1990 Conference

Comparative American Identities 49th Session August 23-26, 1990 Longfellow Hall 13 Appian Way Harvard University Lesbian Textuality SUE E. HOUCHINS, Scripps College Directed Lesbian Textuality TERESA DE LAURETIS, University of California, Santa Cruz Scenario of Desire SUE-ELLEN CASE, University of Washington Ghosting the Domestic: A Lesbian Horror Story KATHLEEN MARTINDALE, University of Calgary Watching Dykes to Watch Out For SUE E. HOUCHINS, Scripps College Black Medusa: The Lesbian in African Text   The Idea of Africa and the Practice of Literature VALENTIN Y. MUDIMBE, Duke University Directed The Idea of Africa and the Practice of Literature FRANÇOISE LIONNET, Northwestern University Dyssymetry Embodied BOGIMIL JEWSIEWICKI, Laval University Questions in the Intellectual Histories of Africa BENNETTA JULES-ROSETTE, University of California, San Diego The Aesthetics of Africanity   Mark Twain SUSAN GILLMAN, University of California, Santa Cruz Directed Mark Twain MARTHA BANTA, University of California, Los Angeles The Boys and The Bosses: Twain's Double Take on Work, Play, and the Democratic Ideal ABDUL R. JANMOHAMED, University of California, Berkeley Mark Twain: The Stranger as Colonialist Narrator SUSAN GILLMAN, University of California, Santa Cruz The Mulatto: Tragic or Triumphant? Mark Twain and Late Nineteenth Century "Good Racial Books"   The Other Petrarchans NANCY J. VICKERS, University of Southern California Directed The Other Petrarchans ROLAND GREENE, Harvard University "For Love of Pau-Brasil": Petrarchan Experience and the Colonial Americas ANN ROSALIND JONES, Smith College Don't Look Now: Women Petrarchans and the Male Body NANCY J. VICKERS, University of Southern California Lyric in the Age of Electronic Reproduction