9th Annual

International Conference on

Caribbean Literature

Honoring Noble Poet Laureate

Derek Alton WalcottWinner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Bay Gardens Hotel, Castries, St.LuciaNovember 7-9, 2007

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Table of Contents

Profile of the Honorable Derek A. WalcottWelcome Message from the Sponsoring InstitutionsProfiles of Sponsoring InstitutionsI.C.C.L: History, Nature, and GoalsA Message from Co-FoundersA Message from the Local Planning CommitteeProfiles of Guest SpeakersConference Schedule at-a-GlanceGeneral InformationConference Schedule In-depthWednesdayThursdayFridayAcknowledgmentsSponsors and ContributorsIndex of Participating InstitutionsIndex of ParticipantsNotes

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In Honor of the Honorable Derek Walcott

Derek Alton Walcott was born in 1930 in the town of Castries in Saint Lucia, one of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. The experience of growing up on the volcanic island, an ex-British colony, has had a strong influence on Walcott's life and work. After studying at St. Mary's College in his native island and at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, Walcott moved in 1953 to Trinidad, where he has worked as theatre and art critic. At the age of 18, he made his debut with 25 Poems, but his reputation shy-rocketed came with the collection of poems, In a Green Night (1962).

Walcott won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. His work, which developed independently of the schools of magic realism emerging in both South America and Europe at around the time of his birth, is intensely related to the symbolism of myth and its relationship to culture. He is best known for his epic poem Omeros, a reworking of Homeric s

In 1959 Walcott founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop, which has produced his plays (and others) since that time, and he remains active with its Board of Directors. He also founded Boston Playwrights' Theatre at Boston University in 1981 with the hope of creating a home for new plays in Boston, Massachusetts. Walcott continues to teach poetry and drama in the Creative Writing Department at Boston University and gives readings and lectures throughout the world. He divides his time between his home in the Caribbean and New York City.

Walcott as playwright and theorist

Walcott has published more than twenty plays. The majority of these plays have been produced by the Trinidad Theatre Workshop, and have also been widely staged elsewhere. Many of them deal, either directly or indirectly, with the luminal status of the West Indies in the postcolonial period. Epistemological, ontological, economical, political, and social themes make regular appearances in Walcott's plays.In his 1970 essay on art (and specifically theatre) in his native region, What the Twilight Says: An Overture (published in Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays; Walcott bemoans the lasting effects of over 400 years of colonial rule. He reflects on the West Indies as colonized space. He states “...Our bodies think in one language and move in

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another...” (31). Accordingly, Walcott shifts his poetic language between formal English and patois to highlight the linguistic dexterity of the Caribbean people. While recognizing the profound psychological and material wrongs of the colonial project, Walcott simultaneously celebrates the hybridization of Antillean cultures. His epic poem Omeros exposes the complex cultural strains that converge in his native St. Lucia, celebrating at once the European, Amerindian, and African heritage shared by the islanders.The discussions of epistemological effects of colonization inform plays such as Ti-Jean and his Brothers and Patomime.

Walcott probes the colonial dialectic in his two-hander Pantomime. In the play, Walcott revisions the story of Robinson Crusoe / Man Friday in an effort to destabilize the colonial power constructs. gun” (138). Although Walcott writes in English, the language of Trinidad, he also makes full use of the local dialects, or what Barbadian writer Edward Kamau Brathwaite calls “nation language,” Walcott's plays weave together a variety of forms; including those of the folktale, morality play, allegory, fable, ritual and myth. He also utilizes emblematic and mythological characters to address issues in non-realistic ways.

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Messages From The Sponsoring Institutions

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Messages From The Sponsoring Institutions (Cont’d) Cont’d

November 2007

Greetings Friends and Colleagues!

I am delighted to bring greetings for the 9th Annual International Conference on Caribbean Literature!

Morehouse College is proud of its relationship with Purdue University – Calumet that builds understanding of Caribbean culture, creative arts and the area’s rich heritage. I am certain you will enjoy the warm hospitality of Castries, St. Lucia and wish to add my deepest appreciation for your deserving honoree Nobel Laureate the Honorable Derek Walcott.

Proudly, I must also salute our conference founder Dr. Melvin B. Rahming for the vision and fortitude to create this needed dialogue and cultural exchange. Indeed, our College recently adopted internalization as our strategic focus for new student learning and development opportunities.

We look forwarded to many years of cultural exchange and enrichment with our Caribbean partners, and hope to encourage the development of future literary giants.

Best regards for a successful gathering.

Yours sincerely,

Robert M. FranklinPresident

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~The Sponsoring Institutions~

Purdue University Calumet, with roots dating back to the World War II era, is part of the internationally respected Purdue University system. In 1946, credit academic classes were first offered at the institution that has grown into Purdue University Calumet. The university is academically comprehensive with an enrollment of 9,600+ students. Purdue University Calumet offers associate, baccalaureate, and master's degrees in 100+ fields of study including traditional Purdue strengths, such as engineering which is U.S.News & World Report recognized. Numerous professional certificates and post-baccalaureate programs are also available. More than 38,000 Purdue degrees have been awarded at Purdue University Calumet. Effective Fall 2008, Purdue University Calumet will be one of few universities nationally to require experiential learning curricular components by all undergraduate students. Distinguished faculty known for academic excellence and professional achievements are committed, not only to teaching, but also to mentoring students. Faculties engage students in research as early as the freshman year. Purdue Calumet graduates work in all 50 states and around the world. They continue their tradition of involvement with family, career, their local community, and Purdue Calumet.

