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Society for the Study of the Short Story • English Department of the Faculty of Letters

University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES)

SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE SHORT STORY

Board Members: Clark Blaise (President), Bharati Mukherjee, Maurice A. Lee, Allan Weiss, Claire Larriere, Velma Pollard, Juani Guerra

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

Conference Director:

Maurice ALee, University of Central Arkansas

Lisbon Directors:

Teresa F. A. Alves, Teresa Cid

Scientific program coordinator:

Susan Lohafer, University of Iowa

Organizing Committee:

Alexandra Assis Rosa, Diana Almeida, Eduarda Melo Cabrita, Isabel

Mealha, Luisa Falcao, Luisa Maria Flora, Margarida Vale de Gato, Rita

Queiroz de Barros, Rute Beirante

Secretariat:

Claudia Pinto, Odilia Gaspar

Design:

Ines Mateus

Registration and Hotel Reservations

Maria de Jesus - Viagens ABREU, S. A. / Congress Deparment Av. 25 de Abril, 2 2799-556 Linda a Velha, Portugal Tel: +351 21 41561 24 Fax: +351 21 4156383

Acknowledgements

The Organizers of the 9th International Conference on the Short Story in English wish to express their gratitude to the local sponsors of this conference:

• Reitoria of the University of Lisbon • Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon • Luso-American Foundation (FLAD) • Funda~ao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (FCT) • Instituto Camoes

•• Instituto Portugues do Patrimonio Arquitectonico (IPPAR)

• ,,~amara Municipal de Lisboa • Camara Municipal de Oeiras • American Embassy • Culture Ireland • British Coundl • Livraria Escolar Editora • Clube Portugues de Artes e Ideias 1 Lugar Comum • Lusocede Recursos Humanos • Instituto do Turismo de Portugal

• BP • Compal • Delta Cafes • Aguas da Serra da Estrela

Conference Bookshops:

Livraria Escolar Editora Edificio Caleidoscopio Jardim do Campo Grande 1700-089 Lisboa Tel. +351 21 7575055 Fax. +351 21 7572491

Livraria Britanica R. Luis Fernandes, 14/8 Tel. +351 21 3428472 Fax. +351 21 3478209

9th International Conference on the Short Story in English

Views from the Edge: the Short Story Revisited

21·25th June 2006

Faculty of Letters University of Lisbon

Wednesday, June 21 2006

9:00 • 17:001Registration Desk

10:00 ·13:00 Creative Writing Workshops

Workshop 1 Room: Instituto de Cultura Inglesa

W0Ibh0p2 Room: Instituto de Cultura Americana

Workshop 3 Room: Centro de Unguas

RuiZink: "Snow White and Her 7 Shortcuts"

Amiri Baraka: "Culture, Language, Fact, Fiction, Media"

Ana Castillo: 'Unfinished Pieces: Keep or Trash?"

15:00 -18:00 Creative Writing Workshops

Workshop 4 Room: Instituto de Cultura Ingless

WorkshopS Room: Instituto de Cultura Americana

Workshop 6 Room: Centro de Unguas

Francine Prose: "Reading Like a Writer" .

Katherine Vaz: "Portuguese and American Writing"

Robert Olen Butler: "Creating Fictional Art"

18:30 -19:15 The Theatre of SeH· Fernando Pessoa and his heteronyms Aula Magna a presentation

Reitoria Building by Jonathan Weightman, Thorn Grigg, John Elliott. Mick Greer

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• Ma Elena Garcia Sanchez, Universitv ofAlmeria

• Erik Van Achter, University ofUtrecht

• Maria Elena Rodriguez Martin, University of Granada

11:00 -11:3OICoffee Break "J

11:30 -13:15 PLenary Session I Anf.1II1 Language to Language: The Problematic Art of Translation

moderator: Joilo Flor, University ofUsbon

• George Monteiro, Brown University • Alexandra Assis Rosa, University ofLisbon • Giovanni Nadiani, University of Bologna • Marfa Antonia PJvarez, Distance Teaching University, Spain • Nicolas ShumwaY, University ofTexas atAustin

13:30 -14:00 Lunch Break 14:15 -15:00 Coffee and cake with Reading by Urbano Tavares Rodrigues

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the Dean of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, and the Rector of the University of Lisbon

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The Short Story in the Poe at the Crossroads of The Art of Science Fiction

Language-Learning Classroom Influence

IrnodeI'ator: Teresa Malafaia,

University ofLisbon

moderator: Luisa Flora,

ofUsbon

·Cordwainer Smith: Centuriu of

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"Poe's Short Stories and the

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• Maria do Rosario Monteiro,• Filch O'Connell, • Viarica Patea Bil1

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,5;00 16:30 'MIIM.! Room: Anf.11I Identity and Closure in the Short Story

moderator: Per Winther, University of Oslo

"Fleshing Gender Out: Male Fantasies and Female Body Issues in Peter Carey's 'Peeling'"

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"Elizabeth Bishop's 'In the Village': Short Story or Long Prose Poem?"

