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: Aim� C�saire 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