Chair: Mary Chapman, University of British Columbia Organizer: Jean Marie Lutes, Villanova University Jean Lutes, Villanova University, Lily Bart has in Common with Case’: The “What ‘Paul’s Syndication of Intimacy in Wharton and Cather” Lisa Mendelman, UCLA, and Ambivalence: Gendered Forms in Interwar America” “Irony Catherine Keyser, University of South Carolina, Visceral Femininity’: Zelda Fitzgerald and the “‘A Aesthetics of Adulteration” Session 15-B-SA U.S./Pakistani Relations: Moving from Liminal Space to Literary Engagement Chair: Susan K. Harris, University of Kansas Organizer: Deborah Clarke, Arizona State University Tehreem Aurakzai, Kinnaird College, Trauma Sensitization: A Sojourn from Grande’s El “Border Otro Lado to The Unnamed Mantoesque Earth” Kanza Javed, Kinnaird College, Lost Generation of the East: Gendered Narratives of “The Ambiguous Belonging and Displacement in Pakistani American Immigrant Writing” Mahwish Khan, Kinnaird College, the Teaching of US American Literature in “Internationalizing Pakistan: Immigrant Writings, Transnational Theory, and Empathy” Session 15-C SA Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives: The Status of African American Women Writers in the American Literary Canon Chair: Miranda A. Green-Barteet, University of Western Ontario Shirley Moody-Turner, The Pennsylvania State University, American Literary Canons: “Beyond Palimpsest and Liminal Textuality in Anna Julia Cooper’s Re-visioning of The First Fifty” Nicole Stamant, Agnes Scott College, Hybridity, and Racial Liminality in Shirlee “‘Ambivalence,’ Taylor Haizlip’s The Sweeter the Juice” Kimberly N. Brown, Virginia Commonwealth University, Bad Bitch’?: Morality Narratives and “‘One the New Cult of True Black Womanhood in Sister Souljah’s The Coldest Winter (1999)” AV Session 15-D SA Feminist Lineages and Legacies in Women’s Writing Chair: Carol Quirke, SUNY Old Westbury Organizer: Linda M. Grasso, York College and CUNY Graduate Center
Chair: Mary Chapman, University of British Columbia Organizer: Jean Marie Lutes, Villanova University Jean Lutes, Villanova University, “What Lily Bart has in Common with ‘Paul’s Case’: The Syndication of Intimacy in Wharton and Cather” Lisa Mendelman, UCLA, “Irony and Ambivalence: Gendered Forms in Interwar America” Catherine Keyser, University of South Carolina, “‘A Visceral Femininity’: Zelda Fitzgerald and the Aesthetics of Adulteration” Session 15-B-SA U.S./Pakistani Relations: Moving from Liminal Space to Literary Engagement Chair: Susan K. Harris, University of Kansas Organizer: Deborah Clarke, Arizona State University Tehreem Aurakzai, Kinnaird College, “Border Trauma Sensitization: A Sojourn from Grande’s El Otro Lado to The Unnamed Mantoesque Earth” Kanza Javed, Kinnaird College, “The Lost Generation of the East: Gendered Narratives of Ambiguous Belonging and Displacement in Pakistani American Immigrant Writing” Mahwish Khan, Kinnaird College, “Internationalizing the Teaching of US American Literature in Pakistan: Immigrant Writings, Transnational Theory, and Empathy” Session 15-C SA Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives: The Status of African American Women Writers in the American Literary Canon Chair: Miranda A. Green-Barteet, University of Western Ontario Shirley Moody-Turner, The Pennsylvania State University, “Beyond American Literary Canons: Palimpsest and Liminal Textuality in Anna Julia Cooper’s Re-visioning of The First Fifty” Nicole Stamant, Agnes Scott College, “‘Ambivalence,’ Hybridity, and Racial Liminality in Shirlee Taylor Haizlip’s The Sweeter the Juice” Kimberly N. Brown, Virginia Commonwealth University, “‘One Bad Bitch’?: Morality Narratives and the New Cult of True Black Womanhood in Sister Souljah’s The Coldest Winter (1999)” AV Session 15-D SA Feminist Lineages and Legacies in Women’s Writing Chair: Carol Quirke, SUNY Old Westbury Organizer: Linda M. Grasso, York College and CUNY Graduate Center
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