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2002 USACLALS Conference Agenda
Santa Clara University
This conference is co-sponsored by Santa Clara University's Dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences, the Center for Multicultural Learning (Building
Partnerships for Diversity grant), the Provost's Office, and the English
Department, and supported by grants from San Jose State University, the
University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Santa
Cruz, California State University at Fresno, Stanford University, and the
University of San Francisco.
Friday, April 26th
Unless otherwise indicated, all Friday sessions are in Benson Student Center
Time
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Event
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9:00 -
5:00
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Registration
(In
lobby near Benson parlors and entryway to cafeteria)
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11:00 -
Noon
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Executive Committee Meeting
(Parlor A)
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PAPER SESSION I
1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
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A.
Australia and environs
Conference
Room 209
Moderator:
TBA
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Lyn McCredden
(Deakin University, Australia)
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“Tim Winton: A Post-Colonial Reading”
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Wei Hsin Gui
(Wesleyan University)
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“‘Writing the Word REN in Open Air’:
Approaching ‘Chineseness’ in Singaporean Poetry in English”
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Rebecca Weaver-Hightower
(Michigan State University)
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“Cast Away with Tom, Gilligan, and Rudy: The U.S.
Neo-Imperial Island Fantasy”
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Kalyan Chatterjee
(University of Burdwan, India)
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“Innocence and Experience in the new Papua New
Guinea Literature in English”
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B. Narratives of the Americas, I
Conference
Room 21
Moderator:
TBA
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Bridget Kevane
(Montana State University)
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“Rosario Ferré and the Ambiguity of the Puerto
Rican Novel in English”
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Tiffany Magnolia
(Tufts University)
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“Magical Realism: Towards a Theory of Practice”
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Farzin Forooghi
(San Jose State University)
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“Handling the Truth: Questioning Equiano’s
Identity and Resulting Implications”
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Balance Chow
(San Jose State University)
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“Ethnicity as Commonwealth: A Transnational
Perspective on Mayan Drifter, I Rigoberta Menchu, and Mean
Spirit as Narratives of the Americas”
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C.
Creative
Writers Reading
Conference
Room 25
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Makarand
Paranjape
Anju Misra
Kalyan
Chatterjee
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D. Amitav Ghosh
Parlor
B
Moderator: TBA
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Claire Chambers
(Leeds University, UK)
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“Postcolonial Science Fiction: Amitav Ghosh’s The
Calcutta Chromosome”
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Priti Joshi
(University of Puget Sound)
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“Unnerving Cosmopolitanism, Amitav Ghosh’s
Women”
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Frederick Luis Aldama
(University of Colorado)
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“The Postcolonial Double Helix: Rereading the
Family Through Narrative Form in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace”
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PAPER SESSION II
2:45 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
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A.
Pedagogy
Parlor
B
Moderator:
Simone Billings (Santa
Clara University)
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Harveen Sachdeva Mann
(Loyola University Chicago)
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“Multiculturalism and ‘Ethical Negotiation’:
Teaching and Reading Nonwestern Postcolonial Literature and Theory in
the West”
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Robert Courtright
(Catholic University of America)
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“Can ‘Postcolonial’ Literature Be Taught?”
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Kanika Batra
(Loyola University Chicago)
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“Sexualizing Postcolonial Pedagogy: Cartographies
of Same-Sex Desire and English Literary Studies in India”
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Anju Dhadda Misra
(Kanodia College, University of Rajasthan, India)
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“Recovering the Lost Self/Language Through
Contemporizing Traditional Discourses/Epistemes”
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B.
Narratives of the Americas, II
Parlor
E
Moderator:
TBA
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Juliana Chang
(Santa Clara University)
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“Asian American Themes”
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Richard Potter
(Florida Atlantic University)
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“Different Tropes for Different Folks: Metaphors
from the Margin and Symbols of Subversion in Under The Feet Of Jesus”
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Robert Philipson
(Santa Clara University)
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“Harlem Renaissance Postcoloniality”
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C.
