Sixth International Conference on Caribbean Literature University of the Virgin Islands, Kingshill, St. Croix November 3-5, 2004

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1 Sixth International Conference on Caribbean Literature University of the Virgin Islands, Kingshill, St. Croix November 3-5, 2004 Wednesday 9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. A-1 Edwidge Danticat, Marie Chauvet, and Power of Multidimensional Discourse Chair: Renu Juneja, Valparaiso University Kately Demougeot, The Discourse of Violence and the Bestialization of the Human Beings in Marie Chauvet s novel Anger Maria Roof, Howard University Hispaniola in Edwidge Danticat and Julia Alvarez: Death vs. Survival in a Culture of Violence Heather Martin, University of Denver The Marassa: Doubling and Liminality in Edwidge Danticat s Breath, Eyes, Memory Cherie Meacham, North Park University Traumatic Realism in the Fiction of Edwidge Danticat. Wednesday 9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. A-2 Psychocultural and Educational Imperatives in the novels of Merle Hodge Chair: Maria Roof, Howard University Bill Clemente, Peru State College Happy Families and Broken Homes: Education and Family Ties ii Merle Hodge s Crik Crak Monkey and For the Life of Laetitia Swift Dickinson From Cruel Capers to Counter colonial Carnival: Children s Games in Merle Hodge s Crick Crack, Monkey and For the Life of Laetitiia Maria Regis, North Park University Displacement Trauma, Violence and Alienation in Caribbean Literature: Helping Adolescents and Their Teachers Use Trauma, Violence and Alienation as Themes for Empowerment and Self-definition.

2 Miércoles 9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. A-3 Etica, estética, y política: La escritora caribeña ante el Nuevo milenio I Moredadora: Rafaela Fiore Urizar, University of Chicago Rafaela Fiore Urizar, University of Chicago In the name of the Father, the Son, and of my mother, Salomé Susana Cavallo, Loyola University of Chicago An Orphaned People: Haiti in Narratives of Edwidge Danticat Ulle V. Holt, Loyola University of Chicago Gender, Politics and Prison: Reading In the Time of the Butterflies as a Prison Narrative Angeles Pérez, Loyola University of Chicago Lujurias multiculturales: Adaptación o destrucción? Wednesday 10:45 a.m. 12:15 p.m. B-1 Prospero, Caliban and Crusoe: The Haunting of the Caribbean Imagination Chair: Leah Creque, Morehouse College Jeffrey C. Barnett, Washington and Lee University Prospero s Orphans in Uva de Aragon s Not the Truth, Not a Lie James Morrison, Centre College Derek Walcott and Crusoe: The Artist, Society, and Transformation Colen Hosten, Pace University A Dramatic Coup D Etail: Caribbean and African Interest in The Tempest As A Revolutionary Tool (#16) 2

3 Wednesday 10:45 a.m. 12:15 p.m. B-2 V. S. Naipaul and Zapata Olivella: Passages to and from India and Africa Chair: Bill Clemente, Peru State College, Renu Juneja, Valparaiso University The Unmoored Colonial: V.S. Naipaul s First Travelogues About India James Kingsland, Valparaiso University Postcolonial Politics: V. S. Naipaul s Third India Michael Janis, Morehouse College Negritude, Mestizaje, African Philosophy: Zapata Olivella and Multiculurist Pan-Africanism Miercoles 10:45 12:15 B-3 Teatro y verso popular Moredadora: Carmen Torres-Robles, Purdue University Calumet, Indiana Jorge Febles, Western Michigan University Reconstrucción de la historia oficial en base a la leyenda popular: El punto guajiro como base de la epopeya en Manuel García, Rey de los campos de Cuba de Chanito Isidrón Lucía Lombardi, Northeastern Illinois University Teatro Gayumba: perspectiva social de las adaptaciones teatrales Candide Carrasco, Nazareth College of Rochester Para un teatro de la belleza: La noche, de Abilio Estévez Wednesday 12:30 1:45 L U N C H INVITED SPEAKER: BRENDA FLANAGAN

