5-0400 POETIC TRACES IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE

Saturday, November 19, 2011: 10:15-12:00

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

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Organizers: Sabina M Perrino (University of Michigan)

Chairs: Sabina M Perrino (University of Michigan)

Discussants: Michael Silverstein (University of Chicago)

10:15

An Interpellative Infrastructure: Vernacular Oratory and the Political In Madras, 1900-1920

Bernard Bate (Yale University)

10:30

Poetic Politics of Piety In Islamic Indonesia: Language Technologies of the Self

Joel Kuipers (George Washington University)

10:45

Eloquence In Public: Veneto Dialect and Standard Italian In Liga Veneta Political Rallies

Sabina M Perrino (University of Michigan)

11:00

From "A Passionate Attachment of One Nation for Another Produces a Variety of Evils" to the Era of "Bring ‘Em On! Reload!": Tracing the Linguistic Shift From a Poetics of Reason to An Aesthetic of Violence In US Political Oratory

Jennifer L Jackson (University of California-Los Angeles)

11:15

When Is a Kebab Not Just a Kebab?: A Political Poetics of Place, Food and Citizenship In Northern Italy

Jillian R Cavanaugh (Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY)

11:30

Discussant

Michael Silverstein (University of Chicago)

11:45

Discussion

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