Greetings Members and Friends,
We are happy to announce that “Through the Hard Times: Outlasting Tyranny in Speculative Fiction,” the Doris Lessing Society’s session for the January 2021 Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA), has been selected by the current MLA vice-president Judith Butler for inclusion in this convention’s theme, “Persistence.”
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the MLA 2021 will be a virtual convention. We hope that those of you who are MLA members will register and attend our session–details below.
We will also be holding a virtual business meeting for the Society. Details will be forthcoming.
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Through the Hard Times: Outlasting Tyranny in Speculative Fiction
Saturday, 9 January 5:15 PM-6:30 PM EST
Key Words: Speculative Fiction, Doris Lessing, Hard Times, Resistance, Persistence
Organizer: Doris Lessing Society
Presentations
1. Continuance against Oppression: Le Guin and Lessing
Sandra Singer (U of Guelph)
2. Resistance in Ambiguity: Delaney’s Trouble on Triton and Le Guin’s The Dispossessed
Jess Flarity (U of New Hampshire, Durham)
3. Speculative Fiction as Re-vision and Resistance in Lessing, Atwood, Butler, and St. John Mandel
Susan Watkins (Leeds Beckett U)
4. Lessing and Butler: Learning On the Way
Linda Weinhouse (Community C of Baltimore County, MD)
Presiding
Josna Rege (Worcester State U)