NeMLA 2022 Panel: Healing Practices and Beliefs in Literatures of the Americas
NeMLA 2022: Baltimore, Maryland. March 10-13
Panel Chair: Tania Nicolaou
How does contemporary fiction of the Americas and Caribbean explore practices of healing? This panel considers all aspects of healing, including but not limited to religion, indigenous practices and rituals, the spiritual, and through community and the collective. How does their depiction in literature allow for generative further discussion about identity, culture, and tradition, and what does this mean in the 21st century?