Programme
MONDAY MARCH 25, 2002
9.00 - 10.45 A.M. Chair: C. Wade
PANEL: The Story of West Indian Literature: Stages, Phases, Connections I
- F. Smith: "Re-Staging 20th Century Letters in the Anglophone Caribbean: John Jacob Thomas"
- D. Hart: "Caribbean Interactions: C. L. R. James's Mariners Renegades and Castaways"
- S. Pouchet Paquet: "Staging Childhood: From In the Castle of My Skin to Dear Future"
BREAK
11.15 - 1.00 a.m. Chair: M. McWatt
PANEL: Home and Away: Regional vs Diaspora in Text and Film
- A. McDonald Smythe: "Walcott's Prodigal Provincialism: Moving From Dissatisfaction to Celebration of The Antilles"
- C. Holder: "'It is done so,/ as I think I am doing it': Carter and the West Indian Writer's Migration Tradition"
- J. Bryce: "Split Screen: 'Local' and 'Diasporic' Film of the Anglophone Caribbean"
- V. Simpson: "Return Migration in Caribbean Literature: A Study of Two Novels"
LUNCH
2.00 - 3.45 p.m. Chair: C. Haynes?
PANEL: Spiritual and Linguistic Ritual in West Indian Women's Fiction (graduate panel)
- C. Anderson: "Linguistic Rituals, Healing Rituals: Revisiting Language in Brodber's Myal"
- A. Shaw: "'Calling Up' the Spirit: Narrative Strategy in The True History of Paradise"
- D. Hayles: "Suss as Postcolonial and Postmodern Imperative in Erna Brodber's Fiction"
- V. Maharaj: "The Imbrication of the Victorian Myth of the Family in Naipaul's The Mystic Masseur
LIQUID BREAK
4.00 - 5.30 p.m. Chair: J. Bryce
PANEL: The Story of West Indian Literature: Stages, Phases, Connections II
- L. Breiner: "How Shall the History of West Indian Literature be Told?"
- R. Clarke: "The Colonial Unconscious"
- D. deCaires Narain Gurnah: "Time to Move On? Staging a Shift From the Regional to the Post-colonial"
Bus Pick-up at 5.30 p.m.
7.30 p.m.: Principal's Opening Reception; Book Launch; Readings - Humanities Courtyard (N.B. Food and drink will be provided!)
Tuesday, March 26, 2002
9.00 - 10.45 A.M. Chair: R. Leyshon
PANEL: Indigenous and/or Multicultural Postcolonialities
- S. Deena: "Postcolonial and Multicultural Preoccupations in West Indian Literature"
- R. Mosley Wood: "Rude Boys, Rastas and Rogue Cops: Representations of Masculinity in Jamaican Film"
- J. Rahim: "Staging Multiculturalism: The Flavour of Salt Towards a New Humanism"
- C. Best "Clear and Present Virtual Realities: Staging Caribbean Culture on the Internet"
BREAK
11.15 - 1.00 a.m. Chair: E. O'Callaghan
PANEL: Gender and Sexuality: Staging Difference/Deviance/Dysfunction
- A. Donnell: "The Spectacle of Deviance: Sexual Identities in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night"
- K. Dismont Robinson: "'Beg for It': Archetype, Trauma and Abuse in Elizabeth Nunez's Bruised Hibiscus"
- P. Layne: "Between Worlds: Race, Gender and National Performance of Desire in Fiction by M. Cliff and P. Powell"
- P. Morgan: "Taming Medusa: Rape and Symbolic Violence in the Caribbean Imaginary"
LUNCH
2.00 - 3.45 p.m. Chair: C. Best
PANEL: Caribbean Popular Culture: No More Genuflecting to Genre?
- L. Samuels: "Staging the 'Real': Representation, Reality and Caribbean Culture in Nalo Hopkinson's Fiction"
- M. Bucknor: "Staging Revolt: Ceitfulness as Subterfuge in Olive Senior's Gardening in the Tropics"
- P. Nanton: "'Shake' Keane: Poetry and Performance"
LIQUID BREAK
4.00 - 5.30 p.m. Chair: R. Clarke
PANEL: Caribbean Drama and the Place of Earl Warner II
- G. Rohlehr "This Stage is Mine: Calypso and the Theatre of Politics in Trinidad and Tobago"
- R. Leyshon: "Carriacou's Shakespeare Mas"
- G. George: "Walcott's Drama: the White Expatriate in Walcott's Drama"
Bus Pick-up at 5.30 p.m.
7.30 p.m. Play: The Final Truth (LT1)
Wednesday, March 27, 2002
9.00 - 10.45 A.M. Chair: H. Walcott
PANEL: Caribbean Drama and the Place of Earl Warner I
- R. Gibbons: "The Dramaturge: Earl Warner and the Shaping of Caribbean Playwrights"
- Earl Lovelace: The Writer and the Director: Working with Warner
- C. Taitt: The Actor and the Director: Earl Warner's Contribution
- L. Phillips: "'Making the Language Sing': The Caribbean Aesthetic and Earl Warner's Theatrical Vision in Four Plays, 1991-1996"
BREAK
11.15 - 1.00 a.m. Chair:
LUNCH (and short Business Meeting)
Afternoon free for sightseeing, shopping, etc.
7.30 p.m. Closing fete at Jane Bryce's home (2, Carlton Mansions, Black Rock Road: right beside Carlton Supermarket)
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