Here are the results of the recent election. Some of you may not have received ballots. If that was the case, then the reason was that we do not have your most current mailing address. Please email the new membership secretary, Kamal D. Verma (kverma@pitt.edu) and give him the updated address.
Finally, if you have any recent publication to announce, please forward me that information ASAP; I am putting together the text of the newsletter for which I am responsible (Seodial Deena takes over as the newsletter editor).
President: John Hawley, Department of English St. Joseph's Hall 321 Santa Clara University 500 El Camino Real Santa Clara, CA 95053 JHawley@scu.edu
John C. Hawley is Associate Professor of English at Santa Clara University. He writes on Africa and South Asian literature, most recently having published "Amitav Ghosh: An Introduction." He is the editor of ten books, and is working on two others.
Secretary: Cynthia Leenerts East Stroudsburg University srcyn@aol.com
Treasurer: Daniel M. Scott III, Department of English Craig Lee Hall 263 Rhode Island College 600 Mt. Pleasant Ave. Providence, RI 02908 dscott@ric.edu
Membership Secretary: K.D. Verma, Department of English University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Johnstown, PA 15904 Fax: (814) 269-7196 verma@upitt.edu
Newsletter Editor: Seodial Deena, Department of English Bate 2130 East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858-4353 deenas@mail.ecu.edu
Interdisciplinary Graduate 2006 Conference - Earlham College
Call for Papers
Sexuality Out of Place Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference March 31st-April 1st 2006, Earlham College
Why do place and geography matter? What does it mean to examine both diasporic and queer identities? How can we theorize and understand such cultural location? What is the relation between "experience" and location and its meaning for identity? What might the consideration of these issues mean for a contemporary politics of sex? What kind of queer cultural readings emerge?
This conference encourages approaches that interrogate Western and colonial conceptions of sexuality and the division between Western and non-Western practices.
Interdisciplinary work is one of the principles of Earlham College and the motif for this conference, and proposals from all fields (philosophy, literature, history, sociology, anthropology, etc.) engaging with issues in such a way will be given special consideration, as will proposals addressing pedagogy and the integration of sexuality studies curricula at the undergraduate level.
Topics of particular interest include:
. Post-Colonial visions of sexuality . The relationship of race, gender, and sexuality . Transnational and migratory sexualities . Urban (sub)cultures . Tourism . Sexual economies . "Queer Globalization" . Visual culture and representation
Please send a proposal of no more than 350 words detailing your work, institutional affiliation, and CV to ecsexuality2006@gmail.com by December 30, 2005. Proposals will be reviewed by a faculty reading committee. Notification of acceptance will follow by February 10, 2006. For more information, please visit http://www.earlham.edu/~sexconf/.
The 2006 "Sexuality Out of Place" conference is focused on examining the relationship of space, place, and geography with sexuality; it interested in exploring the different ways the location of identity plays out when sexuality, sexual difference, and geography are taken seriously. This conference will welcome graduate work-historical and contemporary-focused on discourse, narratives, and practices of sexuality understood through the prism of place and space, including:
USACLALS 2006 Conference - Santa Clara University
Call for Papers
USACLALS 4th International Conference Oct. 27-29 2006 Santa Clara University
Fissures and Sutures: Sources of Division and Mutual Aid in Postcolonial Reflections on History and Literature
100 years ago, in 1906: a 7.8 hit San Francisco (and an 8.6 earthquake hit Quito); Mt. Vesuvius erupted and devastated Naples; race riots broke out in Atlanta; Japanese students were taught in racially segregated schools in San Francisco; Theodore Roosevelt took the first official trip outside the U.S. by a sitting President; the first intercollegiate fraternity for African American students was founded; Reginald Fessenden made the first radio broadcast; the world's first feature film (The Story of the Kelly Gang) was released; immunization against tuberculosis was developed; Richard Oldham proposed that the earth has a molten interior; the Second Geneva Convention was held; the All-India Muslim League was founded.
50 years ago, in 1956: Pakistan became the first Islamic republic; Nasser became President of Egypt and nationalized the Suez Canal; the submarine telephone cable across the Atlantic was opened; Dr. B.R.Ambedkar, the Indian Untouchable leader, converted to Buddhism along with 385,000 followers; Fidel Castro and Che Guevara departed Mexico and landed in Cuba; Warsaw Pact troops invaded Hungary and the Hungarian Revolution began; Israel invaded the Sinai Peninsula; Britain got its first female judge; Japan joined the United Nations.
We invite papers of 15-20 minute presentation time relating to the general conference theme, or to other aspects of postcolonial literature and theory (including US ethnic literatures). Among questions and topics of likely relevance are the following: * Natural and man-made disasters and their impact on communities: partitions, border disputes, chemical pollution, tsunamis * Religion and its influence in uniting or dividing peoples * Gender-related issues of justice in local and global compacts * Identity politics and class conflict over time * Technology and globalization and their effects in history and in nation-building (or nation-dissolving) * There will also be opportunities for readings by poets and novelists on these and other themes.
Among probable speakers at this time are Bill Ashcroft, Pal Ahluwalia, and R. Radhakrishnan. We are in discussions with others, as well.
Send 200-word abstracts electronically by March 1 to: jhawley@scu.edu John C. Hawley, Dept. of English, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino, Santa Clara CA 95053; or FAX: John Hawley, English dept.: (408) 554 4837
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CFSS: South Asian Review 29:3, 2008 Special Issue on the Short Story
CALL FOR SHORT STORY SUBMISSIONS
South Asian Review (Volume 29, Number 3)
2008 Special Issue on the Short Story
Submissions are invited for the 2008 special issue of the South Asian Review (SAR), Volume 29, Number 3. This issue is meant to showcase the variety and vitality of the South Asian short story. Writers from any background are welcome to submit their stories provided these areon South Asian subjects. Good English translations of short stories from Indian languages are also solicited.
·Submissions must be received by Friday, August 1, 2008.
·A story may not exceed 5000 words in length.
·Each submission must be accompanied with a statement that the work or translation has not appeared in print, online, or in any other format.
·Translators must have in hand the copyright permission from the original authors or their estates.
·Submissions can be sent electronically as Word document attachments.
·Surface mail submissions should include three printed copies and a floppy disc in Word format.
·Manuscripts should be prepared in Word format and double spaced.
· Manuscripts will not be returned.
