Modern Language Association
Panels 2009
PANEL 38 (Sunday, December 27, 2009) Langston Hughes and Transnational Liberation: Aesthetic Overtures, 5:15 - 6:30 p.m., Philadelphia Marriott
Abstracts are available in Adobe Acrobat format at the links, below.
Program arranged by the Langston Hughes Society
1. "Literary Migrations: Transnationalism in the Poetry of Langston Hughes," Sharon Lynette Jones, Wright State University
2. "Black Transnationalism and the Political Aesthetics of Ask Your Mama," John T. Lowney, Saint John's University, NY
3. "Langston Hughes and the Stereo Acoustics of Global Black Solidarity," Tsitsi Jaji, Univ. of Pennsylvania
PANEL 737 (Wednesday, December 30, 2009) Langston Hughes and Transnational Liberation: Ideological Underpinnings, 1:45 - 3:00 p.m., Philadelphia Marriott
Program arranged by the Langston Hughes Society
1. "Langston Hughes: Father of a World Black Consciousness Movement," Tara T. Green, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
2. "James Mercer Langston Hughes," Karima Jeffrey, Hampton University
3. "Engagement in the Antifascist Movement," Char Prieto, California State University, Chico
Executive Committee
Dellita Martin-Ogunsola
LHS President
Foreign Language and Literatures
University of Alabama, Birmingham
dellita@uab.edu
Sharon Jones
LHS Vice-President
Wright State University
sharon.jones@wright.edu
Sharynn Owens Etheridge
LHS Secretary-Treasurer
Claflin University
setheridge@claflin.edu
