FINAL DETAILED PROGRAM

ØØ 5:00—9:30 PM

Pre-Registration Table--Palestine Hotel

ØØ 8:30 – 10:30 PM

Welcoming Reception--Palestine Hotel

ØØ Reading of Wole Soyinka’s play

King Baabu

A1: Orator and Literature: Some Distinctions

Location:  Room A

Chair:  Leif Lorentzon

F.B.O. Akporobaro, University of Lagos

African Oral Traditions, Historical Truth and The Creative Imagination

Leif Lorentzon, University of Stockholm

Is (African) Orature Literature?  The Literariness of African Literature

Ikram Masmoudi, Duke University

Women’s Quest and the Oral Tradition in the Sand Child and the Sacred Night of Tahar Ben Jelloun

 Yasmina Sarhrouny, UFR,  Rabat, Morocco

Gendering Tales: A Feminist Approach to Moroccan’s Women’s Tales

A2: Exile and Indifference

Location:  Room B

Chair:  Florence Martin

Aouicha Hilliard, Randolph-Macon College

Indifference In Mohamed Dib’s Terrasses d’Orsol

Maryse Fauvel, College of William and Mary

Negotiating Identities on Film: Maghrebi Immigrants in France

Mine Eren,  Randolph-Macon College

Kanak Attak: Turkish Filmmakers and the Portrait of Metissage Culture in German Cinema

VM (Sisi) Maqagi, Vista University-Port Elizabeth Campus

Epistolary Transgressions of Boundaries: A Study of Bessie Head’s Letters.

A3:  Female Voices

Location: Room C

Chair: Sonja R. Darlington

Sonja R. Darlington, Beloit College

Sadaawi, Djebar, Rifaat, Abouzeid, Soueif: The Quest for a Girl-child Voice and a Synthesis of her Coming of Age

Salah Moukhlis, California State University-San Marcos

Maghrebian Women and the Postcolonial State

Anja Oed, Universität Mainz

Reconstructing the Past, Deconstructing Cultural and Social Knowledge: the Surfacing of Women’s Voices in Three Works by Mobolaji Adenubi

Marie Umeh, CUNY

Flora Nwapa: In Memoriam, Ten Years Later

A4: Teaching Africa

Location: Nobel Meeting Room

Chair: Dorothy L. Hurley

Dorothy L. Hurley, Eastern University

When Light is Lite, Where do the Shadows Fall?—Perspectives on Africa in a Sample of Children’s Literature

Bede Ssendi-Ssensalo, California State University

    The African Origins of Children’s Literature; A  

    Discussion of the Evolvement of Two Classics:

    Cinderella and Ananse.

Andrew Armstrong, University of the West Indies

The Beauty of Small Things: Exploring the “Atomised Energy” of the African Short Story

Raisa Simola, Joensuu University

Reception of Achebe’s Tales “The Flute,” “The Drum,” and “How the Leopard Got His Claws”

by Finnish Youths

A5:  “Yesterday Brims Over”: Alexandria in History and Literature

Location: Auditorium

Chair: Magda El-Nowieemy

Magda El-Nowieemy, Alexandria University

The Fusion of Alexandrian and Roman Thought in Propertius 4.6

Janice Spleth, West Virginia University

Prospectus: Situating Alexandria in Out el Kouloub’s Ramza

Deborah A. Starr, Cornell University

Yesterday Brims Over: Memories of Cosmopolitan Alexandria in Contemporary Egyptian Literature

Martha Plettner, American University in Cairo

Rebirth and Coming-of-Age: Thresholds in Time, Space, and Awareness

A6: South African Autobiography and Oppression

Location: Floating Room 3

Chair: Neville Choonoo

Neville Choonoo, State University of New York at Oneonta

Cultural and Racial Identities in South African Autobiographies

Louise Viljoen, University of Stellenbosch

Forms of Autobiography: The South African Writer Karel Schoeman’s Work as a Response to South African History