South Asian Review, the refereed journal of the South Asian Literary Association, is a representative international forum for the scholarly examination of South Asian Languages and Literatures in a contemporary cultural context. The Review is published four times a year: the Special Topic issue (June/July); the Regular issue (October); the Creative Writing issue (November); and the Conference issue (December).
SAACLALS 2005 Conference - University of Cape Town
SAACLALS International Conference, July 10-13, 2005, at the University of Cape Town, South Africa
Rush 150-word abstracts for papers or panels.Deadline soon!!
For further information, immediately contact Prof. Rosemary Gray at rgray@postino.up.ac.za.
Our aim is to bring together people who use English as a primary means of communication and ask them to concentrate on the theme AFRICA IN LITERATURE. Communicating ideas, mythologies and dreams remains one of our most empowering human activities.In bringing people together from different cultures, generations, nationalities, perspectives and disciplines to concentrate on a theme like this one, we believe we encourage conversation, mutual exchange and hope in a time of global conflict. The exploration of ideas of Africa represented in many literatures is a rich topic for consideration.There is another powerful view of Africa as representing the writer’s very blood, bones and cells.
We hope such radically different understandings of Africa as represented in literature will stir up vigorous discussion. But Okri rightly concludes that “beneath the strife of our age, internecine warfare, tribal antagonisms, religious intolerance, racial violence, the disharmony of the sexes, beneath all these lurks the most ordinary discovery that we are human, and that life is holy.”
Papers addressing such topics as the following are invited: colonialism and post colonialism; History and its literary representations; prison experiences; civil war in Africa; Writing the nation; Gendered representations; representing Africa in letters/diaries/personalia/ biographical ways; Hegemonic narratives; Religious perspectives in the representations of Africa; diaspora; literary criticism: Africa in literary theory; Landscape: Land as motif; oral literature and storytelling.
Sources of Division and Mutual Aid in Postcolonial Reflections on History and Literature
Confirmed speakers at this time
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Bill Ashcroft, Aijaz Ahmad, R. Radhakrishnan, Amritjit Singh, Tess Onwueme, Emmanuel Dongala, Kalyan Ray, and Shu-mei Shih
Oct. 27-29 2006
United States Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies
4th International Conference(USACLALS)
Santa ClaraUniversity (40 miles south of San Francisco; one mile from San Jose airport)
100 years ago, in 1906:
a 7.8 hit San Francisco (and an 8.6 earthquake hit Quito); Mt. Vesuvius erupted and devastated Naples; race riots broke out in Atlanta; Japanese students were taught in racially segregated schools in San Francisco; Theodore Roosevelt took the first official trip outside the U.S. by a sitting President; the first intercollegiate fraternity for African American students was founded; Reginald Fessenden made the first radio broadcast; the world’s first feature film (The Story of the Kelly Gang) was released; immunization against tuberculosis was developed; Richard Oldham proposed that the earth has a molten interior; the Second Geneva Convention was held; the All-India Muslim League was founded.
50 years ago, in 1956:
Pakistan became the first Islamic republic; Nasser became President of Egypt and nationalized the Suez Canal; the submarine telephone cable across the Atlantic was opened; Dr. B.R.Ambedkar, the Indian Untouchable leader, converted to Buddhism along with 385,000 followers; Fidel Castro and Che Guevara departed Mexico and landed in Cuba; Warsaw Pact troops invaded Hungary and the Hungarian Revolution began; Israel invaded the Sinai Peninsula; Britain got its first female judge; Japan joined the United Nations.
We invite papers of 15-20 minute presentation time relating to the general conference theme, or to other aspects of postcolonial literature and theory (including US ethnic literatures).Among questions and topics of likely relevance are the following:
Natural and man-made disasters and their impact on communities: partitions, border disputes, chemical pollution, tsunamis
Religion and its influence in uniting or dividing peoples
Gender-related issues of justice in local and global compacts
Identity politics and class conflict over time
Technology and globalization and their effects in history and in nation-building (or nation-dissolving)
There will also be opportunities for readings by poets and novelists on these and other themes.
IMAGES FROM THE 2006 USACLALS CONFERENCE, OCTOBER 27-29
The beautiful University of Santa Clara campus:
The USACLALS Executive Committee Meeting:
John Hawley, President Revathi Krishnaswamy, Kamal Verma, Robin Field, Amritjit Singh
A full registration!
A plentitude of plenaries:
Revathi Krishnaswamy introduces and responds to Amritjit Singh's "To Market, to Market, to Buy a Plum Bun: The Conflicts and Challenges of Being a South Asian in the 21st Century"
The meeting of minds:
Pradyumna S. Chauhan and Ngugi wa Thiong'o, arriving to read from his text The Wizard of Crow
Tess Onwueme and Ngugi wa Thiong'o
John Hawley, Tess Onwueme, Bill Ashcroft, and Lyn McCredden
Stephanie Chan and Revathi Krishnaswamy
CFP: The Ends of Empire, The Open University and The National University of Ireland Maynoth, 18-20 June 2009
The Open University and The National University of Ireland Maynooth in association with ACLALS 18-20 June 2009 Maynooth, Ireland
THE ENDS OF EMPIRE
This conference seeks to explore the ends of European empires in the twentieth century. The general themes of imperial decline and anti-colonial struggle will be examined by focussing on different instances of decolonisation and their multiple representations. Papers might focus on any of the following: the ends of particular colonies; identifiable moments of crisis in imperial rule; cultural, political, and economic continuities and ruptures in the transitions to postcolonial rule; intellectual legacies of imperial ideology and of anti-colonial struggle; the discourses of empire/ colony/ settlement/ nation/ commonwealth; literary representations of the end of empire or of emergent postcolonial nations; the historiography of the ends of empire; and contestations over land and conceptions of landscape in the transition to postcolonial rule. We welcome proposals from scholars working within literary studies, history and historiography, anthropology, film and media, art history and visual culture, historical and cultural geography, as well as papers making connections across these disciplines.
Proposals by 15 September 2008, to Glenn Hooper and Conor McCarthy: g.hooper@open.ac.uk conor.d.mccarthy@nuim.ie
Organising Committee: Glenn Hooper David Johnson Conor McCarthy
USACLALS 2005 Conference - Georgia Southern University
Announcement
BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
Georgia Coastal Center, Feb. 25-26, 2005
The annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, inaugurated in 1992, is the only annual meeting of its kind in the United States. It encompasses colonial and postcolonial histories, literatures, creative and performing arts, politics, economics, and all other aspects of the countries formerly colonized by Britain and other European powers. There is no restriction to any particular political/cultural ideology or to specific critical practices, however fashionably current. Rather, we welcome and seek to encourage a variety of approaches and viewpoints, and the generation of wide-ranging, productive debates.
