Session Information
Presentations
1: Paradoxical Dramaturgies: Disability and Egungun Performances in Wole Soyinka
Nic Hamel, U of Texas, Austin
2: Madness, Disability Studies, and African Fiction: Reading Biyi Bandele’s The Sympathetic Undertaker and Brian Chikwava’s Harare North
Ehijele Femi Eromosele, U of Witwatersrand
3: Amputation Is Not a Metaphor: Frantz Fanon and Colonial Debilitation
Sarah Orsak, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
4: Citizen Bodies: Martyrdom, Disability, and Nationalism in the Iran-Iraq War
Kimberly Canuette Grimaldi, U of Texas, Austin
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Presider
Julie C. Van Dam, U of Southern California