4 Wednesday 2:00 P.M. 3:30 P.M. C-1 Where Shadows [E]merge with Substance: Caribbean Texts and the Nature of Cultural Transmission Chair: Michael Janis, Morehouse College Anthony Dahl, Spelman College Marta and her Shadow: A Jungian Interpretation of Marta of Vejigantes Kathleen D. Bulger-Barnett, Virginia Military Institute Stylistic seduction in Mayra Santos-Febres Pex de vidrio Larysa Mykyta, North Carolina State University Gender, Desire and Ethnicity in Patricia Powells s The Pagoda Katsunori KAJIHARA, Aichi Prefetural University Edouard Glissant and Dereck Walcott: The Relations of Language, History and Epistemology Wednesday 2:15 p.m. 3:45:00 P.M. C-2 Regional Borders, Discursive Intersections and Blurred Inscapes Chair: Geta LeSeur, University of Arizona Sandra Campbell, Carleton University Whatever Happened to Terry Tucker? : Race Gender, Class and Place and Bermuda s Best-Known Popular Historian and Historical Novelist, Alscess Lewis-Brown, University of the Virgin Islands Exploring the Immigrant Experience in Virgin Islands Literature Yoko Mitsuishi, Toyo University Reading Haiku Poems by Elis Juliana; Haiku in Papiamentu Barbara Clark, Averett University Stories from the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica: Quince Duncan, Julieta Pinto, and Abel Pacheco

5 Miercoles 2:00 p.m. 3:30 p.m. C-3 Archaeologies of Plantation Culture: Caribbean Narratives from the Nineteenth to the Twenty First Century Chair: Marcela Saldivia-Berglund, Lake Forest College Marcela Saldivia-Berglund, Lake Forest College Plantation, Nation, Race: (Mis)Representations of Blackness in Late Nineteenth-Centruy Puerto Rican Literature Pamela Maria Smorkaloff, Montclair State University From Plantation-Plantation to Virtual Platation: Sugar and Tourism in Antillean Narrative Felipe Smith, Tulane University White Silence, Overthrown! : Elizabeth Barrett Browning and A Curse for a Nation. Ivette Romero-Cesareo, Marist College Plantation Legacy and the Role of Education in the Twentieth Centru: Dany BebelGisler and Francoise Ega s Testimonial Narrative Wednesday 3:45 p.m. 5:15 D-1 Not Without Music: Orchestrating Childhood and Ethnography Chair: Jim Morrison, Centre College Roland Bush, California State University Caribbean and North American Parallels: Lydia Cabrera, Zora Neale Hurston and the Ethnographic Imagination Osayimwense Osa, Clark Atlanta University Like a Yam Tendril in the Rainy Season: Growth and Socialization of Youngters in Things Fall Apart, Lord of the Flies, and The Year in San Fernando Robin Dizzard, Keene State College Polly: An Opera, being the Second Part of the Beggar s Opera by John Gay Lorenzo Florian, North Park University Consonant Strengthening by Spannish Caribbean Singers

6 Wednesday 4:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m. D-2 The Prince of Hubris: Derek Walcott as Painter, Playwright and Poet Chair: Patricia Harkins-Pierce, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas Campus Dennis Parker, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas Campus Derek Walcot as Painter, Playwright and Director: The U.V.I. Production of Marie Laveau. Rosary Harper, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas Campus Derrick Walcott as Poet and playwright: The U.V. I. Production of T-Jean and His Brothers Mary Alexander, Independent Scholar The Woman Within: A Quest for Masculine Wholeness in Derek Walcott s Poem The Schooner Flight MIERCOLES 4:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m. D-3 Les rêves, le sexe et la folie dans Pineau, Warner-Vieyra et Agnant Moredadora: Cardine Mardorossian, State University of New York-Buffalo University Danielle Raquidell, University of South Carolina Upstate Reves et fantomes: I envol poétique de Gisèle Pineau Hakin Abderrezak, Northwestern University Le sexe comme garde-fou ou la recherché des origins dans Chair Piment de Gisèle Pineau Danièle Issa-Sayegh, University of Toronto Fémimitude et folie dans Juletane et le livre d Emma