David Bell, Mid-Sweden University College

Fiction of the Oppressed: Ideas of Liberation in the Novels of Zakes Mda

Shane Graham, Sam Houston University

Inside South Africa’s Prisons: Struggles Over the Written Word in Apartheid Prison Writing

A7:  African History and Its

Re-Formation

Location: Nobel Auditorium

Chair: Nana Wilson-Tagoe

Arthur Hughes, Ohio University

Myth, Mimesis, and Orality: Revising History in Ayi Kwei  Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons

Nana Wilson-Tagoe, University of London

Three African Writers and the European Enlightenment: Sol Plaatje, J M Coetzee and Ama Ata Aidoo

Olabode Ibironke, Michigan State University

Colonial Library and the Ontology of Violence in Africa: The Function of Allegory and Mythic Violence in Achille Mbembe’s On the Postcolony

Gitahi Gititi, University of Rhode Island

Neighbor/hood as Metaphor of Reconciliation in Lilia Momple’s Neighbours: The Story of a Murder

B1: Alice Walker

Location: Room A

Chair: Maha Hassan

Nataša Hrastnik, University of Ljubljana

Parallel Perspectives on Matrilineality in African American and African Women’s Writing

Maha Hassan, Cairo University

Female Oppression in Salwa Bakr’s “Thrity-One Beautiful Green Trees” and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple

F. Odun Balogun, Delaware State University

Self and Place in African and Africa-American Women’s Narratives: Ama Ata Aidoo and Alice Walker

Eliasabeth Bekers, University of Antwerp

Possessing the Secret of Joy Reviewed in an African Light: A Comparision of Walker’s Novel with Three Short-Stories by Alifa Rifaat and Hagi-Dirie Herzi

B2: WOCALA Roundtable: The Feminist Encyclopedia of African Literature: An Opportunity for Scholarship 

Location: Nobel Meeting Room

Chair: Fahamisha Patricia Brown

Fahamisha Patricia Brown, College of Staten Island, CUNY

Siga Fatima Jagne, The GAMBIA

Soraya Mekerta, Spelman College

Thelma Ravell-Pinto, Clemson University

P. Jane Splawn, Yale Divinity School

B3: The Politics of Representation in African Epic & Folklore

Location:  Room C

Chair: Charles J. Sugnet

Maysa Hayward, Slippery Rock University

Hidden Value: Women as Commodity in the African and North African Epic

Nivin El Asdoudi, University of Alexandria

Gender Relations in “The Father of the Seven Girls”

Charles J. Sugnet, University of Minnesota

“Global” Trash: Misrepresentations of Africa in Contemporary High Culture

Esiaba Irobi, Ohio University

Writing and the Politics of Authorship in Pre-Colonial Africa: A Study of Gassire’s Lute and other African Epics which use the Metaphor of the Feminine for the Construction of National Identity

B4:  Zoe Wicomb’s David’s Story

Location: Room B

Chair: Ken Harrow

Kenneth W. Harrow, Michigan State University

Framing in David’s Story

Peter Hitchcock, City University of New York

Memory and the Politics of Voice

Stephan D. Meyer, Basel University

Resisting Representation—Speaking on Behalf and Speaking About Others in David’s Story

Maureen Eke, Central Michigan University

Collective Memory and National (re)Configuration: Reconstructing History and Identity in Zoe Wicomb’s David’s Story

B5:  Soyinka

Location: Room D

Chair: Olasisi Gwamna

Glenn Odom, University of California-Irvine

History, Memory, and Modernity in Soyinka’s Kongi’s Harvest

Olasisi Gwamna, Iowa Wesleyan College

In the Realm of the Arosos and the Onikabas: An Analysis of Women Roles in Selected Works of Soyinka

Aaron Eastly, University of California—San Diego

Contemporizing Black Athena: Soyinka, Walcott and the Discourse of Postcolonial Appropriation

John Lemly, Mount Holyoke College

Stages/Stagings of Metaphysics and History in Death and the King’s Horseman

B6:  Cultural Conflicts and Human Identity

Location: Floating Room 3

Chair: Wendy Woodward

Wendy Woodward, University of the Western Cape

The Birds and the Bees: Humans and the Ecology in Two Recent Novels by Zakes Mda

Abdul-Qader Khattab, Mu’tah University

Narouz Hosnani as Mystical Grotesque Other in Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet

Sahar Hamouda, Alexandria University

“No Place on Earth like Alexandria”: Paradise Lost—and Regained?