Arabic Postcolonialisms
Conference
Room 209
Moderator:
TBA
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Waïl Hassan
(Illinois State University at Normal)
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“Dialogic Translation and Exile in the Work of
Anglophone Arab Women Novelists”
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E. D. Schragg
(San Jose State University)
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“Dis-Orient-ation: Assia Djebar’s Doubly
Dialogic Position in Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade”
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Shaden Tageldin
(University of California at Berkeley)
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“Kindling an Old Flame: The Rise of Egyptian
Anglophonism in Ahdaf Soueif’s Fiction”
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Nabil Boudraa
(Harvard University)
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“Landscape, History, and Identity in Edouard
Glissant, William Faulkner, and Kateb Yacine”
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D.
British “Others”
Conference
Room 21
Moderator:
TBA
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Rob Burton
(California State University at Chico)
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“Kazuo Ishiguro’s Narrative Tracks Across the
Floating World”
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Jaya Hariprasad
(Rice University)
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“The Intersections of Irish and Indian Rebellion
in Finnegans Wake”
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Andrew Shin
(California State University at Los Angeles)
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“Alter/native Cartographies in Michael
Ondaatje’s The English Patient”
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Omendra K. Singh
(Government Girls College, Nathdwara, India)
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“Postcolonial Concern in D.H. Lawrence’s
American Writings”
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E.
Africa
Conference
Room 25
Moderator:
TBA
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Bradley William Buchanan
(Stanford University)
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“The Oedipus Myth in Nigerian Literature”
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Laura Murphy
(Idyllwild Arts Academy)
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“Remedial History: The Effects of the Middle
Passage in Armah’s Fragments”
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Thomas J. Lynn
(Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College)
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“Ill at Ease: Environment and Anxiety in
Independence-Era West African Fiction”
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Ben B. Halm
(Fairfield University)
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“The Narcissism of Terms and Theory, and a
Barrier to ‘the Balance of Stories’: How does Postcolonial or
Commonwealth Figure?”
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Time
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Event
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4:30 -
6:30
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Forum: Abdul Janmohamed and Pal Ahluwalia
(In Benson Center Brass Rail)
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6:30
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Reception
(In Benson Center Brass Rail)
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7:30
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Plenary
session
·
Trinh Minh-Ha, and
·
Bill Ashcroft,
University Of New South Wales, "Post-Colonial Futures:
Post-Colonial Studies In The 21st Century"
In Benson Center Brass Rail
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Saturday, April 27th
Unless otherwise indicated, all Saturday sessions are in the Daly Science
building, and Arts and Science Building
Time
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Event
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8:30 -
4:00
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Registration
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PAPER SESSION III
8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
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A.
Flann O’Brien
Daly
Science 201
Moderator:
Tom Shea
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Mark Quigley
(University of California at Los Angeles)
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“Writing the Postcolonial Life: Myles na
gCopaleen and the Poverty of Postcolonial Autobiography”
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Kersti Tarien
(St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University, UK)
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“Flann O’Brien and John Banville: The
‘Unexpected’ Form and Content of National Identity”
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Lynne Maes
(Ridder, University of California at Santa Cruz)
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“Nationalism and Narrative Process in Flann
O’Brien’s At Swim Two-Birds”
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Tom Shea
(University of Connecticut)
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respondent
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B. The Caribbean, I
Daly
Science 310
Moderator:
TBA
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Craig Smith
(Florida Atlantic University)
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“Kristeva’s Theory of Abjection in Michelle
Cliff’s No Telephone To Heaven”
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Angelique Nixon
(Florida Atlantic University)
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“Violence and Resistance in Michelle Cliff’s No
Telephone To Heaven”
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Johanna X. K. Garvey
(Fairfield University)
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“Queering the Line(s): Caribbean Genealogies in
Contemporary Fiction”
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C. Singaporean Literature panel
Daly
Science 317
Moderator:
Shirley
Geok-Lin
Lim
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Felix
Cheong
Aaron Lee
Alvin Pang
Dave Chua
Grace Chia
Gui Wei
Hsin
The
Singaporean writers’ reading tour is made possible by the National
Arts Council and the Singapore International Foundation.
