Wednesday, November 5th 9:00-10:30 AM
Section A-1 (English)	Section B-1 (Spanish)			Section C-1 (French)
Language, Subjectivity and the Decolonization of the Caribbean Imagination	De Carpentier a Sánchez: identidad y discursos culturales			L'exile au Canada et aux Etas-Unis: Trois visions
Chair: Emily Williams (Morehouse College)	Chair: Rubén Gómez-Lara (St. John Fisher College)			Chair: Mehdi El-Hajoui (Harvard University)
Robin Dizzard (Independent Scholar) “From Modernist Subjectivity to Political Realism: George Laming’s and the Plantation Motif in Caribbean Culture”	Alvaro M. Torres-Calderón (Florida State Universtiy) “Benny y el Nene: cuestionamiento y futuro de la identidad de un país”			Carl L. Garott (Virginia State University) “Je suis fatigué: An Autobiography and Bibliography by Dany Laferrière”
Rene Turcato (Florida State University) “The Appropriation of Traditional Patriarchal Roles Through the Portrayal and Narration of Masculine Characters in The Youngest Doll, by Rosario Ferre”	Jorge A. Paredes (University of Otago Te Whare Wänanga o Otago) "El enfrentamiento de discursos culturales en El reino de este mundo de Alejo Carpenter"			Danièle Isssa-Sayegh (University of Toronto) “L’exil dans le livre d’Emma de Marie-Célie Agnant”
Lisa Costello (Louisiana State University) “Transcendent Motherhood: Age, Culture, and Language in Julia Avarez’s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents”	Ana Perez-Manrique (Florida State University) “¡San Lázaro, Babayú-Ayé! O el sincretismo racial y cultural en Ecué-Yambá-O”			Fréderic Lefrancois (Université des Antilles et la Guyane) “Exil et colonialisme dans l’oeuvre de Jamaica Kincaid"
Eve Stoddard (St. Lawrence University) “Personality and the Representation of Plantation Life: The Sugar Plantation as Text and Context”
Wednesday, November 5th 10:45-12:15 PM
Section A-2 (English)		Section B-2 (Spanish)	Section C-2 (English)
Decentralizing the Historical Role of Colonialism		Novela femenina contemporánea: Historia, identidad, aculturación, marginalidad	The Marvelous, the Magical, and the Real: Textual and Intertextual Perspectives on Caribbean Ontology
Chair: Dennis Miller (Lamar University)		Chair: Vicki Román-Lagunas (Northeastern Illinois University)	Chair Carine: Mardorossian (State University of New York)
Craig Smith (Florida Atlantic University) “Beyond Postcolonial Theory: Answering the Call of Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven”		Sonia Feigenbaum (National Endowment for the Humanities) “Refuge in Silence and Marginality: Olga Nolla’s El Manuscrito de Miramar”	Kately Demougeot (Montgomery College) “Marvelous Realism in Jacques Alexis “General Sun My Brother”
Michael Janis (Morehouse College) “La revanche and Le devoir of 1968: The Question of Postcolonial Humanism”		Patricia Varas (Willamette University) "Ficción versus historia en Rosario Ferré”	Jeffery C. Barnett (Washington and Lee University) “A Runaway Slave’s Testimony of Cuba’s Magical reality”
Magarita Vargas (University of Buffalo) “Reconceptualizing the Nation: Jose Louis Ramos Escobar’s El olor del popcorn”		Ana M. Echevarria-Morales (Salem State College) “La textualización de la Revolución Cubana en la obra de Julieta Campos”	Geneva Cobb More (University of Wisconsin) “Paule Marshall’s The Fisher King: A Child Shall Lead Them”
Jayne Boisvert (Russell Sage College) “Ge Rouge Personified: as Violaine in Etienne’s Les Chemins de loco-Miroir”
12:30 – 2:00 PM LUNCH (SPEAKER: DR. IAN STRACHAN)
Wednesday, November 5th 12:30-2:00 PM
Section A-3 (English)		Section B-3 (Spanish)	Section C-3 (Spanish)
From the Exotic and Picturesque to the Indigenous and Cosmopolitan: Geo-cultural Constructions and Demolitions		Cuatro asedios a la nueva y novisima narrativa	Teatro, experimentación y cine
Chair: Brenda Flanagan (Davidson College)		Chair: Candide Carrasco (Nazareth College)	Chair: Jorge Paredes (University of Otago Te Whare Wänanga o Otago)
David Seaman (Georgia Southern University) "Hearn, Gaugin, Breton – Three Western Constructions of Martinique"		Patricia Valladares Ruiz (University of Montreal) “Saldando deudas: Subjetividades sexuales en la producción literaria de los ‘novísimos’ (Cuba)“	Catalina Castillon (Lamar University) “La mujer en La carreta de René Marqués: evolución y transformación en espiral”