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• Ernesto Suarez-Toste, University ofCastilla-La Mancha

"Identity and Innovation in the Modem Short Story: Whal is the Moral of the Story? An ongoing process in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango street, Darrell H.Y. Lurn's Encountering SOI1OW, Farrukh Dhondy's 'The Great Satan,' and Chu-Ching Chen's 'The Returnee'" • Alicia Olano, University of Navarre "The Non-sense of an Ending: Cardoso Pires and the 'Short-Story' in Portugal"

• Silvia Oliveira, Purdue University

"Temporal Anomaly': Death and Closure in 21 51-Century Fiction"

• Ailsa Cox, Edge Hill

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Room: Anf. IV Australian Writers: Peter Carey and TIm Winter

moderator: William Wall

• Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia, University ofAveilll

"Gems of Change Into Seeds of Fame: A Post-Colonial Account of Ipeter Carey's Stories in the Context of the shadow industry'" i Aurora Garcia Femandez, University ofOviedo

"Tuming' as Theme and Structure in Tim Winton's Short Stories"

• Stephen Torre, James Cook University

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moderator: Billie Travalini, Lincoln University

"The Trees at the Edge of the Cemetery: Narrative Technll4Ulln II""'SM" Slay by C,'" Co""'" • Bruce Kohler,

Univers~y of Picardie Jules Verne

"As Told By Women'

• Katie Singer, Fairleigh Dickinson University

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Patterns in the Reception of Translated literature

moderator: Eduarda Melo Cabrita, UnivelSity of Lisbon

"Short Stories in English Translation: the Case of Brazilian Machado de Assis (1839-1908)"

• Valmi Hatje-Faggion, University of Brasilia

Case of Rebecca Harding Davis's 'Ufe in the Iron Mills'"

• Paola Gaudio,

University of Bari

'''The Inconceivable Man': Melville's Short Stories Lost and Found in Translation"

• Rute Beirante, JJnivers~ofLisbQt1 _ _ _

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moderator: Patrick Meanor, State UniversitY of New York -Oneonta

"From Catastrophe to History: Notes Toward a Categorisation of A History of the World in 10 Y2 Chaptel'S'

• Mario Semiao, UnivelSily ofLisbon

"Canonical 191h-Century American "Ekphrastic Desire and Anxiety in Literature in Italian Translation: the Robert Olen Butler's Had a Good

Time: Stories From American Postcards" • Michael Trussler,

UnivelSity of Regina

"Displacing the Edge: Steven Millhauser's The New Automaton Theater"

• Andrzej Gabinski, University Complutense de Madrid

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Expatriate Experience

moderator: Minoli Salgado, University ofSUssex

"Expatriates on the Edge: Garcia Marquez's Strange Pilgrims"

• Wendell Aycock, Texas Tech UniversMy

"'East meets West coming round Ih' other way': Tangier in the Short Fiction of Paul Bowles and William S. Burroughs"

- Maria Porras sanchez,

University Complutense de Madrid

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"Hybrid Stories, Mixed Identities: A Quest for the Self in the Indo-American Emigre Writers Lalita Gandbhir and Hema Nair"

• Juan Ignacio Oliva, University of La Laguna

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moderator: Jennie Wang, University of Fudan

"Marriage and Charactelization in Short Stories: From Maugham to Weldon"

• Eva M. Perez Rodriguez, University of the Balearic Islands

"Humor and the American Short Story: The Little Man Revisited"

• Paul McDonald, University of WoIverf1ampton

"From One Misunderstanding to Another Misunderstanding: The Chinese Portrayed in Jack London's Short Stories" • E-chou Wu, Providence Unive~__ _

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"Woman as Artist and Outsider Failed Relationships in 'Meneseteung' by Alice Munro";

moderator: Rita aueiroz de Barros, University of IJsbon

"The Letier as an Experimental Narrative Unit in Postcolonial Literature in Portuguese"

• Linda McMillan, Purdue University - Calumet

• Rebecs Hemandez, University ofSalamanca

"Jhumpa Lahiri's Conflicted World "Frames Speaking: Bemard of Immigrants and Outsiders in Interpreter of Maladies"

• Zenobia Mistri, Purdue Universrry - Calumet

"Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies'