Morehouse College

Founded in 1867 and located in Atlanta, Georgia, Morehouse College is an academic community dedicated to teaching, scholarship, and service, and to the continuing search for truth as a liberating force. As such, the College offers 26 majors in three divisions: business and economics, humanities and social sciences, and science and mathematics, as well as a dual-degree program in engineering with the Georgia Institute of Technology. As the nation's only male, historically black, institution of higher learning, Morehouse gives special emphasis to the African American experience and to the global impact of the people of the African Diaspora. To engage this historic mission, the College provides a rigorous academic curriculum (with a focus on leadership development, scholarship, research, and global awareness) and a student development co-curriculum that enhances self-awareness and self-actualization through -- but not limited to -- opportunities for service learning and travel abroad studies. The college was rated by The Wall Street Journal as #29 out of the top 50 "feeder schools" for elite graduate study, beating both Emory University and the University of California, Berkeley in a 2004 study.

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The International Conference on Caribbean Literature (I.C.C.L): Its History, Nature, and Goals

The International Conference on Caribbean Literature (ICCL) was founded in July, 1997, by Dr. Melvin B. Rahming (former Hugh M. Gloster Professor of English and former Chair of the Department of English at Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia) and Dr. Jorge Roman-Lagunas (Director of the Center for International Studies at Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, Indiana) for the purpose of promoting global understanding of Caribbean culture.

ICCL has the following aims:

1.) to provide an additional forum for the global discussion of Caribbean literature (by writers, scholars, and critics from academic institutions in the Caribbean, Europe, North and South America, Central America, Canada, Asia, and Africa) as a way of promoting global understanding of Caribbean culture;

2.) to add to the existing body of criticism on Caribbean literature;

3.) to involve Caribbean nations in the discussion and promotion of their own and each other’s literature and culture;

4.) to begin or continue academic linkages between Morehouse College, Purdue University Calumet and the various tertiary level institutions in the Caribbean; and

5.) to involve Caribbean tertiary institutions as hosts and planners for each conference.

I.C.C.L. is unique. It is the only Caribbean literary forum that aims to unite, on an annual basis and in a Caribbean setting, writers and critics for concurrent presentations in the three most prominent fields of Caribbean literature—English, French and Spanish. It is also the only conference on Caribbean literature that involves the host country in all planning stages of its annual activities. Furthermore, although each I.C.C.L. event spotlights a few internationally acclaimed Caribbean writers and scholars—our list of keynote speakers have included The Honorable Rex Nettleford, Kenneth Ramchand, Antonio Benitez-Rojo, Jan Carew, Maryse Conde, Carol marsh-Lockhart, Brenda Flanagan, Edgardo Rodriguez-Julia, Sylvia Winter, Ian Strachan, Raphael Confiant and Earl Lovelace—some attempt is also made to expose lesser-known writers of the host country to our international audience. Finally, I.C.C.L. provides another forum for the host country to showcase its visual and performance art. The first eight I.C.C.L. events were held in Nassau, Bahamas (1998); in Paget, Bermuda (1999); in Ponce, Puerto Rico (2000); in Trois Illet, Martinique (2001); in Freeport, Bahamas: (2003); in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (2004); and in Cartagena, Colombia (2005), and in Port-Au-prince, Haiti (2006). ICCL will hold its 9th convention on November 7-9 in Castries, St. Lucia. Each conference is sponsored jointly by Morehouse College and Purdue University Calumet and is usually hosted by a Caribbean institution of higher learning. ICCL has averaged roughly 150 participants per conference, and these participants have come from colleges and universities around the globe.

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A Message from the Conference Founders:

Dr. Melvin B. Rahming and Dr. Jorge Roman-Lagunas

The International Conference on Caribbean Literature (ICCL) has become the “significant regional tradition” that we spoke of in the program brochure of the Fifth Annual ICCL, which was held in Freeport, Grand Bahama, in November 2003. In the few years since, ICCL has continued to made its presence known as a contributor to critical literary and cultural thought—in its conferences held in the St. Croix, US Virgin Islands; Cartagena, Columbia; and Port-au-Prince, Haiti. This year we continue our legacy of returning Caribbean literary and cultural criticism to it source and inspiration, the land and people of the Caribbean itself.

Thanks largely to the generous and efficient work and patronage of various St. Lucian institutions (such as the Ministry of Tourism, the Ministry of Education and the Cultural Development Foundation) and individuals (such as Ms. Jacqueline Videl-Atherly, Dr. Robert lee, Mr. Adrian Augier, Ms. Berthia Parlem, Ms. Armelle Chatelier and Ms. Kelly Fontenelle), we are able to welcome you to a pageantry of Caribbean thought, an intellectual and cultural fete that demonstrates and celebrates the Caribbean impulse toward multifaceted self-realization and global interaction. As always, we take great pleasure in the knowledge that this event beckons the rest of the world to look further than our celebrated tourist and business attractions to the strong, pulsing heart of our unique, vibrant, and complex culture. In the process we undoubtedly advance world-wide understanding of and appreciation for our presence in the world—for what we in (and of) the Caribbean bring to the world.

