10TH INTERNATIONAL

AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS

OF COLOR CONFERENCE

 

November 21-23, 2004

Sheraton Inner Harbor

Baltimore, MD

 

Reclaiming the Past, Embracing the Future:
American Women Writers of Color and Literary Traditions

 

CONFERENCE AGENDA

Sunday, November 21

 

7:30-9:15 a.m., Second Floor Coat Room

Registration: The registration table will be open from 7:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Sunday, from 7:30-noon and 1:30-4 p.m. on Monday and from 7:30-11 a.m. on Tuesday.

 

7:30-9:30 a.m. Coffee & Pastries and Book Exhibit

Loch Raven Room

 

9:30-9:45 a.m.

Welcome and Opening Remarks, Chesapeake I

 

9:45 – Noon     Plenary Session, Chesapeake I

Plenary Session:  “Reclaiming the Past, Embracing the Future”

Panelists:          Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin, Columbia University, Director, Institute for Research in African American Studies; ed., with Brent Edwards and Robert O’Meally, Uptown Conversations: The New Jazz Studies (Columbia UP, 2004); If You Can’t be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday (Free P, 2001); ed., with Cheryl Fish, Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African American Travel Writing (Beacon 1998); editor, Beloved Sisters and Living Friends: Letters from Addie Brown and Rebecca Prinus (Knopf, 1999); Who Set you Flowin’: The African Migration Narrative (Oxford, 1995).

 

Dr. Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, University of California, Santa Barbara; Joss and Gold (Feminist P. and Times Books Intl., 2001); What the Fortune Teller Didn’t Say  (West End P, 1998);  Two Dreams: Short Stories (Feminist P, 1997); Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian American Memoir of Homelands (Feminist P, 1996); Life’s Mysteries: The Best of Shirley Lim (Times Books Intl., 1995); Monsoon History: Selected Poems (Skoob Pacifica, 1994); Modern Secrets: New and Selected Poems (Dangaroo P, 1989); ed., with Mayumi Tsutakawa and Margarita Donnelly, The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women’s Anthology (Calyx, 1989).

 

Dr. Betty Louise Bell, University of Michigan, Director of Native American Studies Program, 1994-2001; Reading Red: Early Native American Women Writers and the Post-Reservation Home, 1883-1927 (forthcoming Duke UP’s Series on American Culture, 2005); Faces in the Moon (Oklahoma UP, 1993); author of essays on Native American literature, cultural studies and gender.

 

Dr. Tey Diana Rebolledo, University of New Mexico, Regents Professor and Chair, Department Spanish and Portuguese; The Chronicles of Panchita Villa y Otros Disparates: Essays on Latina/Chicana Literature and Criticism (forthcoming, U. of Texas P, 2005); ed., with Teresa M. Márquez , Women’s Tales from the New Mexico WPA: La Diabla a pie (Arte Público P, 2000);  Women Singing in the Snow: A Cultural Analysis of Chicana Literature (U of Arizona P, 1995); ed., with Eliana Rivero, Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature (U of Arizona P, 1993); ed., Nuestras Mujeres. Hispanas in New Mexico, Their Images and Their Lives, 1582-1992 (El Norte, 1992); ed., with Erlinda Gonzales-Berry and Teresa Márquez, Las Mujeres Hablan: An Anthology of Nuevo Mexicana Writers (El Norte, 1988).

 

Noon – 1:30 p.m.        

Lunch (on your own)

 

1:30-3 p.m.

Session I

 

3-3:15 p.m.

Light Refreshments

Loch Raven Room

 

3:15-4:45 p.m.

Session II

 

5-6 p.m.