• Blasina Cantizano Marquez, ~rsity ofAlmeria

Malamud, Leslie Mannon Sllko, and the Reader"

• Per Winther, University of Oslo

"Runaway Shadows: Literary and Graphic Representations since 'The Strange Story of Peter Schlemihl' by Chamisso" • Susana Oliveira, New U. ofLisbon I Faculty ofArchffecture -UTL

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11:30 -13:15 Plenary Session II . ~Iiio ~o~re'lReflections on the Life of Teaching and Writing

Reitona BUilding moderator: Clari< Blaise

• Charles E. May, California State Universffy - Long Beach • Bharali Mukherjee, UniversityofCalifomia-Berkeley • Per Winther, University of Oslo • Francine Prose • TeoIinda Gersao, New University of Lisbon

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moderator: Luc Hem1an, Univetsity ofAntwerp

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• Luc Herman, Univetsity ofAntwerp

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• Jacqueline Berben-Masi, University of Nice

"The Politics of Creation: The Short Story in South Africa and the United States"

• Lloren Foster, Hampton University

IM'YW;' Room:Anf.1I1 Pushing the Limits of Genre: From Midrash to Postmodemism

moderator: Tamas Dobozy, Wilfrid.L.aurier Univetsity

"Midrash, Kabbalah, and Short Fiction: Borges and Kalka"

• Rodger Kamenetz, Louisiana State University

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• Tamas Dobozy, Wilfrid Laurier UniV(jrsf!l'..

'''too weird, too edgy': Chuck Palahniuk and the Limits of the American Short StOIy"

• Philip Coleman, Trinity College Dublin

'M'. Room: Anf. IV Visual Model••nd thl Aesthetlca of the Short Story

moderator: Teresa Alves, Univetsity ofUsbon

"Visual Images of the Sacred Family in the Stories of Helena Maria Viramontes"

• David Peck,

California State University - Long Beach

'''Every feeling waits upon its gesture': Eudora Welty's 'Snapshots' and the Art of Short Fiction" • Diana Almeida, Univetsity ofUsbon I ·Sister Arts: Sequenuality and Synchronicity in K. Mansfield's 'Spring Pictures' and V. Woolfs 'In the Orchard'"

• Silvia Mergenthal, University of Konstanz

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moderator: Robert Luscher, University of Nebraska - Kearney

"Cultural Identity and the Haitian "What Has Happened to Martin "Autobiography and the Short Stories Diaspora in E. Danticat's Krik? Amis's Short Stories?" of Charles BukowskI" Krack!: The Use of Memory and the Possibilities of the Short Story I Sequence"

• W. Todd Martin, HJl.ntington UniveJility

• Ana Raquel Fernandes, University ofUsbon

• David Boal, University of Toulouse

"Propeny Belonging Nowhere in "Bidding for 'home': "The Ghostiy Body of England in Particular: White Migrants and Homelessness in Rushdie's 'At Mary Butts' 'With and Without Discontinuous Short Narratives" the Auction of the Ruby Slippers'" Buttons'"

• Victoria Kultainen, • Ana Cristina Mendes, • Thomas Slingsby, ~~ofQueensland Univetsity ofLisbon University ofSussex

"Clark Blaise's Pittsburgh Stories: In Search of Lost Time"

• Robert Luscher, Univetsity of Nebraska-Keamey

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The New British Literature

moderator: Diana Reich, Smell Worn:Ier - Artistic Director

"An Assault on the Short Story: Anthologies by Young British Authors at the End of the 20th Century"

• Jose Francisco Fernandez, University ofAlmeria

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Autobiographical Dimensions in Stories by Selected Authors

moderator: Isabel Femandes Allies, University of T ms-{)s-Mon/es eAlto Doom

"Short Story and Fact in Emest Hemingway'S A Moveable Feasf'

• Mario Vitor F. Araujo Bastos, University ofUsbon

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"From Judgment to Analysis in the "Lost and Found: The Ongoing Short Story Workshop: A Vital 'Rediscovery' of Ambrose Bierce" Transition for Undergraduates"

• Daniel Stolar, • Craig A, Warren, DePaul University Penn State University - Erie

"Elizabeth Bowen: Formal Qualities of the Short Fiction"

• Aaron Zacks, University of Texas - Austin

DePaul Unive, • Kevin Quirk,

"Writing Across Genres: The "Agatha Christie" Non/Fiction Workshop"

• Michele Morano, DePaul University

"Teaching the Marvels and Clustering"

• Morris Grubbs, Lindsey Wilson College

• Sarah Whitney, UnivelSity of Virginia

Room: Anf. IV Narrative Exchlngl. eetw.en Story and Novil

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I"From Story to Novel: ApartheidEra South African Narratives and Genre Distinctions"

• Richard Lee.

