C8: Comparative Americas

Seminar Leader: To Be Announced

Friday, April 16, 2:00 � 4:00 PM, Westminster 3

Ulli K. Ryder, University of South California: �Crossing Borders: Citizenship, Identity and Genre in African American and Chicano Literatures�

Mark K. Burns, Brigham Young University: �The Space of a Lost Frontier: Imagining, Mapping, and Mourning the Borderlands of Northern Mexico�

Monique Rodrigues-Balbuena, University of California � Berkeley: �The Strange Fascination of Sepharad�Moacyr Scliar�s Rewriting of Brazilian and Jewish Histories