31st Annual West Indian Literature Conference Imagined Nations, 50 Years Later: Reflections on Independence and Federation in the

Caribbean

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11
9:00-9:30am Living Room 9:30-11:00am Session 1 Room A THE COMPASS POINTS HOME: NEGOTIATIONS OF SUBJECTIVITY Moderator: Johanna Garvey, Fairfield University Bridges Beyond the Kala Pani: Transgressing Boundaries in Mootoo and Espinet Candice Pitts, Howard University Re-imagining Trinidads Nationalism and the Indian Womans Space/Place Paul Codner, Howard University Rehousing the Unhoused Subject: Memory and Re-Connection in The Swinging Bridge Paula Morgan, University of the West IndiesSt. Augustine East Indian Trinidadian West Indians: Nationhood and Unhomeliness in the Work of V.S. Naipaul Session 2 Room B QUESTIONS OF LITERARY AND NATIONAL (BE)LONGING Moderator: Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, University of the West IndiesSt. Augustine Where I Belong: The Concept of Nationhood in Francophone Caribbean Literature Mylne Priam, Harvard University Beyond The Drama of Consciousness and Against the Drama of the Manifesto: Poetic License, Politic Intent and the Creolist Discourse Vijay J. Maharaj, University of the West IndiesSt. Augustine The Nation in the Literary Imagi-Nation: A Question of Dignity Suzanne Scafe, London South Bank University Nationalisms Excluded Other: Representations of African Cultural Practices in Selected Fiction by Jamaican Writers OPENING REMARKS, Dean Leonidas G. Bachas

31st Annual West Indian Literature Conference Imagined Nations, 50 Years Later: Reflections on Independence and Federation in the Caribbean
11:15am-12:30pm Session 3 Room A CUBA IN THE HEMISPHERE Moderator: Rafe Dalleo, Florida Atlantic University Yvette Fuentes, Nova Southeastern University Re-imagining Home: Operation Pedro Pan in the Cuban-American Imaginary Session 6 (cont.) Faith Smith, Brandeis University Cuban Independence and the Jamaican Planter Class Johanna Ayala-Walsh, Florida Atlantic University Embrace the Face: Pictorial Representations of Latino Masculinity in Loving Che Ileana Sanz, University of Havana Literary Nationalism in Trinidad and Jamaica Session 4 Room B REVISITING THE WORLDS OF WILSON HARRIS Moderator: Kelly Baker-Josephs, York College/CUNY Parallel universes of sensibility: Wilson Harriss Labyrinths of Space, Psyche and Time Erin Fehskens, Towson University From Conquistadores to Constitutions: Alterity and the Epic Hero in Wilson Harris and V. S. Reids Novels of Independence Carol Laura Andrews-Redhead, University of Trinidad and Tobago Numinous Inexactitudes: An Embodiment of Truth, a Re-Presentation of History Fred DAguiar, Virginia Tech Wilson Harris and the River of Time/Place Session 5 Room C INTERROGATING THE INTERPLAY OF POWER AND SEXUALITY Moderator: Nicole Cameron, University of the West IndiesMona Innocence and Vice: Examining Childrens Sexuality as a Site of Trauma in Lawrence Scotts Aelreds Sin and Marlon James John Crows Devil

31st Annual West Indian Literature Conference Imagined Nations, 50 Years Later: Reflections on Independence and Federation in the Caribbean
Session 5 (cont.) Room C Nicole Carr, University of Miami I See You Like the Masters Flesh: Sex Games and Power Plays in Heading South Tamar Osborne, Florida Atlantic University Heading South and Legbas Refusal Emily Taylor, Presbyterian College Labors of Love: Sex Work and the New Family Romance in Puerto Rican Fiction 12:30-2:00pm LUNCH at the CAS Gallery (Wesley Foundation Building) Buses leave Newman Center promptly at 12:30pm Book Launches: Ten Days in Jamaica by Ifeona Fulani and Higglers in Kingston: Women's Informal Work In Jamaica by Winnifred R. Brown-Glaude 2:15-3:45pm Session 6 Room A IDENTIDAD INCORPORADA: LOCATING THE BODY Moderator: Juan Filipe Stacul, Federal University of Viosa Beyond the Spectrum: The Crisis of Male Identity in Limite branco, by Caio Fernando Abreu Angela Castro Sarmiento, University of Minnesota Colombia y la Nana-Nacin Nicole Roberts, University of the West IndiesSt. Augustine Lo que el cuerpo escribe: The Pleasures of Race in the Poetry of Mayra Santos Febres Ari Dimitriou, University of CaliforniaBerkeley The Nowhere Place: Locating Transnational Hybridity in Junot Diazs Drown Session 7 Room B Moderator: Giselle Rampaul, University of the West IndiesSt. Augustine Nicholas Laughlin, Independent Scholar and Journal Editor Patricia Saunders, University of Miami ROUND TABLE: OPEN DIGITAL ARCHIVES IN CARIBBEAN LITERATURE

