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ACLA Annual Conference 2002
In conjunction with the
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
San Juan, Puerto
Rico
April 11-14, 2002
Conference Schedule
*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 the Constraints on Self-Articulation in Jamaica Kincaid's The
Autobiography of My Mother
Dorothy Mosby
Ohio State University
Negotiating Home: Nation and Ethnic Difference in the Poetry of Eulalia
Bernard
Saturday 11-1
38 "Slavic
Connections"
Chair: Vlatka Velcic
Room: Junior Suite 1, Condado Plaza
Tom Garza
University of Texas at Austin
Russia's Bad Boys (and Girls): The Legacy of Dostoevsky's Underground Man in
the 21st Century
George Gasyna
University of Toronto
Migrants, Travelers, Exiles: Polish Diaspora Writers in Toronto
Alex Holodov
Odessa University, Ukraine
Pennsylvania State University
Semiotics and Meaning of Hero's Last Journey in Ivan Bunin's "The
Gentleman from San Francisco"
Jessie Labov
New York University
Nationalism or lost romanticism? Polish literary journals in the postwar
diaspora
Saturday 11-1
39 "Global
Diasporas"
Chair:
Room: Junior Suite 2, Condado Plaza
Geetha Ramanathan
West Chester University
Cultural Translations of National Identities: Kureishi and Chadha
Vicky Gatzouras
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Re-configuring the Hyphen: Diasporic, Transnational, and Female Identity
in Two Greek-American Novels
Nina Pelikan Straus
Purchase College
Jhumpa Lahiriís
"Tunnel Vision": the Non-Politics of Bengali-American Identity
Katarzyna Marciniak
Ohio University
Immigrant Rage: Dialectics of Exile and Foreign Contamination in Eva
Hoffman's Lost in Translation
Saturday 11-1
40 "East-West
Encounters"
Chair:
Room: suite at Regency Hotel?
Stuart Christie
Hong Kong Baptist University
Reading Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior" in the Hong Kong
University Classroom
Janet Walker
Rutgers University
Landscapes of Center and Periphery in European and Japanese Literature around
1900
Chi-Ming Yang
Cornell University
Theatrical Ethnography: Translating Chinese Authenticity
Don E. Walicek
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Giving Voice to Diaspora, Chinese "Coolie" Migrants in
Nineteenth-Century Colonial Cuba
Saturday 11-1
41 "Film, Performance
& Visual Art"
Chair:
Room: Junior Suite 3, Condado Plaza
Dror Abend-David
Bilkent University
Shylock's Mother – The Translation of a Silent Film
Katherine Arens
University of Texas at Austin
Translating Castrati: From Eighteenth-Century Performance to
Twentieth-Century Masquerades
John Zou
Bates College
Male Nora: Male Feminism and Closet
Michael Armstrong Roche
Wesleyan University
Theater of War: History, Nation, and Empire in Cervantes's Tragedy "The
Siege of Numancia"
Saturday 11-1
42 "Genre and Period in
a Global Context"
Chair: Carl Fisher
Room: Ponce de León A, Condado Plaza
Georgette Fleischer
Columbia University
Genre and Generation in Ingeborg Bachmann's "Todesarten"
Marcel Cornis-Pope
Virginia
Commonwealth University
Literary Imagination and Inter-Cultural Translation in the Post-Cold War Era
Saturday 11-1
43 "Translating World
War II"
Chair: Louise Yelin
Room: Ponce de León B, Condado Plaza
Sidonie Smith
University of Michigan
No Comfort Stories: Narratives of World War II and Contemporary Struggles for
Human Rights
Ronnie Scharfman
Purchase College
Writing the Holocaust in E. Jabès's Le Livre de Yukel
Louise Yelin
Purchase College, SUNY
English Translations: Iris Origo, Eric Newby, and Michael Ondaatje
Saturday 11-1
44 "Japanese Diaspora
in the Era of
'Kokusaika'"
Chair: Cris Reyns-Chikuma
Room: Ponce de León C, Condado Plaza
Bettina Brandt
Montclair State University
Japanese Diaspora and the European Avant-Garde; theWwritings of Yoko Tawada
Ikuho Amano
Pennsylvania State University
Mythologizing Mitsuko: An early modern case of transnational delusion
Cris Reyns-Chikuma
Lafayette College
Is Kikou Yamata 's Literary Work bicultural, transnational, or something
else?
