Session 16

Sunday, April 11, 8:30am-10:30am

16.01 St. Pierre: Italian Literature: From The Twentieth Century Into The New Millennium (Seminar); Chair: Giovanni Migliara, UNED Madrid; “‘La transitorietà di tutto il disponibile quotidiano’:Gianni Celati lettore di Antonio Delfini”; Anna Maria Chierici, University of Toronto; “Ntoni come figura del vagabondo ne I Malavoglia”; Lidia Ciccone, University of Alabama; “A Spiritual Approach: Theosophy, Spiritualism and Parapsychology in Pirandello’s Short Stories”; Samantha Costanzo, Rutgers University; “‘La Pelle’ di Malaparte.Applicazioni dello schema socio-semiotico del fattore babele a Napoli”; Alessandro Giardino, McGill University; “Ennio Flaiano, Io scrivo per non essere incluso”; Cynthia Hillman, University of Chicago; “‘Nel segreto delle case’: Motherhood in Elena Ferrante’s La figlia oscura”; Virginia Picchietti, University of Scranton; “Marco Paolini e geografia letteraria: il viaggio come momento unificante”; Giovanni Spani, College of the Holy Cross; “Do intellectuals believe they can be relevant figures in contemporary Italian society?”; Meriel Tulante, Philadelphia University; “Da Perela´a Stefanino: metafore del l’omosessualita’ nei personaggi di Aldo Palazzeschi”; Daniele Fioretti, University of Wisconsin-Madison; “Il Fasciocomunista di Antonio Pennacchi, un romanzo postmoderno”; Roberto Nicosia, Rutgers University
16.02 Longueuil: The Ethical Turn to Literature II: Genre, the Reader, and the Political (Seminar); Chair: Danielle A. St. Hilaire, Quinnipiac University; “Ethical Encounters in Imperial Contexts”; Amar Acheraïou, Independent Scholar; “Elegiac Testimony: Sacrifice, Redemption and Responsibility in Virginia Woolf’s Ethics of Mourning”; Andrew Ball, Purdue University; “‘As the weird world rolls on’: The Ethics of Form in the Post-9/11 Novel”; Joseph L.V. Donica, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; “Literature’s Virtual Ethics”; Gary Hink, University of Florida; “The Ethics of Pity in Shakespeare’s King Lear”; Danielle A. St. Hilaire, Quinnipiac University; “The Ethics and Aesthetics of Life Writing in The Good Soldier and The Professor’s House”; Sarah de Jong, University of Toronto; “Ethics and Lyric Poetry: Defining Ethical Categories in French Symbolism and Canadian Modernism”; Astrid Lohöfer, Philipps-University of Marburg
16.03 Pointes-aux-Trembles: Ecocriticism and Contemporary American Literature (Seminar); Chair: Nicole Merola, Rhode Island School of Design; “The Green Breast of the Five Boroughs: Ecology and Economy in Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland”; Patrick Nugent, Brooklyn College-CUNY; “Diving Into the Text: Submerged Historiographies of Genre in Bucking the Sun and Solar Storms”; William Kupinse, University of Puget Sound; “Literary Representations of Environmental Racism in Contemporary American Literature”; Mary Catherine Foltz, Lehigh University; “Superfund Gothic: Joyce Carol Oates’s The Falls”; Nicole Merola, Rhode Island School of Design; “Porterhouse Steaks and Blood-Drenched Frisbees: Imagining Animal Minds in Snow Crash”; Lindsey Michael Banco, University of Saskatchewan; “Beyond Big Brains: From Posthumanism to Cosmic Optimism in Kurt Vonnegut’s Galápagos”; Deidre Pike, University of Nevada-Reno
