MLA Sessions 2003
The 2003 Modern Language
Association Convention will be held in San Diego, CA, 27-30 Dec. There
will be two AAALS sessions:
"Australia and Asia: Literary Connections"
Chair, Jim Hoy, Emporia State University
Sat. 27 Dec., 5:15 p.m., America's Cup C, Manchester Grand Hyatt 1.
"The Australian in Asia: Stereotype in Weir's The Year of Living
Dangerously and Duigan's Far East," Theodore F. Sheckels,
Randolph-Macon College
2. "Resisting Death in Australia's 'New Chinese Literature,'" Martin
Wechselblatt, University of Cincinnati
3. "Too Big for the Boutique: 'China' and Anglophone Multiculturalism in
Nicholas Jose and Ouyang Yu," Nicholas Birns, New School University "Women in Australian Literature: Writers and Characters"
Chair, Robert Zeller, Southeast Missouri State University
Sun. 28 Dec., 10:15 a.m., Edward A, Manchester Grand Hyatt
1. "The Women's Sphere in Australian Convict Fiction," Dorice
Williams Elliott, University of Kansas
2. "The Return of the (Vietnam) Soldier?" Donna E. Coates,
University of Calgary
3. "Inspecting Women: Arthur Upfield and Napoleon Bonaparte," Winona
Howe, La Sierra University
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2002
AAALS sessions at the MLA Convention in
New York, NY, 27-30 December 2002:
"Natural Australia: Ecocriticism and Australian Literature," chaired by Robert Zeller, Southeast
Missouri State University
1. "Why
Ecocriticism and Australian Literature Need Each Other." Robert Zeller, Southeast Missouri State
University
2. "A Homosocial Land Ethic: Man
and Nature in Australian Literature," Breyan Strickler, Penn State
University
3. "Mining the Australian Eden:
Rodney Hall's Just Relations and Janette Turner Hospital's Oyster,"
Sigrun Meinig, University of Mannheim
4. "(In)Habiting Rural Australia: Kinsella,
Context, Connections." R. Mark Klemens, Rochester, NY
"Urban Australia: The Urban Experience in Australian Literature,"
chaired by John Scheckter, Long Island University.
1. "The City as
Scene and the Female Body as Site: Striking an Uneasy Redemptive
Consubstantiality in Monkey Grip and Puberty Blues, Novels and
Films," Theodore S. Sheckels, Randolph-Macon College
2. "The Brilliant Lies of the
Emerald City Perfectionist: David Williamson's Women and David Williamson's
Australia," Richard Carr, University of Alaska-Fairbanks
Further information concerning the sessions that
the AAALS organizes each year at the MLA Convention may be obtained from:
AAALS Vice-President, Jim Hoy
e-mail: hoyjames@emporia.edu
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