Saturday 11-1
45 "Benito Pérez Galdós
in Dialogue
with the World"
Chair: Kevin Larsen
Room: Panamá, Condado Plaza
Dale J. Pratt
Brigham Young University
Galdós, Bacteria, Ideology, and the Self
Nathan J. Wilhelm
University of Wyoming
Who's Getting Married Anyway, Mom?: Arranged Marriages from Moratín to Galdós
Constanza Svidler
University of Michigan
Strategies Beyond Fortunata y Jacinta: The Magnetic Attraction and Delicious
Repulsion of Mauricia La Dura within Las Micaelas
John Sinnigen
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Galdós en la prensa mexicana: "La Iberia" y "El siglo
XIX"
Saturday 11-1
46 "Nietzschean
Tragedy: Translations,
Reconfigurations, Implementations"
Chair Mary Ann Frese Witt
Room: Acapulco, Condado Plaza
Edith Clowes
University of Kansas
Philosophy as (Nietzschean) Tragedy: Shestov, Berdiaev, Mamardashvili
Ronald Bogue
University of Georgia
Tragedy, Sight and Sound: Nietzsche and Godard's Prénom: Carmen
Jeanne Smoot
North Carolina State University
O'Neill and Nietzsche: Apollo Lost in Desire Under the Elms
Paul Gordon
U.
Colorado-Boulder
The Eternal Return of Nietzsche's Theory of Tragedy
Saturday 1-2:30
Business Lunch
All members invited
Condado Plaza, Fiesta Lounge
Saturday
2:30-4:30
48 "Caribbean Crossings
and Trans-cultural Issues"
Chair:
Room: Ponce de León A, Condado Plaza
Michael Malouf
Columbia University
After a Sundering : Ireland as Figure and Form in the work of Derek Walcott
William Slaymaker
Wayne State College
Ec(o)logues: Caribbean Poetry and the Eco-Pastoral
Felipe Smith
Tulane University
Claude McKay's "Sensitive Savages": Prospero and Caliban in the
Metropole
Saturday 2:30-4:30
49 "Classical
Translation/
Translating 'Classics'"
Chairs: Yopie Prins/ Deobrah H.
Roberts
Room: Ponce de León B, Condado Plaza
Peter Burian
Duke University
"Kilos of Cold Clinker"? Some Reflections on Translating and
Translations of Aeschylus
Susanna Morton Braund
Yale University
Who are the barbarians
Deborah H. Roberts
Haverford College
When Homer Quotes Nabokov: Anachronism and Intertextuality in Translations of
Greek and Latin Literature
Timothy Hofmeister
Denison University
Translating Ovid in Derek Walcott's "The Hotel Normandie Pool"
Saturday 2:30-4:30
50 "Ethical Issues in
Global Literature"
Chair:
Room: Ponce de León C, Condado Plaza
Christopher D. Luebbe
Univ. of Michigan
Thinking the
Universal: Literature and Ethics in an Age of Globalization
Kouassi Jeannot N'Goran
University of South Africa
Consequences of the environmental pollution upon beings through Jules Verne's
romantic literature: collective identity and psychophysiology of mobility
Waldemar Matias
Chicago City College / St. Augustine University, Chicago
Wang Anyi, Love in a Small Town – Pornography or Love?