State University ofNew Yorl< - Oneonta

"From 'Wash' to Absalom, Absalom!: Faulkners Narrative Transformation"

• Charles Dameron, University of Texas - Brownsvll/t

'Extraction as Siory: Rudolpho Anaya's 'Salomon's Story' from Tortuga"

• Farhat Iftekharuddin, Universitv ofTexas - Brownsville

"The Wages of Popularity is Death: I"The Novel at lhe Edge of the The Case of H. E. Bates" Story"

• Sena Jeter Naslund, Penn Stale University - Erie • Dean Baldwin,

University ofLouisville

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Revisiting the Canon

moderator: Teresa Cid. University ofLisbon

"Cross-Dressed Genre: Faulkner'S 'The Bear' in Big Woods, God Down Moses, and The Saturday Evening Post"

• Susan Rochette, Univers~yofNorthern Iowa

"Among Gross Bodies and Caterpillar-Queens: The Carnival Perspective in Woolfs Short Stories" • Isabel Ma Andres Cuevas. University ofGranada

"Truman Capote's 'The Bargain' and 'Preacher's Legend': The Return of the Old Storyteller"

• Emilio Cailadas. Universitv Francisco de Vitoria

"From Salem to Iraq: Yung Goodman Brown at the Edge of the Twenty-First Century"

• Ruth Stoner, University ofMalaga

Room: 4 Portuguese I Alnerican Crossovers moderator: Onesimo Teot6nio Almeida, Brown Universitv

"Katherine Val's Portuguese-American Roots as Incentive for Short Story Writing

• Reinaldo Silva, Universitv ofAveiro

"Joyce Carol Oates's Azulejos: Fernando Pessoa in America"

• Susana Isabel Costa Araujo, University ofLisbon

"E. A. Poe and the Fanlastic Portuguese Tale at the Crossroads of Modem Literature"

• Margarida Vale de Gato, University ofLisbon

"The Manipulation of Time in Katherine Val' 'My Hunt for King Sebasli~o'"

• Mario Avelar, IOpen Universitv

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moderator: Maria Jose Figueiredo,

University of Lisbon

•Cristina Carvalho, free-lance translator

•Francisco Jose Gonqalves, Ijoumalist and free-lance translator

•Maria Jose Figueiredo, UnivelSity of Usbon

• Diana Almeida UnivelSity of Lisbon

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II:JU·11:QO IM'1. Room:Anf.1I Aging and Family Life: A Thematic Approach

moderator: Alcinda Pinheiro de Sousa, University ofUsbon

"Glimpses of Old Age in Julian Bames's The Lemon Table"

• Maricel Oro Piqueras, University ofL/eida

"Bordering the Edges: Towards a Redefinition of Family Roles in Contemporary American Short-Story Writing"

• Maria Rosa Burillo Gadea, Ut:!~ Complutense de Madrid

"Ann Beattie's Follies: Families who Say Too Little and Feel Too Much"

• Maria Salome Faria Braga Osorio, University ofMinho

'.t40:, Room: AnI. III Chopin and Porter: Women Writers on War, Society, and Female Authorship

moderator: Katie Singer, Fairleigh Dickinson University

"Wars, Wonds and Ghosts in Katherine Ann Porter's Short Fiction" • Susana Ma Jimenez-Placer, University of Santiago de Compostela

"Alcee ('the Decadent Man') and Calixta ('the New Woman'): A Victorian Reading of Kate Chopin's' 'At the 'Cadian Ball' and Its Sequel, 'The Storm'" • Ben Bennani, United Arab Emirates University

"Kate Chopin's Letter to the Wond: 'Elizabeth Stock's One Story'"

• Priscilla Leder,

Texas State University - San Marros

IM',OM Room: AnI. IV Wolff, Dubus, and Updike: Techniques and Themes in Three Contemporary Authors

moderator: Moira Crone, Louisiana State University

"The Smallness of Earthly Things: Updike's Art of Verbose Brevity"

• Joao Paulo Moreira, University of Coimbra

"Narrators in Tobias Wolff's Shari Stories"

• Santiago Rodriguez Guerrero· Strachan, University of Valladolid

"Troubled Identities and Spiritual Crisis in Andre Dubus's Short Fiction"

• Jose Ramon Ibanez Ibanez, University r:IAlmeria

11:30 ·13:15 Plenary Session III Ant, IIII Cognitive Approaches to Short Fiction

moderator: Susan Lohafer, University of Iowa

• Catherine Emmott, University ofGlasgow'

