B17: Cosmopolitan Writing

Seminar Leader: Shameem Black, Stanford University

Friday, April 16, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Breakout Room 1

Tom Genrich, Oxford University: “‘Differing-From’ or ‘Transfusion’: Narrating Cosmopolitanism in Paul Morand and Valery Larbaud, 1908-1935”

Renée M. Silverman, University of Michigan: “The Rhythm of Transcendence: Creacionismo and Gerardo Diego’s Personal Poetics of the Avant-garde Imagen (1922)”

Rebecca Karni, University of California – Los Angeles: “Towards a Poetics of Cosmopolitanism in the Post-WWII British Novel: Reading Jhabvala, Rushdie, and Ishiguro”

Saturday, April 17, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Breakout Room 1

Rolland Murray, Ohio State University: “Diaspora by Bus: Reginald McKnight, Postmodernism, and the Suspension of Transatlantic Subjectivity”

Seanna Oakley, University of Michigan: “‘Puttin Rainbow Roun We Mind’: Composing and Peforming Transcultural Alliance”

Sladja Blazan, Humboldt University: “Stereotyping as (Re)Negotiation of East–European Identities in Contemporary American Literature”

Lawrence Loiseau, University of Victoria – British Columbia: “Transcultural Impersonation, Cosmopolitianism, and the Hybrid’s Encounter with the Real: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Coerced Self-Representation in Fred Wah’s Diamond Grill”

Sunday, April 18, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Breakout Room 1

Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Binghamton University: “Polyglot Poetics”

Gloria Fisk, Princeton University: “Cosmopolitanism in the Words and Pictures of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis”

Shameem Black, Stanford University: “Imagining Across Borders”