B7: Literary Expressions of War, Home, Nation & The Body

Location: Nobel Auditorium

Chair: Norma Kriger

Lamia Ben Youssef, Institut Supérieur des Langues de Tunis

Body, Home and Nation: The Production of the Tunisian Muslim Woman in the Reformist Thought of Tahar al Haddad and Habib Bourguiba

Nejet Mchala, Institut Supérieur des Langues de Tunis

Homage to Fanon Symposium: Fan(u)nia and A(h)lam

Norma Kriger, Princeton University

Dan Wylie’s Dead Leaves: Two Years In the Rhodesian War

ØØ Readings: Ladu Jada Gubek

             Macaulay, the poet

         Location: Floating Room 3

ØØ Book Launch:  Kadija George, Sable LitMag

      Location: Nobel Meeting Room

ØØ Graduate Student Sponsored Publishing

        Workshop:  Wendy Belcher, Facilitator 

       Location: Nobel Auditorium

C1:  Sound and Light: Music, Photography, and Fractal Geometry

Location: Room B

Chair: Cynthia Ward

Cynthia Ward, University of Hawaii—Manoa

Art, Aesthetics, Abstraction, and Africa: Minding a Fractal World

Ziba Rashidian, Southeastern Louisiana University

Mournful Lucidities: Photography and the Commodification of History

Ralph Locke, Eastman School of Music

Between alla turca and High Orientalism: The Middle East in Western Music, 1785-1870

 C2: African Autobiography: Theory, Text, and Context

Location: Nobel Meeting Room

Chair:  Niyi Osundare

Apollo Amoko, University of Florida

Autobiographical Theory: Reading the Evidence of Nugugi’s Experience

Adetayo Alabi, University of Mississippi

Nelson Mandela and the Politics of Representation in African Autobiography

Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah, Western Illinois University

Autobiography: Theory, Practice and Practicality, Memory of Pains and Struggles, (Re)construction of  

Africana Personality Beyond Trans-Atlantic Slavery and European Colonial Bondage

C3: The Search for Self: Africans in the Diaspora

Location: Room C

Chair: Gloria Johnson

Linda Strong-Leek, Berea College

The Diasporic Self in Paule Marshall’s The Fisher King

Gloria Johnson, Berea College

The Search for Self: Africans In the Diaspora

Kathy Bullock, Berea College

Restoration, Reclamation and Rebirth: Music as a Quest for Healing and Connecting

C4: BUWA: African Language and Literature into the 21^st Century

Location: Room D

Chair: Lisa Combrink

Kassahun Checole

Antonia Kalu

Phanuel Egejaru

Alemseged Tesfai

Zemhret Yohannes

C5:  African Reflections in Globalization and Politics

Location: Auditorium

Chair: Lahcen Haddad

Lahcen Haddad, Mohamed V University

The Past That Was: the Political and Not So Political Rewriting of History in Post-Hassan II Morocco

Julius Amin, University of Dayton

Africans and African-Americans: A Partnership “Cemented by Blood”

Nadira Regrag, Mohamed V University

Africa at a Time of Intense Globalization: The Importance of African Inflections

C6:  Inscriptions of Masculinities in African Texts

Location: Floating Room 3

Chair: Tuzyline Jita Allan

Naana Banyiwa Horne, Santa Fe Community College

Reconceptualizing the Masculine in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born

Clement Okafor, University of Maryland Eastern Shore

Igbo Gender Domain and Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah

Tuzyline Jita Allan, Baruch College (CUNY)

Re-membering How to Be a Man: African Influences on the New Cult of Manhood in Olaudah Equiano’s Narrative