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Leah Rosenberg, University of Florida Rosamond King, Brooklyn College Session 8 Room C

MASCULINITY AND NEW JAMAICAN FICTION Moderator: Michael Bucknor, University of the West IndiesMona Sheryl Gifford, Florida Atlantic University In the dark with no skin I can write: Gender, Literary Authority and the Historical Narrative in Marlon James The Book of Night Women (2009) Curdella Forbes, Howard University CARICOM, CSME, Marlon James The Book of Night Women and the Poetics of Female Horror: A Jamaican Story Amorella Lamount, University of Reading The Mad Woman in the [attic] street: The Last Warner Womans Revival Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi, Western UniversityLondon, Ontario Minor Characters and Oblique Narratives of Abolition

4:00-5:30pm Multi-Purpose Room 6:00pm Multi-Purpose Room 8:00pm

KEYNOTE CONVERSATION Kei Miller and Olive Senior

FILM SCREENING Kervans Barthelemys Kaleb OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION

31st Annual West Indian Literature Conference Imagined Nations, 50 Years Later: Reflections on Independence and Federation in the Caribbean

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12
9:00-10:15pm Multi-Purpose Room 10:30am-12:00pm Session 9 Moderator: Curdella Forbes, Howard University Room A Genve Phillip and Lue Anda Francis-Blackman, University of the West IndiesSt. Augustine Cultural Performance and the Politics of Nation: A Sociocultural Analysis of Post-Independence Politics Geraldine Skeete, University of the West IndiesSt. Augustine The White Woman and the Prime Minister: Love, Race, and Politics in The White Woman on the Green Bicycle Harold N. McDermott, University of the West IndiesMona Towards that republic in which complexions do not matter: Derek Walcotts Drums and Colours Fifty Years On WID MI OWN SENSE A TIME: INDEPENDENCE AND FEDERATION Moderator: Harvey Neptune, Temple University Kevin Frank, Baruch College/CUNY Batting for Something Bigger than the Capitol or Capital: Independence and Federation in C.L.R. James, The Mighty Sparrow, and Earl Lovelace Carolyn Cooper, University of the West IndiesMona Dear Departed Federation: Addressing Abstraction in the Political Poetry of Louise Bennett Laurence A. Breiner, Boston University Federations Tap Natch Poet Leah Rosenberg, University of Florida The Romance of Independence in the Wake of Federation KEYNOTE CONVERSATION Bridget Brereton and Rachel Manley REFLECTING ON POLITICAL PERFORMATIVITY AND IDEATION

Session 10 Room B

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Special Session Conference Room

WORKSHOP: PUBLISHING IN CARIBBEAN STUDIES Cathie Brettschneider, University of Virginia Press LUNCH at the CAS Gallery (Wesley Foundation Building) Buses leave Newman Center promptly at 12:00pm Book Launches: Ghosts by Curdella Forbes and Jubilation! (+ Wheels) by Kwame Dawes DISPLACED FOOTPRINT(S): MIGRATIONS, ECOPOLOTICS AND PLACE Moderator: Sandra Pouchet Paquet, University of Miami Sara Gusky, University of Miami It Takes a Village: Locating Individuality In the Castle of My Skin Mary Ann Gosser Esquiln, Florida Atlantic University Julia de Burgos and Ecofeminism, or How the National Becomes Transnational Molly Nichols, University of Pittsburgh Queer Ecopoetics in Shani Mootoo's Novels Rhonda Harrison, University of the West IndiesSt. Augustine Reverse Colonialism: Mapping Caribbean Home-spaces in Britain IDENTITY, HUMANITY, CITIZENSHIP Moderator: Kezia Page, Colgate University Kim Robinson-Walcott, University of the West IndiesMona Survival and Brown Identity in Jamaican Fiction: A Reading of John Hearnes Voices under the Window and Brian Meekss Paint the Town Red Evelyn OCallaghan, University of the West IndiesCave Hill Writing States of Independence: Erna Brodber and Kei Miller Marie Sairsingh, Howard University Erna Brodbers The Rainmakers Mistake as a Philosophical Exploration of Being and Freedom Jorge Luis Morejn, University of the West IndiesSt. Augustine Caribbean Federation: The New Global Citizen