Victor M. Arrocha
Chicago Public Schools
/ International Institute of LifeLong Education
Forbidden Love in Duras' "The Lover"
Saturday 2:30-4:30
52 "Translating
Gender—a Workshop"
Chair: Margaret Higonnet
Room: Garden, Condado Plaza
Margaret R. Higonnet
Univ. of Connecticut
Translating War Scripts across Gender Lines
Sung-Won Cho
Seoul Women University
Renaissance Nun vs. Korean 'Kisaeng': Chastity and Female Celibacy in Measure
for Measure and Chunhyang Jeon
Eugene Eoyang
Hong Kong University
"Echoes and Shadows"" Images of Women in Chinese Literature
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
University of Oxford
Postcolonial Translations
Saturday 2:30-4:30
53 "Arabic Literature
Seminar II:
Journeys, Exile, Loss and Memory II"
Chair Hussein N Kadhim
Room: Panamá, Condado Plaza
Nadia Yaqub
Univ. of North Carolina
The Tale of Those Who Did Not Travel: Reading Yahya al-Tahir Abdullah's
"The Neckband and the Bracelet" as Sirah
Mustapha Hamil
State Univ. of
West Georgia
From Manchester to Fez: Abdelmajid Ben Jelloun's Hourney of Loss and Betrayal
in Fi At-Tufulah
Stephen Sheehi
Duke University
Beirut and the Space of Memory
Nader Uthman
Columbia
University
Finding Home in the Journey of the Exile: Munif's East of the
Mediterranean and the Felicity of Malice
Clarissa Burt
American Univ. in
Cairo
Remembering al-Mutanabbi: Adonis's Mask of Memory
Saturday 2:30-4:30
54 "Baroque Designs and
Modern
Literature"
Chair: Lois Parkinson Zamora
Room: Boardroom 1, Condado Plaza
Patricia Merivale
University of
British Columbia
The City of Cracked Ruins: The Baroque Memories of an Anglo-Australian
Monika Kaup
University of
Washington
"Dressing the unknowable in the garments of the known": la
curiosidad barroca in Djuna Barnes
Lois Parkinson Zamora
University of
Houston
Postmodernism, Baroque, Borges
Saturday 2:30-4:30
55 "Caribbean
Crossings: Crossing
Disciplines"
Chair: Mara de Gennaro / Esther
Gabara
Room: Acapulco, Condado Plaza
José Muñoz
New York University
Melancholic Attachments Across Greater Cuba: Mendieta and Jorge Ignacio
Cortiñas
María Mercedes Andrade
Lehigh University
Crossing
Identities in Severo Sarduy's From Cuba with a Song
Amor Kohli
Tufts University
The Demands of a New Idiom: Kamau Brathwaite's The Arrivants
Esther Gabara
Duke University
Interdisciplinarity and the Caribbean / Respondent
Saturday 2:30-4:30
57 "Nature, Negritude
& 'Disalienation'
in Caribbean Poetry"
Chair: L. Keith Cohen
Room: Laguna, Condado Plaza
John Mowitt
Univ. of Minnesota
The Nature of "Negritude"
Mark Streeter
Univ. of Wisconsin
"…mais il y a ce mal:" The Nature of the Human and the Nature of
Poetry
George Handley
Brigham Young
Univ.
Environmentalism and Derek Walcott's Sense of Place
Keith Cohen
Univ. of Wisconsin
"Negros bembones" and "illiterated fools": Playing
Dumb in Nicolas Guillen and Louise Bennett
Saturday 2:30-4:30
59 "Translating
Surrealism"
Chair Robin Blyn
Room: Boardroom 2, Condado Plaza
Ela Kotkowska-Atkinson
Northwestern
University
Avant-Garde in Periodicals: From Devetsil to Surrealism
Yoshihiro Yasuhara
Pennsylvania State
Univ.
Ishikawa Jun's Taka (The Raptor) and Surrealist Revolution
Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz
Univ. of Colorado,
Boulder
Sur/realizing Mexico: The ethnographic surrealism of Buñuel's Los olivados
Robin Blyn
University of West
Florida
Freak Surrealism: Corporeal Anomaly and the Dream of American Counter Culture
in the 1960's
Saturday 2:30-4:30
61 "Replacing
Privilege?: The Reader of
Translations, the Cultural Tourist, and
Other Dominant Figures"
Chair: Jim Hicks/Anna Botta
Room: Boardroom 3, Condado Plaza
Nikola Petkovic
Stephen F. Austin