As Co-Founders of ICCL and as members of the faculty of two of America’s major educational institutions (Morehouse College and Purdue University Calumet), Jorge Roman-Lagunas and I are pleased to bring ICCL to another very special place on the Caribbean World Map—beautiful, simply beautiful St. Lucia. As far as Jorge and I are concerned—and I think you will agree with us—ICCL has claimed its highest legitimacy by coming to the home of the legendary Nobel Laureate, The Honorable Derek Walcott, and by conducting this conference to his global honor.

Once again, we anticipate an epic range and sweep in the deliberations of ICCL as we examine the literatures and culture of the Caribbean. We invite you to immerse yourselves in the critical and creative presentations of the conference and to participate in the rich and invigorating conversations which have become the hallmark of ICCL. During our stay on your island, may we find out more about the lives and the culture of the people of St. Lucia and, in the finding, we allow our spirits to embrace the ubiquity and power of Caribbean literary and cultural expression.Thank you for having us, and welcome to ICCL.

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~Greetings from St. Lucia~

On behalf of the people of Saint Lucia we welcome you to our beautiful island, well known everywhere for the artistic and intellectual achievements of its sons and daughters. We hope that your schedule of presentations will allow you some time to tour our mountains and valleys, our towns and villages, and to gain at least a substantial glimpse of our lives.We thank you for choosing Saint Lucia for your 9th International Conference on Caribbean Literature. We think that your organizers and host colleges have made a most timely choice, and we trust that this may turn out to be one of your most successful meetings.We also take the opportunity to thank those among us who have helped to make the hosting of this Conference a reality. As you are aware, the demands on public and private sectors for sponsorship of events like this one are growing exponentially, and it is not always easy to find the extra funds needed to host a well-organized meeting of professionals. However, your presence here indicates the determination and resolve of those who have kept faith in their vision of the possibilities of such a gathering, which congregates annually to discuss the unique contribution of Caribbean writers to world literature. We are certain that our own Saint Lucian Nobel Laureate for Literature, whose quality writing is universally admired, would also add his voice to our welcome. We are very pleased that he has been invited to be your keynote speaker.We look forward to making your stay among us a pleasant one.

Local Planning Committee9th International Conference on Caribbean LiteratureBay Gardens Hotel,Gros Islet, Saint LuciaNovember 7th – 9th 2007

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Local Planning Committee Members

JACQUELINE VIDAL-ATHERLY was born on November 2, 1950 in Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso). She pursued her primary and secondary studies in Abidjan (Ivory Coast) and

obtained her Baccalaureat in Paris. She then moved to England where she perfected her English at Wandsworth College. She is a graduate of the Universite Paul Valery in

Montpellier (France). She has been a language tutor since 1971 and has made St. Lucia her home since 1987. She is currently lecturer in French Literature at Sir Arthur Lewis

Community College. She is also an artist and a poetess.

Adrian Augier is a poet, artist, theatre producer, economist, and director of St. Lucia Festivals Ltd.

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Local Planning Committee Members

"JOHN ROBERT LEE (born Saint Lucia, 1948) has published several collections of poetry. His poems and short stories can be found in a number of anthologies. He has contributed over many years to print journalism, and radio and television interview programmes. His publications include "Saint

Lucian" (1988), "Artefacts" (2000) and "Canticles" (2007). His "elemental: new and selected poems" is forthcoming from Peepal Tree Press in 2008. He compiled and edited "Roseau Valley and other poems" (2003). He also co-edited with fellow poet Kendel Hippolyte, "Saint Lucian Literature and

Theatre: an anthology of reviews" (2006). He is a library consultant and a keen creative photographer."

Armelle Chatelier is an historian of Africa, and a cultural and communication specialist. She worked at the regional Caribbean level for the creation of cultural network among the eastern

Caribbean including French West Indies.

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Special Guest Speaker

Dr. Patrick A. B. Anthony

Monsignor Dr. Patrick A. B. Anthony (b. 1947) is a Saint Lucian priest who is well known for his advocacy work in the field of Saint Lucian folk culture. He is the founder of the 30 year-old Folk Research Centre. He holds a Master of Arts in Theology from the Catholic Theological Union at Chicago (1987,) and a Doctorate from the University of the West Indies (St. Augustine, 2000) on the work of Derek Walcott.He is Director of the Archdiocesan Pastoral Centre and editor of the monthly Catholic Chronicle. He is one of the editors of Theology in the Caribbean Today, proceedings of the annual conference on Caribbean Theology.He has been a visiting lecturer at the Centre for Religious Communication, University of Dayton, Ohio (Summer 1993) and a research partner and faculty member at the Centre for Mission Research and Study, Maryknoll, New York.In February 2000, he was awarded the Saint Lucia Cross by the Government of Saint Lucia.He has been a close friend of the painter Dunstan St. omer and has published several papers on the work of this Catholic painter and muralist.

