B16: American Ethnic Literatures in a Global Context

Seminar Leader: Vivian Halloran, Indiana University – Bloomington

Friday, April 16, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Crowne Plaza Room 161

Marc Caplan, Indiana University: “Unreal City: The New York Poetry of A. Leyeles and Leopold Senghor”

Shawn Conner, Indiana University: “Drowning in a Sea of Endless Voyages: Divided Nations, Migrations, and Diasporic Identity Crises in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies and Sameer Parekh’s Stealing the Ambassador”

Natalie Friedman, Marymount College of Fordham University: “Tales of Return: Nostalgia for the Homeland in the Contemporary Immigrant Novel”

Saturday, April 17, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Crowne Plaza Room 161

Amanda C. Briggs, Indiana University: “Unity Reconstructed: Carpentier’s American Ethos in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and the Neo-Baroque Response to Modernity”

Charles Forster, Scripps College: “The Souls of Black Folk and the Problem of the German Historical Method”

Sirene Harb, American University of Beirut: “Metissage and Historical Reclamation in Corregidora”

Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi, University of British Columbia: “Black America’s Long Shadow, or the Frontiers of Double Consciousness”

Sunday, April 18, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Crowne Plaza Room 161

Babak Elahi, Rochester Institute of Technology: “Language, Place, Sense: Iranian/American Memoirists Find Their Way Home”

Vivian Halloran, Indiana University – Bloomington: “Speaking the (Ethnic) Self Out of Being: Language and Identity Performance in Jamaica Kincaid’s My Brother and James McBride’s The Color of Water”

Kathleen Komar, University of California – Los Angeles: “Literal Versus Social Colonization and Assimilation: Tsisi Dangarembga’s Nervous Condition and Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior”

Enrique Morales-Diaz, Hartwit College: “Identity of the ‘Diasporican’ Homosexual in the Literary Periphery”