Emory University and Spelman College have agreed to join Georgia Southern in sponsoring the conference. Candy Schille is the conference organizer for 2005.
The avowed aim (or "mission") of the conference, then, is to be interdisciplinary and cross-cultural, and to offer scholars and researchers, teachers and students, the opportunity to disseminate and discuss their knowledge and understanding of the dynamic, important field of postcolonial studies.
Call for Papers
CFP: Culture and Conflict: Crossing and Negotiating Borders in Postcolonial Societies (11/1/04; 2/25/05-2/26/05)
CALL FOR PAPERS Proposals are now being accepted for the 14th Annual British Commonwealth & Postcolonical Studies Conference & the 3rd Annual USACLALS Conference (US Chapter: Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies)
Papers and panels are invited on the theme of Culture and Conflict: Crossing and Negotiating Borders in relation to the Literature and Arts of Postcolonial Societies. Postcolonial readings of race, gender and ethnicity within the US and the Americas are also welcome.
Especially welcome are... Comparative frameworks across continents; experimental panels, such as grad/undergrad roundtables; papers distributed electronically in advance with the session devoted mostly to discussion, and debate. Papers should be designed for 15-minute delivery, and panels for 75 minutes. Plenary sessions might run 75 to 90 minutes.
Abstracts for each paper should be 200-300 words and proposals for panels should include an abstract for each paper along with full contact information on each presenter. We specifically invite proposals in the following areas:
Bioethics, Ecology, Ecocriticism Migration, Diaspora, Hybridity and Borders Region/Religion/Politics and Culture Post/Neo/Internal/Colonialism Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Class and Sex Edward Said: Literary Critic and Political Activist Postcolonialism, Culture Studies and the Disciplines Globalization, Transnational Capital, and Postcolonialism
For more information, e-mail: schille_at_georgiasouthern.edu or dchampion_at_georgiasouthern.edu
Program Committee Candy Schille - Chair, Marc Cyr, and Gautam Kundu, Georgia Southern University; Deepika Bahri, Emory University; and Pushpa Parekh, Spelman College
For information on USACLALS membership and activities, Please contact John Hawley at jhawley_at_scu.edu or Amritjit Singh at asingh_at_ric.edu Sponsored by Georgia Southern University's Department of Literature & Philosophy in partnership with the Division of Continuing Education & Public Service Co-sponsored by Emory University and Spelman College
Deborah Champion Program Specialist Continuing Education and Public Service Georgia Southern University PO Box 8124 Statesboro, GA 30460 912-681-5555 FAX 912-681-0306 or 912-486-7760 dchampion_at_georgiasouthern.edu
Agenda
Friday, February 25, 2005
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Chair: K. D. Verma, University of Pittsburgh
The "Other" and Mother India: Art, Poetry, and Cultural Criticism
A World of Parting, Separation, and Ceaseless Longing: The Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali Waqas Khwaja, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA Intersections of Indian and Western Aesthetics: Mulk Raj Anand as a Critic of the Arts K. D. Verma, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, Pittsburgh, PA
Chair: Patricia Price, Georgia Southern University
Fallen Rotten Gardens
Azúcar! The Story of Sugar: Slavery, Sugar Plantations, and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic Alison Van Nyhuis, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Kincaid's Garden: A Fourth Garden of Self-Awareness Alice D'Amore, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Depictions of Colonialism and Capitalism through Biblical Allusions in Caribbean Literature Seodial Deena, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
Voices from the Margins: "Black" Caribbean and Mexican Heritage Women Educators in the Rural South Lorraine S. Gilpin & Scott A. L. Beck, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
Chair: April Gentry, Savannah State University
Through A Glass Darkly: (Post)Colonial Inversions
Comme Tu l'as Laissé: Narrative Inversions in Edwidge Danticat's Children of the Sea April Gentry, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA
Inverting Colonizer and Colonized - A Post-Colonial reading of Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple Gloria Shearin, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA
Underdevelopment as Deprivation of Freedom: The West and the Non-West in Ferdinand Oyono's Houseboy Benn L. Bongang, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA
Homowo: Hooting at Colonialism in Laye's The Radiance of a King Emmanuel Quarcoo, Fulbright Scholar in Residence, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA
Colonizing Liberia: Inversions of Nationalism and Nativism Charmaine Flemming, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA
10:15 AM - 11:45 AMChair: Dean G. Hall, Kansas State UniversityPostcolonial Sport: Canadian History
Austin Clarke: Bajan-Canadian Transnational Representations Joseph McLaren, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
The Return of History: The Historical Novel in Recent Postcolonial Fiction Reed Dasenbrock, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Chair: Simon Lewis, College of Charleston J. M. Coetzee, J.G. Farrell and Alison Lurie Postcolonial Landscapes and Environmental Ethics: J. M. Coetzee's Animals and Humans Hans-Georg Erney, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Absurd Collisions of the 'Mother' Country and the Colonials: J.G. Farrell's Empire Triptych and Alison Lurie's Foreign Affairs Rebecca Ziegler, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA Chair: Catherine Chaput, Georgia Southern University Women's Stories
Public Use of Personal Histories: The Memory Books of HIV/AIDS Positive African Women Julie O'Neill Kloo, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
Reflections of Truth and Reconciliation: Women's Roles, Women's Writing, and the Effects of the Truth Commission on Narrative in South Africa Neelika Jayawardane, SUNY-Oswego, NY
Biography as Imperialism: Eilersen's Reading of Bessie Head's A Question of Power Laverne Nishihara, Indiana University East, Richmond, IN
Noon - 1:30 PM KEYNOTE LUNCHEON/ADDRESS Robert J. C. Young, University of Oxford, Wadham College
“Walter Benjamin: At the Border”
1:45 PM - 3:15 PMChair: Frank Arasanyin, Georgia Southern University Globalization: Should "It's a Small World After All" Be Burned to the Ground? Globalization and the Envisioning of Resistance: The Reinvention of the African Novel in Ngugi wa Thiongo's Devil on the Cross Lopamudra Basu, City University of New York
Architectonics and Postcolonial Literature: Searching for the Relation of Author to Hero in Joyce Cary's Mr Johnson, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and Buchi Emecheta's The Slave Girl Russell Greer, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX Globalization, Transnational Capital and Indian Literature in English Feroza Jussawalla, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Chair: Hans-Georg Erney, Emory University The Power of the Ordinary
The Power of Inequality: Nigerian Pidgin in Achebe's Fiction Thomas J. Lynn, Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College, Reading, PA
