ACLA Annual Conference 2002

In conjunction with the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

San Juan, Puerto Rico

April 11-14, 2002

Conference Schedule

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*Please Note: Room assignments are subject to change. Please see printed program in Puerto Rico for final room assignments.

Thursday 6:00 p.m.
Condado Plaza Pool
Opening Reception - Cash Bar

Friday 8:30-10:30
1 "Hispano-Arabic Themes in Honor of
Luce Lopez Baralt"
Chair: Joseph Ricapito
Room: Boardroom 1, Condado Plaza
Freddy Acevedo
Univ. of Puerto Rico
Transliteración y comentario de un devocionario morisco del siglo XVI
Beatrice Cruz Sotomayor
Univ. of Puerto Rico
On the Way to Mecca: The Fifth Rule of Islamic Law Before the Eyes of an Exiled Moorish
María Judith Feliciano
Univ. of Pennsylvania
The Myth of the Moriscos in the New World: The Physical Absence and Spiritual Presence of Muslims in Historical Thought and Spanish Colonial Scholarship
Mohamed Akalay
President, The Association of Moroccan Hispanists
Cervantes y la influencia árabe en el Quijote

Friday 8:30-10:30
2 "Caribbean Crossings and
Articulations of American Identity"
Chairs: Marni Gauthier/Monika Giacoppe
Room: Laguna, Condado Plaza
Anna Brickhouse
University of Colorado at Boulder
Exploring Jicotencal
Nancy Castro
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Flying the Rooster's Nest: Deconceiving American Histories
Marni Gauthier
SUNY Cortland
Flights of Fancy, Politics of Truth: Transnational
Hi(stories) in "I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem" and "Free Enterprise"

Friday 8:30-10:30
3 "Self Translation "
Chair: Corinne Scheiner
Room: Boardroom 3, Condado Plaza
Julio César Santoyo
Universidad de Léon, Spain
Self-Translation: A History of 2000 Years
Jan Walsh Hokenson
Florida Atlantic University
Self-Translation: Translingual Style versus Monolingual Theory
Corinne Scheiner
The Colorado College
The Dialogic Task of the Self-Translator

Friday 8:30-10:30
4 "American Interracialisms and
Hybridities"
Chairs: Paula Straille/Jana Evans Braziel
Room: Lagoon, Ramada Hotel
Jana Evans Braziel
Univ. of WI, La Crosse
Race, Créolite, and Genocide in Jamaica Kincaid's Autobiography of My Mother
Karen Eblen
Univ. of CO, Boulder
Transamerican Interracialism: The Politics of Genetic Inheritance in Eloise Bibb-Thompson's "Masks, A Story"
Yogita Goyal
Brown University
Of One Blood: Race and Hybridity in Pauline Hopkins
Laura Halperin
Univ. of MI, Ann Arbor
"Double, Double, Toil and Trouble": Madness and Oppositionality in Loida Maritza Pérez's Geographies of Home

Friday 8:30-10:30
5 "Early Modern Drama"
Chairs: Robert Henke/Susanne Wofford
Room: Arosa, St. Moritz, Regency Hotel
Susanne Wofford
Univ. of WI, Madison
The Cause that Wit is in Other Men: Native and foreign popular comic practice in Shakespeare's Henry IV
Robert Henke
Washington University
Dramatizing the Diaspora in early sixteenth-century Venice
Jane Tylus
Univ. of WI, Madison
Peasant/Literature in Early Modern Europe
Bianca Calabresi
Kenyon College
The Prostitute as Paragon in Early Modern Print Culture

Friday 8:30-10:30
6 "'Translations' of Asia in Global Context"
Chair: Steven G. Yao
Room: Bernina, St. Moritz, Regency Hotel
Timothy Billings
Middlebury College
Mots caches: Bilingual Reading and the Manuscripts of Victor Segalen's Stéles
Haun Saussy
Stanford University
Authenticity and Betrayal: Dramas of Translation, Genre and Style
Eric Hayot
University of Arizona
Translation with No Original: Yasusada's Doubled Flowering
Belinda Kong
University of Michigan
Traveling Man, Traveling Culture: Arthur Miller and Death of a Salesman in Beijing

Friday 8:30-10:30
7 "Travelling/Walking"
Chairs: John Zilcosky/Bianca Theisen
Room: Garden, Condado Plaza
Kelly Barry
Columbia University
Palingenesis: Touring Memory in Jean Paul
Ruediger Campe
Johns Hopkins University
Walking in and out. Paths of institutionality in Robert Walser's "Jacob von Gunten"
Rebecca Comay
Univ. of Toronto
Proust in Transit
Eric Downing
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Dead Woman Walking: Jensen's "Gradiva"

Friday 8:30-10:30
8 "Comparative Literature in the
Age of Globalization"
Chairs: Hans Martin Puchner/Ursula K Heise
Room: Ocean, Ramada Hotel

Molly Metherd
St. Mary's College of California
Transnational Literature in the Americas
Patrick Deer
Montclaire State Univ.
The Center's Holding Fine: Global Fictions in Zadie Smith's White Teeth
Bruce Robbins
Rutgers University
The Clash of Civilizations and the Critique of Culture

Friday 8:30-10:30
9 "The Hyphen and its Discontent: Reading Hyphenated Identities Comparatively"
Chairs: Shai Ginsburg/Gil Hochberg
Room: Ashford, Condado Plaza
Chana Kronfeld
UC Berkeley
Reclaiming Metaphor for a Poetics and Politics of Hyphenation
Gerd Bayer
Case Western Reserve University
The Artist in a Foreign Land: Hybridity in Feridun Zaimoglu's Work
Shai Ginsburg
Arizona State University
Behind all this Hides a Great Happiness: Fetishism, Hyphenation and Hybridity in Homi Bhabha

Friday 8:30-10:30
10 "The Masters & the Slaves: Plantation
Relations and Mestizaje in American
Imaginaries"
Chair: Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond
Room: Hospitality Suite, Condado Plaza
Cesar Braga-Pinto
Rutgers University
Literature and Social Sciences: Gilberto Freyre, José Lins do Rego
Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond
University of Puerto Rico
Spirit of the Place: Mastering African Culture in Brazilian and Caribbean Imaginaries
Alison Fraunhar
UC Santa Barbara
Semiotica Cubana: the Significance of the Mulata in the Construction of Cuban Identity



Friday 8:30-10:30
11 "Apples and Oranges: Comparisons
Across Media and Genres"
Chair: Lois Parkinson Zamora / Kathleen L. Komar
Room: Junior Suite 1, Condado Plaza
Luz Aurora Pimentel
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Ekphrasis and Cultural Identity: Octavio Paz's "Risa y penitencia"
Monique Tschofen
Ryerson University
Ekphrastic Fear and Hybrid Forms: Anne Carson's "Murderous Little World"
Irene Artigas
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Ekphrasis as Personal History: "Botines con lazos, de Vincent Van Gogh," by Olga Orozco