State University
The List of Who We Are: Cosmopolitanism, Patrimony, and Identity Search in
Chang Rae-lee's Native Speaker and A Gesture Life
Jim Hicks
Smith College
The Migrant as Soveriegn: Living with the IC, the OHR and Similar Exotic
Tribes
Jelena Stojanovi_
Curator, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Ithaca College
De-collage abstracted
Anna Botta
Smith College
The Coming Apartheid: Goytisolo's Vision of a Sarajevan Europe
Saturday 2:30-4:30
62 "Of Women and the
Female"
Chair: Marta Calero Meléndez
Room: Hospitality Suite, Condado Plaza
Elizabeth A. Pallitto
CUNY Grad Center /
FCWSRC
Postmodernism Feminism Ante Litteram: Différance in the Work of Two
Renaissance Women of Letters
Marta Calero Meléndez
Universidad de
Puerto Rico
Una lectura junguiana de Dulcinea del Toboso como expresión del ánima
de Don Quijote
Yuko Yamade
University of
Montreal
Migrancy, Identity and Translating Feminism in Tawada Yoko's The Gotthard
Railway
Saturday 2:30-4:30
64 "Translating Older
Traditions"
Chair:
Room: Junior Suite 1, Condado Plaza
Michaela Keck
Johann Wolfgang
Goethe-Universität
The Adaptation of the Old World Peripatetic Tradition in Henry David
Thoreau's Walks in New World Landscape
Daniel Kramer
Harvard University
Broadening the
Foundations of the German Classical Period
Hans-Jörg Grohmann
Univ. of Colorado,
Boulder
Intermediate Individuality: The Other Within the Self or Caught in Between
Two Biographies – Cases of East German Diaspora
Erik Butler
Yale University
Hi Ludi in seria ducunt: Justus Georg Schottelius and the Tradition of
the Bellum grammaticale
Saturday 2:30-4:30
65"Archival Politics in Caribbean/
Diaspora Literature"
Chair: César A. Salgado
Room: Junior Suite 3
César A. Salgado
University of
Texas at Austin
Puerto Rican Legends: Cayetano Coll y Toste and the Fabrication(s) of the
Caribbean Archive
Paula Sanmartín
University of
Texas at Austin
Custodians of History:
(Re)Construction of Black Cuban Women as Historical and Literary Subjects in
Reyita, sencillamente: testimonio de una negra cubana nonagenaria
Jacqueline Loss
University of Connecticut
Arenas and the limits of marginality: collecting and framing Cuba
Lisa Sánchez González
University of
Texas at Austin
Jesús Colón and American Literary Radicalism
Saturday 5:00-6:00
p.m.
"ADPCL Round
Table"
Chair:Carey
Eckhardt
Room: Ashford
Saturday 7:00
p.m.
Banquet
Sunday 8:30-9:30
ADPCL - Business Meeting
Room: Laguna Pool
Sunday 8:30-10:30
1 " Hispano-Arabic
Themes in Honor of
Luce Lopez Baralt"
Chair: Joseph Ricapito
Room: Boardroom 1, Condado Plaza
Joseph V. Ricapito
Louisiana State
Cervantes and Consciousness: The Christian
and Muslim Worlds Juxtaposed
Cynthia Robinson
Univ. of New Mexico
A Question of Influence?: Andalusi Courtliness, the Muwashshaha, and the
"Troubadour Question" (Again)
Miguel Angel Vázquez
Florida Atlantic University
García Lorca Sleepwalking through a Millenary
Arabic Night
Sagario Rosario
Univ. of Puerto Rico
Breve comentario del manuscrito Introducción en
el Libro intitulado "Nuevo descubrimiento de la
falsedad del metal"
Sunday 8:30-10:30
2 "Caribbean Crossings
and
Articulations of American Identity"
Chairs: Marni Gauthier/Monika
Giacoppe
Room: Celerina, St. Moritz Restaurant, Regency
Alexander Weheliye
Northwestern University
"I Refugee from Guantanamo Bay Dance around
the Border like I'm Cassius Clay": The Fugees,
Haiti, and Refugee Identity
Richard Mitchell
California State University, Northridge
Floating Globalization: The Caribbean Cruise Ship
and American Identity
Sunday 8:30-10:30
3 "Self Translation
"
Chair: Corinne Scheiner
Room: Boardroom 3, Condado Plaza
John Milton
Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
The Self-Translations of the Brazilian Novelist
João Ubaldo Ribeiro: "Thin" Translations
Karen Ruth Kornweibel
Stephen F. Ausin
State University
Rosario Ferré and the Irony of Self-Translation
Charlotte Ward
Universidad de Puerto Rico
Rosario Ferré and Pedro Juan Soto's Self-Translation
Sunday 8:30-10:30
4 "American
Interracialisms and
Hybridities
Chairs: Paula Straille/Jana Evans
Braziel
Room: Lagoon, Ramada Hotel
Alice Rutkowski
Univ. of Virginia
Questioning and Confirming Kinship:
Baby-Switching and Racial Identity
Stephanie Sadre-Orafai
UC Berkeley
Beauty, Sex & Passing
Paula Straille
Hampton University
Love, Power and Survival: Interracial Relations
in the Speculative Fiction of Octavia Butler
Monika Wadman
Syracuse
University
From Multiculturalism to Hybridity
Sunday 8:30-10:30
5 "Early Modern
Drama"
Chairs: Robert Henke/Susanne Wofford
Room: Arosa, St. Moritz, Regency Hotel
Jacques Lezra
Univ. of WI,
Madison
Cervantes Besieged: The Mistranslation of
Culture in El cerco de Numancia
Pam Brown
Univ. of CT,
Stamford
Diva Envy: The Continental Actress on the All-Male Stage
Sunday 8:30-10:30
6 "'Translations' of
Asia in Global Context"
Chair: Steven G. Yao
Room: Bernina, St. Moritz, Regency Hotel
Jillana Enteen
Northwestern University
Tinglish Talk: Strategic Uses of Thaisms by Thai
Women in English Language WWW Environments
Channette Romero
Rutgers University
(Mis)Translating Female Gender and Sexuality in
Shojo Anime
Ta-wei Chi
UCLA
Dialectics among the Birds: A Chinese Gay Community in the Age of
Globalization--Pai Hsien-yung's "Crystal Boys"
Cynthia Ho
University of North Carolina
"A Larger Circle of Readers": Vernacular
Poetics and the Power of English
Sunday 8:30-10:30
7
"Travelling/Walking"
Chairs: John Zilcosky/Bianca
Theisen
Room: Garden, Condado Plaza
Carsten Strathausen
Univ. of Missouri
Lost in space: Reflections on Contemporary
German Photography
Bianca Theisen
Johns Hopkins
University
Learning How to Get Lost: Goethe, Flaubert, and
the Economy of Return
Asha Varadharajan
Queen's
Voyages in situ: Returning to "Nomad Thought"
John Zilcosky
Univ. of Toronto
Learning How to Get Lost: Goethe, Flaubert, and
the Economy of Return
Sunday 8:30-10:30
8 "Comparative
Literature in the
Age of Globalization"
Chairs: Hans Martin Puchner/Ursula
K Heise
Room: Ocean, Ramada Hotel
Djelal Kadir
Pennsylvania State Univ.
Globalization and the Comparative Predicament
Karen Piper
University of MO,
Columbia
Postcolonial Ciber-Utopias
Ursula Heise
Columbia University
Global Ecology and the Imagination of Risk
Gabriele Schwab
UCI
Sunday 8:30-10:30
9 "The Hyphen and its
Discontent:
Reading Hyphenated Identities
Comparatively
Chairs: Shai Ginsburg/Gil Hochberg
Room: Ashford, Condado Plaza
Marla Segol
Cornell University
Medieval Cosmopolitanism: Can it Be? The Saracen-Christian and the
Cosmopolitan Ethos
Katrin Pahl
Stanford University
Trait de Fendage: The
Broken Word and Piercing
Echo of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Gil Hochberg
UC Berkeley
What Does the Hyphen and the Arab-Jew Do?
Sunday 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
Ramon Grosfuguel
UC Berkeley
Subaltern Strategies from a Caribbean Perspective
Lowell Fiet
Univ. of Puerto
Rico, Rio Piedras
Bozales, Mulatos, and Jabaos: The Performance
of Slavery and Racial Difference
Luiza Franco Moreira
Binghamton University
"Giants of Three Colors": A Writer and an
Artist Imagine Racial Mixture in 1940s Brazil
Sunday 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
Dan Russek
Univ. of Chicago
Fixing Images: On the Photographic Model in
Julio Cortázar's Short Fiction
Graham Bader
Harvard Univ.
