MLA

Paper Presentation

January 12- 19 2025

Session 684 Migrations and Diasporas

Panel Discussion focusing on the nineteenth-century francophone world, panelists discuss Marseille’s journey from a Mediterranean to a global diasporic city; enslaved Blacks and Amerindians in Chateaubriand’s Les Natchez; the short fiction of New Orleans, Haiti, and the Black Atlantic; Victor Séjour as a figure of Black Atlantic modernity; and Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s New Orleans writings.

Session 754 - Visible Affects, Invisible Violence: A Postcolonial Problem

Paper Entitled “Unveiling Trauma and Violence through Affect: Marie Ndiaye’s ‘Rosie Carpe’ and Lazarian Literature”