Caribbean Without Borders Conference
The English Department of the University of Puerto Rico
Río Piedras Campus
Cordially Invites You to Attend:
The Caribbean Without Borders Conference
March 31 - April 2, 2008 - Anfiteatro Jorge Enjuto (Sala A)
Humanities College
Monday, March 31, 2008
Sala Jorge Enjuto (Sala A)
8:30-9:15 a.m. Coffee and Registration
9:15-9:25 a.m. Greetings and Opening Remarks by Dorsía Smith, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
9:25-9:35 a.m. Remarks by Dr. Luis Ramos Escobar, Dean of Humanities
9:35-9:45 a.m. Remarks by Dr. Loretta Collins, Director of the English Department
9:45-10:45 a.m. Keynote Address: Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming
10:50-11:50 p.m. Panel Session I: A Call to the Drum: Caribbean Music
Chair: Jo Anne Harris, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
Njelle Hamilton, Brandeis University, “‘What Should We Call This Thing?”: Transnational Jamaicanness and the Reggae Aesthetic in Colin Channer’s Waiting in Vain”
Josune Urbistondo, University of Miami, “Turning into the Role of Music in The Dragon Can’t Dance”
11:50-1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00-2:20 p.m. Panel Session II: Looking at La Isla: Representations of Puerto Rico
Chair: Raquel Puig, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
Marta Rivera Paczynska, Tufts University, “Penetrability and Pastiche: Magical Movement in Edgardo Vega Yunqué”
César Salcedo Chirinos, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, “Midiendo con Distintas Varas: Las Representaciones del Género, El Honor y La Raza en the Vida Diaria del Puerto Rico del Siglo XIX”
Raquel M. Ortíz Rodríguez, University of Salamanca, “Jibarismo en la Diaspora”
2:20-3:40 p.m. Panel Session III: Bridging Linguistic Connections: Caribbean Languages and Cultures
Chair: Daniel Nevárez, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
Ericka Wills, Illinois State University, “Caribbean Dialect Poets, Cultural Empowerment through Linguistic Variation”
Don Walicek, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, “Documenting Extrasituational Context: Anguillian Epistemologies in the Face of Temporal and Spatial Constraints”
Marta Viada, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, “The Macro-Ethnic Matrix of the Indigenous Peoples of the South-Eastern Insular Caribbean: Influence upon the Processes of Ethnogenesis and Creolization”
3:40-4:40 p.m. Panel Session IV: With an Eye towards Cuba: Reflections of Violence and Culture
Chair: Don Walicek, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
Melba Amador, University of New Mexico, “Dancing with the Past: Achy Obejas’ Memory Mambo”
Adriana Solís Black, Washington State University, “La Dinámica Interfamiliar en la Diáspora Cubana: Tres Momentos”
5:00 p.m. Welcome Reception at the Francisco Oller Gallery, Luis Pales Matos Building
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Sala Jorge Enjuto (Sala A)
9:30-10:00 a.m. Coffee and Registration
10:00-11:20 a.m. Panel Session V: Multiple Representations and Identities: Caribbean Drama and Poetry
Chair: Sue Engman, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
Norman Grant, Inter-American University, “These Islands are Yours: Neo-colonialism and the Contested Space of Identity in Derek Walcott’s Viva Detroit”
Juan R. Recondo, City University of New York Graduate Center, “The Caribbean in the Negro Ensemble Company: Representations of Obeah and Calypso in Errol Hill’s Man Better Man”
Linette Soucy, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, “The Caribbean ‘Eco’ in the Poetry of Laurence Lieberman”
11:20-1:00 p.m. Panel Session VI: With a Tale to Tell: Stories of Women, History, and Poverty
Chair: Cliff Armstrong, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
Rhoda Arrindell, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, “Mother Knows Best”
Mae Teitelbaum, University of Puerto Rico at Utuado, “Master Narrative: Misrepresenting History in Rosario Ferré’s Eccentric Neighborhoods”
David Brand, University of Toronto, “The Haitian Revolutionary Story in History and Fiction”
Raquel Puig, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, “The ‘Deserving Destitutes’ in A House for Mr. Biswas and The Swinging Bridge”
1:00-2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:20-3:40 p.m. Panel Session VII: The Power of Language: Creolization and Creole Languages
Chair: Dorsía Smith, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