12:00-1:30pm

1:45-3:15pm Session 11 Room A

Session 12 Room B

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Session 13 Room C

REPRESENTING SLAVERY Moderator: Shalene Vsquez, Dartmouth College Nicole Aljoe, Northeastern University Independence, Nationalism and the NeoSlave Narrative in the Caribbean Jermain Ostiana Tula Will Decolonize Curacao Cinematography: Afro-Curacaoans Telling Their Own Stories en route of Independence Vanessa Valdes, City College of New York the more she looked past what shed rather not see: The Representation of Slavery in Recent Puerto Rican Fiction

3:30-5:00pm Session 14 Room A

BODIES OF INDIFFERENCE: GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND NATIONHOOD Moderator: Carolyn J. Allen, Independent Scholar Simone A. James Alexander, Seton Hall University Sex and the State: Mannishness, Fe/Male Deviance and Defiance in Shani Mootoos Valmikis Daughter Gabriela Zaviezo, University of Miami Reimaging Nationhood, Queering Independence in Magali Garcia Ramiss Felices das to Sergio Winnifred Brown-Glaude, The College of New Jersey Not in My Cabinet!: Gender, Sexuality and Nationhood in Jamaicas 2011 Election Tzarina Prater, Bentley University We are Jamaicans. We are Brothers: The Language of Brotherhood and Independence in Kerry Youngs Pao

Session 15 Room B

THE PRODIGAL SON RETURNS: CONSTRUCTIONS OF FAMILY AND HOME Moderator: Reagan Mitchell, Louisiana State University Meditations Upon the River: Discovering Ivans Home

31st Annual West Indian Literature Conference Imagined Nations, 50 Years Later: Reflections on Independence and Federation in the Caribbean

Session 15 (cont.) Room B

Fay White, University of the West IndiesSt. Augustine Am I my Brothers Keeper?: Exploring the Brother-Sister Relationship in Autobiographical Discourse by Select West Indian Women Writers Ann Reading, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Leaving Home to Find Home: The Search for Home in the Works of Derek Walcott Jennifer Garcon, University of Miami Literary Ruinate: Resisting Bildungsroman Structure in Michelle Cliffs No Telephone to Heaven

Session 16 Room C

ROUND TABLE: CARIBBEAN CINEMA AND POPULAR CULTURE Moderator: Rebecca Robinson, University of the West IndiesSt. Augustine Defining Caribbean-ness as an Aesthetic in Contemporary Cinema Annie Paul, University of the West IndiesMona Borderline and Marginal: Gender and Gender Bending in the Postcolonial Caribbean Rachel Moseley-Wood, University of the West IndiesMona Expectation and Reality: Representations of the Nation in the Visual Imaginary Michael Bucknor, University of the West IndiesMona

5:30-6:30pm Multi-Purpose Room

READINGS Olive Senior and Earl Lovelace

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13
9:00-10:30am Session 17 Room A CULTURE AND INDEPENDENCE Moderator: P. Raphael Dalleo, Florida Atlantic University Laurie Lambert, New York University Cultural Soldiers: Writing Intellectual Responsibility

31st Annual West Indian Literature Conference Imagined Nations, 50 Years Later: Reflections on Independence and Federation in the Caribbean

Session 17 (cont.) Room A

Kathleen DeGuzman, Vanderbilt University Unreal and Unthinkable: Pedagogy and Archival Power in George Lammings In the Castle of My Skin Robert Schmid, University of the West Indies Imagining Caribbean Communities Claire Westall, University of York A Nations Voice After Federation?: The Competing Traditions of Caribbean Cricket Poetry

Session 18 Room B

BY DE HUNDRED, BY THE TOUSAND: WEST INDIANS IN BRITAIN Moderator: Glyne Griffith, SUNY Albany Antonia MacDonald, St. Georges University Creolizing London: Selvons The Lonely Londoners Ifeona Fulani, New York University Colonization in Reverse: West Indians in London 1945 2011 Eldon V. Birthright, Louisiana State University Rethinking Louise Bennetts Colonization in Reverse (1966): Miss Matties Response

Session 19 Room C

DIONNE BRAND Moderator: Paula Morgan, University of the West IndiesSt. Augustine Leticia Blanco and Miguel Saporta, University of Granada The tenses of light: Inter-cultural Relations as Ways of Abolishing Frontiers in Dionne Brands Late Poetry Agnel Barron, University of Florida Maroon Theory, Migrancy, and Diasporic Citizenship in Dionne Brands At the Full and Change of the Moon and Michelle Cliffs Free Enterprise Michelene Adams, University of Trinidad and Tobago Mon Chagrin, Mon Hritage: The Treatment of History in Dionne Brands At the Full and Change of the Moon Cory Lamont, Howard University Sexuality in Translation: (Re)imagining Grace in Dionne Brands In Another Place, Not Here

31st Annual West Indian Literature Conference Imagined Nations, 50 Years Later: Reflections on Independence and Federation in the Caribbean