Friday 8:30-10:30
12 "The Aesthetics of Cultural Renewal"
Chair: Nicholas Rennie
Room: Junior Suite 2, Condado Plaza
Aoife Naughton
Cornell University
Renewing Melodrama: Irish Republicanism and German Film of the 40's
Andrew Hewitt
UCLA
Das WC der Engländer hat die Romantik fortgespült': Weimar Sport and Cultural Hygiene
Daniel Purdy
Pennsylvania State Univ.
The Absolute English Gentleman: Adolf Loos's codification of Dandyism

Friday 8:30-10:30
13 "Psychoanalysis and Translation/
Psychoanalysis as Translation"
Chair: Esther Rashkin
Room: Executive Suite, Ramada Hotel

Vivian Kogan
Dartmouth College
Empathy, Sexuality, and Michelet's Historical Narrative
Eric Kligerman
Univ. of Florida
Uncanny Encounters: Negative Symbiosis in the Poetry of Paul Celan
Thomas Adam Pepper
Univ. of Minnesota
The Dream of the End of the World: Translations of Religious Apocalypse in the Discourse of Paranoia

Friday 8:30-10:30
14 "Translation and the Experience of
the Foreign"
Chair: Edwin Gentzler
Room: suite at Regency Hotel?
Fernando Perez
Univ. of MA, Amherst
Vincente Huidobro: Several Versions of Himself
Andrew Hurley
Univ. of Puerto Rico
Old wine in old bottles?: Translating Las Casas
Marcy Schwartz
Rutgers University
Voice-Overs: Latin American Identity through Translation of the "Foreign" (The case of Jorge Luis Borges)

Friday 8:30-10:30
15 "Translation Issues and Challenges"
Chair: Keith Cohen
Room: Boardroom 2, Condado Plaza
Shelia Odak
Georgia State Univ.
Writing Between the Languages: Medbh McGuckian's Translations of Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill's Poetry
Afsaneh Amirmoez
Azad University of Tehran
A Psycho-Tropological Study in Semiotic Interplay and Translation
Michael Eskin
Columbia University
Celan's Affair with Shakespeare
Patricia Vieira
UC Santa Barbara
Translation and Creation. Herberto Helder's O Bebedor Nocturno

Friday 8:30-10:30
16 "New World-Old World Interactions"
Chair: Dorothy Figueira
Room: Royal, Condado Plaza
Luciana Villas-Boas
Columbia University
Wild Stories of a Pious Travel Writer: Hans Staden's Warhafftige Historia as a Conversation Narrative
Gerhard Strasser
Pennsylvania State Univ.
Early Caribbean Crossings and their Unexpected Reflections in European Literature
Dorothy Figueira
University of Georgia
The Frontier between Noble Savage and Cannibal: Puerto Rico in the Narratives of Columbus's Second Voyage
Michael K. Cartmill
Univ. of Utah
Puentes y brechas: el silencio de Cortés frente a la importancia de los intérpretes

Friday 8:30-10:30
17"Cuba/Caribe: Caribbean Crosscurrents"
Chair Marc Blanchard
Room: Junior Suite 3, Condado Plaza
David Luis Brown
University of California at Davis
Implosive Nationalism: Race and Anticolonialism in Cuban Exile Writings in New York in the 1840s and 1850s
Vanessa y. Perez
UC Davis
Esmeralda Santiago's memoir Cuando era puertorriquena
Guillermina de Ferrari
Univ. of WI, Madison
Dirty Realism: Aesthetics Under Siege in Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's Trilogia Sucia de La Habana
Lora Lomas
Pennsylvania State Univ.
Multilingual Martí: The Diarios de Campaña in Comparative Caribbean Context

Friday 8:30-10:30
18 "Reconstructing Eden: Urtext, Loss
and Dreamwork"
Chair: William Waters
Room: Ponce de León A, Condado Plaza
Nancy Ruttenburg
New York University
Translating the Inarticulate
William Waters
Boston University
Original Felicity and the Backward-Looking Page
Michael D'Arcy
Cornell University
The Task of the Writer: Proust, Beckett, and Perpetual Translation
Anne Nesbet
UC Berkeley
Translation and the Celluloid Navel: Picturing Dreams at Work

Friday 8:30-10:30
19 "Caribbean Crossings and Trans-cultural Issues"
Chair: Toby Rose
Room: Ponce de León B, Condado Plaza
Harpreep Pruthi
Panjab University
Narratives Re-written: Unmasking Cultural Otherness
Magdalena Sagardia
City University of New York, Hunter College
Wow, So This Is Puerto Rico! Or, What Is The Use Of A Book Without Pictures?
Kristy McMorris
New York University
Postmodernist Migrations in the Novels of Edwidge Danticat

Friday 8:30-10:30
20"African Connections"
Chair:
Room: Ponce de León C, Condado Plaza
Laurence Petit
University of Colorado, Boulder
Textualizing Space in Mehdi Charef's Tea in the Harem
Siraj Ahmed
Texas A&M University
"The Inhuman Dictatorship of Machines": Les Bouts ed Bois de Dieu and the Dakar-Niger Railway Strike
Jaspal K. Singh
Northern Michigan University
(En)Gendering Diaspora and New Cultural Forms: Race, Gender and National Identity Formation in Transnational South Asian Women's Texts
Christopher Shinn
Florida State University
Whose Jungle, Whose Village Voice?: America's Vietnam, Africa and the Entangled Visions of Apocalypse

Friday 8:30-10:30
21 "Jewish Diasporas and Holocausts Writing"
Chair: Monique Balbuena
Room: Panama, Condado Plaza
Victoria Marie Scala
Purdue University
Language, Ethics, and Remembrance: Examining the Holocaust Poetry of Adrienne Rich
Anna Kuhn
UC Davis
Diaspora in Contemporary German Jewish Women's Writing
Brett Kaplan
UC Berkeley
Diasporic Displacement in Glatstein and Jabès

Friday 8:30-10:30
22 "Narrative Technique in a Global Context"
Chair:
Room: Acapulco, Condado Plaza

Chantal Forfota
UCLA
Abstract Language and Alternative Communication in Mrs. Dalloway
Kwok-kan Tam
Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Self-Transcendental Subject in Diaspora: Gao Xingjian's Novel One Man's Bible
Jeanne-Sarah de Larquier
University of Cincinnati
Migrant Voices: Beckett's Linguistic Diaspora in Molloy

Friday 8:30-10:30
23 "Translating Poetry I"
Chair: Brenda Machosky
Room: Celerina, St. Moritz, Regency Hotel
Brenda Machosky
Univ. of WI, Madison
Poetry into Prose: Translation as Mourning
Rochelle Tobias
Johns Hopkins University
Translating an Unwritten Text: Celan's Hermeneutical Poetry
Jean-Jacques Poucel
Yale University
The Object in/of Translation: La Litteralite trans-Atlantique
Heike Bartel
University of Nottingham
Friedrich Hoelderlin's Poetry of Translation in his "Pindarfragments"

Friday 11-1
23 cont. "Translating Poetry II"
Chair: Brenda Machosky
Room: Celerina, St. Moritz, Regency Hotel
This session will include responses to the papers given in session 23 above and a discussion about the difficulties, (im)possibilities, and problematics of translating poetry.