16.04 Verdun: Inking the Self: Autobiography in Comics (Seminar); Chair: Federica K. Clementi, University of South Carolina; “Don’t You Ever Use That Word Again: Absent Images as Emotion in Chester Brown”; Benedict Owen, Independent Scholar; “The Representation of Trauma in French-Language Autobiographical Comics”; Ann Miller, University of Leicester; “Make Yourself a Graven Image: How Graphic Memoirs Visualize the Jewish Experience”; Federica K. Clementi, University of South Carolina; “Speaking of Culture: Narrating Objects and Cultural Locations in Persepolis”; Robert Topinka, University of Kansas; “Bordered and Undone: The Instability of Bodies Reframed in Graphic Memoir”; Margaret Galvan, CUNY Graduate Center; “The Slippage between Seeing and Saying: Getting a Life in Bechdel’s Fun Home”; Susan Van Dyne, Smith College; “Picturing Trauma and Complicity in Ari Foleman’s Waltz with Bashir”; Rachel Walsh, Stony Brook University
16.05 Jacques Cartier: ‘Why Do They Hate Us?’: Teaching 9/11 Literature (Seminar); Chair: Justine Dymond, Springfield College; “Star Wars and ‘Star Wars’: Teaching Pre-9/11 Literature as Post-9/11 Reality”; Edward J. Carvalho, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; “‘Who Should I Hate for This?’: Answering Crisis, Teaching Community through ‘Towers of Words’”; Susan Gilmore, Central Connecticut State University; “Routing Apartheid, Dodging the Laws on Terror: Teaching ‘Other’ Experiences of 9/11”; M. Neelika Jayawardane, SUNY Oswego; “Teaching in Perilous Times”; Deepika Marya, University of Southern Maine; “Teaching 9/11 Culture in the Wake of 9/11 Fatigue”; Andrew Schopp, SUNY Nassau Community College
16.06 Fundy: Exhibiting Capital(s): Berlin and Beyond (Seminar); Chairs: Jennifer Hosek, Queen’s University; Peter McIsaac, York University; “Wilhelmine Cityscapes - Berlin and its Cinema(s)”; Nora Gortcheva, Yale University; “Where are We? Cinematic Cities of the Weimar Republic”; June J. Hwang, University of Rochester; “Fashioning a new brand of Germanness -- World Cup and Beyond”; Katrina Sark, McGill University; “Berlin Subterranean: Images of the Alternative Music Scene and the Shaping of Urban Identity”; Susan Ingram, York University; “Whose Gallery is the Street? Graffiti and Invitations to Visual Dissonance”; Melissa Gazo, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Simple, Solid, Homogeneous -- Architectural Visions for a Reunified Berlin”; Hans Christian Post, University of Copenhagen; “Berlin and Beyond: The Museal and the Cinematic”; Peter McIsaac, York University; Jennifer Ruth Hosek, Queen’s University
16.07 Lachine: Places of Transformation and Connection in Postcolonial Francophone Writers (Seminar); Chair: Anna Rocca, Salem State College; “Creating a Space where Tradition and Modern Meet: So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ”; Ariane Baer-Harper, SUNY Geneseo; “Space and Memory in Assia Djebar’s L’Amour, la Fantasia and Jacques Poulin’s Volkwagen Blues”; Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani, University of Westminster; “Here and elsewhere in Alain Mabanckou’s Black Bazar”; Pascale De Souza, George Mason University; “Narratives of Emigration: Deferral and Disillusion”; Claudia Esposito, University of Massachusetts; “A French Atlantic Space: Cayenne and Carnival”; Bill Marshall, University of Stirling; “Recreating ‘Home(s)’ : Nathacha Appanah-Mouriquand’s Les Rochers de poudre d’or”; Binita Mehta, Manhattanville College; “In search of home in Yasmine Chami-Kettani’s Cérémonie”; Angela M. Phillips, Warren Wilson College; “Assia Djebar Between Spaces and Places: Words, Sounds and Bodies”; Anna Rocca, Salem State College
