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”