Conference Reception, Chesapeake II

 

8 p.m., Harborview Ballroom:  Melba Joyce Boyd, author of: Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and Broadside Press (Columbia UP, 2003); The Province of Literary Cats (Past Tents P, 2002); ed., with M. L. Liebler, Abandon Automobile: Detroit Poetry 2001 (Wayne State UP, 2001), Letters to Che (Ridgeway P, 1996); Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper (1825-1911) (Wayne State UP, 1994), The Inventory of Black Roses (Past Tents P, 1989), Lied fur Maya/Song for Maya (Verlag P, 1989), Thirteen Frozen Flamingoes (Universitat Bremen, 1984), Song for Maya (Broadside P and Detroit River P, 1983), Cat Eyes and Dead Wood (Fallen Angel P, 1978); over 20 articles on African American studies and literature; documentary film, The Black Unicorn: Dudley Randall and Broadside Press; co-editor, African American Life Series, Wayne State University Press. She is also Professor and Chair of the Department of Africana Studies at Wayne State University

 

Monday, November 22

 

7:45-9:00 a.m.

Coffee and Pastries; Book Exhibit

Loch Raven Room

 

8:45 – 10:15 a.m.

Session III

 

10:15-10:30 a.m.

Coffee and Book Exhibit

Loch Raven Room

 

10:30 – Noon

Session IV

 

Noon-1:30 p.m.

Luncheon and Sarah E. Wright Graduate Paper Award

Chesapeake I

 

1:45-3:15 p.m.                                                                                                                        

Session V

 

3:15-3:30 p.m.

Light Refreshments and Book Exhibit

Loch Raven Room

 

3:30-5:00 p.m.

Session VI

 

7:30 p.m.          Harborview Ballroom: Samina Ali, author of Madras on Rainy Days (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004), proclaimed as the first novel by an Indian American Muslim woman. Ali was born in Hyderabad, India, and grew up in both India and the United States. She earned an M.F.A. from the University of Oregon.

 

Tuesday, November 23

 

8-8:45 a.m.

Coffee and Pastries; Book Exhibit

Loch Raven Room

 

8:45-10:15 a.m.

Session VII

 

10:15-10:30 a.m.

Coffee and Book Exhibit

Loch Raven Room

 

10:30-Noon

Session VIII

 

Noon

Closing remarks

Harborview II

 

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

 

Sunday, November 21

7:30--9:15 a.m.

 

Coffee and Pastries; Book Exhibit Room

Loch Raven Room

 

Registration, Second Floor Coat Room

9:30-9:45 a.m.

Opening Remarks, Chesapeake I

 

9:45-Noon, Chesapeake I

Plenary Session: “Reclaiming the Past, Embracing the Future”

 

Panelists:          Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin, Columbia University

                        Dr. Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, University of California, Santa Barbara

                        Dr. Betty Louise Bell, University of Michigan

                        Dr. Tey Diana Rebolledo, University of New Mexico

 

Noon-1:30 p.m. Lunch on your own 1:30-3 p.m.

 

Session I

 

Session I-A     How We Tell It: Women’s Storytelling, Harborview Ballroom

Chair:  Laurie J. Cannady, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

  1. “Long Live the Real Roxanne! Lamenting the Raw, Wry Wit of Female Lyricists,” Jennifer Young, Hope College.
  2. “‘Out-Speaking’ Elizabeth (1766-1866), First African American Woman Evangelist,” Mary De Jong, Penn State, Altoona.
  3. “‘All of Me’: Examining the Love Stories, Love Lives, and Love Songs of Black Women,” Stephanie Shonekan, Columbia College Chicago.
  4. “A Voice of Her Own: Speech and Language in Maryse Condé’s I, Tituba Black Witch of Salem,” Kalenda Eaton, Barry University.

 

Session I-B     Relationships: Morrison, hooks, Bell and Feelings, Severn I

Chair:   Venetria Patton, Purdue University

  1. “An Ethics of Love: Toni Morrison and bell hooks,” Nancy Peterson, Purdue University.
  2. “Toni Morrison and Derrick Bell: “We Have Made Progress in Everything Yet Nothing Has Changed,” Karen Gaffney, Raritan Valley Community College.
  3. “Tom Feelings’ Middle Passage Images as a Tool for Teaching Beloved,” Sarah Wyman-Cleaveland, SUNY, New Paltz.