16.08 Lasalle: Post-Imperial Encounters between Spain and Portugal and East Asia (Seminar); Chairs: David George, Bates College; Timothy Gaster, University of Chicago; “Reaching Extremo Oriente: Post-Imperial Malaise and Spanish Round-the-World-Narratives, 1898-1931.”; David George, Bates College; “Japan as a Model for Socialist Revolution in Two Texts in Early 20th-Century Spain and Portugal”; Timothy Gaster, University of Chicago; “The Hypothetical Mandarin: Humanism and Orientalism in Eça de Queirós’ O mandarim.”; Inkoo Kang, University of California-Los Angeles; “An East, East of the East: Eça de Queirós, Pessoa and The Scope of Portuguese Orientalism”; Pedro Pereira, Ohio State University; “Discontinuidad y reconfiguración del oriente en Maitreya de Severo Sarduy”; Mayte Harbison, University of Illinois-Chicago; “La raza redentora: Empire, Race and Regeneration in the Philippines”; Joyce Tolliver, University of Illinois-Urbana; “Una guerra lejana: La campaña de Cochinchina y el discurso colonial en Espana.”; Joan Torres-Pou, Florida International University
16.09 Mont-Royal: Contemporary Trends in Latin American Narrative (Seminar); Chairs: Vincenzo Bollettino, Montclair State University; Galo Vaca-Acevedo, Brevard Community College; “Desplazamiento, exclusion y marginalizacion en Angosta de Hector’s ‘Abad Faciolince’”; Nelly Zamora-Breckenridge, Valparaiso University; “Transcultural Narrative and the Problematics of Recognition in Latin American Literature”; Valerie Keller, Columbia University; “Problems in Cosmopolitanism in the Works of William Faulkner and Alberto Fuguet”; Brantley Nicholson, Duke University; “Introduccion a la novelistica de Ricardo Chavez Castaneda”; Carolina Moctezuma, Kutztown University; “La politica de la distancia en la narrativa de Alan Pauls, Jorge Volpi y Roberto Bolano”; Franklin Rodriguez, William Paterson University; “Africa ecuatorial y Ecuador equinoccial”; Galo Vaca Acevedo, Independent Scholar
16.10 Salon C: Narrativas de la memoria y la violencia política (Seminar); Chair: Lisette Balabarca, Colby College; “La erotización de la violencia: de La boca del lobo a Días de Santiago”; Carlos Villacorta-Gonzáles, Colby College; “Truth and Reconciliation in Spain”; Sarah Harris, Bennington College; “Contemporary Spanish Civil War Novel, Women and Their Residual Memories of War”; Ashley Whipple, SUNY Albany; “Ciudad representante, ciudad representada: Lima en Adiós Ayacucho, novela de la violencia políti”; Rommy Balabarca-Fataccioli, Boston University; “The Politics of Remembering: The ‘Rescue’ of Dirty War Memory in the Argentine Jewish Community”; Paul Katz, Harvard University; “Poesía y tortura: Estrella distante y Nocturno de Chile de Roberto Bolaño”; Carolina Ferrer, Université du Québec à Montréal; “Traveling in Times of War: Terrorism in the Peruvian Andes”; Lucía Galleno, Queen’s University; “La hora azul: ¿superación de la ‘voluntad del olvido’ o naturalización de la violencia?”; José Antonio Giménez Mico, Concordia University; “Making Memories, Making Spaces: A Reading of Contemporary Cuban Film”; Cecelia Lawless, Cornell University; “Violencia política y memoria colectiva en el cine y la literatura del Cono Sur”; Carmen Campanario, Simmons College; Catalina Donoso, Boston University
16.11 Salon D: The Articulate Silence of Women Authors/Literary Subjects in Early Modern Spain (Seminar); Chair: Joan Cammarata, Manhattan College; “Cultural Synergies in Cervantes’s La gran sultana”; Deborah Compte, The College of New Jersey; “Vergüenza y silencio: Lo que calló Preciosa y lo que Cervantes no escribió”; Belén Atienza, Clark University; “Los embustes de Fabia y las trazas del deseo femenino en las primeras comedias de Lope de Vega”; Alejandro García-Reidy, Duke University; “Ángela de Azevedo’s Recuperation of Saint Irene’s Voice”; Christopher Gascón, SUNY Cortland; “María de Guevara´s Education of Kings on Matters of Spain”; Salvatore Poeta, Villanova University; “The Social Discourse of Marriage: Disharmony of Voice in María de Zayas’s Desengaños amorosos”; Mirta Barrea-Marlys, Monmouth University; “The Writer Who Played with Fire. A Millennial Perspective on María de Zayas”; Brad Nelson, Concordia University