7 Wednesday 7:30 p.m. 9:00 p.m. OFFICIAL OPENING CEREMONIES KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: KAMAU BRATHWAITE Thursday 9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. A-1 Narratives and Counter-Narratives of the Self Chair: Parekh Pushpa, Spelman College Chantal James, Spelman College Coming of Age in the Caribbean Priscilla Danielle Nellis, Spelman College Dominican Women in Literature Miltonette Craig, Spelman College The poetry of Louise Bennett Thursday 9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. A-2 Del Siglo XVIII al XXI

8 Moredadora: Vicki Román-Lagunas, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago Mary Ann Gosser Esquilín, Harriet L.Wilkes Honors College Monstruos, animales y bestias: una menagerie caribeña Joan F. Torres-Pou, Florida International University Aspectos de la novela histórica decimonónica del Caribe colombiano Rick Mc Callister, Delawere State University Polivocalidad en_concierto barrocho de Alejo Carpentier JUEVES 9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. A-3 Etica, estética, y política: La escritora caribeña ante el Nuevo milenio II Moredadora: Carmen Gómez Fiegl, University of Vienna, Austria. Carmen Gómez Fiegl, University of Vienna, Austria Sirena Selena vestida de pena: Una novela de búsqueda y un bolero Gemma Delicado, University of Chicago El viaje interior en La hija del embajador de Zoé Valdés Denise Bouras, University of Chicago Voices in crisis: The Definition of family in Cristina García Enrique Herrera, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania La soledad circular en La segunda Hija de Olga Nolla Thursday 10:45 a.m. 12:15 p.m. B-1 Self, Community and the Locus of Agency. Chair: Jeffrey Barnett, Washington and Lee University Lorenzo FloRian Paula Smith Allen, Southeastern Oklahoma State University

9 Christophene as Baubo in Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea Franciso Soto, College of Staten Island Queer Parody and Intertextuality: A Postmodern Reading of Reinaldo Arenas s El cometa Halley Malinda Williams, University of Denver In the Shadow of Trujillo: Race and Colorism in Alvarez s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and Diaz s Drown Kim Dismont Robinson, University of the Virgin Islands Re-Visiting, Re-Visioning, Re-Membering Jonestown JUEVES 10:45 a.m. 12:15 p.m B-2 Césaire, Saint-John Perse, Léon-Gontran Damas Moredadora: Gilles Glacet, Emory University, Atlanta William Wallenberg, Bethune-CooKman College Aimé Césaire: L Analyse littéraire du Cahier d un retour au pays natal Aymeric Glacet, The University of the South L Insularité de Saint-John Perse Richard Serrano, Rutgers University Léon-Gontran Damas and the Transformation of Anglophone Black Poetics JUEVES 10:45 a.m. 12:15 p.m. B-3 Espacios: Critica Cultural y Social Moredador: Candide Carrasco,Nazareth College of Rochester, New York Heidi Ann García, Arizona State University Geografías opresivas/geografía liberadora en Geographies of Home de Loida Maritza Pérez Ana M. Echeverría-Morales, Salem State College

