B8: Modernisms, Global and Local

Seminar Leader: Pericles Lewis, Yale University

Friday, April 16, 10:30 AM  – 12:30 PM, Westminster 3

Margot Norris, University of California – Irvine: “Female Migrations and Feminine Quests: Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and James Joyce’s Eveline”

Laura Winkiel, Iowa State University: “The Double Movements of Modernism: Aimé Césaire and the Black Diaspora”

Jesse Matz, Kenyon College: “European Literary Modernism and the African Woman Writer”

Ian Baucom, Duke University: “Township Modernism”

Saturday, April 17, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Westminster 3

Michael Valdez Moses, Duke University: “Disorientalism: Imperial Geography and the Global Origins of Conrad’s Modernist Aesthetics”

Lisi Schoenbach, University of Tennessee – Knoxville: “Black Lamb and Blue Water: Proust, Rebecca West, and the Ethics of Tourism”

Paul Saint-Amour, Pomona College: “Modernist Itineraries: Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable”

Rachel Adams, Columbia University: “The Modernists Go South: U. S. Expartiates in Mexico”

Sunday, April 18, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Westminster 3

Jed Esty, University of Illinois: “Unseasonable Youth: Colonial Modernity and the Modernist Bildungsroman”

Laura Frost, Yale University: “Modernism and the Culture of Pleasure”

Sarah Cole, Columbia University: “History Now: Modernism, Violence, and the Dilemma of Place”

Perciles Lewis, Yale University: “Modernisms, Global and Local: A Response”