Shades of Black Consciousness in South African Coloured Literature: Chris van Wyk's Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy Simon Lewis, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
How Things Fell Apart in South Africa: The Political Necessity of Presenting Ordinary Life Under Apartheid Neelika Jayawardane, SUNY-Oswego, NYChair: Amritjit Singh, Rhode Island College New Zealand/Australia - "Trafficking"
Cultural Souvenirs: Fetishization of Authenticity in Two New Zealand Authors Bev Hogue, Marietta College, Marietta, OH
Convicts and Bushrangers: Aussie (Out)Law Tales and Post-colonial Identity Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
Tilting on the Axis of Evil: Australian Novels and Moral Relativism Dennis Haskell, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia Moderator Pushpa Parekh, Spelman College Cultural Othering in Diaspora and Migration Narratives: Undergraduate Discussion Panel Nana Yeboah, Amy Chinanzvavana, Mwikali Muindi, Tanya Faublas, and Ebonne Rufffins, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA 3:30 PM - 5:00 pm Chair: Kildip Kuwahara, North Carolina Central University Ascetics, Exiles, and Sojourners
Firanghis and Foreigners: Exile and the Formation of Identity in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay Sharada Balachandran-Orihuela, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Can The Subaltern Dream? Magical Realism and the "Othering" of Hinduism in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children Ritu Raju, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX
The Gandhian Body in Raja Rao's Kanthapura Chandrima Chakraborty, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Chair: Deborah Fonteneau, Savannah State University Transnational - Postnational - Circumnational
The Return of the Magi: Postcolonial Literature and the Problem of the "World" Weihsin Gui, Brown University, Providence, RI
The Uncomfortable Crossing of Borders in Naipaul's Mimic Men and Ghosh's In An Antique Land John C. Hawley, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls Trilogy, Buchi Emecheta's Second-Class Citizen and the National Longing for Lack of Form Kathryn L. Kleypas, Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York
Chair: Dean G. Hall: Kansas State University Female Identity and Agency Jhabvala's Heat and Dust, Mehta's Earth, Mukherjee's The Holder of the World, and Divakaruni's The Mistress of Spices
Jhabvala's Heat and Dust: Comparing Female Agency in the Novel and Film Dean G. Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS Border-Crossing Feminism: Deepa Mehta's Earth as Adaptation of Sidhwa's Cracking India Jamie Durler, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
The Embodiment of Desire: Asset Hunting in Bharati Mukherjee's The Holder of the World Carla Reimer, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Threads of Indianness: Raven's Role in Intersecting Creations of 'Indian' Identity in The Mistress of Spices Becky Rhodehouse, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS Chair: John Parcels: Georgia Southern University Postcolonial Conflict/Postcolonial Nature
Directions for a South African Ecocriticism: Revisiting Critical Response to J. M. Coetzee's Michael K Anthony Vital, Translvania University, Lexington, KY Imperial Green: Environmentalism in/and African Colonial Literature Byron Caminero-Santangelo, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Memories of Hawai’i: U.S. History and the Future of Indigenous Expansionism
Cara Cilano, University of North Carolina at Wilmington 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM An Evening with Writers
Welcome: Eric Nelson, Georgia Southern University
Co-hosted by: Amritjit Singh and Darius Cooper Ferosa Jussawalla, Saleem Peeradina, Dennis Haskell, Amritjit Singh & Laksmisree Banerjee
Saturday, February 26, 2005 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Chair: Kuldip Kuwahara, North Carolina Central University Cultural Otherness
Tracing a Woman’s Poetic World Without Borders: Comparative Studies of World Women Poets in India and the West
Laksmisree Banerjee, Jamshedput Women’s College of the Ranchi University, India
To Err or Not to Err: Conflicting Narratives in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Unknown Errors of Our Lives Brewster E. Fitz, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK Blending Two Modes of Life: The East-West Fiction and Autobiography of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Heat and Dust Bobbie McDonald, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA Chair: Marc Cyr, Georgia Southern University Immigration, Emigration and Identity in the Arab World Effects of Colonialism on Arab Muslim Identity Maryam El Shall, University of Florida
Creating New Maps: Arab-American and Arab-Canadian Women Writers and Racial Othering Pushpa Parekh, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA Chair: Darius Cooper, San Diego Mesa College Curry, Football, and Plagiarism
Curry on the Divide in Rudyard Kipling's Kim and Gurinder Chadha's Bend it Like Beckham Winnie Chan, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
"Piss off, Paki!:" Bend it Like Beckham and Racism in Sport Prabhjot Parmar, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Indianizing Devonshire: Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen's Plagiarized Novel Gillian Gane, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY Chair: Deepika Bahri, Emory University Race and Place: The Politics and Poetics of Geography and Embodiment Searching for the Promised Land in the American West: An Examination of Migration in Sherley Anne Williams' Dessa Rose Folashadé Alao, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
From Barbados to Brooklyn: Identity and Reconciliation in Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones Susana Morris, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
"Where the World Is": Race, Place, and the Task of Imagination in Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup Aida Hussen, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
The Anglo-Indian in the Annexe: Making Room for the Minor in PostcolonialLiterature Deepika Bahri, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM USACLALS PRESIDENTIAL FORUM Greetings: Amritjit Singh, Rhode Island College, President, USACLALS & Introduction: Pushpa Parekh, Spelman College
Carole Boyce Davies, African New World Studies, Florida International University, Miami, FL (Sponsored by the Ethel Waddell Githii Honors Program, Spelman College)
“Imperial Geographies and Post-Colonial Legacies: At the Border between ‘Dying Colonialism’ and U.S. Hegemony”
Noon - 1:30 PM Lunch on Your Own
1:15 – 1:45 PMUSACLALS BUSINESS MEETING
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM Chair: John Hawley, Santa Clara University South Asian Fiction: British and American
Bhaji and the Bitch: Meera Syal's Anti-Female Agenda in Bhaji on the Beach John Rooks, Morris College, Sumter, SC
Redefining Englishness: Shattering the Monolithic Community in British Asian Fiction Rebecca S. Godlasky, Clayton College and State University, Morrow, GA
The Uncharted Course: Narratives of South Asian American Isolation Sailaja Sastry, Columbia University, New York City, NY 1:45 PM - 3:15 PMCHAIR: Deborah Fonteneau, Savannah State University
Caribbean Politics in Literature and Art
Post-colonial Factors in Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies Darren Broome, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA
Derek Walcott's Omeros: Soul Music of the Reluctant Shaman Natalie King-Pedroso, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL
Moderator: Quentin Heyward, Savannah State University Post-Colonialism and African-American Literature: An Undergraduate Roundtable Quentin Heyward, Teri Schell, Gerald Darden, Hadara Brown, Reggie Johnson, Alisha Castor, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Chair: Sara Hallisey, Harvard University Arundhati Roy's - The God of Small Things
No "Locusts Stand I": Abjection in The God of Small Things Barbara Gardner, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA "A Tomb of One's Own": The Construction of the History House in The God of Small Things Sara Hallisey, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA The 'Terror' of Colonialism and Caste in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things Jennifer Jackson, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA Locating and Assessing the Voice of Arundhati Roy since The God of Small Things Geoffrey Kain, Embry-Riddle University, Daytona Beach, FLChair: Howard Keeley, Georgia Southern University Metaphor and Representations Depictions of Spain, Spaniards, and the Spanish New World: Religious and Ethnic Othering, Xenophobia, and the Black Legend in British and American Children’s Literature Horacio Sierra, University of Florida, Gainesville, GA Sporting Bodies and Race in the Postcolonial World John Nauright, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA Chair: Thomas J. Lynn, Penn State Berks – Lehigh Valley College New Home for Transnationals
The Foreign as Home: Migration and Memory in New Black Diasporic Literature Newtona (Tina) Johnson, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
When a Book 'Speaks' for a 'People': Reading the Cultural Debate surrounding Chang-Rae Lee's Native Speaker and Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine Terri A. Hasseler, Bryant University, Smithfield, RI India in Africa: Naipaul and Vassanji Robin Visel, Furman University, Greenville, SC Chair: Pat Ingle Gillis, Georgia Southern University, emeritus Postcolonial Pedagogy
Putting Africa on the Mental Map: Designing and Teaching an Interdisciplinary Introduction to African Studies Pamela A. Rooks, Francis Marion University, Florence, SC
Teaching Achebe's Things Fall Apart as a Liminal Text Tom Kucharski, Loyola University, Chicago, IL
Sunday, February 27, 2005 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Chair: Candy Schille, Georgia Southern University Theatricality and Representation
Thinking Beyond Pink: The Misuses of Jimi Mistry in The Guru and A Touch of Pink Willie Tolliver, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA
Playing the Part: Rituals and Theatrics in Kincaid's Annie John Katy Howe, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
The Ocean of Fire: An Examination of the Process of Self-Integration in the Development of a Hybrid Identity Annette McGrew, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
The Eco-Philosophical Metaphysic of Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali Mina Surjit Singh, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
Moderator: Emmanuel Quarcoo, Fulbright Scholar in Residence, Savannah State University African Literature and Postcolonialism: An Undergraduate Roundtable Sherika Minor, Anita Matchett, Christopher Daniel, Gabriel Bata, Marsha Johnson, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Chair: Caren Town, Georgia Southern University USA - Captivities
A Veil of Tears: Post-colonial Reflections on Ricky Bragg's I Am A Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story Linda M. Baeza, University Of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
A Great Basin Case Study of the American Indian Reservation System: A Colonial Construct in a Postcolonial World JoEllen Broome, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
In Her Own Words: Revealing Boundaries in Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative Kari R. Mitchell, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND Chair: Chair: Mitali P. Wong, Claflin University Strangers in a Strange Land: South Asian Poetry in America
Exile and Inner Conflict: The Poetry of A. K. Ramanujan, Shiv Kumar Kumar, G. S. Sharat Chandra Mitali P. Wong, Claflin University, Orangeburg, SC
Identity and Loss: The Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali, Zulfikar Ghose, and Meena Alexander Syed Hassan, Claflin University, Orangeburg, SC
USACLALS 2002 Conference - Santa Clara University
Call for Papers
Second International Conference of the United States Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies
April 26-28, 2002
Santa Clara University, California
(40 miles south of San Francisco; one mile from San Jose airport)
?Rethinking Commonwealth/Postcolonial Literatures:Cartographies and Topographies, Past and Present?
Guest Speakers and Writers Reading from their Work
Opal Palmer, Adisa, Pal Ahluwalia, Arif Dirlik, Chitra Divakaruni, Abdul JanMohamed, Ginu Kamani, Shirley Lim, Satendra Nandan, Joel Tan, Trinh Minh-ha.
Amitav Ghosh?s novel, The Glass Palace, was recently named a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize.In asking that it be withdrawn from the competition Ghosh objected that ?this phrase anchors an area of contemporary writing not within the realities of the present day, nor within the possibilities of the future, but rather within a disputed aspect of the past.In this it is completely unlike any other literary term (would it not surprise us, for instance, if that familiar category ?English literature? were to be renamed ?the literature of the Norman Conquest??).?This novelist?s objections demonstrate that the notion of ?commonwealth? can be called into question and its implications should be explored as the world?s global geo-political economy further expands into the new century.If by ?commonwealth literature and language studies? we also include, as is sometimes done, not only materials in English from current members of the British Commonwealth (Canadian, Australian, Anglophone Africa, etc.) but also in French, Spanish, Portuguese (Chinese? Kikuyu?, etc.), what are the boundaries of this expanding field of research?Papers dealing in some way with aspects of this topic are encouraged, but so too are others that may not seem immediately implicated in the question.Thus:
uMultifocal approaches to the study of language and literature: commonwealth, multiethnic, postcolonial, and transnational perspectives
uCommonwealths: global-regional reconfigurations and transformations at the turn of the century
uThe impact of technology on postcolonial literatures (Santa Clara University is in the heart of Silicon Valley)
uQuestions of local or national languages in the creation of ?new? literatures
u?Maps? (personal, national, philosophical)
uClose readings of individual works or sequences in one or several authors? writings
uCross-cultural comparative analyses of texts; US culture and ethnic American literatures
uPedagogical issues, either undergraduate or graduate
uProposed panels and roundtables on topics of mutual interest
uFilm
uCreative readings by authors
Deadline for abstracts and panel/roundtable proposals: January 15, 2002
300 word abstracts should be sent to:
John C. Hawley, Dept. of English, 500 El Camino, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara CA 95053.
