Jean Toomer and Politics (Session 465) |
Jean Toomer and Politics (Session 465)
Modern Language Association
127th MLA Annual Convention
2012-01-05 through 2012-01-08
Washington State Convention Center
Seattle, Washington
A Special Session
Saturday, 2012-01-07, 12:00-13:15 PST (Local Time)
Room 6A, WSCC
Presiding:
Gino Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English
Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California
Speakers:
Barbara Clare Foley, Professor of English and American Studies
Rutgers University, Newark
Gino Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English
Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California
Charles Scruggs, Professor of English
University of Arizona
Belinda Wheeler, Assistant Professor of English
Paine College, Augusta, Georgia
This roundtable will focus on the 2011 edition of Jean Toomer’s Cane, edited by Rudolph Byrd and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and in particular on the editors’ provocative new thesis that Toomer was a Negro who chose to pass for white. Presenters will confront, examine, and discuss Byrd and Gates’s thesis.
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Tags: Barbara C. Foley, Barbara Clare Foley, Barbara Foley, Belinda Wheeler, Charles Scruggs, Gino M. Pellegrini, Gino Michael Pellegrini, Gino Pellegrini, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Jean Toomer, Modern Language Association, Rudolph Byrd, Rudolph P. Byrd