16.12 Salon E: Male in Progress Re-defining Masculinities in Italian Studies. (Seminar); Chair: Renato Ventura, University of Connecticut; “Eros mediterraneo ed etica protestante in Europa”; Enrico Bernard, University of Zurich; “The Triestine Schlemiel: Yiddish Folk Humor in Italo Svevo’s Novels.”; Eleanor Vanden Heuvel, The Johns Hopkins University; “Masculinity as Illness: Demystifying Sicilian ‘gallismo’ in Vitaliano Brancati’s Paolo il Caldo”; Emma Keane, University College Cork; “La novella dello scolare e della vedova (Decameron VIII, 7): identità maschile e misoginia.”; Michela Prevedello, McGill University; “Male in Progress: Mimi the Metalworker and the 1970’s”; Fulvio Orsitto, California State University-Chico; “Gender Ambiguities in Basile’s cunti: The Demystification of the Hero”; Carmela Scala, St. John University
16.13 Salon F: Italian Political Theatre from the Renaissance to the XXI Century (Seminar); Chair: Gloria Pastorino, Fairleigh Dickinson University; “Proleptic Interpretive Failures:Tasso’s Re Torrismondo and Alfieri’s Saul”; Alani Hicks-Bartlett, Berkeley University; “Imitation, Scandal and Censorship in 18th-century Tuscan Comedies”; Chiara Frenquellucci, Harvard University; “Linking Pirandellian Modernism and Wildean Decadence as Portals of Transitory Migrations”; Moira Di Mauro-Jackson, Texas State University; “Dario Fo’s Ruzzante Between Popular Tradition and Marxist Ideology”; Andrea Scapolo, Indiana University; “Allegory in Fo and Genet’s Puppets”; Gloria Pastorino, Fairleigh Dickinson University
16.14 Salon G: 19th c. Italian Writing: National History, Literary Genres and Linguistic Norms (Seminar); Chair: Mark Epstein, Princeton University; “‘Il trionfo dell’ipocrisia’: Literary Notes on a 19th Century Unknown Novel.”; Raffaele de Benedictis, Wayne State University; “Fabricating Words and Freezing History: The Case of Iginio Ugo Tarchetti”; Mark Epstein, Princeton University; “Giannettino Learns Italian: The Linguistic Norm and Variations in the School Texts by Carlo Collodi”; Andrei Barashkov, Middlebury College; “(Re) defining The Psychological Novel: The Anti-Naturalist Position of the Interior Monologue”; Marisa Ruccolo, Saint Michael’s College; “In Search of a National Language: Theory and Practice in Alessandro Manzoni and Giovanni Rosini”; Ann Peeters, Vrije Universiteit Brussel; “From the Gothic to Realism: Uncanny Developments of the Scapigliati’s Fantastic Narrative”; Morena Corradi, Queens College-CUNY; “La questione sociale meridionale”; Anna Iacovella, Yale University
16.15 Salon H: Literary production of non-territorial german-speaking writers (Seminar); Chair: Yolanda Garcia Hernandez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; “Narrative Perspective and Promises of Transnationalism in Terézia Mora’s Alle Tage”; Laura Bohn, Yale University; “Writing Between Cultures: Dimitré Dinev’s Engelszungen”; Helga Schreckenberger, University of Vermont; “The Clash between Cosmopolitan and Nationalist Outlooks in H. Al-Mozany’s novel Der Marschländer”; Yasemin Mohammad, Pennsylvania State University; “Language as Travel across Foreign Nations and Cultures. Yoko Tawada’s Where Europe begins”; Silja Maehl, Brown University
16.16 St. Lambert: Comparative Postcolonialities (Seminar); Chairs: Johanna Rossi Wagner, Rutgers University; Shakti Jaising, Rutgers University; “Poets of Protest: A Comparative Reading of Namdeo Dhasal and Amiri Baraka”; Mantra Roy, University of South Florida; “Langues sans Frontières: Medieval Calais, Colonialism, and Polyglot Identities”; Jonathan Hsy, George Washington University; “Cognitive Cartography in the Neocolonial World: The Cases of Jameson and Ngũgĩ”; Jaecheol Kim, University at Buffalo-SUNY; “The Exilic Imagination: The Alliance of Postcoloniality and Posthumanism”; Jason Mohaghegh, Northeastern Illinois University; “Colonial Shame, Postcolonial Shaming”; Erica Johnson, Wagner College; “Comparison as Method: Re-thinking the Nation in the Context of Globalization”; Shakti Jaising, Rutgers University; “Respondent”; Johanna Rossi Wagner, Rutgers University