Anthony Dahl (Spelman College) “The Picturesque Black in Bahamian Literature”		Helen Filippou (McGuill University) “El Rey de la Habana de Pedro Juan Gutiérrez. ¿Conformidad o transgresion?”	Olga Godoy (Florida State University) “La puertorriqueñidad en La muerte no entrara en Palacio, de Rene Marques”
Saadiqa Khan (University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus) “Bombay as ‘New’ Carceral City in V.S. Naipaul’s India: A Million Mutinies Now and in Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh”		Rubén Gómez Lara (St. John Fisher College) “Cartografia de la angustia en Los Palacios distantes, de Abilio Estevez”	Lola Aponte (University of Puerto Rico) “Guía turística: las discursividades teatrales de la experimentación en Rompeforma, evento poliartístico”
María Reyes (North Park University) “The Use of Indigenous Caribbean Literature to Revise the Deficit Model of Perception of Latino/Hispanic Children”
Wednesday, November 5th 4:00-5:30 PM
Section A-4 (English)		Section B-4 (Spanish)	Section C-4 (English)
Tasting the Food of Creolite, Testing the Scent of Hybridity		Malas mujeres, putas, prostitutas y otras perversas en la narrativa caribeña femenina de los últimos 25 años	Caribbean Literature as the Nexus of Geo-physical and Aesthetic Discourse
Chair: Paula Smith Allen (Southeastern Oklahoma State University)		Chair: Susana Cavallo (Loyola University)	Chair: Emily Williams
Bob Ness (Dickinson College) “Cultural Incomprehension and the Issue of Roots: Pauline Melville’s “The Ventriloquist’”		Cristina Guijarro Cazorla (The University of Chicago) “Cuando las mujeres quieren a los hombres de Rosario Ferré: La leyenda de la puta y la perfecta casada”	Leah Creque (Morehouse College) “Folkloric Elements in Elizabeth Nunez’s When Rocks Dance”
Linda Clemente (Ripon College) “Beyond ‘Métissage’: The Unraveled Threads of Self in Suzzane Dracius-Penale L’autre qui danse”		Gemma Delicado (The University of Chicago) “La estatua de la libertad como la más señora de todas la putas y la más puta de todas las señoras: Prostitución y libertad en Encancaranublado de Ana Lydia Vega”	Osayimwense Osa (Clark Atlanta University) “Irrepressible Street Communities: Miguel Street in V.S. Naipaul’s Miguel Street and Akinwunmi Street in Buchi Emacheta’s The Bride Price”
Pamela Maria Smorkoloff (Montclair State University) “Food as Socio-Cultural Text in the narratives of Esteban Montejo and Renee Mendez”		Rafaela Fiore Urizar (The University of Chicago) “Dislocaciones del deseo: Celia del Pino y la seducción de la memoria en Dreaming in Cuban de Cristina García”	Esther S. Green-Merritt (Clark Atlanta University) and Deena Godet (Clark Atlanta University) “The Caribbean Peoples in Literature”
Kathleen Bulger-Barnett (Virginia Military Institute) “Olefactory Sensations: The Role of Smells in Gabriel García Márquez and Cristina García”		Carmen Gomez Fiegl (The University of Vienna) “Cuerpo, música y deseo: Perspectivas de género en Púrpura profundo de Mayra Montero”	Crystal Artis (Spelman College) “Identity Formation in Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brownstones”

Thursday, November 6th 9:00-10:30 AM
Section A-1 (English)		Section B-1 (Spanish)			Section C-1 (English)		Section D-1 (English)
From Rebellion to Community: The Artistic Vision of Earl Lovelace		Técnicas y puntos de vista del discurso en la narrativa de fines del siglo XIX y principios del XX			African-Caribbean Snycretic Practices: Considerations of Religion and Family		Myth, Memory, and Movement: Narrative Strategies in the Fiction of Edwidge Danticatt
Chair: Daniel Black (Clark Atlanta University)		Chair: Evelyn Trujillo (Florida A&M University)			Chair: Kately Demougeot (Montgomery College)		Chair: Wendell Aycock (Texas Tech University)
Renu Juneja (Valparaiso University) “Stick Fighting in West Indian Fiction”		Elena Grau-Lleveria (University of Miami) “Ironía, parodia e inversión en La muñeca de Carmela Eluate Sanjurjo”			Paula Makris (University of Tulsa) “From the Outside Looking In: Creole Caribbean Writers and the Obeah Woman”		Eve Davis (Virginia State University) “Mythic Elements in Danticat’s Kric? Krak!"