The conference has the support of San Jose State University, Stanford, UCB.
Membership in the USACLALS is $25, or $10 for students, adjuncts, and retired professors.Please send name, affiliation and fees for membership to:
Terri Hasseler, Bryant College, 1150 Douglas Pike Rd, Smithfield, RI 02917.
Agenda
2002 USACLALS Conference Agenda
Santa Clara University
This conference is co-sponsored by Santa Clara University's Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Center for Multicultural Learning (Building Partnerships for Diversity grant), the Provost's Office, and the English Department, and supported by grants from San Jose State University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Santa Cruz, California State University at Fresno, Stanford University, and the University of San Francisco.
Friday, April 26th
Unless otherwise indicated, all Friday sessions are in Benson Student Center
Time
Event
9:00 - 5:00
Registration
(In lobby near Benson parlors and entryway to cafeteria)
11:00 - Noon
Executive Committee Meeting
(Parlor A)
PAPER SESSION I
1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
A. Australia and environs
Conference Room 209
Moderator:TBA
Lyn McCredden
(Deakin University, Australia)
?Tim Winton: A Post-Colonial Reading?
Wei Hsin Gui
(Wesleyan University)
??Writing the Word REN in Open Air?: Approaching ?Chineseness? in Singaporean Poetry in English?
Rebecca Weaver-Hightower
(Michigan State University)
?Cast Away with Tom, Gilligan, and Rudy: The U.S. Neo-Imperial Island Fantasy?
Kalyan Chatterjee
(University of Burdwan, India)
?Innocence and Experience in the new Papua New Guinea Literature in English?
B. Narratives of the Americas, I
Conference Room 21
Moderator:TBA
Bridget Kevane
(Montana State University)
?Rosario Ferr頡nd the Ambiguity of the Puerto Rican Novel in English?
Tiffany Magnolia
(Tufts University)
?Magical Realism: Towards a Theory of Practice?
Farzin Forooghi
(San Jose State University)
?Handling the Truth: Questioning Equiano?s Identity and Resulting Implications?
Balance Chow
(San Jose State University)
?Ethnicity as Commonwealth: A Transnational Perspective on Mayan Drifter, I Rigoberta Menchu, and Mean Spirit as Narratives of the Americas?
C. Creative Writers Reading
Conference Room 25
Makarand Paranjape
Anju Misra
Kalyan Chatterjee
D. Amitav Ghosh
Parlor B
Moderator:TBA
Claire Chambers
(Leeds University, UK)
?Postcolonial Science Fiction: Amitav Ghosh?s The Calcutta Chromosome?
Priti Joshi
(University of Puget Sound)
?Unnerving Cosmopolitanism, Amitav Ghosh?s Women?
Frederick Luis Aldama
(University of Colorado)
?The Postcolonial Double Helix: Rereading the Family Through Narrative Form in Amitav Ghosh?s The Glass Palace?
PAPER SESSION II
2:45 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
A. Pedagogy
Parlor B
Moderator:Simone Billings (Santa Clara University)
Harveen Sachdeva Mann
(Loyola University Chicago)
?Multiculturalism and ?Ethical Negotiation?: Teaching and Reading Nonwestern Postcolonial Literature and Theory in the West?
Robert Courtright
(Catholic University of America)
?Can ?Postcolonial? Literature Be Taught??
Kanika Batra
(Loyola University Chicago)
?Sexualizing Postcolonial Pedagogy: Cartographies of Same-Sex Desire and English Literary Studies in India?
Anju Dhadda Misra
(Kanodia College, University of Rajasthan, India)
?Recovering the Lost Self/Language Through Contemporizing Traditional Discourses/Epistemes?
B. Narratives of the Americas, II
Parlor E
Moderator:TBA
Juliana Chang
(Santa Clara University)
?Asian American Themes?
Richard Potter
(Florida Atlantic University)
?Different Tropes for Different Folks: Metaphors from the Margin and Symbols of Subversion in Under The Feet Of Jesus?
Robert Philipson
(Santa Clara University)
?Harlem Renaissance Postcoloniality?
C. Arabic Postcolonialisms
Conference Room 209
Moderator:TBA
WaﬠHassan
(Illinois State University at Normal)
?Dialogic Translation and Exile in the Work of Anglophone Arab Women Novelists?
E. D. Schragg
(San Jose State University)
?Dis-Orient-ation: Assia Djebar?s Doubly Dialogic Position in Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade?
Shaden Tageldin
(University of California at Berkeley)
?Kindling an Old Flame: The Rise of Egyptian Anglophonism in Ahdaf Soueif?s Fiction?
Nabil Boudraa
(Harvard University)
?Landscape, History, and Identity in Edouard Glissant, William Faulkner, and Kateb Yacine?
D. British ?Others?
Conference Room 21
Moderator:TBA
Rob Burton
(California State University at Chico)
?Kazuo Ishiguro?s Narrative Tracks Across the Floating World?
Jaya Hariprasad
(Rice University)
?The Intersections of Irish and Indian Rebellion in Finnegans Wake?
Andrew Shin
(California State University at Los Angeles)
?Alter/native Cartographies in Michael Ondaatje?s The English Patient?
Omendra K. Singh
(Government Girls College, Nathdwara, India)
?Postcolonial Concern in D.H. Lawrence?s American Writings?
E. Africa
Conference Room 25
Moderator:TBA
Bradley William Buchanan
(Stanford University)
?The Oedipus Myth in Nigerian Literature?
Laura Murphy
(Idyllwild Arts Academy)
?Remedial History: The Effects of the Middle Passage in Armah?s Fragments?
Thomas J. Lynn
(Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College)
?Ill at Ease: Environment and Anxiety in Independence-Era West African Fiction?
Ben B. Halm
(Fairfield University)
?The Narcissism of Terms and Theory, and a Barrier to ?the Balance of Stories?: How does Postcolonial or Commonwealth Figure??