 

Session I-C     Translations Literal, Generational, Cultural, Camden I

Chair:   Prajna Parasher, Chatham College

  1. “Toni Morrison’s Love: Translation as Dialogue,” Irena Percinkova-Patton, University of Washington.
  2. “The Use of Cross-generational and Cross-cultural Communication Variants as Measurements and Landmarks of ‘Growth’ in Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo,” Ramón Guerra, University of Nebraska.
  3. “Eye Toward Survival: Feminist Protection in Pearl Cleage’s Flyin’ West, Late Bus to Mecca, and Hospice,” Brandon Hutchinson, Southern Connecticut State University.
  4. “Pattern, Metaphor, and Ethnicity in the Short Story Sequence: Louise Erdrich’s Beet Queen,” Zenobia Mistri, Purdue University, Calumet.

 

Session I-D     Race, Racism and Ethnicity: Constructions in Writing and Film, Camden II

Chair:   Guy Mark Foster, University of California, Santa Barbara

  1. “Seeing the Difference: Recent Latina Writing and the Construction of Ethnicity,” Marta Caminero-Santangelo, University of Kansas.
  2. “Beyond Film Theory: Spectatorship and the Works of African American Women Screenplay Writers,” Roxana Walker-Canton, Connecticut College.
  3. “Who’s Hu? And Where is the Asian American Women’s Comic Tradition in Fiction?” Margaret Stetz, University of Delaware.
  4. “Rattlebone: The Encountered Whole,” Linda McMillian, Purdue University, Calumet.

 

3:-3:15 p.m.

Light Refreshments; Book Exhibit

Loch Raven Room

 

3:30-5 p.m.

Session II

 

Session II-A: Poetics, Revisions and Ethics of Sex and Gender, Harborview Ballroom

Chair:  Tina Chen, Vanderbilt University

  1. “‘Without Name’: Gender and Sexuality in the Love Poetry of Pauli Murray,” Christina Bucher, Berry College.
  2. “Rewriting Sexual Mores: Jacobs’ Revision of Gender in Antebellum North Carolina,” Nicole Willey, Kent State University, Tuscarawas.
  3. “Not Guilty as Charged: An Examination of Homophobia Among African Americans,” Margaret Kent Bass, St. Lawrence University.
  4. “’Women had to be Smart’: Black Feminist Subjectivity in Dorothy West’s The Living is Easy,” Joy Myree-Mainor, Morgan State University.

 

Session II-B: Rehistory, Rememory, Revision, Severn I

Chair:   Dean Kotlowski, Salisbury University

  1. “Rehistoricizing Southern Mythology in Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone,” Kristina Pope Key, St. Andrews Presbyterian College.
  2. “‘The Now Less Shadowy Elizabeth Keckley’: A Historical Survey of an Author and Her Book,” Rebecca Entel, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
  3. “Angels in the Hills: Modernist Historiography and Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills, Kelly Wagers, SUNY, Buffalo.
  4. “The Residuals of History in the Novels of Toni Morrison,” Betty Hart, University of Southern Indiana.

 

Session II-C: Home (Be)comings, Camden I

Chair:   Susan Muaddi Darraj, Hartford Community College

  1. “Revisiting ‘Home’ and Diasporic/Ethnic/Sexual Identity in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple,” Daphne Yuyen Liu, National Chaiyi University, Taiwan.
  2. “Coming Home: Disrupting Margins and Contesting Sacred Spaces to Recover Identity,” Jennie Walker Wollenweber, The George Washington University.
  3. “‘Unbecoming, a desperate homesickness/ even at home’: Fierce Consummations in the Poetry of Kimiko Hahn,” Mihaela Moscaliuc, University of Maryland, College Park
  4. “Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘Home Cooking’: Indian Food, Nostalgia and Identity,” Heidi Tiedemann Darroch, University College, University of Toronto.

 

Session II-D:  “Hieroglyphics of Commodity”: A film presentation by Prajna Parasher and Sandy Sterner, Chatham College, Camden II

An Indian mother brings her American son “home;” the ubiquitous presence of Pepsi becomes a study of the personal dislocations embedded in multinational economics.

 

5-6 p.m.  Chesapeake II

Conference Reception

 

8 p.m.  Harborview Ballroom

Melba Boyd, reading from her collections of poetry and discussing her biography of Baltimore native Francis E. Harper.

 

Monday, November 22

 

8:00-8:45

Coffee and Pastries; Book Exhibit

Loch Raven Room

 

8:45-10:15

Session III

 

Session III-A: Latina/Chicana Constructions in an Emerging World, Harborview Ballroom

Chair:        Marta Caminero-Santangelo, University of Kansas

1.                  “‘Healthy Lies’: Deconstructing Mexican-American Culture and Social Realism in Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo,” Emily Welch, University of Illinois, Springfield.

2.                  “‘Darkness, my night’: The Philosophical Challenge of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Aesthetics of the Shadow,” María DeGuzmán, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

3.                  “Rosario Ferré’s Four Stories Text: Feminist Interventions and Racial Stratification in The House on the Lagoon,” Lorna Perez, SUNY, Buffalo.

 

Session III-B: What’s the Use of History: Women’s Revisions, Severn I

Chair:         Mary De Jong, Penn State, Altoona

1.                  “Teaching Antebellum History and Literature through the Journal of Charlotte Forten Grimke,” Lucinda Damon-Bach, Salem State College.

2.                  “Black Women Writers’ Embrace of Exodus to Transgress 19th Century Domestic Space,” Rhondda Thomas, University of Maryland, College Park.

3.                  “‘It smoked and glowed there still’: African American Women (re)Writing Race Riots,” Julie Cary Nerad, Morgan State University.

4.                  “Ancestral Memory and Migration in Song of Solomon,” Venetria Patton, Purdue University.

Session III-C: Border Crossings, Genre Violations, Camden I

Chair:   Nancy Peterson, Purdue University

  1. “Toni Morrison’s Paradise and the Crime Fiction Genre,” David Magill, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown.
  2. “Coloring within the Margins: Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson and African-American Women Science Fiction Writers,” Erin Gentry, Duke University.
  3. “The Bondswoman’s Narrative: Gothicizing the Slave,” Maisha Wester, University of Florida.
  4. “Genre and Self in The Bondswoman’s Narrative,” Stephanie Li, Cornell University.

 

Session III-D: Hybridity and Identity: Performing Transgression, Camden II

Chair:   Nancy-Elizabeth Fitch, College of New Rochelle

  1. “Interpretation of Names: Ties Between Names, Cultural Dislocation and Search for Identity in Jhumpa Lahirir’s The Namesake,” Sophia Mitra, Raritan Valley Community College.
  2. “’The Secrets of Crossing’: Hybrid Identity in Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge,”

Marci Carrasquillo, University of Oregon.

  1. “Assuming Identity: Strategies of Indeterminacy in Nella Larsen’s Passing,” Sophie Blanch, University of Warwick, Coventry UK.
  2. “‘Soy Nadie’: Cultural Schizophrenia and Puerto Rican Identity in Judith Ortiz Cofer’s Works,” Kara Morillo, SUNY, Buffalo.

 

10:15-10:30 a.m.

Coffee and Book Exhibit

Loch Raven Room

 

10:30-Noon

Session IV

 

Session IV-A: Transnationalism and Globalism, Harborview Ballroom

Chair:   Sabeira Latorre, Illinois Wesleyan University

  1. “Transnationalism and Its Discontents: Sexual Transgression and Self-Possession in Samini Ali’s Madras on Rainy Days and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane,” Summer Pervez, University of Ottawa.
  2. “Ruth Ozaki’s Cosmofeminism,” Shameem Black, Stanford University.
  3. “Bad Relationships and Bad Faith: Old Problems in Lahiri’s New World,” Erik Grayson, Binghamton University.

 

Session IV-B: Octavia Butler’s Kindred: The 25th Anniversary of Its Publication, Severn I

Chair:       Eva Tettenborn, New York Institute of Technology

1.                  “The Interpenetration of Past and Present in Octavia Butler’s Kindred,” Veronica Browning, University of Washington.

2.                  “Duel Effects of Slavery on American Culture in Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred,” Linda White, LeMoyne-Owen College.

3.                  “How a Black Woman Makes (Writes) Love to a White Man: Subversive Narrative Strategies of Desire in Octavia Butler’s Kindred,” Guy Mark Foster, University of California, Santa Barbara.

 

Session IV-C: Trauma: Culture and the Unspeakable, Camden I

Chair:   Nick Melczarek, Salisbury University

  1. “Biculturation and Trauma in Garcia’s The Aguero Sisters,” Bethany Aery, SUNY, Albany.
  2. “Incest, Silence and Recovery in African American Women’s Literature,” Shelia Collins, University of Kentucky.
  3. “Re-Defining Trauma and Agency in Dessa Rose,” Nandini Dhar, University of Oregon.
  4. “Mama in the Black Atlantic Wata,” Sue Houchins, Bates College.

 

Session IV-D: Black Women Writers Revising Cultural and Literary Ideologies, Camden II

Chair:         Maisha Wester, University of Florida

1.                  “The Crazy Creole: Michelle Cliff’s Genealogy of White Women ‘Going Native,’” Kelly Josephs, Rutgers University.

2.                  “A National Allegory: Suzan-Lori Park’s Topdog/Underdog,” Soyica Diggs, Rutgers University.

3.                  “Traveling Through Fran Ross’s Oreo: No Ordinary Cookie,” Shane Trudell, Florida Community College, Jacksonville.

4.                  “A Critical Look at the Work of Dorothy Sterling and The Women and Issues Profiled in Her Oral Documentary History Collections,” K. Wise Whitehead, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

 

Noon-1:30 p.m. Chesapeake I

Conference Luncheon and Sarah E. Wright Best Graduate Paper Award

 

1:45-3:15 p.m.

Session V

 

Session V-A: Writing Themselves: Women of Color Disrupting(ive) Narratives, Harborview Ballroom

Chair:        Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw, University of Southern Indiana

1.                  “(Re)Narrative Resistance: The Political Writings of Zitkala-Sa,” Elizabeth Wilkinson, University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

2.                  “’But what about the colored woman?’: Re-Appropriation of the Religious Narrative as a Means to Sexual Redemption,” Michelle Johnson, University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

3.                  “Asian American Women Writers: Reshaping the Immigrant, Resisting the Narrative,” Janet White, University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

4.                   “Memoir Writing of Black Women,” Stephanie Ramsey, City College of New York.

 

Session V-B is cancelled

 

Session V-C: Hybridity and Identity: Personal Redefinitions, Camden I

Chair:   Erin Gentry, Duke University

  1. “Sentimental Mediation and S. Alice Callahan’s Wynema,” Janet Dean, Bryant College.
  2. “New Turns in the Diaspora: Jamaica Kincaid’s Mr. Potter,” Aparajita Sagar, Purdue University.
  3. “Lorde’s Zami: (De)Constructing Identity,” Amy Parziale, University of Colorado.
  4. “Flower Imagery and Floral Representations in the Novels of Edwidge Danticat and Jamaica Kincaid,” Simone A. James Alexander, Seton Hall University.

 

 

Session V-D: “Freedom Road”: A Film Presentation by Lorna Ann Johnson,

The College of New Jersey, Camden II

A portrait of women imprisoned at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility who, through studies of autobiography, have learned the value of writing and sharing their life stories.

 

 

3:15-3:30 p.m.

Light Refreshments and Book Exhibit

Loch Raven Room

 

3:30-5 p.m.