16.17 St. Michel: Four Dimensions: Spatio-Temporal Shifts Reflected in 19th-Century Literature (Seminar); Chair: Lydia G. Fash, Brandeis University; “Immortality and International Railway Travel: A Study of Kipling’s ‘The Wandering Jew’”; Adam Barrows, Carleton University; “Microscopic Space in the Nineteenth Century”; Scott Ellis, Southern Connecticut State University; “Jewett’s Timeless Space: Challenging Masculine Hegemonic World Travel”; Margaret Finn, Temple University; “The Railroad and the Kitchen”; Marcella Frydman, Harvard University; “Temporal Form in ‘The Lifted Veil’”; Jacob Jewusiak, University at Buffalo; “The Space and Time of Racial Embodiment in Walt Whitman, Harriet Jacobs and Charles Chesnutt”; John Mac Kilgore, University of California-Davis; “Melville’s ‘World-Frigate’: Global Ship-Space and Trasnational Roving in White Jacket”; Scott Moore, Brandeis University

Session 17

Sunday, April 11, 10:45am-12:15pm

17.01 St. Pierre: Textual Refigurations: Rewriting Old Texts into New Contexts; Chairs: William Duffy, State University of New York-Buffalo; Michael Rio, State University of New York-Buffalo; “From Othello to Bharadwaj’s Omkara: Transgressive Femininities in Cross-Cultural Translation”; Gohar Siddiqui, Syracuse University; “Black Aesthetics in Villaverde’s Cecilia Valdés and Morúa Delgado’s Sofía”; Vanessa Nelsen, Emory University; “Shakespeare in the Cancer Ward: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Adrian’s ‘A Tiny Feast’”; Gayle Whittier, Binghamton University; “Empire, Manifest Destiny, and the Re-Imagined Landscape of Edward Dorn’s Gunslinger”; Michael Rio, State University of New York-Buffalo
17.02 Longueuil: Traveling Alone: Women Migrating Across Cultures; Chair: Jehanne-Marie Gavarini, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; “Une Approche Féminine de l’Espace Migratoire Parisien chez Thérèse Parise Bernis”; Stephanie Silvestre, Union College; “Borders of Memory, Memory of Borders: Autobiographical Revision in Marguerite Duras and Isak Dinesen”; Mary Goodwin, National Taiwan Normal University; “‘Le Rhynland va partir’: Travel, Movement and Aesthetic Creation in Marie Krysinska”; Sharon Larson, Providence College; “Infidel: Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Long Journey”; Mary Jane Androne, Albright College
17.03 Pointes-aux-Trembles: Rethinking Narrative in Contemporary Poetry (Seminar); Chair: Barbara Fischer, Independent Scholar; “‘Poetry is braver than anyone’: Roberto Bolaño’s Mock-Heroic Code”; Michael Dowdy, Hunter College-CUNY; “Narrative imagination, poetic story, and ethical engagement: Alice Major, Don McKay”; Deborah Bowen, Redeemer University College; “‘Free in the White Space of Forgetting’: Narrative Ekphrasis in Tretheway’s Bellocq’s Ophelia”; Anne Keefe, Rutgers University; “‘Undo misunderstanding from inside’: Concordance as Spatial Narrative”; Charmaine Cadeau, SUNY Albany
17.04 Verdun: Postmodern Tourism; Chair: Robin DeRosa, Plymouth State University; “The Land of Sunshine: Documenting the Disappearing Tourist Culture Along Florida’s US1”; Liz Murphy Thomas, University of Illinois-Springfield; “Nostalgia, Tourism, and the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism”; Thaddeus Guldbrandsen, Center for Rural Partnerships; Mark Okrant, Plymouth State University; Benoni Amsden, Center for Rural Partnerships; “On the Road of Bones in Kolyma: Gulag Tourism and the Common”; Elliot Albe’rt Jarbe, Northwestern University; “No Man of the Mountain: Absence and Nostalgia in New Hampshire’s White Mountains”; Robin DeRosa, Plymouth State University
