“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Monday, August 15, 2011

Melancholy Objects in Seattle


“The Environment, Trauma, and Contemporary Fiction,” at the MLA '12 Convention in Seattle.

Date/Time/Place:
Thursday, 1/5 at 7:00-8:15pm  in Room 606 Washington State Convention Center

Presiding: Suzanne LaLonde, Univ. of Texas, Brownsville

1. “Melancholy Objects,” Timothy Morton, Univ. of California, Davis
2. “The Bestiary and Modern Imagination,” Bernhard F. Malkmus, Ohio State Univ., Columbus
3. “Toxicity and Trauma in Indra Sinha's Animal's People,” Laura McGavin, Queen's University
4. “Eros and Thanatos in an Amazonian Encounter,” Luis Rodriguez-Abad, Univ. of Texas, Brownsville


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