Special Guest Speaker

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George Nyamndi

George Nyamndi was born in the British Southern Cameroons, where he attended primary and secondary schools. He later studied in the Universities of Bern and Lausanne, both in Switwzerland. He holds a Ph.D. in literatures in English from the University of Lausanne, obtained in 1983. He is currently Senior Lecturer in African and English literature at the University of Buea, Cameroon, and Head of the Department of English. He has published extensively in African literature, and has authored a book of plays: The Silver Lining, and a highly acclaimed political treatise: Whether Losing Whether Winning. His first novel, Babi Yar Symphony, will be released soon.George Nyamndi is one of Cameroon’s frontline politicians. In 2004 he made a bid for the presidency of his country and left a lasting impression. He believes that the race will end in victory. He and wife Henrietta, a magistrate by profession, have four children.

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Special Guest

Dunstan St. Omer

This lifelong friend of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott whom the poet eulogized in Another Life (1972) was born in Saint Lucia on 24th October 1927. He is arguably the leading Catholic artist and muralist in the Caribbean.He is married with nine children (many of them also artists). His early apprenticeship in art was with Harold Simmons (1914-1966) who also was mentor to Derek Walcott. Simmons was also memorialized in Another Life.In 1956 St. Omer received a UWI Extra Mural department scholarship to study art in Puerto Rico for thirteen months.Over the years, he has produced hundreds of landscapes, views of the Pitons, abstracts, portraits and his trademark Madonnas. He has also painted a number of church and public murals, many reflecting the folk culture of Saint Lucia. He has also painted murals in Trinidad, Martinique and Puerto Rico.St. Omer celebrates his 84th birthday during the ICCL Conference in Saint Lucia.

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SCHEDULE at a Glance

Wednesday, November 7

9:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. Concurrent Sessions

10:20 a.m. – 10:45 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

12:15 p.m. – 1:50 Luncheon

2:00 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

7:30 – 10:30 p.m Official Opening Ceremony and Reception________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Thursday, November 8

9:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. Concurrent Sessions

10:20 a.m. – 12:05 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

12:15 p.m. – 1:50 Luncheon

2:00 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

7:00p.m An Evening with St. Lucian Writers________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Friday, November 9

9:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. Concurrent Sessions

10:20 a.m. – 12:05 p.m. SPECIAL PANEL

12:15 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. Luncheon

3:00 P.M. – 7:00 p.m. Tour

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General Information

Admission to Conference Sessions

Your name badge is your "ticket " to the concurrent sessions, the lunches, the official opening and reception and transportation to and from Ruth Seaton James Center for Performing Arts. You will not be admitted to meeting rooms or conference functions without your badge. "Celebrate Bermuda" requires an additional admission ticket, which may be purchased from the Conference Secretariat.

Art ExhibitionThe Art Exhibition showcases the work of prominent St.Lucian artists. The exhibition runs from 8:am Wednesday to 3P.m Friday. .

Book Display

Various bookstores publishers and artists have books on display at Bay Gardens Hotel. Runs from 8a.m Wednesday to 3p.m Friday.

Conference Secretariat

The Conference Secretariat is located at the Bay Gardens Hotel. The Secretariat will be open from 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, from 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. on Thursday and from 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. on Friday. Telephone numbers are (758) 452-8060.

Copies of Papers

Upon arrival, you should provide the Secretariat with an abstract and a copy of your paper.

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Dress

Please feel free to dress casually for the Concurrent Sessions and for the Writers Night. However, attire that is more formal is required for the Official Opening.

Evaluation

You are asked to complete the evaluation form which is enclosed in your Conference Packet. This form will be used in planning the 2000 Conference. Your assistance here is critical! Completed forms may be returned to the Secretariat or to:

Melvin RahmingMorehouse College830 Westview DriveS. W. Atlanta, Georgia 30314-3773FAX (404) 525-6272

Or

Jorge Ramon-Lagunas,Purdue University Calumet2200 169th St.Hammond, Indiana 46323-2094FAX (219) 989-2581.

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OFFICIAL PROGRAM OF THE 9TH CONVENTION OF THEINTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CARIBBEAN LITERATURE

WEDNESDAY

Panel A-1 “Reformation of the Word: The ‘Shape’ of RevolutionaryMessages”

9:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. Room: BOUGAINVILLEA

CHAIR:  Dr. Akilah Emily Williams, Savannah College of Art and Design (Atlanta Campus), Georgia

Dr. Stephanie Batcos: Savannah College of Art and Design (Atlanta Campus) Georgia“Lessons from the Writer: Olive Senior's Over the Roofs of the World and the Interface

of the Caribbean-Canadian Reader"

Dr. LaJuan Simpson, Clayton State University, Clayton, Georgia  "Interrogating the Silence: Marlene NourbeSe Philip's She Tries

Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks"

Dr. Keith Mitchell, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Massachusetts“A Still Burning Fire: Afua Cooper’s Triptych of Resistance”

WEDNESDAY

A-2 Trinidadian Writers and the Imperatives of Historiography 9:00 – 10:20 a.m Room: BEGONIA

Chair: James Morrison, Centre College, Danville, Kentucky

Dr. Brenda V. DoHarris, Bowie State University, Maryland“Tanti versus Aunti: The Female Identity in Merle Hodge’s Crick Crack Monkey”

Dr. Anju Kanwar, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia“Lifting the Trapdoor: Comedy, Rage and Acceptance of V. S. Naipaul’s India

Dr. Yoko Mitsuishi,“To Be Black and Multi-Ethnic: A Narrative Voice of Earl Lovelace”