Friday 11-1
26 "Narrative Translations of Identity"
Chair: Ross Shideler,
Room: : Arosa, St. Moritz, Regency Hotel
Gwendolyn Kurtz
San Diego State Univ.
Writing (on) the Wall: The Search for Identity in Recent Productions of Chicana/o Theater
Valerie Keller
UCLA
The Freedom to Be: Gender and Personal Identity in Kiss of the Spider Woman and The Color of Summer
Ryan Kernan
UCLA
Subjects Born in Captivity
Margaret Wickins Lynch
University of Michigan
Dreaming of the Self: The Narrative Construction of Authority and Identity in Guillaume de Lorris' Le Roman de la Rose

Friday 11-1
27"Arabic Literaure Seminar I:
Journeys, Exile, Loss and Memory"
Chair: Hussein N Kadhim
Room: Bernina, St. Moritz, Regency Hotel
Jaroslav Stetkevych
Indiana University
The Essential Journey: The Rahil in the Classical Arabic Ode
Jocelyn Sharlet
Brown University
The Rhetoric of Memory: Early Islamic Representations of Pre-Islamic Arab Culture in Literary Criticism and Grammar
Susanne P. Stetkevych
Indiana University
The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow: Etiology, Etymology and Onomatopoeia in Two Elegies by al-Maàrri


Friday 11-1
28 "Literatures of the Asian Diasporas:
Bridges and Barriers to New Literary
And Cultural Paradigms"
Chairs: Kazuhiko Yamaguchi / Amy Cheng
Room: Boardroom 3, Condado Plaza
Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Pennsylvania State University
The Positioning of the Diaspora Subject in Karen Tei Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
Anupama Jain
University of Wisconsin, Madison
South Asian Diasporians in the United States: Nations to Nations
Patricia Welch
Hofstra University
Confronting Orientalism: Race and Nationalism in Rui Umezawa's "Symbiosis"
Rie Koike
Fuji-Tokoha University, Japan
Names and Initials: Symbols of Transformation in Mukherjee's Jasmine and The Holder of the World

Friday 11-1
29 "Jamaica Kincaid and Caribbean
(Double) Crossings"
Chair: Linda Lang-Peralta
Room: Lagoon, Ramada Hotel
Joanne Gass
California State University, Fullerton

The Autobiography of My Mother: Jamaica Kincaid's Subversion of Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea

Evie Shockley
Wake Forest University
The Horrors of Homelessness: Gothic Doubling in Kincaid's Lucy and Bronte's Villette
Maria Soledad Rodriguez
University of Puerto Rico
A Big Miss in the Land of Little Women: Jamaica Kincaid and Louisa May Alcott


Friday 11-1
30 "Writing Diaspora in Cultural China"
Chair Feng Lan
Room: Ocean, Ramada Hotel
Zhongping Chen
Trent University
The Intellectual Construction of Diasporic China in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and North America from the late nineteenth to the late Twentieth Century
Chung-Hsiung Lai
National Chen-Kung University
Diasporic Desire: Deterritorializing Identity in Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land
Gillian Huang-Tiller
University of Virginia-Wise
"Monkey" Talk and "One's-Self I Sing": the Language of Diaspora in Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey

Friday 11-1
31 "The Anxiety of the Foreign in Theoretical, Literary and Legal Discourse"
Chair: Moneera Al-Ghadeer
Room: Garden, Condado Plaza
Linda Hunter
University of Wisconsin, Madison
The Familiar Made Foreign; The Foreign Made Familiar
F.E.M.K. Senkoro
University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Responsiveness to the Foreign in Kiswahili Literary Outputs and Discourses
Joseph Slaughter
Columbia University
Wonders taken for Signs taken for Wonders…taken for…: Colonial Circulations of the Foreign on the Gold Coast

Friday 11-1
32 "Translating Ethics"
Chair: Noah Guynn / Debarati Sanyal
Room: Ashford, Condado Plaza
Marshall Grossman
University of Maryland, College Park
Textual Ethics: Reading Transference
Caroline Weber
University of Pennsylvania
Dramaturgy Ethical and Unethical: Symbolic Debt and Filial Authorship in Hamlet and Le fils naturel
Lynne Huffer
Rice University
Proust, Ethics, and the Violence of History
Claire Nouvet
Emory University
Post-Colonial Reconstellation: An Aphonic response

Friday 11-1
33 "The Politics of the Aesthetic"
Chair: Beatrice Hanssen
Room: Executive, Ramada Hotel
Robert Kaufman
Stanford University
Poetry's Theses on Feuerbach

Gerhard Richter
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Rethinking the Thought-Image
Verena Conley
Harvard University
Aesthetics: A Perception of Ethics Before the Name

Friday 11-1
34 "The Space of Caribbean Diasporas"
Chairs Dara Goldman/Eva-Lynn Alicia Jagoe
Room: : Boardroom 1, Condado Plaza
Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
Rutgers University
Caribe Two Ways: Imagining Caribbean Diasporas from Within
Ana Maria Dopico
New York University
Double Edged Swords: Diaspora, Exile, and the Dialectics of Cuban National Culture
Dara E. Goldman
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Virtual Islands: Translocation and Insular Topographies in Cyberspace
Oscar Fernández
Pennsylvania State University
Bared Life of Aids: Sarduy, Goytisolo, and Guibert

Friday 11-1
35 "(E)Racing India: National Pasts,
Diasporic Futures"
Chair: Monika Mehta
Room: : Boardroom 2, Condado Plaza
Manav Ratti
Oxford University
Enigmas and Arrivals: V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men and Deterritorialization
Sailaja Sastry
Columbia University
Abandoning the Center: Wandering in Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas and The Enigma of Arrival
Pravina Cooper
UCLA
Naipaul's India: The Wounded Imaginary
Frederick Luis Aldama
University of Colorado at Boulder
Rushdie's Re-Conquista of Latin American Bridge Spaces
Frank Korom
Boston University
Respondent
Friday 11-1
36 "Issues of Latin American Literature"
Chair: Wendy Faris
Room: Royal, Condado Plaza
Inger Pettersson
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Women Crossed by Borders: Transplantation and Restoration as Processes of Translation in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban
Sandy Alexandre
University of Virginia
Women's Bodies in the Time of Magical Realism: Qeustions of Masculinity in Alejo Carpentier's "The Kingdom of This World"
Wendy Faris
University of Texas at Arlington
Magical Realism: A Discourse for the Diaspora—or Not?
Michele McKay Aynesworth
Huston-Tillotson College, Austin, Texas
Strangers in a Strange Land: Roberto Arlt, Silvio Drodman, and Me


