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Modernism En/counters Postmodernism

Session 7 - Sunday 1:00-2:30pm
Henry Hall 203
Presiding Officer: 
Melissa Fabros
  1. Rendering History: Narration and Don DeLillo's Libra. Zachary Gordon, University of California, Berkeley

    This paper explores Don DeLillo’s characterization of Lee Harvey Oswald in Libra--specifically, the way Oswald’s self-alienation troubles postmodern theories of narrative that conflate fictional and referential discourse.

  2. The State of Vietnam: US National Idenity and a Decolonizing Viet Nam. Marguerite Nguyen, Tulane University

    This paper will explore how a decolonizing Viet Nam enters America’s mid-century imagination to propel a fracturing of U.S. national identity and cultural forms.

Session Type: 
Special Session
Session Status: 
Closed