17.05 Jacques Cartier: Language, Literature, and Culture in Italy’s New ‘Multiculturalism’ (Seminar); Chair: Sabina Perrino, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; “‘Extracomunitari’ in The Lega’s North: Language, Migration, and Difference in Veneto”; Sabina Perrino, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; “Multiculturalism and the Moral-Politics of Antiracism in Italy”; Valentina Pagliai, CUNY Queens; “Subalternized Interventions in ‘Multicultural’ Italy: Narratives of Diasporic Ecuadorians”; estheR Cuesta, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “In Search of Hospitality: The Experience of Three Migrant Writers in Italy”; Elena Benelli, Concordia University
17.06 Fundy: Envisioning the Spanish Empire; Chair: Sara Lehman, Fordham University; “La ropa hace al hombre: la indumentaria en la problemática de la cristianización del mundo”; Peter Mahoney, Boston University; “The visual representation of the New World in Naufragios by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca”; Jill Blackstone, Boston University; “Ideologia imperial y laudes ciudadanas en Canto intitulado Mercurio (1623) de Arias de Villalobos”; Nidia Pullés-Linares, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY; “The Incan Celestina: Word and Image in the Works of Martín de Murúa and Guaman Poma”; George Antony Thomas, University of Nevada-Reno
17.07 Lachine: French and German Exile Writers: Dialogues; Chair: Christine Evans, Lesley College; “Simone Weil: Suffering in Exile”; Jane Doering, University of Notre Dame; “The Crisis of Realism in Modernist Exile Literature: Mann and Lukács vs. Broch and Brecht”; Charles Wesley, Binghamton University; “Aimé Césaire, the Colonial Exile: Writer, Dissident, French Subject”; Felisa Reynolds, Miami University; “Walter Mehring, Witness to his Age”; Rudy de Mattos, Louisiana Tech University
17.08 Lasalle: Teaching Italian Culture II; Chair: Elisabetta D’Amanda, Rochester Institute of Technology; “Teaching Italian Language and Culture through Film Language”; Elisabetta D’Amanda, Rochester Institute of Technology; “Elledueò: A Learning Environment for Italian as a Second Language”; Francesco Scolastra, Università per Stranieri di Perugia; “Studenti universitari italiani e americani: i sondaggi come strumento di confronto culturale”; Daniela Bartalesi-Graf, Tufts University
17.09 Mont-Royal: Ghostly Women and Apparitional Lesbians II; Chair: Kathryn Klein; “Reimagining the Apparitional: Ghostly Temporalities and Monstrous Women”; M. Catherine Jonet, New Mexico State University; “Closeted Exchange: Epistolary Lesbian Discourse in Cleland’s Fanny Hill”; Magdalena Bogacka, CUNY Graduate Center; “Toward L’esbos: Maria Mercè-Marçal, Renée Vivien and Lesbian Flânerie”; Melissa McCarron, University at Albany-SUNY; “Haunted by a Lesbian Present? Kay Langrish in Sarah Waters’s The Night Watch”; Kathryn Klein, Stony Brook University-SUNY
17.10 Salon C: Walter Benjamin and Memory; Chair: Wayne Stables, Trinity College-Dublin; “Walter Benjamin’s Heinle Sonnets – Memories of a Friend(ship)”; Caroline Sauter, LMU Munich; “Spaces of Memory, Sites of Forgetfulness: Benjamin and the Waters of Lethe”; Edmund Richardson, Princeton University; “Konstellation: Walter Benjamin on memory, violence and history”; Enrico Giorgio, University of Pisa; “Revising Moses: Memory and Jewish History in Benjamin and Freud”; Jessica Stock, Stony Brook University