10 De casas, de-limitaciones y con-fusiones: Una lectura de la casa como emblema de la burguesía puertorriqueña en la obra de Olga Nolla y Rosario Ferré Begoña Toral, Dickinson College Desde la distancia y la imaginación: excavando los cimientos de la cultura cubana en The Agüero Sisters de Cristina García Mirna Trauger, Muhlenberg College Chismes y rumores como herramientas de resistencia y crítica en En el tiempo de las mariposas de Julia Álvarez Solo Jueves Begoña Thursday 10:45 12:15 B-4 SPECIAL UNDERGRADUATE PANEL ON KAMAU BRATHWAITE Chair: Emily Williams, Morehouse College Daryl Hannah, Morehouse College The Effectiveness of Word Use and Word Imagery in Caribbean Poetry, with Emphasis on Kamau Brathwaite s Words Need Love Too Benjamín Jones, Morehouse College Kamau Brathwaite s Voices in Rites of Pasage Kendrick Jonson, Morehouse College Kamau Brathwaite s Nation Language : The Illumination of History in Rites of Passage THURSDAY 12:30 2:00 LUNCH Invited Speaker: Elizabeth Nunez

11 Thursday 2:15 P.M. 3:45 P.M. C-I Music Mas(k) and Verbal Song Chair: Vincent O. Cooper, University of the Virgin Islands Wanda Mills, Dance Hall Gaan Latino: Contextualizing the Insurgency of Puerto Rico s Raggaeton Music Shelley Worrell The Historical Development and Evolution of Soca Music in Trinidad and Tobago Vincent O. Cooper, UVI The Lying Hero, Jamesie and Blind waters: Performance and Literary Document. Dominique Cyrille, The Quadrille Dance in Martinique and the Virgin Islands C-2 JUEVES 2:00 p.m. 3:30 p.m. Rèsistance et globalité Moredadora: Danielle Raquidell, University of South Carolina Upstate Carl L. Garrott, Virginia State University The Road to Success. Dany Laferrière s Cette grenade dans la main du jeune Nègre est-elle une arme ou un fruit? Natalie Melas, Cornell University Glissant and the Aesthetics of Globality Frances J. Santiago Torres, Universidad de Puerto Rico Théorie postcoloniale dans la Caraïbe Francophone: Une esthétique de la résistance ESPAÑOL

12 Jueves 2:00 p.m. 3:30 p.m. C-3 Juegos estéticos y formales en la narrativa Moredador: Rick Mc Callister, Delaware State University Elena Grau-Llevera, University of Miami Cualquier miércoles soy tuya de Mayra Santos Febres: una novela de artista Carlos Narváez, Rutgers University En el no-territorio de la Celeridad: Guillermo Cabrera-Infante, Rosario Ferré y Luis Rafael Sánchez Mónica Ayala Martínez, Denison University Juegos y transgresiones de género en El Monte de Venus de Mercedes Santos Moray Manuel Martínez, Ohio Dominican University The representation of space in Leonardo Padura s La novela de mi vida and Zoé Valdés Te di mi vida entera Thursday 4:00 5:30 D-1 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION Paying Tribute to and through the Caribbean: Looking at the Past Through the Eyes of the Present Moderator: Dr. Patricia Harkins-Pierre, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas Discussants: Dr. Eddie Donoghue, playwright and historian from Monserrat Ms. Josephine Lindquist, actress and radio personality Ms. Linda Wymer, Assistant Professor of English

13 Thursday 4:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m. D-2 The Caribbean and The African Diaspora Chair: Chester J. Fontenot, Jr., Mercer University Tara Green, Northern Arizona University Talking on Water: The Significance of Water and Storytelling in Edwidge Danticat and Paule Marshall. Abeni El-Amin, Mercer University Post-Colonialist Theory and the Impact of Walter Rodney on Social Movements in the Caribbean Chester J. Fontenot, Jr., Mercer University Rene Maran s Batouala, the Caribbean, and the African Diaspora Thursday 4:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m. D-3 Reconstituting the Matrix of Caribbean Identity Chair: Anthony Dahl, Spelman College Rosalie Kiah, Norfolk State University Existentialism as a Theme in Orlando Patterson s The Children of Sisyphus Viktor Osinubi, Clark Atlanta University The Alienation of Identiy in the Caribbean Psyche: A Post colonial Exegegis of Kamau Braithwaite s Poetry Shin Yamamoto, Yokkaichi University Swaying in the Heat of Island: From Ambivalence to Dynamism Eva M. Thompson, Kennesaw State University The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself (1831)

