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San Francisco, CA (and online)
January 5-8, 2023
ANS Panel at the Modern Language Association Conference
Friday 5 January 2024 in Philadelphia, PA, USA
1:45 PM – 3:00 PM
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION: NAMES AND NAMING IN LITERATURE
Diversity. Equity. Inclusion. Individually, each word has been used in multiple contexts with varying connotations. Narrative works can create scenes that make space for us to consider deeply the essence of the ideas encased in the labels. In this panel, we ask how literary components of narrative fiction and non-fiction works address DEI concepts through names of characters (charactonyms), places (toponyms), institutions, and events as well as through depictions of socio-cultural, religious, ideological, personal, and political practices of naming, renaming, and unnaming.
Presider: Anne W. Anderson, U of South Florida
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