Final Programme

Friday 24 June 2011 

Saturday 25 June 2011

PANELS

Panel A1: Affects and Creole Poetics (Chair: Dr Jane Desmarais, Goldsmiths)

Sue Thomas, La Trobe University, Melbourne - Foundational Methodist romances: memoirs of three eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century marriages in Antigua and England.

Elina Valovirta, University of Turku, Finland - Blowing the love-breath: Non-canonical affects and healing men in Caribbean women’s writing.

Panel A2: Female Subjectivity and Gender Relations (Chair: Dr Mina Karavanta, University of Athens)

Sonia Hope, Goldsmiths, University of London - Out of place? Black female subjectivity and knowledge in Erna Brodber’s Myal (1988) and Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon (1999).

Gloria Maestripieri, Goldsmiths, University of London - Remembering the legacy of the enslaved: white women and black women in Paule Marshall’s The Chosen Place the Timeless People and in Erna Brodber’s Myal.

Nicole A. Spigner, Vanderbilt University, USA - The Sex, Slavery, and Salvation:  Women Healers in Nalo Hopkinson’s The Salt Roads and Wild Seed by Octavia Butler.

Panel B1: Auto-Theorising Texts (Chair:  Professor Helen Carr, Goldsmiths)

Manuela Coppola, Università della Calabria, Italy - “This is, not was”: Marlene NourbeSe Philip’s theorizing of the archive.

Modhumita Roy, Tufts University, USA - “Reader, I won’t marry him” - Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John and the Meta-critique of Romance.

Eri Hitotsuyanagi, Chukyo University, Japan - Literature of Injury and Wounding: A Comparative Study of Autobiographical Novels by Ethnic Minorities.

Panel B2: Spoken Word/Form/Poetics (Chair: Dr Denise deCaires Narain, University of Sussex)

Sheree Mack, Open University - Crossing Boundaries: Poetry and Performance: Jean 'Binta' Breeze and Khadija Ibrahiim.

Marl’ene Edwin, Goldsmiths, University of London – ‘Strange Arrivants’: Creole Conversations in the short stories of Sam Selvon and Olive Senior.

Suzanne Scafe, London South Bank University - ‘Re-vision’ as poetic form, cultural practice and ideological necessity:  Dorothea Smartt’s ‘Medusa? Medusa Black!’ and the ‘Samboo’ cycle.

Maria Cristina Fumagalli, University of Essex - Anacaona – Whose Golden Flower?

Victoria Bridges Moussaron, Université de Charles de Gaulle - Diasporic Remembering: Punctuation, Prosopopeia, and Presence in Jamaica Kincaid's Mr. Potter.  

Natasha Bonnelame, Goldsmiths, University of London - Flights of the Imagination:  Reconfiguring Caribbean Modernity in Erna Brodber’s Myal.

Panel C2: Creolisation and Diaspora (Chair: Dr Suzanne Scafe, London South Bank University)

Giovanna Covi, University of Trento, Italy - Poetics of Relation: The Caribbean in Jazz, from Music through Literature to Theory.

Christine Vogt-William, University of Frankfurt, Germany - Gender, Mixed Race Relations and Dougla Identities in Indo-Caribbean Women’s Fiction.

Deirdre Osborne, Goldsmiths, University of London - Trading Places: New Definitions of ‘Here’ and ‘There’ in Diasporic Drama.

Panels D1: Writing the Postnational/Transnational (Chair: Dr Giovanna Covi, University of Trento)

Destiny Birdsong, Vanderbilt University, USA - Close Calls: Maternal Trauma, Knowledge Transmission, and Transnational Identity in Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brownstones.                              

Kaisa Ilmonen, University of Turku, Finland - Ritual Storytelling as a Form of Transnational Solidarity in Free Enterprise by Michelle Cliff.

Mathilde Mergeai, Université de Liège, Belgium - Beyond the Caribbean: Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For, a Post-National Text?

Panel D2: Historical Trauma and literary imagination: (Chair: Dr Sally Barbour, Wake University)

Rachel Grace Thompson, Goldsmiths, University of London -  Ghosts of History: The Traumatic Past in the Caribbean Present.

Simon Lee, College of Science Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad &Tobago - Dealing With and Healing the Horror.

Panel E1:  Poet’s World/ Poetic Performance (Chair: Dr Karina Smith, Victoria University, Melbourne)

Anne Collett, University of Wollongong, Australia - Kite and Quilt: Olive Senior’s exploration of her poetic inheritance.

Joanna Johnson, University of Miami, USA - (Re)Framing the Landscape: Grace Nichols’ Depictions of England.

Lamia Tewfik, Sadat Academy, Cairo, Egypt - Ekphrastic Memory: Chasing and Escaping African Roots in Marlene NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!

Panel E2: Creole Versions (Chair: Sheree Mack, Open University)

Radost Rangelova, Gettysburg College, USA - The Labor of/on the Body: Space, Gender and Technologies of the Self in the Beauty Salon.

Denise deCaires Narain, University of Sussex - Intersections of Difference: Creole and Queer in Conversation.

Tammy Ho Lai-Ming, King's College London - The After-Life of Jean Rhys’ Antoinette Cosway in Neo-Victorian Fiction.

Panel F1: Histories (Chair: Professor Sue Thomas, La Trobe University, Melbourne)

Joan Anim-Addo, Goldsmiths, University of London – Creole Transnational Aesthetics and ‘Disassociation’: Excavating Women’s Histories in Austin Clarke’s The Polished Hoe and Merle Collins’s The Colour of Forgetting.

Marta Fernández Campa, University of Miami, Florida, USA - New Archives of Memory in the poetry of Dorothea Smartt and Roshini Kempadoo’s photography.

Karina Smith, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia - Flynn’s Daughters, Female Adventurers: gender re-configurations in Margaret Cezair- Thompson’s The Pirate’s Daughter and Scott Rankin’s Beasty Girl: the secret life of Errol Flynn.

Jo Collins, The University of Kent at Canterbury - ‘Between Worlds’: mapping Diaspora in and across Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory and Nelly Rosario’s Song of the Water Saints.

Emma Louise Burch, Goldsmiths, University of London - Mapping Histories: Intersecting Oppressions of the Female Subject.

Henghameh Saroukhani, University of Leeds - Becoming Minor(ity): Methodological Cosmopolitanism in Andrea Levy’s Small Island.