14 THURSDAY 7:30 P.M.- 9:00 P.M. An Evening WITH THE WRITERS OF ST. CROIX Friday November 5, :00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. A-1 Geo-cultural and Intertextual Junctures in the works of Maryse Conde and Myriam Warner-Vieyra and Esmeralda Santiago Chair: Geneva Cobb More, University of Wisconsin Francoise Pfaff, Howard University Guadeloupe-on-the-Seine : Paris in Works by Myria Warner-Vieyra and Gisele Pineau. Carine Mardorossian, SUNY Buffalo Joan Marx, Muhlenberg College The Politics of Postcolonialism in Esmeralda Santiago s El sueno de America Linda M. Clemente, Ripon College Hello fantasy, Good-bye sanity: Maryse Conde s Celanire cou-coupe Friday 9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. A-2 SPECIAL UNDERGRADUATE PANEL The Reconstruction of Deconstruction of Borders and Identities: Engaging the Poetics and

15 Prolemics of Braithwaite and Danticat Chair: Bob Bray, Ininois Wesleyan University Presenters Chelsey Hillyer, Illinois Wesleyan University Omen of Despair: Brathwaite s Call for Pan-Caribbean Unity in Dream Haiti Katie Coleman, Illinois Wesleyan University Border Theory and Testimonio: Danticat s Corporeal Defiance Irvin Hunt, Morehouse College The Poetics of Resistance in Kamau Brathwaite s The Arrivants A-3 VIERNES 9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. Identidad, utopía, postcolonialismo Moredador: Joan F. Torres-Pou, Florida Internacional University, Miami Carmen Torres-Robles, Purdue University Calumet Boricuas en Hawaii: Identidad y expresión Joan F. Marx, Muhlenberg College The Politics of Postcolonialism in Esmeralda Santiago s El sueño de Amèrica Gloria d a Cunha, Morehouse College El pensamiento utópico de Luisa Capetillo (Puerto Rico ) Friday 10:45 a.m. 12:15 p.m.

16 B-I Chair: Bridges and Charisma: Describing the Mother-Daughter Relationship Daniel Black, Clark Atlanta University Presenters Leah Creque, Morehouse College Mother Africa s Caribbean Daughters: Elizabeth Nunez s Disporic Vision LaJuan Simpson, Morehouse College Transforming Places into Spaces: Women and Power in Telcene Turner s Woman Take Two Atsuko Furomoto Portraits of Mothers in Women Writers Works Fatima Mujcinovic, Westminster College Getting Home Alive: Creating a Feminist Cross-National Consciousness Friday 10:45 a.m. 12:15 p.m. B-2 The Necessary Problematics of Postcolonial Discarsse Chair: Charles Coleman, New York Collegy, CUNY Marvin Gladney, University of Denver A Glissantian Reading of Junot Diaz s Drown: Barbara Wilcots, University of Denver What Language Do You Love In?: Liminality, Sexuality, and Language in Caribbean Women s Fiction Carol Marsh-Lockett, Georgia State University Angela Barry s ENDANGERED SPECIES: Colonial Writing in a Postcolonial World Rawle Frederick, Bermuda College Division and separation within the African diaspora through the colonial ethic: An examination of three stories in Anglea Barry s Endangered Species