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WEDNESDAY

B-1 Cultural Problematics and the Hegemonic Other10:45 – 12:05 p.m Room: BOUGAINVILLEA

Chair: Robert Bray, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois

Dr. Maria Smorkaloff, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey“Notes on Literature, Film and Society: Caribbean Culture in a Digital Age”

Dr. Fran Botkin. Towson University, Maryland“Look to the Mountain: Storytelling and the history of Colonial Jamaica”

Dr. Linda Clemente, Ripon College, Ripon, WI“Black and Yellow Make Gray: Hegemony and the Other in Michèle Maillet’s L’Etoile

Noire”

WEDNESDAY

B-2 TEXTURED CONSCIOUSNESS: ETHNOCENTRISM, TIMELESSNESS,AND MEMORY

10:45 a.m. – 12:05 p.m Room: BEGONIA

CHAIR: Dr. Anju Kanwar, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia

Dr. Victor J. Ramraj, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada“Sasenarine Persaud: A Literary Ethnocentric?”

Mr. Marc Muneal, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia“Casting Off Clock and Calendar: ‘Timelessness’ and the Question of Its Sustainability”

Dr. Jeffrey C. Barrett; Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia“Remembering the Past / Discovering the Future: Giving Voice to Memory in Uva de

Aragon’s Memoria del silencio”

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WEDNESDAY

B-3 Spanish History, Social Romanticism and Poetry 10:45 – 12:05 p.m. Room: LANTANA

CHAIR: Dr. Reuben Gomez, Saint John Fisher College, Rochester, New York

Dr. Favio Lopez-Lazaro, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California “Conclusive archival proof for the historicity of Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez (1690)”

Dr. Elena Grau-Lleveria, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida “El romanticismo social en Dos mujeres de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda”

Dr. William Teipe, Virginia Technological University, Blacksburg, Virginia “Juana Borrero: Contesting Feminine Representation in Ekphrastic Poetry”

Dr. Joan Torres-Pou, Florida International University, Miami, Florida “Rastaquoueres, cocotos y estetas: el Caribe en el Paris de fin de siglo”

L u n c h12:15-2:00 p.m

SPEAKER: TBA

C-1 Before the Morning Comes: Images of Identity, Suffering, Chaos, and Decay

2:00 p.m. – 3: 20 p.m. Room: BOUGAINVILLEA

Chair: Marc Muneal, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

Dr. Cherie Meacham, North Park University, Chicago, Illinois “The Body as Key: Corporal Images of Oppression and Liberation” in Stories from the

Blue Lattitudes: Caribbean Writers at Home and Abroad”

Dr. Kathleen Bulgar-Barnett, Virginia Military Institute“Tropical Butterflies in Antonio Benitez Rojo”

Dr. Consuella Bennett, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia

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“Rotten Eggs and Local Chickens: A Farewell to Innocence in Oonya Kempadoo’s Tide Running”

Dr. Alison Ligon, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia“In Search of a ‘True-True’ Name: Engaging the Identities of Women of Caribbean

Descent Through Oral Histories and Selected Literary Themes”

WEDNESDAYC-2 Challenging the Stratifications and Limitations of Genre

2:00 p.m. – 3: 30 p.m. Room: BEGONIA

Chair:  Dr. Akilah Emily Williams, Savannah College of Art and Design (AtlantaCampus), Georgia

Dr. Anna S. Blumenthal, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia "Claire Harris's She: The MPD Metaphor and the Post-Colonial Caribbean Woman"

Dr. Catherine Ramsdell, Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia "Nalo Hopkinson and the Reinvention of Science Fiction"

Ms. Ruby S. Ramraj, University of Calgary, Canada"Nalo Hopkinson: Transcending Genre Boundaries

Dr. Paula Smith Allen, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, Oklahoma"Transnationalism and Religious Historiography in Olive Senior’s Summer Lightning”

WEDNESDAY

C-3 Derek Walcott: Aspects of a Poet’s Evolution2:00 p.m. – 3: 20 p.m. Room: LANTANA

Chair: Dr. Kristen Mahlis, California State University, Chico

Dr. Swift Styles Dickison: Montgommery Collegy, Rockville, Maryland“Archipelagan Apprehensions: Poetics and Discourses in the Landscapes of Derek

Walcott’s The Prodigal”

Dr. Kayoko Terayama, Kokugakuin Junior College, Japan“Derek Walcott and the Sea”

Dr. Robert Bray, Illoinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois‘From Henri Christophe to the Haitian Earth: Derek Walcott’s Deepening Awareness of

“the Matter of Haiti”’

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WEDNESDAYD-1 Walcott, Pineau and Kincaid Voicing Caribbean Identities

3:45 p.m. – 5:05 p.m. Room: BOUGAINVILLEA

Chair: Dr. Sally Barbour, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Dr. Victoria Bridges Moussaron, Centre de recherches Anglophones (CREA) andUniversity de Charles de Gaulle Lille 111

“Derek Walcott: The Politics of Poetics, Tone and the Colonial Signifier”

Dr. Gerise Herndon, Nebraska Wesleyan University“Jamaica Kincaid’s Linguistic Negotiations and Cultural Ambivalence”

Dr. Sally Barbour, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina“Gisele Pineau’s Creolite in La Grande Drive des esprits”