Friday 11-1
37 "Caribbean Crossings and Trans-cultural Issues"
Chair: MaryEllen Higgins
Room: Hospitality Suite, Condado Plaza
Mary Ellen Higgins
Pennsylvania State University - McKeesport
Negotiating the Global, the Local, and the Autobiographical: Esmeralda Santiago and Judith Ortiz Cofer
Jessica Adams
Tulane University
Slaves and Other Possessions: The Caribbean Origins of Race in Absalom, Absalom!
Nancy Bird
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Piense lo que piense y oiga lo que dicen: Relaciones economicas y sociales en El negocio de Manuel Zeno Gandia
Njeri Githire
Pennsylvania State University
L'hymne à la Créolie: Indian Ocean Women Writers Praise Creoleness

Friday 11-1
38 "Slavic Connections"
Chair: Vlatka Velcic
Room: Junior Suite 1, Condado Plaza

Lynn Walford
Louisiana State University in Shreveport
Poetry and Totalitarianism in the Novels of Milan Kundera and Mario Vargas Llosa
Kate Baldwin
University of Notre Dame
Yelena Khanga and the Routes of Afro-Russian Discourse
Vlatka Velcic
California State University, Long Beach
Voices from Nowhere: Diasporas in Postwar Fiction from the Former Yugoslavia

Friday 11-1
39 "Global Diasporas"
Chair:
Room: Junior Suite 2, Condado Plaza
Ruben Medina
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Mestizaje Across the US-Mescian Border
Cora A. Monroe
University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
B as in Bse, Barno, Bar, Brothel, Blackness and Border Crossings: Between History and Memory in Amiri Baraka's "Mondongo" and Vicente Yambot's Arrabal Amargo: El Mondongo
Michelle Auster
The State University of New York at Stony Brook
Displaced Individuals and Fragmented Families: Beryl Gilroy's Stedman and Joanna-A Love in Bondage: Dedicated Love in the Eighteenth Century

Friday 11-1
40"East-West Encounters"
Chair:
Room: suite at Regency Hotel?
Michael Hill
Rutgers University
Lin Shu, Aesop, and Counter-Textualization in Late Qing China
Sheetal Majithia
Cornell University
The Market and the Margins
Jinhee Kim
University of Southern California
The Place and Reception of Caryl Churchill's Top Girls in South Korea
Yoko Chiba
St. Lawrence University
W.B. Yeats and Japanese Noh in the Occult Tradition

Friday 11-1
41 "Film, Performance & Visual Art"
Chair:
Room: Junior Suite 3, Condado Plaza
Doug Norman
University of Texas at Austin
Butlerian Büchner: Translating Queer Theory
into Queer Performance and Criticism
José M. del Pino
University of Colorado at Boulder
Caribbean colors in the gray plains of Spain: Icíar Bollaín's Flores de otro mundo (1999)
David Li
University of Oregon
Translation in the Trans-national and Trans-generation Space of Taipei: Edward Yang's YI YI and Global Modernity

Friday 11-1
42"Genre and Period in a Global Context"
Chair: Carl Fisher
Room: Ponce de León A, Condado Plaza
Carl Fisher
California State University, Long Beach
Postcolonial Gothic: The Politics of Genre
Rainer Rumold
Northwestern University
Multilingualism, Multiculturalism, and the Nomadic International Avant-grade – "The "Borderland" as the Source for the Cosmopolitan Text
Ala Alryyes
Yale University
Realism's Global Mirror

Friday 11-1
43 "Translating World War II"
Chair: Louise Yelin
Room: Ponce de León B, Condado Plaza
Geoffrey G. Field
Purchase College
Nights Underground in Darkest London: Translating the Blitz, 1940-41
Deirdre David
Temple University
Blitz Stories
Bella Brodzki
Sarah Lawrence College
The Survivor as Witness, The Witness as Translator: Jorge Semprun's Multiple Testimonies
Shelly Eversley
Baruch College, City University of New York
A War of Impulses

Friday 11-1
44 "Japanese Diaspora in the Era of
'Kokusaika'"
Chair: Cris Reyns-Chikuma
Room: Ponce de León C, Condado Plaza
Steve Snyder
University of Colorado at Boulder
Yu Miri and Celebrity: Can the Zai-Nichi Speak?
Reiko Tachibana
Pennsylvania State University
Transnationalism in Japanese "Language" Literature
Keiko Nakano
Pennsylvania State University
Self/Other, Here/There, and Now/Then: Language and Identity in Bicultural Writers' Works

Friday 11-1
45 "Benito Pérez Galdós in Dialogue
with the World"
Chair: Kevin Larsen
Room: Panamá, Condado Plaza
Elizabeth Amann
University of Chicago
The Politics of Inheritance: Representing Revolution in Galdós' La desheredada
Kevin S. Larsen
University of Wyoming
The Bosom Serpent Coiled and Uncoiled: From Plato to Rojas to Galdós
Paciencia Ontanon de Lope
Colegio de México, UNAM
Galdós y los escritores de su tiempo
Harriet S. Turner
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Crystalline Moments: Teaching and Translating Galdós and Clarín

Friday 11-1
46 "Nietzschean Tragedy: Translations,
Reconfigurations, Implementations"
Chair Mary Ann Frese Witt
Room: Acapulco, Condado Plaza
John Burt Foster
George Mason University
Birth or Twilight: Nietzsche's Early and Late Theories of Tragedy in Yeats's Poetry
Elizabeth Richmond-Garza
University of Texas at Austin
The Tyranny of the Ideal: Perverse Prisons in Nietzsche and Wilde
Mary Ann Frese Witt
North Carolina State University
D'Annunzio's Nietzschean meta-tragedies
Florin Berindeanu
University of Georgia
Nietzsche and Postmodernism

Friday 11-1
47 "Translation, Theory, East/West
Encounters"
Chair: Nirvana Tanoukhi
Room: Laguna, Condado Plaza
John R.J. Eyck
UC Berkeley
Edouard Douwes Dekker's "Saïdjah and Adinda": Translated Romance or Romantic Translation
Ayo A. Coly
University of Notre Dame
Resistance to Location in the texts of Franco-Vietnamese writer Linda Lê
Nirvana Tanoukhi

The Terrorist as Man on the Street: Sherif Arafa's "Terrorism and Barbecue"
Chingling Wo
SUNY at Stony Brook