Special Session Conference Room 10:45am-12:15pm Session 20 Room A

WORKSHOP: CREATIVE WRITING, FICTION AND POETRY Fred DAguiar, Virginia Tech

SPIRITUALITY Moderator: Kelly Baker-Josephs, York College/CUNY Claudette Anderson, University of the West IndiesMona Imagined Obias and Wicked Arts: 50 Years of Conjuring Hegemonic Misrepresentations of African Caribbean Occult Knowledge Systems Jean Antoine-Dunne, University of the West IndiesSt. Augustine The Spirit Moves: Caribbean Spirituality and Magic Realism Andrea Shaw, Nova Southeastern University The Fantastic and Britains Early Literary Imaginings of the West Indies

Session 21 Room B

THE RITE TO DANCE: EMBODIED MEMORY THROUGH PERFORMANCE Moderator: Carolyn J. Allen, Independent Scholar Daphne Lamothe, Smith College Inhabiting Borderlands, Imagining Nations: Carnival as Symbol of Nationhood, Migration and Cultural Pluralism Lara Cahill, University of Miami Embodied Archives: 50 Years of Jamaicas National Dance Theatre Company Carol Bailey, Keene State College No Weh Nuh Better Than Yard: Performance, Migration and West Indian Cultural Economy in How to Beat a Child the Right and Proper Way and Joebell in America Leonora Simonovis-Brown, University of San Diego Brathwaite on Jazz, or the Consolidation of a Pan-African Identity LOCATING POLITICAL VOICES AND SPACES IN THE 21ST CENTURY CARIBBEAN Moderator: Rosamond King, Brooklyn College Belinda Deneen Wallace, University of New Mexico Postcolonial Femininity in Contemporary Jamaican Culture

Session 22 Room C

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Session 22 (cont.) Room C

Randi Gray Kristensen, George Washington University A House Built on Sand: The Shifting Fortunes of Globalization April Shemak, Sam Houston State University Voicing the Ruptures of the Nation: Reading the Grenada TRC and Merle Collins Angel Stephen Narain, University of Iowa The Rude Work of Harvesting Hymns: Christian Campbell in the Context of Postpost-colonialism

12:15-1:45pm

LUNCH at the CAS Gallery (Wesley Foundation Building) Buses leave Newman Center promptly at 12:15pm Book Launches: Oh Gad! by Joanne C. Hillhouse and Archipelagos of Sound: Transnational Caribbeanities, Women and Music by Ifeona Fulani

2:00-3:30pm Session 23

LIFTING THE BANANA CURTAIN: INTERSECTIONS OF GLOBAL WRITING Moderator: Josune Urbistondo, University of Miami

Room A J. Dillon Brown, Washington University Rum and Coca-Cola-ization? Ralph de Boissiere and the Revision of America Sheri-Marie Harrison, University of MissouriColumbia Who more sci-fi than us?: Apocalypse as Genre in Junot Diazs The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao David Hart, University of WisconsinLa Crosse The Globalectics of Nationalism in Michelle Cliffs and CLR James Writing Cheryl Butler Brayboy and Lauren Simmons, Johnson C. Smith University The Souls of Dominican Girls: Re-imagining Caribbean Identity within the Past 50 Years Session 24 Room B ROUND TABLE: WAITING FOR THE PAINT TO DRY: VISUAL VOCABULARIES OF EXPERIENCE Moderator: Faith Smith, Brandeis University Jerry Philogene, Dickinson College Unearthing the New Modern Haiti: Citizenship and National Bodies

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Session 24 (cont.) Room B

Marta Fernandez Campa, University of Miami Creolizing Pop Culture, Visual Arts and Narratives of Independence in the Art of Christopher Cozier Shalene Vsquez, Dartmouth College Visual Humor Across Borders: The Comedic Unhinging of the Western Gaze in Caribbean Postcards Carlos Garrido Castellano, University of Granada Echoes of a Silent Storm: Sketches of Displacement and Poetics of Political Change in the Work of Three Transnational Caribbean Artists

Special Session Conference Room 3:30-5:00pm Room C

WORKSHOP: PUBLISHING CARIBBEAN CREATIVE WRITING Jeremy Poynting, Peepal Tree Press KEYNOTE CONVERSATION Caribbean Literature and Literary Criticism Moderator: Eddie Baugh, University of the West IndiesMona Evelyn OCallaghan, University of the West IndiesCave Hill Faith Smith, Brandeis University Michael Bucknor, University of the West IndiesMona Jeremy Poynting, Peepal Tree Press Sandra Pouchet Paquet, University of Miami

5:15-6:00pm

GENERAL BODY MEETING

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