Time
Event
4:30 - 6:30
Forum: Abdul Janmohamed and Pal Ahluwalia
(In Benson Center Brass Rail)
6:30
Reception
(In Benson Center Brass Rail)
7:30
Plenary session
?Trinh Minh-Ha, and
?Bill Ashcroft, University Of New South Wales, "Post-Colonial Futures: Post-Colonial Studies In The 21st Century"
In Benson Center Brass Rail
Time
Event
8:30 - 4:00
Registration
PAPER SESSION III
8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
A. Flann O?Brien
Daly Science 201
Moderator:Tom Shea
Mark Quigley
(University of California at Los Angeles)
?Writing the Postcolonial Life: Myles na gCopaleen and the Poverty of Postcolonial Autobiography?
Kersti Tarien
(St. Hugh?s College, Oxford University, UK)
?Flann O?Brien and John Banville: The ?Unexpected? Form and Content of National Identity?
Lynne Maes
(Ridder, University of California at Santa Cruz)
?Nationalism and Narrative Process in Flann O?Brien?s At Swim Two-Birds?
Tom Shea
(University of Connecticut)
respondent
B. The Caribbean, I
Daly Science 310
Moderator:TBA
Craig Smith
(Florida Atlantic University)
?Kristeva?s Theory of Abjection in Michelle Cliff?s No Telephone To Heaven?
Angelique Nixon
(Florida Atlantic University)
?Violence and Resistance in Michelle Cliff?s No Telephone To Heaven?
Johanna X. K. Garvey
(Fairfield University)
?Queering the Line(s): Caribbean Genealogies in Contemporary Fiction?
C. Singaporean Literature panel
Daly Science 317
Moderator:ShirleyGeok-Lin Lim
Felix Cheong
Aaron Lee
Alvin Pang
Dave Chua
Grace Chia
Gui Wei Hsin
The Singaporean writers? reading tour is made possible by the National Arts Council and the Singapore International Foundation.
D. Politics of Representation, I
Daly Science 202
Moderator:TBA
Keya Majumdar
(Ranchi University, India)
?We Are Here: Mapping India?s Cultural Identity in View of the Texts of Ice Candy, Tamas, and Tagorean Thoughts?
Anuradha Ramanujan
(University of Delhi/University of Florida)
?The World, the Text, and the Subaltern: Phoolan Devi and the Politics of Representation?
Husne Jahan
(Santa Clara University)
?Colonial Woes in Post-Colonial Writing: Chitra Divakaruni?s Immigrant Narratives?
Daphne Grace
(University of Sussex, UK)
?Plotting New Territories: Magical Space and Global Citizenship in Midnight?s Children and The Mistress Of Spices?
E. Salman Rushdie
Daly Science 203
Moderator:TBA
Andrew Howe
(University of California, Riverside)
?An Illusory Homeland: The Immigrant in The Satanic Verses?
Lidan Lin
(Indiana University/Purdue University Ft. Wayne)
?Hybridity and Postcolonial Identity in Salman Rushdie?s The Satanic Verses?
Loretta Mijares
(New York University)
?Indian Writing in English as ?Bastard Child?: ?Eurasians? in Salman Rushdie?s Midnight?s Children and Vikram Chandra?s Red Earth And Pouring Rain?
Pradyumna S. Chauhan
(Arcadia University)
?Salman Rushdie and the Diasporic Imagination?
PAPER SESSION IV
10:15 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
A.V.S. Naipaul
Daly Science 201
Moderator:TBA
Kamal Verma
(University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown)
?History, Biography, and Culture: Colonial and Postcolonial Engagements in Naipaul?s A House For Mr. Biswas?
Feroza Jussawalla
(University of New Mexico)
?V.S. Naipaul, Islam, and 9/11"
Vishnupriya Sengupta
(Jadavpur University, India)
?The Dialectics of Homelessness in V. S. Naipaul?s Works?
Lucia Olson
(Santa Clara University)
?Jean Rhys?s Voyage In The Dark, Jamaica Kincaid?s A Small Place, and V. S. Naipaul?s The Enigma Of Arrival: The Postcolonial Subject as Tourist, Flaneur/euse, or World Citizen??
B. South Africa
Daly Science 310
Moderator:TBA
Shane Graham
(Sam Houston State University)
?Truth and Fiction in Antjie Krog?s Country Of My Skull?
Robert McGill
(University of East Anglia, UK)
?Coetzee?s Disgrace: Representation and Failure?
Julie Caimie
(University of Guelph, Canada)
?Marlene van Niekerk?s Triomf: Poor Whites and (post)Apartheid?
Monica Popescu
(University of Pennsylvania)
?At the Crossroads: Post-Colonial and Post-Communist Theory?
C. Singaporean Creative Writers Reading
Daly Science 317
Moderator:Felix Cheong
Felix Cheong
Aaron Lee
Alvin Pang
Dave Chua
Grace Chia
Gui Wei Hsin
The Singaporean writers? reading tour is made possible by the National Arts Council and the Singapore International Foundation.
D. Imagining India
Daly Science 202
Moderator:TBA
Angus Dunstan
(California State University, Sacramento)
?Literary Representations of India?
Sangeeta Mediratta
(Santa Clara University)
?Mehboob Khan?s film, Mother India, versus Katherine Mayo?s Imperialist Tract, Mother India: Figures of the Woman, the Bandit, and the Nation?
Alan Johnson
(Idaho State University)
?Provicializing the Commonwealth?: Colonial and Postcolonial Decay in Kipling, Chaudhuri, Farrell?
Makarand Paranjape
(Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
?Postcolonial Prepositions and the Rhetoric of Vernacular India?
E. Postcoloniality I
Daly Science 203
Moderator:TBA
Amin Malak
(Grant MacEwan College, Canada)
??What?s in a Name??: Commonwealth, Postcolonial, or. . .?The Risk-Reward of Labels?
Anjali Gera Roy
(Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India)
?Postcolonial Moves: Cosmopolitans of a Borderless Space?
Abdul-Karim Mustapha
(University of Paris 1)
?The Invention of Temporality?
Gavin Keulks
(Western Oregon University)
?Handcuffed to History: Can Postmodernism and Postcolonialism Co-Exist??
Time
Event
Noon - 2:00
Banquet Luncheon and Presidential Forum
In Adobe Lodge (Faculty Club)
Presiding: Amritjit Singh (Rhode Island College), USACLALS President.
Sangeeta Ray (University of Maryland)
?Conjunction and Disjunctions of ?Commonwealth? in Amitav Ghosh?s Glass Palace?
