Southern Short Fiction:
Representation and Rewriting of Myth
Lille Catholic University June 20-22, 2013
PROGRAMME
Thursday
14:00: Registration
14:15: Welcome speeches
15:00: Plenary session (moderator: Emmanuel Vernadakis, Université d’Angers)
Ben Forkner, Université d’Angers, “Converging on the Human: Myth and Memory in Eudora Welty’s ‘The Wide Net’”
16:00: Break
16:30: Parallel workshops
A. Nineteenth Century Short Story Writers and Southern Myth-Making (moderator: Isabelle Boof-Vermesse, Université de Lille 3)
Cynthia Hamilton, Liverpool Hope University, “Fear of Falling: Slavery and Poe’s House of Usher”
Martine Spina Anton, Lycée Massena, Nice, “‘The Romancer as a Mythmaker’: William Gilmore Simms’s use of History and Folk Tales in The Wigwam and the Cabin”
Iulia Milica, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania, “Thomas Nelson Page’s Idylls of the Past: In Ole Virginia and the Southern Myth”
B. Mythical Space and Time (moderator: Jacques Pothier, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin)
Rémi Digonnet, Institut Catholique de Lille, “Myths and Metaphors in Southern Short Fiction”
Françoise Buisson, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, “William Faulkner’s ‘My Grandmother Millard’ (1943) and Caroline Gordon’s ‘The Forest of the South’ (1944): comic and tragic versions of the Southern Belle Myth”
Julia Morand, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, “The Representation of creation in ‘Carcassonne’ by William Faulkner”
Friday
9:30: Parallel workshops (part 1)
C. Flannery O’Connor’s Rewriting of Myths (1) (moderator: Marie Liénard-Yeterian, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis)
Ruth Fialho, Université de Bordeaux III, “Flannery O’Connor’s Country People: Between Old South and New World”
Maxime Pierru, Institut Catholique de Lille, “Mythical Figures in Flannery O’Connor’s Short Stories: Classical Variations on the Biblical Parable”
Mary Kate Azcuy, Monmouth University, New Jersey, “Flannery O’Connor’s mythic, post-Edenic, southern-Gothic short story ‘The River’”
D. The Powers of Southern Mythology (1) (moderator: Michelle Ryan-Sautour, Université d’Angers)
Marcel Arbeit, Olomouc University, Czech Republic, “Chris Offutt and Appalachian Myths in His Short Stories”
Frédérique Spill, Université Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, “Ron Rash’s Burning Bright: Rewriting the Debacle of the South in the Present”
Tanya Tromble, Université de Provence/Université Lyon 2, “Joyce Carol Oates’ “Little Maggie”: Southern Myth in Ballad Form and Beyond”
11:00: Break
11:30: Parallel workshops (part 2)
E. Flannery O’Connor’s Rewriting of Myths (2) (moderator: Marie Liénard-Yeterian, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis)
Isabelle Boof-Vermesse, Université de Lille 3, “‘God made me thisaway’: the Myth of the Androgyne in Flannery O'Connor's Short Stories”
Omar Figueras, Master of Fine Arts Candidate, Spalding University, Louisville, Kentucky, US, “Mischief and Treachery Knocking at Your Door: Trickster Myth in the American South”
F. The Powers of Southern Mythology (2) (moderator: Constante Gonzales Groba, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Elisabeth Lamothe, Université du Maine-Le Mans, “Frontiers of Myth in Caroline Gordon’s Collected Stories”
Candela Delgado-Marín, University of Seville, Spain, “The Looming Myth of The Frontier in The South: Bobbie Ann Mason and the Postsouthern Uncertainty”
Sarah Delmas O’Byrne, Institut Catholique de Lille, “Lisa Alther’s ‘The Fox Hunt’: A Modern Conqueror in Traditional Country”
13:00: Lunch
14:30: Plenary session (moderator: Gérald Préher, Institut Catholique de Lille)
Nicole Moulinoux, Université de Rennes II, Fondation Faulkner, “Contemporary Short Story Writers from the South and the Rewriting of Myth”
15:30: Break
16:00: Parallel workshops
G. Rewriting Pagan Myths (moderator: Frédérique Spill, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens)
Inés Casas Maroto, University of Santiago de Compostela, “Antigone in the South: Ellen Glasgow’s ‘Jordan’s End’”
Amélie Moisy, Université Paris Est Créteil, “Myth for the Masses: Erskine Caldwell's ‘Daughter’”
Emmanuel Vernadakis, Université d’Angers, “Revisiting Myths in Tennessee Williams’ ‘One Arm’”
Gérald Préher, Institut Catholique de Lille, “Lisa Alther’s Magic Kingdoms: Myth-Making and Story-Telling in Stormy Weather”
H. Myths, Icons and Stereotypes (moderator: Alice Clark, Université de Nantes)
Robert M. Luscher, English Department, University of Nebraska at Kearney, “Complications of Southern Mythology in Randall Kenan’s Let the Dead Bury Their Dead”
Emily Zobel Marshall, Leeds Metropolitan University, “Transformations of the Trickster: Rewriting Southern Myths in the Trickster Tales of Joel Chandler Harris and Alice Walker”
Susana María Jiménez Placer, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, “From ‘Faithful Old Servant’ to ‘Bantu Woman’: Katherine Anne Porter’s Approach to the Mammy Myth in ‘The Old Order’”
Marion Van Maël, Institut Catholique de Lille, “Black Womanhood and Southern Regionalism in Yoknapatawpha County”
18:00: Reading (moderator: Gérald Préher, Institut Catholique de Lille)
Lisa Alther, Writer
Saturday
9:30: Parallel sessions
I. African-American Writers and Southern Mythology (moderator: Elisabeth Lamothe, Université du Mans)
Françoise Clary, Université de Rouen, “Black Image and Blackness: Myth as Cultural Code in Ralph Ellison’s ‘King of the Bingo Game’ and Other Stories”
Constante Gonzales Groba, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, “Myth and fairy tale in Toni Morrison’s Home”
Vincente Chaumont, Institut Catholique de Lille, “The Myth of Race and Racist Myths: Subverting Racial Stereotypes to Uncover the Unworthiness of Race in Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif””
J. Rewriting the Bible (moderator: Rémi Digonnet, Institut Catholique de Lille)
Suzanne Bray, Institut Catholique de Lille, “Melville Davisson Post’s Uncle Abner Stories, or the Recreation of Virginia as the Biblical Promised Land with Abner as its Prophet”
Bénédicte Meillon, Université de Perpignan, “Revisiting the Universal Significance of Mythologies: Barbara Kingsolver’s Syncretic and Mythopoeic Short Story ‘Jump-Up Day’”
Sarah Lloyd, Institut Catholique de Lille, “When ya comin’ home?”: Homecoming in Peter Taylor’s “What you Hear From ‘Em?” and William Hoffman’s “Amazing Grace”
11:00: Break
11:30: Plenary Session (moderator: Alice Clark, Université de Nantes)
Ineke Bockting, Institut Catholique de Paris, “The Rape Complex: its Depiction and Usage in the Southern Short Story”
12:30: Lunch
14:00: Reading (moderator: Emmanuel Vernadakis, Université d’Angers)
Alice Clark, Writer, Université de Nantes, “Trick or Treat”
15:00: Closing Remarks and Guided Tour of the City