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(Re)Presentations
of Violence and Aggression I:
Spectacles of Violence
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Chair:
Charles Batson, Union College
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(1) |
"Story
of the Arrow: Anxiety and Violence, Sex and St. Sebastian"
Charles Batson, Union College |
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(2) |
"Hair
Imagery and Violence in the Depiction of Holy Women" Roberta
Milliken, Shawnee State University |
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"Visible
Violence: Art, Curiosity, and Sensation" Matthew Lazen, Harvard
University |
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"From
Hamlet to Hannibal: Revisiting the Act of the Revenger's Madness"
Raymond Rice, University of Maine at Presque Isle |
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(Re)Presentations
of Violence and Aggression II:
Theorizing Ethics and Violence
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Chair:
Scott DeShong, Quinebaug Valley Community College
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(1) |
"Representing Violence and
Violent Representation: Harriet Jacobs' Use of Force" Evan
Willner, Boston University |
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"In Your Face-to-Face: Aggression
and Ethics between Levinas and Baraka" Scott DeShong, Quinebaug
Valley Community College |
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"Trials of Law/Violence: Levinas and Militancy" Neil Braganza,
York University |
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Respondent:
David Schmid, SUNY at Buffalo
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(Re)Presentations
of Violence and Aggression II:
Gender and Structures of Violence
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Chair:
Nancy Knowles, Eastern Oregon University |
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(1) |
"Structural
Violence and Narrative Structure in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook"
Nancy Knowles, Eastern Oregon University |
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"Maintaining
Violence in Catherine Williams' Fall River: An Authentic Narrative"
Patricia Brooke, Fontbonne College |
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"Cracking
India: Cultural and Religious Representations in Indo-Anglian Novels
(1947 to Present)" Nadia Ahmad, University of California at
Berkeley |
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"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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