17.11 Salon D: (Auto)biographical Features in Post-Unification Literature II; Chair: Mary Beth Stein, The George Washington University; “Memory and Post-Memory in Monika Maron’s ‘Pawels Briefe’”; Mary Beth Stein, The George Washington University; “Memories, Family Betrayal, and Stasi Surveillance: Susanne Schädlich’s ‘Immer wieder Dezember’”; Barbara Mabee, Oakland University; “What might have been: Remembering Complicity in the Works of Critical East German Writers”; Sara Jones, University of Bristol; “Denial and Ambivalence of the Self in Julia Schorch’s ‘Mit der Geschwidigkeit des Sommers’”; Ivett Guntersdorfer, University of California-Los Angeles
17.12 Salon E: Between Present and Past: Nostalgia in Francophone Literature II; Chair: Amy Hubbell, Kansas State University; “Créolité: the Reaffirmation of Repressed Cultural Identity or Fabricated Nostalgia?”; Sam Coombes, University of Edinburgh; “Memories and Constructions of Brotherhood in Le dernier frère by Natacha Appanah”; Magali Compan, College of William and Mary; “Nostalgies de comptoir? India and Nostalgia in French Literature”; Corinne François-Denève, University of Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines; “Moi, Jeanne Castille de Louisiane, and the Other Within”; Monika Giacoppe, Ramapo College of New Jersey
17.13 Salon F: Rebelles, mécréantes et criminelles dans la littérature francophone II; Chair: Frédérique Chevillot, University of Denver; “Ventriloquizing the Enslaved: The Silence of Violence in Caribbean Literature?”; Eloise Brière, University at Albany-SUNY; “Déviances dans la maison du père: les héroїnes décalées de Martine Desjardins”; Sylvie Bérard, Trent University; “Une étrange violence commune: Médée dans la littérature féminine actuelle”; Marie Carrière, University of Alberta
17.14 Salon G: Zadie Smith: After the First Decade II; Chair: Susan Alice Fischer, Medgar Evers College-CUNY; “History and National Identity in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and On Beauty”; Susan Alice Fischer, Medgar Evers College-CUNY; “White Teeth Reconsidered: Narrative Deception and Uncomfortable Truths”; Ulrike Tancke, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz; “Smith and Rushdie: Monologic Hybridity in Midnight’s Children and White Teeth”; Lewis MacLeod, Trent University; “‘A Breed of Lyrical Realism’: Form and Fakery in the Novels of Zadie Smith”; Christopher Holmes, Brown University
17.15 Salon H: Performing Race in American Literature and Culture; Chair: Kristin Moriah, CUNY Graduate Center; “‘...at the center of everything’: Accounting for Race in Valerie Martin’s Property”; Christina Sharpe, Tufts University; “Race Trouble in The Last of the Mohicans of 1826, 1936, and 1992”; Michael Mayne, University of Florida; “Performance and the Discourse of Race: Interrogating the Performing Body”; Chempakathinal Scaria Biju, St. Thomas’ College; “Transforming the Passing Novel: Danzy Senna’s Caucasia and the New Era of Mixed Race Identity”; Molly McKibbin, York University
17.16 St. Lambert: Re-reading American Romance: Text, Context, Meta-text; Chair: William Chad Stanley, Wilkes University; “Henry James’s Hawthorne and American Romanticism: A Study in Literary Conflict”; Diana H Polley, Southern New Hampshire University; “No Home to Be Found: James Fenimore Cooper’s Failed Cosmopolitan Identity”; Geoff Bender, University of Rochester; “A Subaltern Romance: Joseph Plumb Martin’s A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier”; William Chad Stanley, Wilkes University; “The Tropology of Ghost Writing and Filial Inheritance in Hawthorne’s ‘The Custom House’”; Wadia Rabhi, Université de Montréal