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. Caba�as, 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