"Diary of a Madman" and Intertextual-Translingual Slippages

Friday 1-2:30 ACLA Board Meeting
(board members only)
St. Moritz

Friday 2:30-4:30
48 "Caribbean Crossings and Trans-cultural Issues"
Chair:
Room: Ponce de León A, Condado Plaza
Meg Wesling
Cornell University
National Drag: Articulations of Caribbean Queerness
Kristian van Haesendonck
Leiden University
La nación diaspórica en dos recientes novelas puertorriqueñas
Natasha Tinsley
UC Berkeley
Hybrid Roses, Tropical Gardens, and Caribbean Crossings: reading eroticism between women in the poetry of mati and Ida Faubert

Friday 2:30-4:30
49 "Classical Translation/
Translating 'Classics'"
Chairs: Yopie Prins/ Deobrah H. Roberts
Room: Ponce de León B, Condado Plaza
Yopie Prins
Univ. of Michigan
Nineteenth-Century Homers and the Hexameter Mania
Aminadav A Dykman
Penn State University
The Splendor of Greece in Jacob's Tents: Problems of Translating Greek and Roman Classics into Hebrew
L. Aryeh Kosman
Haverford College
Translating Being

Friday 2:30-4:30
50 "Ethical Issues in Global Literature"
Chair:
Room: Ponce de León C, Condado Plaza
Charles D. Forster, Jr.
UCLA
W.E.B. Du Bois, Ethics, and the Varieties of Racial Experience
Kimberly Bohman
Princeton University
A Return to Normative Ethics?: Parables for a New Millennium
Chun-yen Chen
Cornell University/Princeton University
Writing as an Ethical Experience: The Cases of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Maurice Blanchot

Friday 2:30-4:30
51 "Translation in a Comparative Context"
Chair: Michael Henry Heim
Room: Garden, Condado Plaza
Breon Mitchell
Indiana University, Bloomington
Creating a Translation Archive at the Lilly Library
Rainer Schulte
University of Texas, Dallas
Multiple Translations as a Basis for Literary Analysis
Michael Heim
UCLA
Teaching Literary Translation in a Comparative Literature Graduate Program

Friday 2:30-4:30
53 "Arabic Literature Seminar II:
Journeys, Exile, Loss and Memory II"
Chair Hussein N Kadhim
Room: Panamá, Condado Plaza
Muhsin al-Musawi
American Univ. of Sharjah
Memory Lost, and Memory Regained: The Formation of the Exilic in Modern Arabic Poetry
George N. El-Hage
Columbia University
The Journey in the Poetic World of Khalil Hawi
Saadi A. Simawe
Grinnell College
Exile, Language, and Biology in the Poetry of Aziz Simawe
Hussein Kadhim
Dartmouth College
The Bard of Tigris: Mu'ruf al-Rusafi and the Poetics of Exile
Issa J. Boullata
McGill University
Poetry as Homeland: Mahmoud Darwish and the Loss of Palestine

Friday 2:30-4:30
54 "Baroque Designs and Modern
Literature"
Chair: Lois Parkinson Zamora
Room: Boardroom 1, Condado Plaza
Michael Schuessler
Barnard College
Hacia una literatura novohispana: Pintura mural y teatro misionero en el México Colonial
Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel
Yale University
The Topos of Ruins in Baroque and Neo Baroque Poetry: Rodrigo Caro, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz
John Ochoa
UC Riverside
The Cracks in the Baroque: Fuentes' Cambio de Piel and the Risks of Collapse

Friday 2:30-4:30
55 "Caribbean Crossings: Crossing
Disciplines"
Chair: Mara de Gennaro / Esther Gabara
Room: Acapulco, Condado Plaza
Nick Lawrence
State University of New York at Buffalo
World Echoes: Caribbeanness as Method in Glissant and Brathwaite
Ricardo Ortiz
Georgetown University
Danticat's Latinidad: The Farming of Bones and the Cultivation of Disciplines
Ernesto Menendez
Duke University
Artes visuales y política cultural cubana durante los años ochenta y noventa
Mara de Gennaro
Columbia University
"Underneath Broken Words": Négritude and the "Ancestral Arts"

Friday 2:30-4:30
56 "Digital Transmediations"
Chair: Terry Harpold
Room: Laguna, Condado Plaza
Seo-Young Jennie Chu
Harvard University
The Displacement of Cyberspace: From the "Sprawl Series" to the "Bridge Trilogy"
Terry Harpold
University of Florida
The Mysteries of Versioning: Transmediality and the Upgrade Path
Daniel Punday
Purdue University Calumet
Transmediation and the Reimagining of Creativity
R.L. Rutsky
UCI
Crossing Media


Friday 2:30-4:30
58 "The Past is Another Country:
Premodern Texts as Diaspora"
Chair: Alexander Beecroft
Room: Boardroom 2, Condado Plaza
Shirin Azizeh Khanmohamadi
Columbia University
Marie de France's Project of Cultural and Linguistic Translation in the Lais
James I Porter
Univ. of Michigan
Homer: The Very Idea, or, Why You Can't Kill Homer If He Was Always Only Ever a Concept
Antonio A. Garcia
Princeton University
From Imperial Characters into Literary Communism: Metaphoric Translation in Les Nouvelles Orientales by Marguerite Yourcenar
Alexander J. Beecroft
Harvard University
Death by Fruit: On the Construction of Poetic Identity in the Greek Lyric Tradition

Friday 2:30-4:30
60 "Democracy and/in Literature"
Chair: Nancy Ruttenburg
Room: Boardroom 3, Condado Plaza
Michel Chaouli
Indiana University
Poetry and Insurrection in Early Romanticism
Cathy Steblyk
Pennsylvania State Univ.
Democracy in Modern Japanese Literature: The Case of "I-Fiction"
Martha Kuhlman
Bryant College
Munich and the Crisis of Democracy in Sartre's Reprieve (Le sursis)
Andrew Rubin
Columbia University
Archives of Authority
Virginia Jackson
NYU
Beating Time; or, a Metrical History of Democracy

Friday 2:30-4:30
62 "Of Women and the Female"
Chair: Marta Calero Meléndez
Room: Hospitality Suite, Condado Plaza
Jessica Enevold
Blekinge Institute of Technology/University of New Mexico
From Diaspora to Auto-mobility: Travel and Female Mobile Subjectivity
Kimberly Banks
University of Missouri, Kansas City
Framing Authenticity as a Question of Translation: Katherine Dunham's Use of Anthropological Dance in Concert
Kathleen Ward Bradish
Harvard University
Arts of Loss: Story-telling and Mothering in Edwige Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory

Friday 2:30-4:30
63 "Issues of Theory"
Chair: Rick Livingston
Room: Junior Suite 1, Condado Plaza
Rick Livingston
Ohio State University
Modelling World Literature: Moretti, Casanova, Said
Salah D. Hassan
Michigan State Univ.
Return Diaspora
Angelita Malone Hampton
Ohio State
The Rape of the Counter Culture
Mara Negrón
Univ. of Puerto Rico
Desvelo