 C7: Eating, History, and Western Images of Ancient Cultures: Perspectives in 20^th C. Cinema

Location: Nobel Auditorium

Chair: Suzanne H. MacRae

Matthew Snyder, University of California-Riverside

Eating Indiana: Digesting the Colonial Body Project

Suzanne H. MacRae, University of Arkansas

Chahine’s Cinematic Alexandria: Egyptian History and Identity Re-Lit

Baeem L. Ra’ad, Al-Quds University

Before Arab and African: Ancient Civilizations, Western Recognition Politics, and Sources

D1: BUWA—continued

Location: Room D

D2:  Rereading African Legend and Spiritual Aesthetic Practices

Location: Nobel Auditorium

Chair: Eman Karmouty

Teresa N. Washington, California State University, Stanislaus

Material Signs and Cosmic Signifiers: African Survivals in the Rural American South

Eman Karmouty, University of Alexandria

Andalusia: A Re-reading of the Legend in Radwa Ashour’s Granada Trilogy & Tariq Ali’s Shadow of the Pomegranate Tree

Merdith Gadsby, Oberlin College

Everything is Everything: Damballah and Aido Wedo, Political Activism, and Possibilities for Spiritual Illuminations in Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters

D3: WOCALA PANEL I: Taking Stock, Blazing New Trails:  New Directions: Critics, Poets and Activists on African/Diasporan Women’s Writing?

Location: Room B

Chair:  Janis A. Mayes

Carole Boyce Davies, Florida International University

Up-Rising Discourse

Micere Githae Mugo, Syracuse University

“Intellectuals or Impostures?”—In Celebration of Those Who Never Became “Walking Lies”

Pia Thielmann, University of Malawi

 Afrapean Autobiographies: Biracial Women Shed

 Light on Their Identities

D4:  Orature as Library of the Oppressed Cultures: Examples from East Africa

Location: Room C

Chair: Alfred Taligoola Kisubi

Alfred Taligoola Kisubi, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Robert Loius Perry, Johnson County Community College

D5:  The History of Publishing African texts

Location: Floating Room 3

Chair: Laurence Wright

Laurence Wright, Rhodes University

Re-Reading Peteni’s Kwazidenge (Hill of Fools) Through its Publishing History

Melissa Fore, Michigan State University

Beware of the Good Time Girls: Representations of African Women in Joe and Drum Magazine 1950-70

Taiwo Olunlade, Lagos State University

Yoruba Written Literary Materials from 1859-1959

D6:  Maghrebi Writers

Location: Auditorium

Chair: Bernadette Cailler

Hédia Khadhar, France

Femme et Écriture au Maghreb

Benjamin Bishop, University of California, Irvine

Replacements: Paul Smail and the Space of Morocco in Beur Literature

Bernadette Cailler, University of Florida

Les Transfigurations d’Élissa/Didon.  Etude de texts par Gawzi Mellah et Moncef Ghachem

D7:  Finding Home & Heritage in Creole & Caribbean Literature

Location: Auditorium
Chair: George Lang

George Lang, University of Alberta

Imagining a Bibliotheca Universalis of Creole Literatures

Tanya Shields, University of Maryland

Soulsister Sycorax: Reclaiming a History of Resistance to Patriarchal and Colonial Powers

E. Anthony Hurley, State University of New York-Stony Brook

Writing/Righting Home-Functions of Francophone Caribbean and African American Literature

D8: The Importance of North African Memoir--Autobiography

Location: Middle Hall

Chair: Elizabeth Fernea

Elizabeth Fernea, University of Texas

A New Look at the Genre of Personal Memoir in North Africa

Leila Abouzeid, Writer

Writing Autobiography

Sabra J. Webber, Ohio State University

The Story of a Dream: El Bedoui’s Personal Experience Narrative

E1: WOCALA Round Table: Honoring Mildred Hill-Lubin

Location:  Nobel Meeting Room
Chair: Naana Banyiwa Horne

African Women and the Academy: Activists, Teachers, and Scholars: Mildred Hill-Lubin