Roy Lichtenstein and the Problem of
"Transformation"
Julie Townsend
USC
Synaesthetics: Symbolist aesthetics and
the failure of interdisciplinary metaphor
Ingeborg Hoesterey
University of Indiana
The Concrete Look of "Theory": Deconstruction
in Architecture
Sunday 8:30-10:30
12 "The Aesthetics of
Cultural Renewal"
Chair: Nicholas Rennie
Room: Junior Suite 2, Condado Plaza
Nicholas Rennie
Rutgers University
Graven Images: Lessing, Freud, and the Fate of
Aesthetics
Silvia Lopez
Carleton College
"Modernismo": Aesthetic Renewal and Ideas out of Place
Sunday 8:30-10:30
13 "Psychoanalysis and
Translation/
Psychoanalysis as Translation"
Chair: Esther Rashkin
Room: Executive Suite, Ramada Hotel
Suzanne Yang
Columbia
University / Johns Hopkins University
Tranference as Translation: Freud, Benjamin and Lacan
Sara Guyer
UCI
Bearing without Bearing: Psychoanalysis
and Translation
Michael Levine
Barnard College
Trauma and Translation: Lacan, Caruth and
the Dream of the Burning Child
Sunday 8:30-10:30
14 "Translation and the
Experience of
the Foreign"
Chair: Edwin Gentzler
Room: suite at Regency Hotel?
Enrique Garcia
Univ. of MA,
Amherst
Ilf and Petrov's The
Twelve Chairs, Tomás
Gutíerrez Alea's Las doce sillas and the
miltifaceted translation of the Marxist revolution
Lucien Miller
Univ. of MA, Amherst
Thomas Merton's The Way of Chuang Tzu
Maria Tymoczko
Univ. of MA, Amherst
The Politics of Liberation: Translation and
the Reception of the Foreign
Sunday 8:30-10:30
15 "Translation Issues
and Challenges"
Chair: Keith Cohen
Room: Boardroom 2, Condado Plaza
Sylvia Söderlind
Queen's University
Writing as Translation in a Post-Babelian World
Benigno Trigo
State University
of New York
The Mother Tongue: Voicing the Abject in Rosario
Ferre's Self-Translations
Sylvie Moulin
Ball State
University
Does the
"Llorona" Weep Alone? Comparing
Translations of a Story from the Hispanic Southwest
Sunday 8:30-10:30
16 "New World-Old World
Interactions"
Chair: Dorothy Figueira
Room: Royal, Condado Plaza
Sara Armengot
Pennsylvania State Univ.
"El que sea prieto, que hable claro": Linguistic
and Racial Identity Markers in Hispaniola
Peter Firchow
Univ. of Minnesota
Adlous Huxley Eyeless in Gaza and Modern
British Fictions of the Other America
James A. Steintrager
UCI
White Diaspora and the Paradigms of Race
Susan Reese
Univ. of New Mexico
Victor Hugo's "Bug-Jargal, Otherwise Called Pierrot": Static Masks
and Displaced Players in the Colonial Drama of Identity
Sunday 8:30-10:30
17 "Cuba/Caribe:
Caribbean Crosscurrents"
Chair Marc Blanchard
Room: Junior Suite 3, Condado Plaza
Maria C. Albin
Columbia University
Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda y la literatura
de viaje
Leonora Simonovis
Universidad Central de Venezuela
Soñar en cubano: entre Beny Moré y el Rock
and Roll
Marilyn Miller
Tulane University
The Fugitive Text: Esteban Montejo and
William Wells Brown
Carlotta Abrams
Estrella Mountain Community College
The Voices of Mississippi: Cuba speaking in
the South
Sunday 11-1
25 "Identity in the
Carribean: Apparitions, Conversions and Possessions: Symptom Formations and
Their Metamorphosis"
Chairs:Carmen Lamas/Patricia
Gherovici
Room: Conference, Ramada Hotel
Alfredo A. Carrasquillo-Ramrez
Universidad del
Sagrado Corazon
Puerto Rican
Hystoire
Patricia Gherovici
Philadelphia Lacan
Reading Study Group
Rich Anger: The Beauty of the Puerto Rican
Syndrome
Sunday 11-1
26 "Narrative
Translations of Identity"
Chair: Ross Shideler,
Room: : Arosa, St. Moritz, Regency Hotel
Katherine King
UCLA
Translating Heroism: Locating Edward Said on Soueif's Map of Love
Adrian Grima
University of Malta (Central Mediterranean)