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D. Politics of Representation, I
Daly
Science 202
Moderator:
TBA
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Keya Majumdar
(Ranchi University, India)
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“We Are Here: Mapping India’s Cultural Identity
in View of the Texts of Ice Candy, Tamas, and Tagorean
Thoughts”
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Anuradha Ramanujan
(University of Delhi/University of Florida)
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“The World, the Text, and the Subaltern: Phoolan
Devi and the Politics of Representation”
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Husne Jahan
(Santa Clara University)
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“Colonial Woes in Post-Colonial Writing: Chitra
Divakaruni’s Immigrant Narratives”
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Daphne Grace
(University of Sussex, UK)
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“Plotting New Territories: Magical Space and
Global Citizenship in Midnight’s Children and The Mistress
Of Spices”
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E. Salman Rushdie
Daly
Science 203
Moderator:
TBA
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Andrew Howe
(University of California, Riverside)
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“An Illusory Homeland: The Immigrant in The
Satanic Verses”
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Lidan Lin
(Indiana University/Purdue University Ft. Wayne)
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“Hybridity and Postcolonial Identity in Salman
Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses”
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Loretta Mijares
(New York University)
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“Indian Writing in English as ‘Bastard
Child’: ‘Eurasians’ in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
and Vikram Chandra’s Red Earth And Pouring Rain”
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Pradyumna S. Chauhan
(Arcadia University)
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“Salman Rushdie and the Diasporic Imagination”
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PAPER SESSION IV
10:15 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
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A.
V.S. Naipaul
Daly
Science 201
Moderator:
TBA
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Kamal Verma
(University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown)
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“History, Biography, and Culture: Colonial and
Postcolonial Engagements in Naipaul’s A House For Mr. Biswas”
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Feroza Jussawalla
(University of New Mexico)
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“V.S. Naipaul, Islam, and 9/11"
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Vishnupriya Sengupta
(Jadavpur University, India)
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“The Dialectics of Homelessness in V. S.
Naipaul’s Works”
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Lucia Olson
(Santa Clara University)
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“Jean Rhys’s Voyage In The Dark, Jamaica
Kincaid’s A Small Place, and V. S. Naipaul’s The Enigma Of
Arrival: The Postcolonial Subject as Tourist, Flaneur/euse, or World
Citizen?”
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B.
South Africa
Daly
Science 310
Moderator:
TBA
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Shane Graham
(Sam Houston State University)
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“Truth and Fiction in Antjie Krog’s Country
Of My Skull”
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Robert McGill
(University of East Anglia, UK)
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“Coetzee’s Disgrace: Representation and
Failure”
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Julie Caimie
(University of Guelph, Canada)
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“Marlene van Niekerk’s Triomf: Poor
Whites and (post)Apartheid”
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Monica Popescu
(University of Pennsylvania)
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“At the Crossroads: Post-Colonial and
Post-Communist Theory”
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C. Singaporean Creative Writers
Reading
Daly
Science 317
Moderator:
Felix Cheong
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Felix
Cheong
Aaron Lee
Alvin Pang
Dave Chua
Grace Chia
Gui Wei
Hsin
The
Singaporean writers’ reading tour is made possible by the National
Arts Council and the Singapore International Foundation.