James Kingsland (Valparaiso University) “Black Power Rebellion in Earl Lovelace’s The Dragon Can’t Dance”		Marcela Saldivia-Berglund (Lake Fortes College) “’La mujer no es un ángel’: el discurso iconoclasta en la representación del sujeto femenino en dos novelas puertoriqueñas de fines de siglo diecinueve”			Brenda Flanagan (Davidson College) “Obeah: The Power of Suggestion in Wide Sargasso Sea and The White Witch of Rosehall”		Deborah Goodwyn (Virginia State University) “Memory and the Maternal in Breath, Eyes, Memory”
Bill Clemente (Peru State College) “’This is the World. This…this dot. This is your island” – Earl Lovelace’s Salt: Within and Beyond Alfred George’s Outward Journey Back”		Joan Torres-Pou (Florida International University) “La carnavalización del discurso naturalista en A Fuego lento de Emilio Bobadilla”			Kersuze Simeon (University of Miami) “Displacement and Madness: The Crisis of Identity and Integration in Vyera’s Juletane and Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea”		Mazine Sample (Virginia State University) “Movement, Identity, and Transcendence in The Farming of Bones”
Rosalie B. Kiah (Norfolk State University) “Traditional Values and Communal Life in earl Lovelace’s The Schoolmaster”		Jorge A. Salvo (University of South Carolina-Spartanburg) “¿Homoerotismo en José Martí?			Robin Visel (Furman University) “Transfiguring the Family Romance: Jamaica Kincaid’s Emblematic ‘I’”		Evadne T. Anderson (Marianopolis College) “’Power To’ and ‘Power Over’: Breath, Eyes, Memory: A Study in Paradox and Pragmatics”
Thursday, November 6th 10:45-12:15 PM
Section A-2 (English)		Section B-2 (Spanish)			Section C-2 (French)
Language, Literacy, and the Cultural Identity of the Folk: From Black Shack Alley to Cinematic Folktales, Carnival, and Hip-Hop		Ensayo crónica y testimonio			Le Roman antillais
Chair: Trudier Harris		Chair: Joan Torres-Pou (Florida International University)			Chair: Carl Garrot (Virginia State University)
Charles Coleman (York College, City University of New York) “A Folk-Culture Literacy Reading of Joseph Zobel’s Black Shack Alley”		Fátima Rodriguez-Cassagne & Carla Fernandes (University of Toulouse, France) “El ensayismo en el Caribe: del género a la praxis. La obra de Camila Henríquez Ureña”			Joubert Satyre (University of Guelph, Canada) “Les figures du marron et du zombie dans le roman antillais”
Jon A. Yasin (Bergen Community College) “Rappin: Maintaining African Oral Traditions in the African Caribbean Community"		Adelso Yanez (Joliette College, Canada) “El entierro de Cortijo: tensiones en el imaginario popular puertorriqueño”			Andréa M. Javel (Boston College) “Tèlumèé Miracle nous parle et Euzhan Palcy nous montre: Littérature et film comme points de départ pour un dialogue sur l’e esclavage, la colonisation et leurs repercussions”
Yvonne E. McIntosh (Florida A&M University) “The Cinematic Vision of Caribbean Folktales”		María José Cordero-Maguire (Florida State University) “Historia desde los márgenes: visión de la mujer negra a través del testimonio de Reyita, Sencillamente”			Hakim Abderrezak (Northwestern University) “Le Coeur à rire et à pleurer de Maryse Condé: un Bildungsroman de la Négritude”
Swift Styles Dickison (Montgomery College) “Creolizing Carnival: Home Rule in D.C.”					Yzabelle Martineau (Université Concordia, Canada) “Quelques figures de la féminité chez Yanick Lahens”
12:30 – 2:00 PM LUNCH (SPEAKER: DR. KENNETH RAMCHAND) Thursday, November 6th 2:15-3:45 PM
Section A-3 (English)		Section B-3 (Spanish)			Section C-3 (French)		Section D-3 (English)
Claire Harris, Pauline Melville, and the Interplay Between Power, Resistance, and Exile		Hibridismo, identidad y representación del "otro" en la producción cultural contemporánea			Historie, imaginaire, mythe, surnatural dans le discours narratif		Cultural Literacy as Nexus Between the Indigenous, the Diasporic and the Global