Biodun Jeyifo (Cornell University)
"Modernity From Below"
PAPER SESSION V
2:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
A. Indian Englishes
Daly Science 201
Moderator:TBA
Jaydeep Sarangi
(Seva-Bharati College and Vidyasagar and
Burdwan Universities)
?Indian English Literature?
T. Vijay Kumar
(Osmania University, India)
?No Fixed Address: The ?Indian? Novel in English in the Age of Globalization?
Kalyan Chatterjee
(University of Burdwan, India)
?The Effects of an English Literary Education on the Indian Consciousness?
Thangam Ravindranathan
(University of Pennsylvania)
?Strategies of Unreadability in Upamanyu Chatterjee?s The Mammaries Of The Welfare State?
B. Oceania
Daly Science 310
Moderator:Satendra Nandan
David Mesher
(San Jose State University)
?Coming of Rage in Samoa: Sia Figiel?s Where We Once Belonged?
Juniper Ellis
(Loyola College Baltimore)
?Walking on Water in Oceania: Narratives of Religion and Change?
Karen Frances Mulholland
(University of New Mexico)
?Mao?hi writers from French Polynesia?
Elizabeth DeLoughrey
(Cornell University)
?Crossing Kala Pani: Caste Adrift in Indo-Fijian Literature?
C. Postcoloniality II
Daly Science 317
Moderator:Marilyn Edelstein, Santa Clara University
M. Fonkijom Fusi
(University of Southern California)
?Power Politics, Globalization, Postcolonialism, and ?Commonwealthism?: Terms of Endearment or Confinement?
Revathi Krishnaswamy
(San Jose State University)
?Criticism Without Culture: Postcolonialism and Globalization at the Crossroads?
Reed Dasenbrock
(University of New Mexico)
?Why Kazakhstan is not Kenya, Georgia is not Ghana, Ireland is not India: The Place of the Ship in the Creation of Post-Colonial Literature?
Geoffrey Kain
(Embry-Riddle University)
?Imperialism, Technological Diffusion, and the Post-Colonial Dilemma?
D. Classist, Racial, and Sexual Outsiders
Daly Science 202
Moderator:TBA
Kelvin Beliele
(University of New Mexico)
?Leveling the Playing Field: Rebellion and Compliance in P. Parivaraj?s Shiva And Arun?
Anjali Arondekar
(University of California at Santa Cruz)
?Secular Sodometries and the Indian Penal Code?
Hema Chari
(California State University at Los Angeles)
?Trafficking and Enacting Class: Situating Class in Mimicry and Postcolonial Identities?
Anupama Arora
(Tufts University)
?Race-ing Hyde: A Reading of Robert Louis Stevenson?s Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde?
E. Creative Writers Reading
Daly Science 203
Moderator:TBA
Briar Wood, a reading of poems written for an installation ?Glorified Scales? staged at the Auckland War Memorial Museum
?Makuchi? (Juliana M. Nfah-Abbenyi, University of Southern Mississippi)
A reading of fiction, Anju Dhadda Misra
Time
Event
4:00 - 5:30
Plenary session
?Arif Dirlik
?Makarand Paranjape
In Daly Science 207
5:30 - 6:30
Reception and Book-signing in DeSaisset Museum
6:30 ? 7:45
Plenary session
?reading by ShirleyGeok-Lin Lim
?Chitra Divakaruni
In Daly Science 207
Time
Event
8:30 - 9:00
General Business meeting
(In Arts and Science Building 135)
8:30 - 10:30
Registration
PAPER SESSION VI
9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
A. Asian Americans
Arts and Science Building 129
Moderator:Karen Chow, University of Connecticut
Noelle Williams
(San Jose State University)
?Becoming Native: Transforming National Space in Chang-Rae Lee?s Native Speaker?
Pamela Parker
(Florida Atlantic University)
?The Search for Self in No-No Boy and Obasan?
Savena Budhu
(Florida Atlantic University)
?Negotiating Fictional Space in Nora Keller?s Comfort Woman?
Bella Adams
(Keele University, UK)
?The Question of Essentialism in Amy Tan?s The Joy Luck Club?
B. The Caribbean, II
Arts and Science Building 133
Moderator:TBA
Seodial F. H. Deena
(East Carolina University)
?Placing Caribbean Writers in the Forefront and Center of Postcolonial Criticism?
Yogita Goyal
(Brown University)
?Rethinking Nation and Diaspora: Caryl Phillips?s Crossing The River?
Ryan Trimm
(University of Rhode Island)
?Caryl Phillips?s Cambridge: The Times of Whiteness, or, Race Between the Postmodern and the Postcolonial?
Wen Jin
(Northwestern University)
??Reflections Rewritten?: The Singularity of Identity and Language in Walcott?s Omeros?
C. Mappings
Arts and Science Building 134
Moderator:TBA
Laura Rice and Karim Hamdy
(Oregon State University)
?Talking About Tataouine/Tatooine: A Dynamic Mapping of Cultural Difference?
Keya Majumdar
(Ranchi University, India)
?We Are Here: Mapping India?s Cultural Identity in View of the Texts of Ice Candy, Tamas, and Tagorean Thoughts?
Frances B. Singh
(Hostos Community College, Bronx)
?A Passion for Maps: Encounters with the Heart Of Darkness?
Juan Velasco
(Santa Clara University)
?Writing La Frontera in Border Studies: Gloria E. Anzald?Concept of Liminality in Chicana Cultural Production?
D. Politics of Representation, II
Arts and Science Building 135
Moderator:TBA
Kalpana Wandrekar
?The Food Factor in Culture Definitions: Anita Desai?s Fasting, Feasting?
K. Radha
(University of Kerala)
?Resisting the Stepmother Tongue?: The Use of Malayalam in Arundhati Roy?s The God Of Small Things?
Aparajita Nanda
(Jadavpur University, Calcutta)
?Extending the Boundaries: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Poetry of Kazi Nazrul Islam and Langston Hughes?
Kirpal Singh
(Singapore Management University)
?Post-Colonial Literatures Challenged: The Ominous Future?
Time
Event
10:45 - 12:15
Plenary session
?Opal Adisa
?Ginu Kamani
?Joel Tan
In Arts and Science Building 135
Saturday, April 27th
Unless otherwise indicated, all Saturday sessions are in the Daly Science building, and Arts and Science Building
Sunday, April 28th
Unless otherwise indicated, all Sunday sessions are in the Daly Science building, and Arts and Science Building