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D. Imagining India
Daly
Science 202
Moderator:
TBA
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Angus Dunstan
(California State University, Sacramento)
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“Literary Representations of India”
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Sangeeta Mediratta
(Santa Clara University)
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“Mehboob Khan’s film, Mother India,
versus Katherine Mayo’s Imperialist Tract, Mother India:
Figures of the Woman, the Bandit, and the Nation”
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Alan Johnson
(Idaho State University)
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“Provicializing the Commonwealth?: Colonial and
Postcolonial Decay in Kipling, Chaudhuri, Farrell”
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Makarand Paranjape
(Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
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“Postcolonial Prepositions and the Rhetoric of
Vernacular India”
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E. Postcoloniality I
Daly
Science 203
Moderator:
TBA
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Amin Malak
(Grant MacEwan College, Canada)
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“‘What’s in a Name?’: Commonwealth,
Postcolonial, or. . .? The
Risk-Reward of Labels”
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Anjali Gera Roy
(Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India)
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“Postcolonial Moves: Cosmopolitans of a
Borderless Space”
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Abdul-Karim Mustapha
(University of Paris 1)
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“The Invention of Temporality”
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Gavin Keulks
(Western Oregon University)
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“Handcuffed to History: Can Postmodernism and
Postcolonialism Co-Exist?”
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Time
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Event
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Noon -
2:00
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Banquet
Luncheon and Presidential Forum
In Adobe Lodge (Faculty Club)
Presiding: Amritjit Singh (Rhode Island College),
USACLALS President.
 | Sangeeta
Ray (University of Maryland) |
“Conjunction and Disjunctions of
‘Commonwealth’ in Amitav Ghosh’s Glass Palace”
| Biodun
Jeyifo (Cornell University) |
"Modernity From
Below"
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PAPER SESSION V
2:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
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A. Indian Englishes
Daly
Science 201
Moderator:
TBA
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Jaydeep Sarangi
(Seva-Bharati College and Vidyasagar and
Burdwan Universities)
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“Indian English Literature”
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T. Vijay Kumar
(Osmania University, India)
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“No Fixed Address: The ‘Indian’ Novel in
English in the Age of Globalization”
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Kalyan Chatterjee
(University of Burdwan, India)
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“The Effects of an English Literary Education on
the Indian Consciousness”
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Thangam Ravindranathan
(University of Pennsylvania)
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“Strategies of Unreadability in Upamanyu
Chatterjee’s The Mammaries Of The Welfare State”
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B. Oceania
Daly
Science 310
Moderator:
Satendra Nandan
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David Mesher
(San Jose State University)
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“Coming of Rage in Samoa: Sia Figiel’s Where
We Once Belonged”
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Juniper Ellis
(Loyola College Baltimore)
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“Walking on Water in Oceania: Narratives of
Religion and Change”
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Karen Frances Mulholland
(University of New Mexico)
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“Mao’hi writers from French Polynesia”
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Elizabeth DeLoughrey
(Cornell University)
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“Crossing Kala Pani: Caste Adrift in Indo-Fijian
Literature”
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C. Postcoloniality II
Daly
Science 317
Moderator:
Marilyn Edelstein, Santa Clara University
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M. Fonkijom Fusi
(University of Southern California)
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“Power Politics, Globalization, Postcolonialism,
and ‘Commonwealthism’: Terms of Endearment or Confinement”
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Revathi Krishnaswamy
(San Jose State University)
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“Criticism Without Culture: Postcolonialism and
Globalization at the Crossroads”
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Reed Dasenbrock
(University of New Mexico)
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“Why Kazakhstan is not Kenya, Georgia is not
Ghana, Ireland is not India: The Place of the Ship in the Creation of
Post-Colonial Literature”
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Geoffrey Kain
(Embry-Riddle University)
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“Imperialism, Technological Diffusion, and the
Post-Colonial Dilemma”
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D.