Micah Corum, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, “Creolization in Atlantic and Pacific Communities: The Link between Sociétés de Cohabitation Urban Centers in Hawai’i”
Clifton Armstrong, University of the Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, “Optimality Theory and the Acquisition of Creole Syllable Structure”
Cándida González-López, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, “Creoles as Languages of Resistance: The Role of Cultural Resistance in the Genesis and Development of Creoles”
3:40-5:00 p.m. Panel Session VIII: Without Boundaries: Imagination, Modernization, and Construction
Chair: Cándida González-López, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
Eric Morales-Franceschini, University of California at Berkeley, “Tropics of Abjection, Bareness, Refuse, Corpses, and Monstrosity in the West Indian Imaginary”
Veronica Calvillo, University of New Mexico, “Una Denuncia hacia una Modernización Mal
Hecha en la Poesia de Pedro Pietri y Tato Laviera”
Heidi LaVine, University of Iowa, “Singular Stories: The Role of Media in Constructing a Pan-Caribbean Identity
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Sala Jorge Enjuto (Sala A)
9:00-9:30 a.m. Coffee and Registration
9:30-10:50 a.m. Panel Session IX: Explorations of Identity: Sexuality and Race
Chair: Victor Vázquez, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
Margarita Castromán, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, “Diachronic Silence: The Queer Diasporic Experience and The Noise of Infinite Longing”
Lauren Pragg, York University, “Queerness in Indo-Caribbean Literature”
Tracy Locke, York University, “Is It All in My Head? Internalized Racism in the Caribbean Canadian Community”
10:50-12:10 a.m. Panel Session X: Gendered Spaces: Women in Caribbean Literature
Chair: Janine Santiago, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
Chihoko Matsuda, Hitotsubashi University, “Black Cleopatra in Derek Walcott’s A Branch of Blue Nile”
Aida Luz Rodriguez, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, “From Margin to Center: The Urban Black Woman in Paule Marshall’s ‘Reena’”
Catalina Pérez Abreu, University of Notre Dame, “A Woman’s Place: At Home with Teresa de la Parra’s Women”
12:10-1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00-2:20 p.m. Panel Session XI: Shaping Caribbean Identity: Ethnicity, Culture, and Migration
Chair: Ileana Cortés, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
Ariana Guzmán, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, “The Construction of the Chinese Identity in Alicia Powell’s The Pagoda”
Juliette Mirande, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, “Culture and Identity in the Caribbean”
Katherine Miranda, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, “‘My Mother… a Stranger’: Caribbean Daughters of Migrant-Mothers in Me Dying Trial and The Heart Does Not Bend”
2:20-4:20 p.m. Panel Session XIII: It Takes a Village: Caribbean Language and Communities
Chair: Dorsía Smith, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
Aida Vergne, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, The Caribbean Language “Patient”: How Caribbean Communities Care for Their Vernaculars
Dámarys Crespo, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, The Caribbean Language “”Patient”: How Caribbean Communities Care for Their Vernaculars
Sonia López, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, The Caribbean Language “Patient”: How Caribbean Communities Care for Their Vernaculars
Lourdes González, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, The Caribbean Language “Patient”: How Caribbean Communities Care for Their Vernaculars
Pier Angeli LeCompte, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, The Caribbean Language “Patient”: How Caribbean Communities Care for Their Vernaculars
4:20-5:20 p.m. Panel Session XII: States of Enigmas: Myth and Consciousness
Chair: Melinda Maxwell, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
Catalina Rosario Ramirez, University of Miami, “Revenge and Tribute through the Multiple Manifestations of Mimicry and Myth in Pauline Melville’s The Ventriloquist’s Tale”
Marili Rodríguez, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, “Doble Lengua y Doble Conciencia en Algunos Poemas de Red Beans y Panoramas del Poeta Victor Hernández Cruz”
6:00 p.m. Poetry reading by Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming at La Tertulia’s
“Open Mic” for Writers
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