Chair: Neil Mohammed (University of the West Indies)		Chair: Joan Torres-Pou (Florida Internationla University)			Chair: Williams Wallenberg (Bethune-Cookman College)		Chair: Maria Roof: (Howard University)
Anna Blumenthal (Morehouse College) and Bernard Bray (Talladega College) “’Nude on a Pale Staircase’ and Michel Foucault’s Perspective on Power”		Ada Ortuzar-Young (Drew University) “Voces cubano-americanas en Nueva York: identidad y comercialización”			Mae-Lyna Beabrun (University of Montreal, Canada) “De l’histoire au mythe de Jean-Jacques Dessalines”		Sarah Barbour (Wake Forest University) “Global Literacy in Maryse Conde’s Histoire de la femme cannibale”
Kristen Mahlis (Trinity University) “Shifting the Shape of Ezile: Pauline Melville’s Short Fiction”		Cristina Saenz de Tejada (Goucher College) “El turista accidental: representaciones del turismo extranjero en la narrativa y cinematografía cubana”			Sylviane Townsel (Albany State University) “Traditions, cultures, us et coutumes, surnaturel, nature, esclavage, philosophie et Meditations dans Pluie et vent sur Telumee Miracle de Simone Schwartz-Bart”		Monica Coleman (Claremont Graduate University) “Serving the Spirits: The Pan-Caribbean African-Derrived Religion in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring”
		Antonio Cordoba (Harvard University) “Clemencia es palabra que se usa poco: Nostalgía y Caribe(s) imaginario(s) en Caracol Beach”			Cécile Hanania (Western Washington University) “Ernest Pépin, archéologue de L’imaginaire antillais”		Geta LeSeur (University of Arizona) “’Romanticizing the Real’: INKLE and YARICO and STEADMAN and JOANNA…asSubversions of the Female Slave Experience”
		Luis Duno Gottberg (Universidad Simón Bolivar, Venezuela) “La sazón del margen: Algunas reflexiones sobre literatura y etno-populismo”					Daniel Black (Clark Atlanta University) “The Land as Omniscient Mother in Elizabeth Nunez’s When Rocks Dance”
4:00 – 5:30 PM Plenary SPEAKER: MR. MICHAEL PINTARD
	Friday, November 7th 9:00-10:30 AM
	Section A-1 (English)		Section B-1 (Spanish)	Section C-1 (English)
	The Poet as Agent of Cultural Transformation		El papel masculino, la ambivalencia y el exilio: Zoé Valdés y Rosario Ferré	The Future as History: Transcending the Postcolonial Paradigm Through Acts of Individual and National Resistance
	Chair: Pamela Maria Smorkaloff (MontClair State University)		Chair: Vicki Román-Lagunas (Northeastern	Chair: Geneva Cobb Moore (University of Wisconsin)
	Tyler Hoffman (Rutgers University) “The Patchwork Muse: Lorna Goodison’s Caribbean Measures”		Candide Carrasco (Nazareth College) “Zoé Valdés: Lobas de mar al asalto de la falocracia”	Nadeve Menard (University of the West Indies) “Nation Inscribed onto the Female Body in Haiti’s Occupied Novels”
	Thomas F. Anderson (University of Notre Dame) Comparas and African “Primitivism” in the Poetry of Emilio Ballagas and Felipe Moya Richardo”		Dinora Cardoso (Pepperdine University, California) “Café nostalgia: Art and Life in Exile”	Dennis R. Miller, Jr. (Lamar University) “Let Us Speak!: Counterecensorial Techniques in Nicaraguan and Cuban Theater Under ‘Dictators’”
	Paul Wiebe (Morehouse College) “John Singleton’s A Cultural Description of the West-Indian Islands: Topographical Poetry in the Caribbean”		Enrique Herrera (Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania) “El papel masculino e ironía en Cuando las mujeres quieren a los hombres de Rosario Ferré”	Deonne N. Minto (University of Maryland) “Breaking Through the Silence: The Remainder’s Resistance in Cola Debrot’s My Sister the Negro”
	Viktor Osinubi (Clark Atlanta University) “The Semiosis of Derick Walcott’s Poetic Art”			Yoko Mitsuishi (Toyo University) Beyond Postmodern Colonial and Gender Politics: Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands”
	Friday, November 7th 10:45-12:15 PM
	Section A-2 (English)		Section B-2 (Spanish)	Section C-2 (French)		Section D-2 (English)