17 VIERNES 10:45 p.m. 12:15 p.m. B-3 Medio ambiente, cuerpo Moredadora: Elena Grau-Lleveria, University of Miami Becky Boling, Carleton College Zombies, Lovers, and Frogs: Mayra Montero s Tú, la oscuridad Rubén L. Gómez Lara, Canisius Collage Efectos del medio ambiente en El Bello destructor Ivette Guzmán, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania Escribir o parir?: madres en busca del control absoluto del cuerpo y el texto Friday 10:45 a.m. 12:15 p.m. B-4 Our Voices in Literary and Cultural Practices: Hip Hop, Conde and Haitian Creole Songs Chair: Jon A. Yasin, Bergen Community College Charles Coleman, York College The City University of New York Voicing in Maryse Conde s Moi, Tituba sorciere (I, Tituba, Witch of Salem) Edwidge Bryant, University of North Florida Using Haitian Oral Traditions while Progressing Towards the Written Edwidge Bryant Jon A. Yasin, Bergen Community College Hip Hop s Oral Tradition Flirting With The Written 12:30 2:00 LUNCH INVITED SPEAKER: MICHAEL GILKES

18 Friday 2:15 A.M. 3:45 P.M. C-I Reconfiguring and Restoring Memory: The Middle Passage and Beyond Chair: Kately Demougeot, Simone A. James Alexander, Seton Hall University Revisiting History: Memory and Re/Membering in Edwide Danicat s Fiction Roger Reeves, Texas A&M University Troping the Middle Passage Geta LeSeur-Brown, University of Arizona Dandicat s The Farming of Bones 4 2:15 p.m. 3:45:p.m. C-2 SPECIAL PANEL In Their Own Voices: Writers reading and discussing their own works Chair: Rawle Frederick, Bermuda College Ron Shavers, University of Illinois The Code Switchers: A Work in Progress Ashli Wilson, Spelman College A Creative Response to Sylvia, the Bare-foot Dreamer in Earl Lovelace s The Dragon Can t Dance. Angela Barry, Independent Writer/Scholar Autobiography, Fiction and the Writing Life

19 VIERNES 2:00 p.m. 3:30 p.m. C 3 Sur le caractère de la littérature antillaise Moredador: William Wallenberg, Bethune-CooKman College, Florida Gilles Glacet, Emory University Prendre la parole, réinventer I écriture Cardine Mardorossian, State University of New York-Buffalo University Racial Antics in Maryse Conde s Fiction Hafid Gafaïti, Texas Tech University L emergence D un champ Litteraire Caraïbe Friday 4:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m. D-I ReClaiming and Reengineering Caribbean Psychospiritual Spaces Chair: Carol Marsh-Lockett, Georgia State University Hillary Heather Olsen, University of Denver The Purity of Creolized Spirituality in Earl Lovelace s The Wine of Astonishment and in Paule Marshall s Praisesong for the Widow Mare Muneal, Emory University The Chosen Words, the Crafty Writer: Applying the Concept of Timelessness to Paule Marshall s Praisesong for the Widow Geneva Cobb Moore, University of Wisconsin The Immigrant Experience in New York: A comparative Analysis of Paula Marshall s Brown Girl, Brownstones and Nazi Yezierska s The BreadGivers Daniel Black, Clark Atlanta University I Look to the [Bourne]hills From Whence Cometh My Help: Psychoculural Implications of Paule Marshall s The Chosen Place, the Timeless People

20 Friday 4:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m. D-2 Rereading Haiti Narration Historiography Chair: Kim Dismont Robinson, University of the Virgin Islands Kristen Mahlis, California State University History and Memory in the Matter of Haiti Robert Bray, Illinois Wesleyan University The Matter of Haiti 20th Century Fictions of Toussanit Louverture and the Haitian Revolution Pushpa Parekh, Spelman College Beat Back the Darkness : Haitian Women s Testimonials and Narratives of Resistance Viernes 4:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m. D-3 SPECIAL SESSION Femi Euba, Louisiana State University Presentation et commentaire d un film basé sur Maryse Condé The tropical Breeze Hotel FRIDAY 7:30 P.M. 9:30 P.M. CULTURAL EXTRAVAGANZA