Friday 5-6:30 p.m.
Plenary Session
Lawrence Venuti
Temple University
Local Contingencies: Translation and National Identity

Saturday 8:30-10:30
1 "Hispano-Arabic Themes in Honor of Luce Lopez Baralt"
Chair:Joseph Ricapito
Room: Boardroom 1, Condado Plaza
Louis Imperiale
Univ. of MO, Kansas City
Política hispano-árabe en "La relación de casos notables de Matías Escudero de Cobeña
Deyka Otero Lugo
Univ. of Puerto Rico
La burla emblemática y el discurso picaresco: Dialogicidad discursiva e iconográfica entre un sello inquisitorial, el emblema de Fray Luis de León y un'morisco' labrador en la Segunda Parte del Lazarillo (1620)
María Teresa Narváez Córdoba
Univ. of Puerto Rico
El mancebo de Arévalo: una voz híbrida y contracorriente del Siglo de Oro español
Ferdinand Padrón Jiménez
Univ. of Puerto Rico
La corporeidad de los sujetos líricos en el "Cántico Espiritual" de san Juan de la Cruz

Saturday 8:30-10:30
2 "Caribbean Crossings and
Articulations of American Identity"
Chairs: Marni Gauthier/Monika Giacoppe
Room: Laguna, Condado Plaza
Raphael Dalleo
Univ. of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
How Cristina Garcia Lost Her Accent, and Other Latina Conversations
Robert Hamner
Hardin-Simmons University
Issues of Identity and Translation in Derek Walcott
Johnny Lorenz
Montclair State University
Safe Passage: Vehicles as Cultural Sites in the Contemporary Caribbean
Monika Giacoppe
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Writing the Fragmented Nation: Dionne Brand's At the Full and Change of the Moon

Saturday 8:30-10:30
3 "Self Translation "
Chair: Corinne Scheiner
Room: Boardroom 3, Condado Plaza
Nadia Sahely
Elmhurst College
The Politics of Self-Translation in the Writings of Etel Adnan
Charles Nichol
Indiana State University
Three Degrees of Freedom in Self-Translation: Classifying Nabokov's Russian Novels by their English Versions
Rosita Cohen
Florida Atlantic Univerity
Ungaretti Bridging Two Cultures: Self-Translations

Saturday 8:30-10:30
4 "American Interracialisms and
Hybridities
Chairs: Paula Straille/Jana Evans Braziel
Room: Lagoon, Ramada Hotel
Carmen Milagros Higgins
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Passing for Black: "Nigger-Reecan Blues" and Other Cross-cultural Transcen/ten/dencies
Liesl Owens
Rutgers University
Cross-cultural Mythic Journeys toward Caribbean Identity in Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven
Stéphane Robolin
Duke University
"Take Me to the Water…": James Baldwin, Sea Changes, and the Oceanic Feeling
Jennifer Rodgers
Univ. of MA, Amherst
Magic, Salad, and a Melting Pot: Exploring Mexican American Indian Identities

Saturday 8:30-10:30
5 "Early Modern Drama"
Chairs: Robert Henke/Susanne Wofford
Room: Arosa, St. Moritz, Regency Hotel
Christian Billing
University of Hull, U.K.
Theater and the Case of Marie Le Marcis: Translating hermaphroditism in the Early Modern period
Richard Andrews
Leeds University, U.K.
Moliere's "L'Avare" as scripted commedia dell'arte

Georgina Dopico-Black
New York University
New World Moors: Trans-Atlantic Performances in Spain and America
Philip Lorenz
NYU
The Tears of Sovereignty: Perspectives on the 'Body-of-Power' in Richard II and La vida es sueño

Saturday 8:30-10:30
6 "'Translations' of Asia in Global Context"
Chair: Steven G. Yao
Room: Bernina, St. Moritz, Regency Hotel
Christopher Bush
Harvard University
Image as Allegory: Modernist Translations of the Chinese Underworld
Steven G. Yao
Ohio State University
Transplantation and Modernity: The Chinese/American Poems of Angel Island
David Damrosch
Columbia University
Out of your Sanscreed into our Aryan: Translating Kalidasa Across Cultures
Carlos Rojas
University of Florida
Western Journeys of Journey to the West

Saturday 8:30-10:30
7 "Travelling/Walking"
Chairs: John Zilcosky/Bianca Theisen
Room: Garden, Condado Plaza
Peter Gilgen
Cornell University

In the Region of Unlikeness: Reading as Wandering in Lessing's "Education of the Human Race"
Alexander Honold
Humboldt U., Berlin
Robinson's original sin. The traveler as a modern hero from Defoe to Kafka
Susan Morgan
Miami University of Ohio
"Come With Me": Translating a Gendered India in The British East India Company's Travel Guide
John Noyes
Univ. of Toronto
Walking with Culture in the Colonies

Saturday 8:30-10:30
8 "Comparative Literature in the
Age of Globalization"
Chairs: Hans Martin Puchner/Ursula K Heise
Room: Ocean, Ramada Hotel

Martin Puchner
Columbia University
The Communist Manifesto and the Question of Weltliteratur
Klaus Mladek
University of Cincinnati
The Counter-Empire Strikes Back : Literature and Resistance in "Empire"
Mario Ortiz-Robles
Columbia University
Local Speech, Global Acts: Novel Studies in the Age of Globalization

Saturday 8:30-10:30
9 "The Hyphen and its Discontent: Reading Hyphenated Identities Comparatively
Chairs: Shai Ginsburg/Gil Hochberg
Room: Ashford, Condado Plaza
Hannan Hever
Tel Aviv University
The Hyphenated Mizrachi in Israeli Literature
Justin Read
Univ. of Michigan
Hyphens, Syllables, and Euphemisms: Linguistic Strategies of Cultural Containment in the Americas
Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi
Univ. of British Columbia
Moving Into the Hyphen: The Caribbean as a Liminal Space


Saturday 8:30-10:30
10 "The Masters & the Slaves: Plantation
Relations and Mestizaje in American
Imaginaries"
Chair: Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond
Room: Hospitality Suite, Condado Plaza
Helena Holgersson-Shorter
UC Berkeley
Authority's Shadowy Double: Thomas Jefferson and the Architecture of Illegitimacy
Jossiana Arroyo
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Bodies that Matter: Discursive Legacies in Latin American Mestizaje
Valerie Kaussen
University of MO
Fixing History: Race, Nation and the Symbolics of Servitude in Casseus's Viejo (1934)
Nalini Natarajan
Univ. of Puerto Rico
Fanon, Plantation Ideology and the Binary City