Capturing the Attention of Readers of Short Stories"

• Monika Fludemik, University r:I Freiburg

"Cognitive Structures in Narrabve and Metaphor"

• Michael Toolan, University ofBinningham

"Narrative Texture, Organisation, and Effect: Corpus Stylistic Evidence"

• Juani Guerra, University ofLas Paimas "Human Cognition, Linguistic Fiction and Literary Text: Topologicel Correlatives as 'Natural' Morals of

Arlprose Execution" • Susan Lohafer, University ofIowa

"The Third Reason Why Alice Munro Does Not Write Novels: A Prec/osure Study of 'Hateship, Friendship, Courtshio, LOV6Ship, MarriaQem

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IR: moderator: Patrick Meanor, State University ofNew York -OneontaI"-="Joyce's 'The Sisters': Male,a=- Female, or Both?" • Patrick Meanor, State University of New York.=Oneonta "American Epicleli: Using James Joyce to Read Raymond Carver"

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'The Anthology in Portugal: A Gendered Activity?"

• Patricia Anne Odber de Baubeta, 'Catedl'll GH Vicente', University of

Birmingham

"Living at the Edge: A Few Considerations on the French Contemporary Short Story""

• Claire Larriere

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Theorizing and Thematizing Space in the Short Story

moderator: Alda Correia, New University ofUsbon

"Short Story and Space: Genre and Gender at a Crossroads"

• Ana Belen Lopez Perez, Universfty of Santiago de Compostala

"Transversal space in the Short

Story: Space in Clarice Lispector's Family Ties"

• Duarte N. Drummond Braga, University ofUsbon

'''From the edge of the red sandstone cliff: Looking for a Beloved Landscape of Solitude and Revelation"

• Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves, University of T ras-os-Montes e ANo Douro

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"Jean Rhys's 'Heat' and the "Story-Telling Techniques in "The Indistinct Border Between Tragedy of Mont Pelee" Thomas King's A Short History of Moral and Immoral in Oscar

Indians in Canada" Wilde's The Happy Prince Ind Other Tales"

• Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, • Teresa Gibert, • Tiago Miguel Correia GuelTlllO Vassar College National University of Distance da Silva,

Education New University ofUsbon

"Sociological Approaches to the "Strategies of Self-Construction In Short Story {With Illustrations from E. E. Cummings' Fairy Tales" Canadian Short Fiction]" .., • Allan Weiss, University of York • M. Teresa Gonzalez,

English leacher in Madrid

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Sunrounding Barth: Postmodemism, Paranoia, and Metafiction

moderator: Juani Guerra, University of Las Palmas

"The Revision and Construct of Authorial Self Wilhin the Postmodem Short Story"

• Luisa Maria Gonzalez Rodriguez, University of Salamanca

"The Oriental Wife's Tale and the Postmodem Chaotic Arabesque: John Barth in Further Fridays"

• Jennie Wang, Furian University

"Everything is Connected: Paranoia as Frame of Interpretation in Stories by Barth, Barthalme, and Coover"

• Anne Marit K. Barga. University of Oslo

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Ambivalent Identities: Racial, Ethnic, and Social Representations in American Short Fiction

moderator: Isabel Caldeira, University of Coimbra

"Tricksterism ofToni Morrison's Recitalif and the Metaphor of Postmodemism"

• Anna Warso, University ofWarsaw

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• Luisa Costa Gomes

• Clark Blaise

• Claire Larriere

• Helena Vasconcelos

"O.Henry's Struggles for Existence: Who is Barbarian, Who is Primitive in American Society?" • Mauricio D. Aguilera Linde, University of Granada

"Code-switching in Sandra Cisneros' Short Stories"

• Consuelo Montes Granado, University of Salamanca

16:30 18:00 Room:Anf.1I Luisa Costa Gomes, Mike McCormack, Billie Travallni

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"CulturaVLinguistic Crossings and (Con)fusion in Puerto-Rican Dominican/Haitian Diasporic Literature" • Linda Maria Rodriguez

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Departure from Hotels to Oeiras

Visit to the Portuguese Poets' Park in Oeiras

Plenary SesslOn IV Personalized Art in a Globalized World moderator: Maurice A. Lee

- Ana Castillo • Robert Olen Butler • Lilia Momple • Mike McCormack • Claire Keegan • Peter Behrens

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13:30 -13:45Iclosing Session

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Contacts

Centro de Estudos Anglisticos Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa

Alameda da Universidade • 1600-214 Lisboa. Portugal

Tel.: +351 21 7920092 • Fax: +351 21 7960063

E-Mail: shortstory2006@fl.uLpt

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