Franklin College Conference on Caribbean Literature and Culture
The Caribbean Unbound
April 14-16, 2005
Pre-Conference prelude for the Franklin community and early arrivals:
Wednesday, April 13, 2005 at 19:00 in the auditorium - the Caribbean film, "Sugar Cane Alley" ("La rue Cases-Nègres" 1983) by the Martinican film director, Euzhan Palcy
Thursday, April 14 -
17:00 - 18:00 - Inscription and payment of conference fees, and for the Friday night dinner, in front of the auditorium. Conference badges will be issued at that time. Local visitors may also sign up for the conference or for the Friday evening meal with live Caribbean music. Members of "The Literary Society" will provide assistance with registration.
18:00 - 19:00 - Opening of the Franklin College Conference on Caribbean Literature and Culture, "The Caribbean Unbound," in conjunction with the Franklin "Spring Lecture Series"
Introduction of the Conference:
Introduction of the Keynote Speaker:
Keynote Address by Professor J. Michael Dash, New York University: "Two Hundred Years of Solitude: The Haitian Revolution in a New World Context."
Reception in Holman Hall
20:00 - Film presentation - "Suite Havana" by Fernando Pérez (2003) - in the auditorium. This film, in color, has no words except for a brief written epilogue in Spanish at the end.
circa 21:30 -22:00 - "A Short Radiography of Hip-Hop in Cuba," a documentary video directed by Ricardo Bacallao and produced by Elvira Rodríguez Puerto, both of whom will be in attendance at the conference
Friday, April 15th -
9:30 - student panel
9:30 - Presentation of New Books on the Caribbean
10:30 - "Women/Violence/Urban Space"
- "Histori-City in Recent Women's Fiction from the Hispanic Caribbean," Odile Ferly, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
- "Memory and Healing in Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker," Newtona (Tina) Johnson, Middle Tennessee State Univ., (Moderator)
- "Decolonizing Sexuality: Feminism without Borders," Zala Volcic, Franklin College
11:30 - Discussion of "A Short Radiography of Hip-Hop in Cuba," a documentary video directed by Ricardo Bacallao and produced by Elvira
Rodríguez Puerto, with the director and producer
- "Global bonds, local ties: Hip-Hop in Cuba," Nabil Echchaibi, Franklin College (Respondent & Moderator)
11:30 - 12:20 - "Caribbean Poetry"
- "Images of Africa in Poetry by Georgina Herrera, Nancy Moreón, Excilia Saldaña,", Dawn Duke, Univ. of Tennessee at Knoxville.
- "Shadow and Stone: Figures of Memory in Caribbean Poetry," Otto Heim, Univ. of Hong Kong
12:30 - 13:25 - "The Hispanic Caribbean: Conceptions and Images"
- "Esclavos, animales, y amos en Maria, de Issacs, Daniel Sebastian D'Arpa, Univ. of the Virgin Islands
- "Not Too Loco, Not Too Latin: Marketing the Latino Image in the United States," Rosana Diaz, Rollins College (Moderator)
- "Polyrhythm and its Performance in the Caribbean: Antonio Benítez-Rojo and Fernando Ortiz, Two Forms of Appropriation," Andrea Schwieger Hiepko, Latin-American Institute, Free University of Berlin)
12:30 - 13:25 - Free discussion of Nobel Prize winning author, V.S. Naipal's Guerrillas.
- Discussion leader for the round table (no papers or formal presentations), Floyd Parsons, Professor of History and Philosophy, Franklin College
- N.B. Bring your texts! We will be using the Vintage International edition.
13:30 - 14:25 - "Ties that Bind"
- "Harmonic Dualities in Euzhan Palcy Films," Brenda F. Berrian, University of Pittsburgh
- "The Story of MaComère," Jacqueline Brice-Finch, Benedict College - Vera F. Wells (Moderator), Director of the Sylvia Ardyn Boone Memorial Project
13:30 - "Pan-Caribbean Voices"
- "Unexpected Ties of Kinship: Condé's Célanire cou-coupé and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Annick Challet, Univ. of Geneva
- "La mer comme invitation à la mouvance dans la fiction et les poèmes d'Olive Senior," Marie-Annick Montout, Univ. of Angers, FR.
- "American Dream ou nouvel esclavage? La figure du migrant haïtien aux Etats-Unis..." Gäelle Cooreman, Univ. of Antwerp, BE.