Saturday 8:30-10:30
11 "Apples and Oranges: Comparisons
Across Media and Genres"
Chair: Lois Parkinson Zamora / Kathleen L. Komar
Room: Junior Suite 1, Condado Plaza
Maggie Ivanova
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
From "Time Parting" to "Time of Violence": Translation and Production of Historical Knowledge
Kathleen L. Komar
UCLA
The House of Atreus in Cyberspace
Gail Finney
UC Davis
Translating Across Generic Boundaries: Staging Family Trauma in Fiction and Film
Ping Fu
Carleton College
Navigating thoughts, words, and deeds: the impact of enunciation on state, TV screen, and silver screen

Saturday 8:30-10:30
12 "The Aesthetics of Cultural Renewal"
Chair: Nicholas Rennie
Room: Junior Suite 2, Condado Plaza
Cecilia Novero
Pennsylvania State Univ.
Gender Trouble as Genre Trouble in Thomas Meinecke's Tomboy
Joel Westerdale
Harvard University
Thus Spake Who? Nietzsche's Exploitation of the Exotic in the Figure of Zarathustra
Karyn Ball
University of Alberta
Desublimating the Other: Against Authenticity as a Mode of Aesthetic Transposition

Saturday 8:30-10:30
13 "Psychoanalysis and Translation/
Psychoanalysis as Translation"
Chair: Esther Rashkin
Room: Executive Suite, Ramada Hotel
Caroline Rupprecht
Queens College, City University of New York
The "I" that floods the world: Psychoanalysis between Poetry and Maritime Existence
Edward Gamarra
Emory University
Hollywood Translates Psychoanalysis
Esther Rashkin
Univ. of Utah
Empathy and Telepathy in Star Trek: Pop Culture Translates Psychoanalysis

Saturday 8:30-10:30
14 "Translation and the Experience of
the Foreign"
Chair: Edwin Gentzler
Room: suite at Regency Hotel?
Bunkong Tuon
Univ. of MA, Amherst
On Antoine Berman's Ethics of Translation: What is the "Foreign" for a Bicultural Translator?
Yehudit Heller
Univ. of MA, Amherst
Metaphor as Reality: The Poetics of Living in Translation
Thalia Pandiri
Smith College
Speaking (and Thinking) in Tongues: Trans-lating Culture

Saturday 8:30-10:30
15 "Translation Issues and Challenges"
Chair: Keith Cohen
Room: Boardroom 2, Condado Plaza

Bram Acosta
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The Logic of (Dis)Equivalence and the Stakes of the Third Term: Translation, Political Economy, and the Sign
Stanton McManus
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Making Out Ideology in Translation: Cultural Context and the Kiss of the Spider Woman's Texts
Guillermo Irizarry
Yale University
Cultural translatability and community disruptions

Elise Bartosik-Velez
Univ. of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Translating Christopher Columbus: Italy and Spain in 1892

Saturday 8:30-10:30
16"New World-Old World Interactions"
Chair: Dorothy Figueira
Room: Royal, Condado Plaza
Paul Michael Lutzeler
Washington University
H.C. Buch's Haiti Trilogy: Kleist's Impact
Vera Stegmann
Lehigh University
Anna Segher's Mexican Prose
Deborah Jenson
Univ. of New Mexico
Slave Oraliture, Beke Print Culture, and Unverifiable Binaries in the First Pan-Antillean Creole Anthology, 1811

Saturday 8:30-10:30
17"Cuba/Caribe: Caribbean Crosscurrents"
Chair Marc Blanchard
Room: Junior Suite 3, Condado Plaza
Marc Blanchard
UC Davis
caribbean cosmogonies
Nelson Cardenas
Caribbean Studies Section, Casa de las Americas, Habana, Cuba
Literatures of the Cuban Diaspora
Raul Marrero-Fente
Columbia University
La creacion poetica del paisaje americano en "Espejo de Paciencia" de Silvestre de Balboa



Saturday 8:30-10:30
19"Caribbean Crossings and Trans-cultural Issues"
Chair: Toby Rose
Room: Ponce de León B, Condado Plaza
Juana María Rodríguez
Bryn Mawr College
Queer Caribbean Localities: Reading National Bodies in "Sirena Selena Vestida de Pena"
Luz Elena Ramirez
Cal State San Bernardino
Translating the Use of Contraries in Ana Roque's Luz y sombra (1903)
Tom Sheehan
Florida Atlantic University
Caribbean Impossibility: The Lack of Jamaica Kincaid


Saturday 8:30-10:30
20"African Connections"
Chair:
Room: Ponce de León C, Condado Plaza
David Gabriel
UCLA
Unpopular Culture
Brian Edwards
Northwestern University
"Lost in Global Translation: America's tariq al-maghrib (Road to Morocco)
Clement Ndulute
Mississippi Valley State University
Nyerere's Translation of Shakespeare: A Post-Colonial Reading of the Counter-Text in the Text
Eleanor Kaufman
University of Virginia
The Judeo-Berber Refusal in Mouloud Mammeri's La colline oubliee and Bouganim Ami's Recits du Mellah

Saturday 8:30-10:30
21"Jewish Diasporas and Holocausts Writing"
Chair: Monique Balbuena
Room: Panama, Condado Plaza
Monique Balbuena
UC Berkeley
The Self in a Poem Between Languages and Places
Illeana Orlich
Arizona State University
Complicating the Translation: The issue of Cultural Diversity in the Text
Roland E. Bush
Cal State Univ. Long Beach
The Ethnography of Diaspora: Moses, Sigmund Freud, and Zora Neale Hurston

Saturday 8:30-10:30
22"Narrative Technique in a Global Context"
Chair:
Room: Acapulco, Condado Plaza

Meiling Wu
Cal State Univ. Hayward
I and the Diasporic You: the Narrative Subjectivity in Gao Xingjian's Novels
Barbara Alfano
Pennsylvania State Univ.
A Cultural Transposition: Comparing the virtual readers of Via col vento in Vaticano and its English translation, Shroud of Secrecy

Saturday 8:30-10:30
23"Translating Poetry III"
Chair: Brenda Machosky
Room:
James Donelan
UC Santa Barbara
Near and Hard to Grasp: Interpretation and the Ontology of Poetry in Hoëlderlin's Translations
Kelly Austin
UCLA
Translating Pablo Neruda's "Oda a Walt Whitman"
Robin Pappas
University of Oregon
Poetics of Poison: Narcissism, Alchemy, and Translation in Baudelaire's Artificial Paradises
Joanna Trzeciak
Reed College
Afterlife on Earth: Pushkin's ""Pora, moi drug pora" in Nabokov's Despairs

Saturday 11-1
23"Translating Poetry IV"
Chair: Brenda Machosky
Room: Laguna, Condado Plaza
This session will include responses to the papers given in session 23 above and a discussion about the difficulties, (im)possibilities, and problematics of translating poetry.

