A8: Borders and Marginalities in the Americas

Seminar Leader: Kristine Byron, Michigan State University

Friday, April 16, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Westminster 3

Rachel Price, Duke University: “Vision and Division in Nineteenth-Century Havana”

Antoinette Chevalier, University of California - Berkeley: “Global Lynchings: Ida B. Wells, Black Britons, and Trans-Atlantic Vigilantism”

Kristine Byron, Michigan State University: “Identities at War: Writing the U. S. – Mexican Border”

Emron Esplin, Michigan State University: “Guatemalan Testimonios and the Continued Threat of General Efrain Rios Montt”

Saturday, April 17, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Westminster 3

Randy Ontiveros, University of California – Irvine: “The Zoot Suit Riots: On Event and the Making of Marginal Identities”

Miguel A. Cabañas, Michigan State University: “Drugs, Violence, and Globalization in the Late Twentieth-Century  (Latin) American Novel”

Mary Hartson, Michigan State University: “The Bewitched House: Marginalized Subjects in Three Latin American Novels”

Ralph E. Rodriguez, Pennsylvania State University: “Post-nationalist Chicana/o Identities: The Dynamics of Difference”

Sunday, April 18, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Westminster 3

Laura Halperin, University of Michigan: “Colonialism, Internalized Oppression, and Madness in Contemporary Latina Literature”

Laura Martinez Hernandez, Michigan State University: “Liminality and Cultural Resistance: Mexican Rock at the End of the Twentieth Century”

Nicholas Kramer, University of California – Los Angeles: “Conspiratorial Fictions: Piglia’s The Absent City and Delillo’s Underworld”