Classist,
Racial, and Sexual Outsiders
Daly
Science 202
Moderator:
TBA
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Kelvin Beliele
(University of New Mexico)
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“Leveling the Playing Field: Rebellion and
Compliance in P. Parivaraj’s Shiva And Arun”
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Anjali Arondekar
(University of California at Santa Cruz)
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“Secular Sodometries and the Indian Penal Code”
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Hema Chari
(California State University at Los Angeles)
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“Trafficking and Enacting Class: Situating Class
in Mimicry and Postcolonial Identities”
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Anupama Arora
(Tufts University)
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“Race-ing Hyde: A Reading of Robert Louis
Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde”
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E. Creative Writers Reading
Daly
Science 203
Moderator:
TBA
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| Briar
Wood, a reading of poems written for an installation “Glorified
Scales” staged at the Auckland War Memorial Museum |
| “Makuchi”
(Juliana M. Nfah-Abbenyi, University of Southern Mississippi) |
| A
reading of fiction, Anju Dhadda Misra
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Time
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Event
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4:00 -
5:30
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Plenary session
·
Arif Dirlik
·
Makarand Paranjape
In
Daly Science 207
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5:30
- 6:30
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Reception and Book-signing in DeSaisset Museum
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6:30
– 7:45
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Plenary
session
·
reading by Shirley
Geok-Lin Lim
·
Chitra Divakaruni
In Daly
Science 207
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Sunday, April 28th
Unless otherwise indicated, all Sunday sessions are in the Daly Science
building, and Arts and Science Building
Time
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Event
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8:30 -
9:00
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General Business meeting
(In
Arts and Science Building 135)
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8:30 -
10:30
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Registration
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PAPER SESSION VI
9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
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A.
Asian Americans
Arts
and Science Building 129
Moderator:
Karen Chow, University of Connecticut
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Noelle Williams
(San Jose State University)
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“Becoming Native: Transforming National Space in
Chang-Rae Lee’s Native Speaker”
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Pamela Parker
(Florida Atlantic University)
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“The Search for Self in No-No Boy and Obasan”
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Savena Budhu
(Florida Atlantic University)
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“Negotiating Fictional Space in Nora Keller’s Comfort
Woman”
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Bella Adams
(Keele University, UK)
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“The Question of Essentialism in Amy Tan’s The
Joy Luck Club”
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B. The Caribbean, II
Arts
and Science Building 133
Moderator:
TBA
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Seodial F. H. Deena
(East Carolina University)
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“Placing Caribbean Writers in the Forefront and
Center of Postcolonial Criticism”
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Yogita Goyal
(Brown University)
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“Rethinking Nation and Diaspora: Caryl
Phillips’s Crossing The River”
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Ryan Trimm
(University of Rhode Island)
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“Caryl Phillips’s Cambridge: The Times
of Whiteness, or, Race Between the Postmodern and the Postcolonial”
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Wen Jin
(Northwestern University)
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“‘Reflections Rewritten’: The Singularity of
Identity and Language in Walcott’s Omeros”
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C. Mappings
Arts
and Science Building 134
Moderator:
TBA
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Laura Rice and Karim Hamdy
(Oregon State University)
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“Talking About Tataouine/Tatooine: A Dynamic
Mapping of Cultural Difference”
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Keya Majumdar
(Ranchi University, India)
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“We Are Here: Mapping India’s Cultural Identity
in View of the Texts of Ice Candy, Tamas, and Tagorean
Thoughts”
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Frances B. Singh
(Hostos Community College, Bronx)
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“A Passion for Maps: Encounters with the Heart
Of Darkness”
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Juan Velasco
(Santa Clara University)
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“Writing La Frontera in Border Studies: Gloria E.
Anzaldúa’s Concept of Liminality in Chicana Cultural Production”
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D. Politics of Representation, II
Arts
and Science Building 135
Moderator:
TBA
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Kalpana Wandrekar
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“The Food Factor in Culture Definitions: Anita
Desai’s Fasting, Feasting”
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K. Radha
(University of Kerala)
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“Resisting the Stepmother Tongue?: The Use of
Malayalam in Arundhati Roy’s The God Of Small Things”
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Aparajita Nanda
(Jadavpur University, Calcutta)
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“Extending the Boundaries: A Cross-Cultural
Analysis of the Poetry of Kazi Nazrul Islam and Langston Hughes”
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Kirpal Singh
(Singapore Management University)
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“Post-Colonial Literatures Challenged: The
Ominous
Future”
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Time
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Event
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10:45 -
12:15
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Plenary session
·
Opal Adisa
·
Ginu Kamani
·
Joel Tan
In Arts and Science Building 135
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