ANTILLANITÉ, CREOLITE, WORLD LITERATURE

COLLOQUE ANTILLANITE CREOLITE ET LITTERATURE MONDE

FINAL DRAFT
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(Last modified 30/09/2010)

PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2010

6:00PM    Launch of a special issue of Poui: Cave Hill Journal of Creative Writing in honour of Kamau Brathwaite at 80. Venue: Walcott-Warner Theatre, Errol Barrow Center for Creative Imagination, UWI. 

Event followed by a Reception.
           
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2010

8:30-12:00       REGISTRATION

9:00-10:15        OPENING: 

Principal & Pro Vice Chancellor, UWI
Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Education
Head, Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature

KEYNOTE SPEECH: Prof. Lydie MOUDILENO, University of Pennsylvania

10:30             Coffee break
10:45–12:15       PANEL 1     //    PANEL 2
     
LUNCH

13.45-15:15       PANEL 3     //    PANEL 4
15:15-15:30       Coffee Break
15:30-17:00       PANEL 5     //    PANEL 6

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2010
     
9:00–10:30        PANEL 7     //   
10:30             Coffee break
10.45–12.15       PANEL 8     //    PANEL 9

LUNCH *

13.30–15:00       PANEL 10

15.15-16:30       PANEL 11: ROUNDTABLE
15:15-15:30       Coffee Break

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2010

9:00AM-3PM        ISLAND TOUR with Lunch (fee applies)  

* Please note that the Conference will not be providing Lunch. Lunch may be purchased on Campus at The Mount Restaurant (price range Bds $3-$20).

FULL PROGRAMME
Final Draft

Thursday October 14, 2010  9:30-10:30

Guest Speaker: Prof. Lydie MOUDILENO, University of Pennsylvania

“From “Pré-Literature’ to ‘Littérature-Monde’: Positions, Neologisms and Prophecies”

Thursday October 14, 2010  10:45-12:15

Panel 1. Le Clézio
Chair : Isabelle CONSTANT, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill

Nicolas PIEN,  Collège de Ste Luce, Martinique
S’inscrire dans le Monde comme dans un lieu : Le Chercheur d’or de J.M.G. Le Clézio

Louis-Hervé NGAFOMO, Université de Yaoundé 1
Poétiser « l’expérience des limites » : une lecture intergénérique de Ritournelle de la faim de Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

Isabelle CONSTANT, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
La mémoire des corps dans Onitsha de J.M.G. Le Clézio et Chocolat de Claire Denis.

Panel 2. Language and Perceptions
Chair: Jane BRYCE, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill

Jane BRYCE, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Grammaticalogylisationalism: the reinvention of language in new African fiction

Hamad ALDOSARI, King Khalid University
An investigation of attitude towards the different varieties of Spoken English in a Multi-lingual Environment

Richard Clarke, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
From Dialectic to Difference: Rethinking Creolisation in the Later Work of Stuart Hall

Thursday October 14, 2010 13:45-15:15

Panel 3. Identités et traumatismes
Chair : Francoise CEVAËR, The University of the West Indies, Mona

Nadège DUFORT, University of Vermont
Identité(s) métisse(s) et poétique du nomadisme dans Les Belles Ténébreuses de Maryse Condé

Florence RAMOND JURNEY, Gettysburg College
Inceste et violence sexuelles chez Gisèle Pineau.

Francoise CEVAËR, The University of the West Indies, Mona
Nick Stone : le thriller au croisement des identités haïtiennes.

Panel 4. Creole Language and Representations
Chair: Terrence INNISS, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill

Elisabeth LORE, University of California, Davis
Le Créole in Defense of Women.

Savrina CHINIEN, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine
The new emerging Creole identity in the literary and cinematographic works of Patrick Chamoiseau

Mylène PRIAM, Harvard University
“Beyond ‘The Drama of Consciousness’ and Against the ‘Drama of the Manifesto’: Poetic License and the Creolist Discourse”

Thursday October 14, 2010 15:30-17:00

Panel 5. Littérature-Monde, langue et oralité
Chair: Mohammed HIRCHI. Colorado State University

Mohammed HIRCHI. Colorado State University
L’esthétique de l’inédit et de l’indicible dans la littérature antillaise.

Carla CALARGE, Florida Atlantic University
Pour une Relecture du Manifeste : Littérature-monde ou marginalisation du Centre ?

Panel 6. Identity
Chair: Victor SIMPSON, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill

Cheryl TOMAN. Case Western Reserve University
Redifining Francophonie and Littérature Monde: The Importance of the M’Vet and the Fang-Beti Language in the Works of Women Writers of Gabon of French Expression

Petal SAMUEL, University of Pennsylvania:  "How did you lose your eyes?" : The Absence of Memory in Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco

Victor SIMPSON, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
The Myth of an “Antillean Puerto Rico”

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Friday October 15, 2010  9:00-10:30

Panel 7. Patrick Chamoiseau
Chair : Kahiudi C. MABANA, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill

Céline HUYGHEBAERT, Université du Québec à Montréal
Vers une esthétique de l’inconfort dans les écritures du divers.
Virginie JAUFFRED,  Université de Grenoble
Patrick Chamoiseau et le devenir « autre » du référent épique : un chant créolépique

Kahiudi C. MABANA, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
La construction d’une poétique créole dans Chronique des sept misères de Patrick Chamoiseau

Friday October 15, 2010  10:45-12:15

Panel 8. Diaspora
Chair: Tito MATIAS, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill

Tito MATIAS, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Caribbean Diaspora: Narratives of the Self as Search of Identification in the Fiction of Julia Alvarez

Lucy SWANSON, University of Pennsylvania
Digging Up the (Living) Dead: the roots of Antillanité and Créolité

Namrata PODDAR, University of California, Los Angeles
Historicizing the “Playground”: The Beach and Empire in Diasporic Island Literature

Panel 9. La mémoire
Chair : José LETE-APEY-ESOBE, University of South Africa

Mamadou WATTARA, Rutgers University
Le Peuple des terres mêlées de René Philoctète : Au-delà de la spirale. Oralitures, ruptures(s) et convergence(s).

Alaeddine BEN ABDALLAH, Université d’Ottawa
La mémoire chez Khatibi : entre fantasme et histoire.

José LETE APEY-ESOBE, University of South Africa 
Le mythe d’Aimé Césaire dans Nuages sur Bukavu. Carnet d’un détour au pays natal de Charles Djungu-Simba.

Friday October 15, 2010  13:30-15:00 

Panel 10. Teaching Languages
Chair : Jeannette Alsopp, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill

Jeannette ALLSOPP and Hélène ZAMOR, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Some pedagogical Problems in Acquiring and Using Vocabulary in Caribbean French

Terrence INNISS, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Creating an Autonomous Learner: An Investigation into the Teaching of French in Barbados

Friday October 15, 2010  15:15-16:30

Panel 11. Round Table/ Table Ronde

Discussing: Michaeline Crichlow’s book, (with Patricia Northover):
Globalization and the post-creole imagination. Notes on Fleeing the Plantation. Duke University Press.

Chair: Frederick OCHIENG'-ODHIAMBO, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill

Michaeline CRICHLOW, Duke University

Yanique HUME, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill

Philip NANTON, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill

Aaron KAMUGISHA, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill