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International Conference Caribbean Literature in Curaçao

International Conference Caribbean Literature in Curaçao, November 5-7 2014

Kerido kolega i amantenan di literatura,

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Siman pasá mi a informá boso tokante e International Conference on Caribbean Literature (ICCL) ku ta tuma lugá na Kòrsou otro siman, di djárason 5 te djabièrnè 7 di novèmber na Renaissance Hotel na Kòrsou. Despues di esei diferente persona a puntra mi tokante e suma di $ 400 ku nan a menshoná komo pago pa partisipá na e konferensia. Esaki lo a limitá òf asta ekskluí diferente interesado lokal pa partisipá.

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Pero awor mi tin BON NOTISIA! Danki na dos persona klave (un di Aruba i un di Kòrsou) a logra di deliberá ku e organisadónan di e konferensia i esaki ta e resultado:
Partisipante lokal por hasi uso di un daypass i esei ta kosta $ 50. Esaki ta inkluí lùnch i e programanan di anochi manera presentashon i resepshon. Pero esnan ku ke presensiá e pènelnan SO (SIN KONSUMO!) por asta partisipá grátis. Mi ta kere ta bon pa mèldu personalmente sí via e website.

Athunto mi ta manda boso tambe e programa den WORD komo attachment. I por si akaso bo no por habri esei, mi ta kopi’é tambe aki bou.

Saludo kordial,
Ini Statia

Aki ta sigui e konekshon pa e website di e konferensia kaminda por haña mas informashon.

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http://www.icclconference.org/.

You may attend the events of the conference for a fee of $50 per day. This fee includes the Opening Ceremony, lunches, coffee-breaks, and closing reception.
Rough draft of Official Program
International Conference Caribbean Literature Curaçao 2014

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Curaçao, vlakte van Hato. Foto © Carel de Haseth

WEDNESDAY, November 5, 2014

7:30 a.m.-8:30 a.m. BREAKFAST

8:30 A.M.-9:00 a.m. REGISTRATION

9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. Opening Ceremony
Keynote Speaker: Lucile Berry-Haseth

A – Wednesday
10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Towards a Pan-Caribbean Aesthetic: Artistic Voices from Jamaica, Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti”
Chair: Linda Clemente, Ripon College

Rosalie Kiah, Norfolk State University
“Salient Themes in the Short Stories of Karl Sealy”

Casey Jones, Morehouse College
“At the Crossroads: The Charisma, Christology, and Religious Tensions
of Slaves in Earl Lovlace’s The Dragon Cant Dance and
Jacques Roumain’s Masters of the Dew”

Kately Demougeot
“Recent Developments on the Haitian Literary Scene”

11:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m. COFFEE BREAK

B – Wednesday
11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Envisioning a Poetics of Wholeness
Chair: Dennis Miller Jr., Clayton State University

Eve Walsh Stoddard, St Lawrence University
“Considering Bush”: Ecocriticism, Race, Gender
and Language in Trinidadian Texts”

Laura P. Alonso-Gallo, Barry University
“The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez: A Contemporary Perspective of Hispanic Immigrants in Search of the American Dream”

Patricia Selbert, Pacifica Graduate Institute
“Writing, Immigrtation, and the “Caribglobal”

1:15 p.m.-2:30 p.m. LUNCHEON

 

Speaker:

C – Wednesday
2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Intersecciones: literature, cultura y psicología
Chair: Laura Alonzo Gallo, Barry University

Candide Carrasco, Nazareth College of Rochester
“Sacro Erotismo en la literatura Caribeña”

Mercedes Tasende, Western Michigan University
“La nueva mujer decimonónica en la encrucijada: el caso
de Catalina en Dos mujeres”

Adelso Yanez, University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand)
“La construcción de la ciudad caribeña en la narrativa de Efraim Medina”

4:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m. COFFEE BREAK

D – Wednesday
4:15 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Social, Aesthetic, Emotional and Philosophical Trajectories
Chair: Phillip Bailey, University of Central Arkansas

Steven Sloan, Texas Christian University
“Travel and aesthetics in Ricardo Güiraldes’ Xaimaca (1923)”

Consuela Bennett, Morehouse College
“Writing the Female Body: Pleasure as Pain in Marie-Elena John’s Unbreakable”

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6

A 1 – Thursday
9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Hip Hop, Nation Language and Haiku in Curacao
Chair: Uchenna Vasser, Winston Salem State University

Ananda Lockett, Clark Atlanta University
“The Role of Nation Language in Articulation of Alternative Futures”

Yoko Mitsuishi
“Caribbean Haiku of Wisdom: Comparative Reading of English Translation of Haiku in Papiamentu”

Jon A. Yasin, Bergen Community College
“Hip Hop: A Zeitgeist for Today’s Youth”

A 2 – Thursday
9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Modalities of the Sacred
Chair: Geraldine Skeete, University of The West Indies, St. Augustine

Philip Bailey, University of Central Arkansas
“Césaire’s Seminal Moment: The ‘Spark of Human Sympathy’
in Cahier d’un retour au pays natal”

Barbara Clark, Averett Univerity
“The Sacred Earth: Caribbean Literature in celebration
and defense of the environment”

Linda Clemente, Ripon College
“Literary Representations and Divine Food:
Maryse Condé’s Victoire, les saveurs et les mots”

10:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m. COFFEE BREAK

B – Thursday
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Seminal Moments with Patricia Powell, Manuel Zapata Kerry Young Po, and V.S. Naipaul
Chair: Sally Barbour, Wake Forest University

Carol Marsh-Lockett, Georgia State University
“Forced Migration and Border Crossing: Patricia Powell’s
The Pagoda and Kerry Young’s Pao”

Vijay Maharaj, University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus
“Hinduism and Caribbean Literature: Moments with V.S. Naipaul”

Uchenna Vasser, Winston Salem State University
“Postcolonial Theory and Dialogism: Manual Zapta Olivella’s
A Saint is Born in Chimá”

12:30 p.m.-1:45 p.m. LUNCHEON (in Hotel restaurant)
Speaker:

2:00 TOUR

4:30 p.m. RETURN TO HOTEL

5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. DINNER (on own)

7:15 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

AN EVENING WITH WRITERS OF CURAÇAO WITH NATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHEOLOGICAL MEMORY MANAGEMENT (NAAM)

 

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Curaçao, Plantage San Juan

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7

A 1 – Friday
9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Inscribing the Sacred in Artistic and Sacrilegious Spaces
Chair: Candide Carrasco, Nazareth College of Rochester

Sally Barbour, Wake Forest University
“Violence and Voices in Nourbse Philip’s Zong”

Victoria Bridges Moussaron, Université de Lille 3 and Centre de recherches anglophones CREA Université de Paris 10
“Derek Walcott’s Nobel Prize: Poetry as Votive ‘Bread That Lasts’”

Maria Sairsingh, The College of The Bahamas
“Declaring the Sacred: Examining Spirituality in Caribbean Texts”

A 2 – Friday
9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Subversions and Excursions of the Sacred and Profane
Chair: Eve Walsh Stoddard, St Lawrence University

Bill Clemente, Peru University
“Fido Comes Home”: Bokor Zombies and Corporate Control,
The Living Dead Alive”

Ramon Edwards, Morehouse College
“The Spirit of the Caribbean vs the Value of Material Wealth”

Haldane Chase, The College of The Bahamas
“’Fire and Brimstone Comin’ Outta My Mouth’: Sacred Subversion in the Music of Bahamian Artist, Tony “Exuma the Obeah Man’ McKay

10:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m. COFFEE BREAK

B 1 – Friday
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Surveying Sacred Landscapes
Chair: Kately Demougeot

Geraldine Skeete, University of The West Indies, St Augustine Campus
“Caribbean Literary Festivals as Seminal Moments: A Case Study”

Anthony Rodriquez, University of Southern California
“Heretical Scripts: Sylvia Wynter’s Early Intellectual Life
in the Decolonial Atlantic

Craig Smith, The College of The Bahamas
“Seminal Moments in Caribbean Literary History:
The Bahamas Renaissance”

B 2 – Friday
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
The Problematics of Patriarchy, Heterosexuality and Language.
Chair: Barbara Clark, Averett University

Reine Turcato, North Carolina Central University
“Discreet Disclosure: Decoding Patriarchal Female Idealization
in “Solutions, Inc.” by Ana Lydia Vega”

Dennis Miller Jr., Clayton State University
“What’s Love Got to Do With It?: Demoralizing Heterosexuality
Through Hegemonic Bodily Images in Sirena Selena Vestida de Pena”

Jean-Luc Desalvo
Les racines de l’Antillanité glissantienne dans Gouverneurs
de la rosée de Jacques Roumain

12:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. LUNCHEON (Hotel Restaurant)
Speaker:

 

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Curaçao. Foto © Mineke de Vries

C1 – Friday
2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
Realiciones de poder íntimo: Mujer, sexualidad, y raza en la novelistica femenina del Caribe

Chair: Haldane Chase, College of The Bahamas

Celest Evans-Clark, College of The Bahamas
“La Expresión compleja del pratogonista-esclavo
en Sab por Gertrudis Gómez de Avellanedia”

Patricia L. Douglas, The College of The Bahamas
“¿Cómo funciona Zulé Revé en un mundo religioso “dominado por los hombres”

Sonovia Burrows, The College of The Bahamas
“La mujer y la naturaleza: esclavas en las manos de los hombres?”

C 2 – Friday
2:00 p.m.-3: 45 p.m.
Situating Speculative Fiction between Oral and Aural Literary Traditions
Chair: Steven Sloane, Texas Christian University

R. Nicole Smith, Georgia State University
“….and you, who are you supposed to be?”: Audre Lorde’s Biomythography

Kathleen Phillips Lewis, Spellman College
“Aunt Nancy, The Trickster Engendered: Afro-Caribbean Women
And The Craft of Storytelling”

Georgene Bess Montgomery
“Poetry and Performance in the Caribbean: Paul Keens-Douglass:
Live, in Print and especially Performance”

3:30 p.m.-3:45 p. m. COFFEE BREAK

D 1–Friday
3:45 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Psychical, Cross-Cultural, and Transnational (Con)f igurations
Chair: Consuella Bennett, Morehouse College

Darren Martin, Morehouse College
“I Know Why the Dragon Can’t Dance: Realism, Fantasy,
and the Quest for Broken Chains”

Casey Phanor, Morehouse College
“I Write to be Free:
Influences of the Négritude Movement of Fanonian Thought”

Keith Freeman, Morehouse College
“Confronting and Unleashing the Monster of Pain In Myriam Warner Vieyra’s
Juletane”

D-2– Friday
4:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Incursions into Territories of Spirit
Chair: Carol Marsh Lockett, Georgia State University

Willie Hill, Morehouse College
“An Exploration into Culture and Identity:

Jabar King: Morehouse College
“‘Diary of a Mad Black Woman’: Mental Illness
In Myriam Warner-Vieyra’s Juletane

5:30-7:45 DINNER (on own)

7:45 p.m.-9:30 p.m.

THE CONFERENCE ENDS WITH A PERFORMANCE OF CHOLOCATE CASI AMARGO (CHOCOLATE BITTERSWEET), A NEW PLAY BY CANDIDE CARRASCO.

RECEPTION TO FOLLOW

 

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