Session VI

 

Session VI-A: Healing Bodies, Healing Selves, Harborview Ballroom

Chair:        Erik Grayson, Binghamton University

1.                  “The Prosthetic Tongue: Hunger, Taste and Desire in the War Poetry of Myung Mi Kim,” Nicholas Powers, City College of New York.

2.                  “The Mutilated Woman in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine” Kanchanakesi Warnapala, Michigan State University.

3.                  “The Paradox of Water: Poisoning and Healing in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms,” Judith Anderson Morris, College of Charleston.

4.                  “’Powers from the deep’: (Re)membering Black Female Servitude in the Quest for Healing in Bambara’s The Salt Eaters,” Helane Adams, Miami University.

 

Session VI-B: Movin’ On Out: Cultural Interplays, Severn I

Chair:         Shameem Black, Yale University

1.                  “Multicultural Tricksterism as a Female Tradition,” Johnnie Stover, Florida Atlantic University.

2.                  “Native Americans, African Americans, and the Space that is America: Indian Presence in the Fiction of Toni Morrison,” Virginia Kennedy, University of Scranton.

3.                  “The Red-Black Center of Alice Walker’s Meridian: Asserting a Cherokee Womanist Sensibility,” Barbara Tracy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

4.                  “Cultural Interplay in Brown Girl, Brownstones: Paule Marshall’s Fleeting References to Non-Barbadians,” Rachel Jablon, University of Maryland, College Park.

 

Session VI-C: Hybridity and Identity: Consolidations, Disruptions, Camden I

Chair:         Marci Carrasquillo, University of Oregon

1.                  “Nella Larsen’s Passing: A Crisis of Identity,” Diana Baldwin, Middle Tennessee State University.

2.                   “The Rupturing Self: Blackness and Identity in the Short Fiction of Jessie Redmon Fauset,” Sharon Moore, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

3.                  “Pauline Hopkins’ Ethnic Hybrid Heroine in Winona (1904),” Colleen O’Brien, Furman University.

 

Session VI-D: Not Your Mother’s Mothering, Camden II

Chair: Sheila Collins, University of Kentucky

  1. “The Enemy Mother: Rosario Ferré’s Eccentric Neighborhoods,” Vanessa Kimberly Valdes, Vanderbilt University.
  2. “‘Double Face’ in the Mirror: Exploring Mother-Daughter Dynamics in The Joy Luck Club,” Renae Bruce, Texas Woman’s University.
  3. “Mothering in Octavia Butler’s ‘Bloodchild’” Victoria Carchidi, Independent

Scholar.

  1. “’She Can’t Just Leave Her Kids’: Intensive Mothering and Janet Campbell Hale’s The Jailing of Cecelia Capture,” Rita Jones, University of Northern Colorado.

 

7:30 p.m.         Harborview Ballroom  Samina Ali, reading from her novel, Madras on Rainy Days. 

 

Tuesday, November 23 

 

8-8:45 a.m.

Coffee and Pastries; Book Exhibit

Loch Raven Room

 

8:45-10:15 a.m.

Session VII

 

Session VII-A: Powerplays: Politics, Law and Women of Color, Harborview II

Chair:        Nick Melczarek, Salisbury University

1.                  “Like Enough to Ensure Safety: The Politics of Acceptance or Rejection of the Writings of African American Women Writers in the Middle to Late Nineteenth Century,” Terry Novak, Johnson and Wales University.

2.                  “’If You Give an Inch, (S)He Will Take An Ell’: Precious Jones and the Push for Literacy,” Dolores Sisco, Michigan State University.

3.                  “Screwed to Death: Mary Burrill’s Dramatic Argument for Birth Control,” Pat Young, Western Illinois University.

4.                  “Taste of Power: Feminist Politics of the Black Arts Movement,” Jennifer Ryan, Grinnell College.