	Engaging the Oeuvre of Maryse Conde		Concepto de la identidad e imagen literaria y filmica de país a fines del pasado siglo en escritores caribeños	Vision du soi, vision du monde		Caribbean Writers as Remixers of Language, Music, and History
	Chair: Ana M. Echevarria (Salem State College)		Chair: Gloria Romero-Downing (Creighton University)	Chair: Hakim Abderrebak (Northwestern University)		Chair: Daniel Black (Clark Atlanta University)
	Tameka L. Cage (Louisiana State University) “The Impossible Dream of Love: Narrative, Remembrance, and Cultural Healing in Maryse Conde’s Tropical Breeze Hotel”		Gloria Romero-Downing (Creighton University) “El imaginario y la identidad nacional en el mundo intellectual del venezolano de fin de siglo: una primera fase”	Mehdi M. El Hajoui (Harvard University, Massachusetts) “Etre Nègre ou Etre Créole? ’Infructueuse Quête de I’Intériorité Antillaise chez Aimé Césaire et Raphaël Confiant”		Ashli Wilson (Spelman College) “Caribbean Authors as DJs: History Remixers”
	Francoise Pfaff (Howard University) “Conversations with Maryse Conde: From the Spoken Word to the Translated, Written Text”		Ivelisse Santiago-Stommes (Creighton University) “Cultura e identidad en proceso: El cuestionamiento de la identidad nacional y la (re)construcción de la identidad personal en Casi una mujer de Esmeralda Santiago”	Williams Wallenberg (Bethun-Cookman College, Florida) “La vision du monde d’Aimé Césaire dans la Tragédie du Roi Christophe”		Marc Muneal (Morehouse College) “The Folk Musician in the Caribbean Novel”
	María Roof (Howard University) “Women Writers, Exile and Homeland: Maryse Conde, Julia Alvarez, Christina García, Zoé Valdés and Diana Lebacs”		Michelle Evers (Creighton University) “Nueva vida, nueva cultura” Performance de Identidad cultural en Nueba Yol, de Angel Muñiz”	Aymeric Glacet (Emory Univerisity, Georgia) “Saint-John Perse se met au vert”		Colin Hosten (Morehouse College) “When It Hurts Too Much: Coping with Reality in V.S. Naipaul’s Miguel Street”
	Carine Mardorossian (State University of New York at Buffalo) “Kincaid’s Mr. Potter, or The Autobiography of My Nation”					Roger Reeves (Morehouse College) “Earl Lovelace and the Caribbean Heteroglossia”
	12:30 – 2:00 PM LUNCH (SPEAKER: DR. RICHARD LONG)
	Friday, November 7th 2:15-3:45 PM
	Section A-3 (English)		Section B-3 (Spanish)	Section C-3 (English)
	Telic and Axiological Deliberations on Caribbean Short Fiction		Estudios sobre poesía: Julia de Burgos, Dulce María Loynaz y Heberto Padilla	Writing the Self: The Matrix (of Caribbean Cultural Identity) Re-loaded
	Chair: Yvonne McIntosh (Florida State University)		Chair: Elena Grau-Lleveria (University of Miami)	Chair: Saadiqa Khan (University of the West Indies)
	Wendell Aycock (Texas Tech University) “Recent Scholarship on the Short Fiction of the Caribbean”		Mabel Basterrechea (University of Miami) “Heberto Padilla: un poeta revolucionario”	Carmel Hines (University of the West Indies) “The Discursive Limits of West Indian National Character: Canonising a Literature and a Culture”
	Marisel Moreno (University of Notre Dame) “The image of the ‘macho’ and the Construction of Male Dominican Subjectivity: Three stories by Junot Díaz”		Evelyn Franquiz-Trujillo (Florida A&M University) “El agua símbolo de vida, esperanza y muerte en la poesía de Julia de Burgos y Dulce María Loynaz”	Neil Mohammed (University of the West Indies) “The Caribbean Writer as a Formalist”
	Paula J. Smith Allen (Southeastern Oklahoma State University) “’Do Angles Wear Brassiers?’ Olive Senior’s Jamaican Redemption”			Laura Durden (Texas A&M University) “Haciendo una Patria: Revolutionary Language in Julia Alvarez’s In the Name of Salo"
	Caroline Brown (University of Massachusetts Boston) “Daughterly Discourse and the Production of Literary Subjectivity in Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy”			Augustine Konneh (Morehouse College) Teaching Caribbean Literature in the History Classroom”