Saturday 11-1

24 "Archival Politics in Caribbean/
Diaspora Literature"
This seminar has been moved to #65 (Saturday 2:30-4:30)

Saturday 11-1
26 "Narrative Translations of Identity"
Chair: Ross Shideler,
Room: : Arosa, St. Moritz, Regency Hotel
Jennifer Gully
UCLA
Identities in Exile: Austrians in Los Angeles 1940 and 1990
Claire McCarthy
Independent Scholar
Identity Politics in East German Literature, and Irmtraud Morgner's Beatriz
Carole Viers
UCLA
Narrative as Naissance: Translating Identity in André Gide's Les Faux Monnayeurs & Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

Ross Shideler
UCLA
Gunnar Ekelöf's Byzantine Identity

Saturday 11-1
27 "Arabic Literaure Seminar I:
Journeys, Exile, Loss and Memory"
Chair: Hussein N Kadhim
Room: Bernina, St. Moritz, Regency Hotel
Salwa Ghaly
Univ. of Sharjah
Between Two Worlds: Gibran's and al-Rihani's Vision of America
Anna Ayse Akasoy
Frankfurt University
Concepts of Home in the Poetical Works of Fawzi al-Ma'luf
William Granara
Harvard University
The Andalusian Past and the Quest for Modernity in the Modern Arabic Novel

Saturday 11-1
28 "Literatures of the Asian Diasporas:
Bridges and Barriers to New Literary
And Cultural Paradigms"
Chairs: Debbie Lee
Room: Boardroom 3, Condado Plaza
Debbie Lee
Southeast Missouri State University
Writers of the Asian Diaspora in Spanish America: An Overview
Amy Cheng
Pennsylvania State University
From Chinatown to La Chinesca and Los Angeles to Lima: Cultural Production Among Asian Ethnic Enclaves of the Americas
Yuko Kurahashi
Kent State University
Interdisciplinarism and Interculturalism in Asian American Literature and Theatre Courses

Saturday 11-1
29 "Jamaica Kincaid and Caribbean
(Double) Crossings"
Chair: Linda Lang-Peralta
Room: Lagoon, Ramada Hotel
Nicole Matos
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The Difference Between the Two Bundles': Body and Cloth in the Works of Jamaica Kincaid

Vivian Nun Halloran
UCLA
Battymen Passing: Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Spread of AIDS in Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother
Cliff Beumel and Derik Smith

Northwestern University
Subjectivity's Imperial Drive: Homosexuality as an Unfounding Ground in Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother

Saturday 11-1
30 "Writing Diaspora in Cultural China"
Chair Feng Lan
Room: Ocean, Ramada Hotel
Lisa Odham Stokes/Michael Hoover

Seminole Community College
Hong Kong in New York: National Identity, Global Connections, and Filmic Representations
Rong Cai
Emory University
Taming the Shrew: Female Desire in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Liang Shi
Miami University of Ohio
The beginning of a New Discourse: The First Chinese Lesbian Film Fish and Elephant
Eulalia Piñero Gil
Universidad Autonoma of Madrid
Bodies, Mirrors, and Narcissistic Fantasies in D.H. Hwang's M. Butterfly

Saturday 11-1
31 "The Anxiety of the Foreign in Theoretical, Literary and Legal
Discourse"
Chair: Moneera Al-Ghadeer
Room: Garden, Condado Plaza
Soraya Tlatli
Univ. of WI, Madison
The Inhumanity of the Foreign in Mohammed Dib's "Qui se souvient de la mer"
Moneera Al-Ghadeer
Univ. of WI, Madison
The Foreign and the Material Sublime: Joseph Conrad, Etel Adnan, and Lawrence of Arabia
Tarek El-Ariss
Cornell University
Volney's "Foreign": The Ottoman Empire as Chaos and Myth
Shaden M. Tageldin
UC Berkeley
Intimate Enemies: Love and Fear of French Invasion in Two Nineteenth-Century Egyptian Texts

Saturday 11-1
32 "Translating Ethics"
Chair: Noah Guynn / Debarati Sanyal
Room: Ashford, Condado Plaza
Debarati Sanyal
UC Berkeley
Poetic Violence: Baudelaire's Victims and Executioners
Marc Schachter
Duke University
Translationes amicitiae and the Ethics of Anonymity
Helen Solterer
Duke University
Passion Plays Under Cover
Aamir Mufti
UCLA
One World After All

Saturday 11-1
33 "The Politics of the Aesthetic"
Chair: Beatrice Hanssen
Room: Executive, Ramada Hotel
Emily Apter
UCLA
Theory `Terror': Between Ethics and Aesthetics
Beatrice Hanssen
University of Georgia
New Aesthetics
Tobin Siebers
University of Michigan
Disability and the Aesthetics of Art Vandalism

Saturday 11-1
34 "The Space of Caribbean Diasporas"
Chairs: Dara Goldman/Eva-Lynn Alicia Jagoe
Room: : Boardroom 1, Condado Plaza
Licia Fiol-Matta
Barnard College
Race, Gender, and Music Performance in the Caribbean
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
Rutgers University
Queer Puerto Rican Translocalities: Music, Origins, and Performativity in Teatro Pregones's "El bolero fue mi ruina" [The Bolero Was My Downfall]
José Quiroga
George Washington University
World Music, Intellectuals, State Power, and the Aesthetics of Decay
Eva-Lynn Alicia Jagoe
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Space of Caribbean Diasporas

Saturday 11-1
35 "(E)Racing India: National Pasts,
Diasporic Futures"
Chair: Monika Mehta
Room: : Boardroom 2, Condado Plaza
Amardeep Singh
Lehigh University
Diasporic Sexuality: Shani Mootoo's "Cereus Blooms at Night"
Sangeeta Mediratta
UC San Diego
Circuits of Desire: Michelle Mohabeer's Coconut/Cane and Cutlass (1994)
Frank Korom
Boston University
Respondent

Saturday 11-1
36 "Issues of Latin American Literature"
Chair: Wendy Faris
Room: Royal, Condado Plaza

Mary Linxweiler
Washington University in St.Louis
Neruda, Macchu Picchu, and the Translator's Task
Amy Novak
Texas Christian University
"Linguistic Shifting": Narrating National Identity in Ariel Dorman's Heading South, Looking North
Amanda Holmes
McGill University
Fictions of the Eternal Traveler: Cityscapes of Jorge Luis Borges and Cristina Peri Rossi

Saturday 11-1
37 "Caribbean Crossings and Trans-cultural Issues"
Chair: MaryEllen Higgins
Room: :Hospitality Suite, Condado Plaza
William Castro
Pennsylvania State University
The uses and abuses of voudoun: Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo and René Depestre's The Festival of the Greasy Pole
Monique Dascha Inciarte
UC Berkeley
Re escribiendo a Colón: Carpentier, Fuentes, Menocal, y la Imaginación de Diaspora
Melissa Bender
UC Davis
Countering th