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International Solidarity and World Literature
March 1, 2018
March 2018, seminar at the American Comparative Literature Association Seminar, Los Angeles
Convener: Anna Bernard, King’s College London
Presentations:
- “‘No One Could Understand Us from So Far Away’: World Literature as International Solidarity,” Anthony Alessandrini, City University of New York
- “The Languages of Socialist Feminist Internationalism in 1930s Shanghai and Berlin,” Anup Grewal, University of Toronto
- “Solidarity and Latin America’s Role in Middle East and African National Liberation Struggles between OPSAAAL and the UN,” Jessica Stites Mor, University of British Columbia
- “Solidarities across Borders: Poetic Visions of African Decolonization in Turkish Modernism,” Gül Bilge Han, Stockholms Universitet
- “Spaces of Solidarity: The International Association of Writers for the Defence of Culture and the Worlding of Anti-Fascism,” Tom Langley, King’s College London
- “The Wind from the South: Negotiating Solidarity in New Wave Cinema,” Alys Moody, Macquarie University
- “From Anti-Fascism to Third-Worldism: Italian ‘Resistance Aesthetics’ and ‘World’ Texts,” Neelam Srivastava, Newcastle University
- “Black Panthers in Israel-Palestine: From African American Activism to the Mizrahi Feminist Movement,” Morani Kornberg, State University of New York at Buffalo
- “Tongue Ties: A Poetics of Solidarity in Independence-era Francophone Literature,” Julie-Françoise Tolliver, University of Houston
- “Cold War Counter-Modernism: Claudia Jones, Black Feminist Internationalism, and the Protest Essay,” Angela Wong, State University of New York at Buffalo
- “Resistance Literature of Reparations,” Vasuki Nesiah, New York University