Pulling Identit/ies Apart: Juann Mamo's
narrator struggling with the pieces in
Grandma Venut's Children in America (1930-31)
Srilata Mukherjee
Duke University
Transgressing The Tempest: Sara Suleri and
Suniti Namjoshi's Narrative Translations of
Shakespearean Identities
Sunday 11-1
27 "Arabic Literaure
Seminar I:
Journeys, Exile, Loss and Memory"
Chair: Hussein N Kadhim
Room: Bernina, St. Moritz, Regency Hotel
Nezar Andary
UCLA
The Consuming Fever of History in
Contemporary Arabic Literature
Elliott Colla
Brown University
Exile on 26th of July Street: Downtown
Cairo in the Fiction of 'Abdullah and Aslan
Mohammed AlQuwaizani
Univ. of CO,
Boulder
Can the Individual Remember? Collective
Memory in Mahfouz's Trilogy
Sunday 11-1
28 "Literatures of the
Asian Diasporas:
Bridges and Barriers to New Literary
And Cultural Paradigms"
Chairs: Kang Liu
Room: Boardroom 3, Condado Plaza
Dorothy Wang
Northwestern University
What We Mean When We Say "Diasporic"
in Asian Diasporic Literature
Kang Liu Pennsylvania State University
"Overseas Chinese" or "Chinese Diaspora"?:
Cultural Representations of Chinese around
the Globe and Their Interpretations
Persis M. Karim
San Jose State
University
The Emergence of Iranian-American Literature and the Struggle for a Public
Ethnic Identity
Sunday 11-1
29 "Jamaica Kincaid and
Caribbean
(Double) Crossings"
Chair: Linda Lang-Peralta
Room: Lagoon, Ramada Hotel
Linda Lang-Peralta
The Metropolitan State College of Denver
History, Conquest, and Botany in Jamaica Kincaid
Marilyn Manners
UCLA
A Relentless Aesthetics of Repetition:
The Writing of Jamaica Kincaid
Jeanne Ewert
Independent
Scholar
"Great Plant
Appropriators" and Acquisitive
Gardeners: Jamaica Kincaid's Ambivalent
Garden (Book)
Sarah Phillips Casteel
Columbia University
Rethinking Roots in Jamaica Kincaid's Garden Writing
Sunday 11-1
30 "Writing Diaspora in
Cultural China"
Chair Feng Lan
Room: Ocean, Ramada Hotel
Jianguo Chen
Michigan State
Poetics of Nostalgia and Exilic Mentatlity—
A Study of Gao Xingjian's Soul Mountain
Dian Li
Univ. of AZ
Bei Dao's "Run From Writing": The Journey
to the Interior in Unlock
Lianyan Ge
Univ. of Notre Dame
From Tiger-Killing Hero to Hero-Killing Tiger:
Ha Jin's "A Tiger-Fighter Is Hard to Find
Feng Lan
Florida State Univ.
In the Shadow of the Bona Fide Mulan: the
Problematic of Re-Presenting Chinese Femininity
Sunday 11-1
31 "The Anxiety of the
Foreign in
Theoretical, Literary and Legal
Discourse"
Chair: Moneera Al-Ghadeer
Room: Garden, Condado Plaza
Mohammad Ramadan
University of Wisconsin, Madison
The Untranslatable Other in de Certeau's
The Writing of History
Susan Koshy
UC Santa Barbara
Assimilation Acts: Passing and the Limits
of Hybridity in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine
Justin Gifford
University of Virginia
By Right of Discovery: Mimicry, Alcatraz
and Native American Resistance
Sunday 11-1
32 "Translating
Ethics"
Chair: Noah Guynn / Debarati Sanyal
Room: Ashford, Condado Plaza
Gordon Teskey
Cornell University
Ethics and Ethos: Reflections on Conscience
Karen Tongson
UC Berkeley
The Ethics of Tact in Oscar Wilde's "Epistola: In carcere et
Vinculis"
Noah Guynn
UC Davis
Performative Justice in La farce du Maître Pierre Pathelin
Sunday 11-1
33 "The Politics of the
Aesthetic"
Chair: Beatrice Hanssen
Room: Executive, Ramada Hotel
Joseph Campana
Cornell University
Translating Pain: Embodiment and the
Matter of Aesthetics
Nora Alter University of Florida, Gainesville
Filmed Philosophy: Translating the Written
into the Audio-Visual
Sunday 11-1
34 "The Space of
Caribbean Diasporas"
Chairs: Dara Goldman/Eva-Lynn
Alicia Jagoe