WEDNESDAY

D-2 The Transnatural and Transcultural Presence of Haiti3:45 p.m. – 5:05 p.m. Room: BEGONIA

Chair:  Dr. Danielle Raquidel (University of South Carolina-Spartanburg):

Mr. Maurice Joseph, State University of Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Haiti“Text and Discursive Strategies: Haitian Aesthetics, the New Roman and Post-

structuralism”

Dr. Kristen Mahlis, California State University, Chico“Reflection on a Revolution not in France: Anglo-American Responses to the Haitian

Revolution:

Dr. Geta LeSeur, University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona“The Caribbean’s Separated Twins: Haiti and Santo Domingo in Danticat’s The Farming

of Bones

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WEDNESDAY

D-3 Cultural Revelations, Pedagogical Demands3:45 p.m. – 5:05 p.m. Room: LANTANA

Chair Dr. Michael Janis, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia

Dr. Philip Bailey, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas“Reading and Teaching Empathy through Francophone Literature”

Dr. Roberto Strongman, University of California, Santa Barbara, California“The Colonial Aparatus of the School: Development, Education, and Mimicry in Patrick

Chamoiseau’s Un Enfance CreoleII: Chemin-d’Ecole and Naipaul’s Miguel Street”

Dr. Jean-Luc Desalvo, San Jose State University, San Jose, California“Designing and Teaching an Online Course Taught in English on Francophone Literature

Through Cinema, with a Special Emphasis on Caribbean culture and Literature”

Dr. Danielle Raquidel, University of South Carolina-Spartanburg “Memoire de ‘temps-longtemps’ dans Ravines du devant-jour de Raphael Confiant”

OPENING CEREMONIES AND RECEPTION

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: THE HONORABLE DEREK WALCOTT

7:30 – 10:00 p.m

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Thursday

A-1 Derek Walcott: Towards an Integral Consciousness9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Room: BOUGAINVILLEA

Chair: Dr. Geta LeSeur, University of Arisona, Tuscon, ArizonaMr. Alvin Thomas, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA

“Derek Walcott: The Divided Adam”

Dr. Katsunori Kajihara, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan“The Sea and History: Derek Walcott’s Oxymoronic Poetics”

Dr. Jim Morrison, Centre College, Danville, Kentucky“Friday in Defoe, Walcott, and Coetzee: New Perspectives on Shipwrecks”

Dr. Nagueyalti Warren, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia“The Sacred Votive in the poetry of Derek Walcott”

Thursday

A-2 Beholding “the Future in the Instant”: A New Generation Reflects on Novelsby Earl Lovelace and Paule Marshall

9:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. Room: BEGONIA

Chair: Micah Moon, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia

Mr. Trevor Thomas: Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia“Rejuvenation of Self: Avey Johnson’s Spiritual Journey in Paule Marshall’s Praisesong

for the Widow”

Mr. Ralph Woodfolk, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia“Eve and Bolo: Overcoming the Destructive Nature of Colonial Oppression:

Anthony Dean, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia“The Futile Loners: Lovelace’s Aldrick and Bolo”

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THURSDAY

A-3 Análisis de narradores puertorriqueños, cubanos y dominicanos contemporáneos

9:00 – 10:20 a.m Room: LANTANA

CHAIR:  Danielle Raquidel, University of South Carolina-Spartanburg

Dr. Victor Simpson, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados “Mordiendose la cola: Puerto Rican Narrative of the  Mid 20th Century”

Dr. Nalda Báez, University of Texas Pan American“Exilio e identidad en tres obras de escritores dominico-americanos”.

Dr. Nalda Báez, University of Texas Pan American“Exilio e identidad en tres obras de escritores dominico-r. Candide Carrasco, Nazareth College of Rochester, Rochester, New

York “Zoe Valdés: Bailar con la vida y acabar con la literatura de papa

THURSDAY

B-1 With or Without a Compass: Literal and Figurative Voyages to and from the Caribbean

10:45 a.m. – 12:05 p.m. Room: BOUGAINVILLEA CHAIR:  Chair: Dr. Brenda Flanagan, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina

Dr. Sandra Campbell, Carleton University, Ontario, Canada “Lady Brassey’s 1883 Visit to Bermuda: Gender, Race, Class and Place in a Imperial Female Travel Writer’s Account of Bermuda”

Dr. Leah Creque, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Canada “No North Star: The Compass of Caribbean Canadian Writers”

Dr. Renu Juneja, Valparaiso University, Indiana“Naipaul’s Islamic ‘Travelnama”

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THURSDAY

B-2 “Infra-Textual” Considerations of Topography, Gender and Death10:45 a.m. – 12:05 p.m. Room: BEGONIA

CHAIR: Dr. Consuella Bennett, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia

Dr. Robin Vander, Xavier University, New Orleans, Louisiana"The Postmortem Narrative:  Chronicling Life and  Culture in Caribbean and Latin

American Fiction."