 

Session VII-B: Mother Country: Personal and National Relations, Severn I

Chair:         Vanessa Kimberly Valdes, Vanderbilt University

1.                  “Dialogues: Locating Self and Other in Mother-Daughter Relationships,” Indigo K. Bethea, Brown University.

2.                  “Mothers of Color: Partus Sequitur Ventrem and the Birth of African-American Identity,” John Honerkamp, New York University.

3.                  “Of Mothers and Homelands in the Works of Cristina Garcia and Judith Ortiz-Cofer,” Sobeira Latorre, Illinois Wesleyan University.

4.                  “‘This is what our life is’: Motherhood, Submission and Empowerment in Lalita Tademy’s Cane River,” Eva Tettenborn, New York Institute of Technology.

Session VII-C: Orality, Mythology, History: Native American Novels and the

                         Transmission of Culture, Camden I

Chair:  Elizabeth Wilkinson, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

 

  1. “Lines of Memory and Power: The Role of Oral Tradition in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks,” Kate Delaney, Rutgers University.
  2. “’Long Ago the Changing Began’: Genre and Ritual in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony,” Lynn Domina, SUNY, Delhi.
  3. “Journey and Identity in Betty Louise Bell’s Faces in the Moon,” Carla Lee Verderame, West Chester University.
  4. “’The One Who Watches’: Writing Memory as Testimony in Linda Hogan’s Power (1998),” Hsinya Huang, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan.

 

Session VII-D: Crossing the Lines: Race, Racism and Ethnicity, Camden II

Chair:   Chingyen Sawatsky, Siena College

  1. “Coloring Outside of the Lines: Passing and the Legal Fictions of Race,” Robina Khalid, City University of New York Graduate Center.
  2. “The Static of Stereotypes: Racism in Morrison’s ‘Recitatif,’” John Peruggia, University of Delaware.
  3. “Unconventional Narratives: Reaffirming the Authenticity of Black Elite Culture,” Licia Calloway, The Citadel.
  4. “‘A Plea for Color’: The Politics of Nella Larsen,” Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw, University of Southern Indiana.

 

10:15-10:30 a.m.

Coffee and Book Exhibit

Loch Raven Room

 

10:30-Noon

Session VIII

 

Session VIII-A: Embracing Place, Reclaiming Time, Harborview II

Chair:         Janet White, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

1.                  “Negotiating Exiled Identities: Shirley Geok-Lin Lim’s Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands, Chingyen Sawatsky, Siena College.

2.                  “‘She who was cut from home’: Clare Savage’s Journey to Rootedness in Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven,” Stacie McCormick, Raritan Valley Community College.

3.                  “The Reservation, Sex and the City: Louise Erdrich’s The Bingo Palace and the Relocation of Power,” Stephen Lucasi, University of Connecticut.

Session VIII-B: Poetics of Women of Color Becoming, Severn I

Chair:   Aparajita Sagar, Purdue University

  1. “The Stairway to Heaven: The Rise and Fall of Women in Joy Harjo’s Poetry,” Lois Benedict, Lehigh University.
  2. “Marvelous Arithmetics: Claiming the Spiritual Warrior Mission in Audre Lorde’s Late Writing,” Sharon Barnes, The University of Toledo.
  3. “Dreams Deferred, Dreams Exploded: Gwendolyn Brooks’ A Street in Bronzeville and ‘Three Sermons on the Warpland,’” Daniela Kukrechtová, Brandies University.

 

Session VIII-C: Our Bodies, Ourselves: Merging Sexual Violence and the Self in Multicultural Women’s Fiction, Camden I

Chair:         Carol Henderson, University of Delaware

1.                  “Race Gender and Power in Alice Walker’s Meridian,”Terri Amlong, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

2.                  “Love, Sex, Violence: The Dangerous Dissolution of Boundaries in Achy Obejas’s Memory Mambo,” Jessica Labbé, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

3.                  “‘We Murder Who We Were’: Violence and Subjectivity in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine,” Miguel Carrasqueira, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

 

Noon

Closing Remarks, Harborview II