: Art, Curiosity, and Sensation" Matthew Lazen, Harvard University
   
(4) "From Hamlet to Hannibal: Revisiting the Act of the Revenger's Madness" Raymond Rice, University of Maine at Presque Isle

 

(Re)Presentations of Violence and Aggression II:
Theorizing Ethics and Violence

Chair: Scott DeShong, Quinebaug Valley Community College

   
(1) "Representing Violence and Violent Representation: Harriet Jacobs' Use of Force" Evan Willner, Boston University
 
(2) "In Your Face-to-Face: Aggression and Ethics between Levinas and Baraka" Scott DeShong, Quinebaug Valley Community College
 
(3) "Trials of Law/Violence: Levinas and Militancy" Neil Braganza, York University
 

Respondent: David Schmid, SUNY at Buffalo


 

(Re)Presentations of Violence and Aggression II:
Gender and Structures of Violence

Chair: Nancy Knowles, Eastern Oregon University
   
(1) "Structural Violence and Narrative Structure in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook" Nancy Knowles, Eastern Oregon University
   
(2) "Maintaining Violence in Catherine Williams' Fall River: An Authentic Narrative" Patricia Brooke, Fontbonne College
   
(3) "Cracking India: Cultural and Religious Representations in Indo-Anglian Novels (1947 to Present)" Nadia Ahmad, University of California at Berkeley
   
(4) "The Story of `Truth': Representations of Domestic Violence in Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Literature" Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, Ohio State University
 


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