Ms. Stanka Radovic, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York“Squatters in the Cathedral of the Written Word”

DR. Carine Mardorossian, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York“Crossing Gender in Maryse Conde’s Histoire de le Femme Cannibale and Celanire

Cou-Coupe”

THURSDAY

B-3 Cuatro aproximaciones a la narrativa cubana10:45 a.m. – 12:05 p.m. Room: LANTANA

Chair: Dr. Viki Román-Lagunas, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois

Dr. Ana Isabel Rueda García, Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee  “De Cuba a New York: un viaje sin identidad en el panorama familiar de Dreaming in

Cuban”

Dr. Rubén Gómez, Saint John Fisher College Rochester, New York “Viaje a la semilla: en el cielo con diamantes de Senel Paz”

Dr. Dennis Seager, Oklahoma State University, Tulsa, Oklahoma “Leonardo Padura Fuentes: la escualidez y el mimetismo narrativo”

12:15 p.m. – 2:00 L U N C H E O N

(SPEAKER: TBA)

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THURSDAY

C-1 Historical, Theoretic and Imaginative Sites of Identity

2:00 – 3:40 p.m Room: BOUGAINVILLEA

Chair: Dr. Carol Marsh-Locket, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia

Dr. Rebecca L. Lee: University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri“Gender, Dictatorship and Memory: Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of Butterflies (1994)*

and Ramon Alberto Fererras’ Las Maribal (1982)”

Dr. Delores Stephens, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia“To ‘Let Be’ or not To ‘Let Be’: Male protagonists’ Struggle with Transcultural and

Transnational Identity in Novels by Elizabeth Nunez”

Dr. Fatima Mujcinovic, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah“Judith Ortiz Cofer’s Silent Dancing: Recreating the Past Through Storytelling”

Dr. Rosalie Kiah, Norfolk State University, Virginia“Salient Themes in the Short Stories of Karl Sealy”

THURSDAY

C-2 Journeys to the Historical Present2:00 – 3:20 p.m Room: BEGONIA

Chair: Dr. Leah Creque, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia

Dr. Carol marsh-Lockett, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia“The Other Side of Paradise: Ian Strachan’s God’s Angry Babies”

Dr. Atsuko Furomoto, Nara Women’s University, Nara-shi, Japan“The Function of Water in The Farming of Bones”

Dr. Michael Janis, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia“Male Feminism and African Matriarchy in Sembene and Chamoiseau”

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THURSDAY

D-1 Conversations Between Religion, Art and History3:45 p.m. – 5:05.p.m. Room: BOUGAINVILLEA

Chair: Phillip Bailey University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas

Dr. Kately Demougeot, Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland“Edwidge Dantical’s Brother, I’m Dying and the Art of Storytelling”

Dr. Bill Clemente, Peru State College, Peru, NE“Earl Lovelace’s Blue and Bango, the Artistic Transformation of the Martyr and the

Clown, Brief Conversations to Salt”

Dr. Brenda Flanagan, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina“The 4th Wife of Iman Haji: Island Women in Polygamous Islam””

THURSDAY

D-2 Interior Esplanades and Bulwarks: Further Reflections on the Fiction ofEarl Lovelace and Paule Marshall

3:45 p.m. – 5:05 p.m. Room: BEGONIA

Chair: Anthony Dean Harris, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia

Mr. Micah Moon, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia“The Role of Spirit in Transcending the Curse of Education in Earl Lovelace’s The Wine

of Astonishment”

Mr. Vincent Gilbert, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia“Linking the Diasporic Chain”: A Comparison of Paul Marshall’s Praisesong for the

Widow and James Baldwin’s Giovani’s Room”

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Mr. Elkanah Reed, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia“Ivan Morton: The Assimilated Negro”

THURSDAY

D-3 Religiosidad, seducción y urbanidad en la literatura caribeña3:45 P.M. – 5:05 P.M. Room: LANTANA

Chair: Dr. Candide Carrasco, Nazareth College of Rochester, Rochester, New York

Dr. Marcela Saldivia-Berglund, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado “Nina, Virgen y prostituta: las adolescentes seductoras en la ficción de García Márquez”

Dr. Amarilis Hidalgo de Jesús, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania“ Blumesburg, . . Pennsylvania

“Urbanidad y convivencia en El retrato de Isolina y otros cuentos sin estrés de Amanda Díaz de Hoyos”

Dr. Caridad Rodríguez-Torres, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona “Africania y sincretismo religioso en la literatura cubana”

THURSDAY

AN EVENING WITH ST. LUCIAN WRITERS7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

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FRIDAY

A-1 Taking Another Look at Hip Hop: Helping Our Youth EmpowerThemselves

9:00 – 10:20 a.m Room: BOUGAINVILLEA

Chair: Dr. Jon Yasin, Bergen Community college, Paramus, New Jersey

Dr. Sherrise Truesdale, Minnesota State University“Criical Pedagogy for Educating the Gangsta”

Dr. Jon Yasin, Bergen Community college, Paramus, New Jersey“Doin’ for Self: How and Why the Hip Hop Generation Has Empowered Itself”

Mr. Maurice Pendleton: Minnesota State University, Mankato, MinnesotaHip Hop Illustration

FRIDAY

A-2 Las islas que no dejan repetirse: las realidades maravillosas en Marya y Alejo Carpentier”

9:00 – 10:20 a.m Room: BEGONIAChair: Dr. Carmen Torres-Robles, Purdue University, Indiana

Dr. Elena Grau-Lleveria, Coral Gables University, Coral Gables, Florida, California, Moraga, California

“Carpentier y Montero ante su fetiche haitiano: cuando el ganso canta para el cisne”

