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American Literature after 1865 I: 1865-1945

Session 3 - Saturday 1:15-2:45pm
Presiding Officer: 
Sarita Cannon
Session Chair (if other than PO): 
Haein Park
  1. Native Tongues: Red English, Translation, and the Transnational in Zitkala-Ša's "American Indian Stories". Brian Gillis, University of California, Berkeley

    Through an examination of Zitkala-Ša's work, this study contextualizes the complex history of Red English; a dialect widely spoken across indigenous North America, and inextricably linked to notions of tribal identity, community, and authenticity.

  2. Threadbare Madonnas and Red Eyed Extortionists: The Portrayal of Working Class Women in Wharton's The House of Mirth. Heather Levy, Western Connecticut State University

    This paper examines Lily Bart's predatory gaze at working class women and argues that the novel offers only a desperate fecundity or violent greed as strategies for working class women to survive.

  3. The Making of Revolutionary Subjectivity in Theresa Malkiel's Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker. Huei-ju Wang, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan

    The paper analyzes the formation of class-conscious feminist subjectivity during a strike in Theresa Malkiel’s fictionalization of the Shirtwaist Strike of 1909 staged by Jewish immigrant garment workers in New York City in Diary of A Shirtwaist Striker (1910).

Session Type: 
Standing Session
Session Status: 
Closed