B18: Word and Image in Latin America

Seminar Leader: Dan Russek, University of Chicago

Friday, April 16, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Breakout Room 2

Lois Parkinson Zamora, University of Houston: “Trompe l’oeil Tricks: Borges’ Baroque Illusionism”

Dan Russek, University of Chicago: “Light Matters: Patterns of Light in Reyes, Quiroga, Borges, and Cortazar”

Monika Kaup, University of Washington: “Allegory and Emblem as Narrative Strategies in Donoso’s Casa de Campo”

Saturday, April 17, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Breakout Room 2

Patrick O’Connor, Oberlin College: “Doctor Hardoy en Pedazos: Framing Cortazar’s ‘Las Puertas del Cielo’in Piglia and Savigliano (and Cortazar)”

Karen Zumhagen, University of California – Berkeley: “Image and Riddle as Warning in Ricardo Piglia’s Artificial Respiration”

Kent Dickson, University of California – Los Angeles: “Ceasr Moro’s Ekphrastic Poems”

Sunday, April 18, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Breakout Room 2

Kristian Van Haesendonck, Leiden University: “Light Exposures: Puerto Rican Discourse in a ‘Postcolonial’ Era”

Rudyard Alcocer, Luther College: “Still Images: Ethnicity, Modernization, and Representation in Jules Verne’s La Jangada”

Randall Gann, University of New Mexico: “Why We Don’t Need No Stinking Badges: Men With Guns and U. S. foreign policy in Latin America”