Dr. Eleuterio Santiago-Díaz, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico “De Alejo Carpentier a Mayra Montero: el voudu, la política y lo real maravilloso”

Dr. John Waldron, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont  “El deseo por el otro en Mayra Montero y Alejo Carpentier”

Dr. Claude-Rheal Malary, Saint Mary’s College of, Albuquerque, New ) “Carpentier y Montero ante su fetiche haitiano: cuando el ganso canta para el cisne”

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FRIDAY

B-1 SPECIAL SESSION.10:45 – 12:05 p.m Room: BOUGAINVILLEA

Chair: Dr. Robert Lee

MONSIGNOR DR. PATRICK ANTHONYGregorias, Apilo! D-unstan St. Omer: The Man and His Work

L U N C H E O NSpeaker: Dr. George Nyamndi, University of Buea, Cameroon

Corporeality as Ideological Trope in African Drama 12:15 – 1: 50 p.m

Closing Remarks: Dr. Jorge Román Lagunas, Purdue University Calumet

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ICCL wishes to Thank…

The Honorable Derek WalcottSLTB for sponsoring the opening reception

Jorge on Radio Saint LuciaArts & Crafts Cooperative for the exhibition

Sunshine Bookstore for the book tablesAdrian Augier for contributing his venue, The Grotto

Samaans Park, for the readingsLocal media

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Index of Participating Institutions

Aichi Prefectural University, Arizona State University Bergen Community collegeBoston University Bowie State University Bloomsburg University of PennsylvaniaCalifornia State University Carleton University Clayton State University  Centre College Centre de recherches Anglophones (CREA)Colorado State University Coral Gables University Cornell University Emory University Florida International University Kokugakuin Junior College Georgia State University Illinois Wesleyan University Minnesota State UniversityMontclair State University Montgommery Collegy Morehouse CollegeNara Women’s University Nazareth College of Rochester Nebraska Wesleyan UniversityNorfolk State University North Park University Northeastern Illinois University Oklahoma State University Peru State College Purdue University CalumetRipon College, Ripon Saint John Fisher College Saint Mary’s College of Albuquerque San Jose State University Santa Clara University Savannah College of Art and Design State University of Haiti, Port-au-PrinceTennessee State University Towson University, MarylandUniversity at Buffalo, Buffalo University de Charles de Gaulle Lille 111University of Arizona University of BueaUniversity of California

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University of Calgary University of Central Arkansas, University of Massachusetts University of Miami University of Missouri University of New Mexico University of South Carolina-SpartanburgUniversity of Texas Pan American University of the West Indies University of Vermont   Virginia Technological University Wake Forest University Washington and Lee University, Lexington Westminster College Xavier University

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List of ParticipantsDr. Akilah Emily WilliamsDr. Alison Ligon Mr. Alvin ThomasDr. Amarilis Hidalgo de Jesús Dr. Ana Isabel Rueda GarcíaMr. Anthony DeanDr. Anju KanwarDr. Anna S. BlumenthalDr. Atsuko Furomoto Dr. Bill ClementeDr. Brenda V. DoHarrisDr. Candide Carrasco Dr. Caridad Rodríguez-Torres Dr. Carine Mardorossian Dr. Carol marsh-LockettDr. Catherine RamsdellDr. Cherie Meacham Dr. Claude-Rheal Malary Dr. Consuella BennettDr. Danielle RaquidelDr. Dennis Seager Dr. E, Delores StephensDr. Elena Grau-LleveriaDr. Eleuterio Santiago-DíazMr. Elkanah ReedDr. Fatima MujcinovicDr. Favio Lopez-Lazaro Dr. Fran BotkinDr. George Nyamndi Dr. Gerise HerndonDr. Geta LeSeurDr. J. Torres-Pou, Florida Dr. Jean-Luc DesalvoDr. Jeffrey C. BarrettDr. Jim MorrisonDr. John Waldron Dr. Jon Yasin, Dr. Jorge Roman LagunasDr. Kately DemougeotDr. Kathleen Bulgar-Barnett Dr. Katsunori Kajihara

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Dr. Kayoko TerayamaDr. Keith Mitchell Dr. Kristen MahlisDr. LaJuan Simpson Dr. Leah Creque Dr. Linda ClementeMr. Marc MunealDr. Marcela Saldivia-Berglund Dr. Maria SmorkaloffMr. Maurice JosephMr. Maurice PendletonMr. Micah MoonDr. Michael Janis Dr. Nagueyalti Warren Dr. Nalda Báez Dr. Patrick AnthonyDr. Paula Smith AllenDr. Philip BaileyMr. Ralph Woodfolk Dr. Rebecca L. Lee Dr. Renu JunejaDr. Robert BrayDr. Robert LeeDr. Roberto StrongmanDr. Robin VanderDr. Rosalie Kiah Dr. Rubén Gómez Ms. Ruby S. RamrajDr. Sally Barbour Dr. Sandra Campbell Dr. Sherrise TruesdaleMs. Stanka RadovicDr. Stephanie BatcosDr. Swift Styles Dickison Mr. Trevor Thomas Dr. Victor J. RamrajDr. Victor Simpson, Dr. Victoria Bridges Moussaron Dr. Viki Roman-Luganas Mr. Vincent Gilbert Dr. William TeipeDr. Yoko Mitsuishi

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