Room: : Boardroom 1, Condado Plaza
Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui
Rutgers University
Foot Traces
Keja Valens
Harvard University
"Minor" Characters, "Minor" Desires: desire between women
in Maryse Condé's Moi, Tituba sorcière
Efraín Martínez
University of Illinois
at Chicago
Distorted Migrations: From Puerto Rico
to the Dominican Republic in Sirena Selena
Sunday 11-1
35 "(E)Racing India: National
Pasts,
Diasporic Futures"
Chair: Monika Mehta
Room: : Boardroom 2, Condado Plaza
Faith Smith
Brandeis University
"Siam Naygar Hai": Afro-Trinidadian Nationalism
and the Indian Subject in Late Nineteenth-Century
Trinidad
Supriya Nair
Tulane University
Dystopia and Diaspora: Selected Indo-Caribbean
Narratives
Pamela Rader
University of Colorado at Boulder Spiritual
Repossession: Indian and African Crossroads
in the Caribbean
Frank Korom
Boston University
Respondent
Sunday 11-1
36 "Issues of Latin
American Literature"
Chair: Wendy Faris
Room: Royal, Condado Plaza
Kate Peters
Ohio State University at Lima
Indian Aesthetics Applied to Trilce by César Vallejo
Beatriz E. Ramirez
University of Michigan
1001 Translators Can't Be Wrong. Borges'
Idea of Translation Framed by Said's Orientalism
Sunday 11-1
37 "Caribbean Crossings
and Trans-
cultural Issues"
Chair: Linda M. Rodríguez
Guglielmoni
Room: Hospitality Suite, Condado Plaza
Linda M. Rodríguez Guglielmoni
Univ. of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
Translating Caribbean Women Writers
Miriam González-Hernández
Univ. of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
Reading from "Calez y otros espejismos"
Ylonka Nacidit-Perdomo
Director, Research Center at the National Library, Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic
Reading from "Triangulo en Trebol"
Sunday 11-1
38"Slavic
Connections"
Chair: George Gasyna
Room: Junior Suite 1, Condado Plaza
Steven Lee
Fulbright Commission
The English Double: The Conjured Conjurer
Lida Oukaderova
University of Texas at Austin
Money, Translation and Subjectivity in Isaak
Babel's "Guy de Maupassant"
Sheila Skaff
University of Michigan
"Talkies" in the Press in Poland, 1930
Sunday 11-1
39"Global
Diasporas"
Chair:
Room: Junior Suite 2, Condado Plaza
Mary McGlynn
Baruch College, City University of New York
A reply to Hollywood: Contemporary
Irish Constructions of New York City
Masaki Mori
University of
Georgia
Context of Translation: A Case of
Japanese-American Literature
Ulla Rahbek
University of Bergen, Norway
Thinking "Diaspora" in Contemporary Black
British Cultural Studies: Stuart Hall,
Paul Gilroy, and Kobena Mercer
Heather Brady
University of
Texas at Arlington
Marseille's Migrations: Beur and Rom Identity in Didier Van Cauwelaert's Aller
simple (1996) and Jean-Claude Izzo's Total Khéops (1995)
Sunday 11-1
40"East-West
Encounters"
Chair:
Room: suite at Regency Hotel?
Qian Jun (Suoqiao)
City University of Hong Kong
Problems of a Chinese Cosmopolitan:
The "Friendship" Between Lin Yutang
and the John Day Company
Steven Walker
Rutgers University
Diasporas and Cultural Conflict: Fuentes'
AURA and the Rosa Diamond Episode in
Rushdie's THE SATANIC VERSES
Chung-Min Maria Tu
Grand Valley State University
Diaspora, Freedom, and Femininity,
Re-viewed in Postmodernism
G.I. Bogin
Tver, Russia
Penetrability of the Texts with an "Asiatic Mentality"
Sunday 11-1
41"Film, Performance
& Visual Art"
Chair:
Room: Junior Suite 3, Condado Plaza
Alex Alberro
University of Florida
From the Nouveau Roman to Conceptual Art
Craig Sinclair
Kulcha Shock: the
lyrics of Asian Dub Foundation,
and their affects on Anglo-Asian culture
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