14:30 - 15:30 - Estrategias de una Mujer Madura (2005), a book of short stories presented, in Spanish, by their author, Elvira Rodríquez Puerto (Conference Room)
- Introduction (in Spanish) of the author by Rosana Diaz, Rollins College
- A reading from the short story "Estrategias de una Mujer Madura."
- Open discussion
14:30 - 15:30 - "Identité et Altérité chez Édouard Glissant et Patrick Chamoiseau, scripteurs visionnaires de la Parole créole," presentation, in French, by Philippe Chanson, Univ. of Geneva.
- Introduction
15:30 - 16:45 - Plenary Session (Auditorium)
- Introduction of Professor Paravisini-Gebert by Professor Anne Maran Flutti, Franklin College
- Plenary presentation by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Vassar College, entitled "Santería and the Environment"
- Respondent: Professor Rene Lehmann, Franklin College
17:00 Second Keynote address by Professor J. Michael Dash: "Surrealism, Exile and the Francophone Caribbean in the 1940s"
19:30 - A Caribbean Meal prepared, in its entirety, by Franklin College students (included in the conference registration fee of all conference
participants).
- Dance music provided by the Cuban ensemble, "Havana Open"
Saturday, April 16th
9:00 - 10:45 - "Border Crossings"
- "The Ancestor Transfigured into a God: Jadine's Mounting and the Divine/Blind Horsemen in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby," La Vinia Delois Jennings, Univ. of Tennessee at Knoxville
- "Gendering Quisqueya: Haiti and the Dominican Republic," Irline Francois, Goucher College (Co-Moderator)
- "Traversing the Great Genre Divide: Textual Touring as Revised ‘Travel Writing' Relocates the Caribbean Paradise," Angeletta KM Gourdine,
Louisiana State University
- "Féminitude et folie dans Juletane et Le livre d'Emma," Danièle Issa-Sayegh, Univ. of Toronto
- "Identity and the Language of Food in Gisèle Pineau's L'Exil selon Julia," Brinda J. Mehta, Mills College (Co-Moderator)
11:00 - 12:45 - "Cannibalism in the Works of Maryse Condé"
- Introduction by Sarah Barbour, Wake Forest University (Moderator)
- "Imagining Cannibalism," Dawn Fulton, Smith College
- "‘Une si belle enfant ne pouvait pas être maudites.' Maryse Condé's La migration des coeurs," Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Univ. of Essex, UK
- "Condé's and Morrison's Bad Mothers: The Black Witches of the New World," Kathleen Gyssels, Univ. of Antwerp, BE
- "Race by Proxy in Maryse Condé's Recent Fiction," Carine M. Mardorossian, SUNY Buffalo
13:00 - 14:30 - "Caribbean Unbound or Double-Bound? Reconsidering the impact of Globalization, Tourism and Mass Media on Cultural Identity in
the Virgin Islands"
- "New Oral Traditions in Rock City: Globalization and Postmodernism and Caribbean Youth Identity," Crystal Miles, Univ. of the Virgin Islands
(undergraduate student)
- "Contextualizing Caribbean Identity in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Vincent Cooper, University of the Virgin Islands
- "The Double Bind of Tourist Literature: A Critical Analysis of Buying and Selling Exotic Identities," Annette Markham, University of the
Virgin Islands (Moderator)
- Performing the Self in a Tourist Destination: Identity in the Virgin Islands, Teresa Senft, Univ. of the Virgin Islands.
13:00 - 14:30 - "Caribbean Sexualities"
- "Caribbean Sexualities: Contemporary Paths to Decolonization," Johanna X.K. Garvey, Fairfield University (Moderator)
- "Barbadian and Puerto Rican Child Protagonists in the Caribbean Literature of New York City," Roberto Strongman, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara
- "A Return to the Motherland: Matrilineage as a Means of Identity Location in the Work of Suzanne Césaire, Maryse Condé and Edwidge Danticat," Jennifer T. Westmoreland, UCLA
14:45 - 16:00 - "Out-sourcing the Cannibal: Maryse Condé's Cariba Revolution"
"Le cannibalism au féminin: A Case of Radical Indigestion," Kathryn Lachman, Princeton University
"Translation/Cannibalism/Reading: A New Critical Strategy in La migration des coeurs," Bishupal Limbu, Northwestern University
"Reconciling Cannibalism: Ingesting shame in Maryse Condé's Histoire de la femme cannibale," Karen Lindo, UCLA
16:00 - Closing Ceremonies: Open Forum on Caribbean Studies