E2:  From Legend to History: Victoria College Re-Lit

Location: Room B

Chair: Sahar Hamouda

Mohamed Awad, Alexandria University

Tracing History: From Victoria College to Victory College

Sahar Hamouda, Alexandria University

Historical Moments: 1902-1946

Coloin Clement, Writer

From Colonial to Postcolonial: World War II to 1956

E3:  Madness: A Transgressing Act of Cultural Boundaries

Location: Auditorium

Chair: Heba Sharobeem

Azza M.H. El-Kholy, Alexandria University

Imagination: The Forbidden Fruit

Chris Hogarth, Northwestern University

Insanity and Constructing Tradition in Novels of Boubacar Boris Diop

Heba Sharobeem, Alexandria University

Being on the Powerful Side: Women’s Attempts to Trespass Hudud in three African Literary Texts

E4:  Griots and Griottes: Africa’s Human Libraries

Location: Room D

Chair: Phanuel Akubueze Egeuru

Pamela Smith, University of Omaha

Phanuel Akubueze Egeuru, Loyola Univerity-New Orleans

Women: Human Libraries of Culture

Mohamed Kamara, Washington and Lee University

Change, Nostalgia, and Representations of Transgression and Illegitimacy

E5:  Politics/Literature

Location: Floating Room 3

Chair: Mary Harvan Gorgette

Mary Harvan Gorgette, University of Paris-IV

Dancing on Water: Sierra Leonean History Re-Lit

Unionmwan Edebiri, University of Lagos

The Congo Crisis in Aime Cesaire’s Une Saison au Congo and Conor Cruise O’ Brien’s Murderous Angels

Nicodemus Fru Awasom, University of The Gambia

Imagining and Constructing the African Past Through Literature

E6:  The Francophone African Novel: Responses to Cultural Resistance

Location: Room C

Chair: Soraya Mekerta

Soraya Mekerta, Spelman College

Re-Righting the M/Other-Land in Francophone Literature: On Democracy, Terror, and Counter-Terrorism

Wendy Belcher, University of California-Los Angeles

Indirection and Resistance: Strategies for Evading Colonial Power in Three Francophone Novels

Michèle Chossat, Seton Hill University

Women, Work, and Identity in the Francophone African Novel

E7: Poetry and Poetic Anthologies

Location: Nobel Auditorium

Chair: William Slaymaker

Akintunde Akinyemi, University of Florida

Positive Expression of negative Attributes: An Aspect of Yorùbá Court Poetry

Igolima T.D. Amachree, Western Illinois Universtiy

Bai T. Moore and / in the Liberian Literary Scene

William Slaymaker, Wayne State College

Postoral Pastoral: Logo- Afro- Ec(o)centrice Nature Poetry; Senghor and Soyinka to Walker and Walcott

F1:  Encounters Between Egypt and France in Alexandria

Location: Nobel Meeting Room

Chair: Amy Ogden

Amy Ogden, University of Virginia

Alexandrian Saints in Twelfth-Century France

Daniel L. Newman, Institut Supérieur de Traducteurs et Interprètes

The Earliest Descriptions of France and the French in 19^th-Century Egyptian Literature: Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti and Rifa’a al-Tahtawi

Shaden M. Tageldin, University of California-Berkley

From Alexandria to Cairo, with Love: The Napoleonic Seduction of Egypt in Al-‘Attar’s “Maqamat al-Faransis”

F2:  Shedding Light on the work of Durrell, Fresnel, and African History

Location: Room D

Chair: Fiona Tomkinson

Fiona Tomkinson, Yeditepe University

‘It is Not Meaning That We Need but Sight’: The Lighthouse versus the Library in Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria

Bernd Klähn, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Of Lightwaves and Lighthouses: Augustin Fresnel’s Ideas of Optical and Cultural Interference

Julius O. Adekunle, Monmouth University

From Darkness to Light: African History and the West

F3:  African Womanhood, Identity, & Translation

Location: Room C

Chair:  Souad Eddouda

Souad Eddouda, Long Island University

Metamorphosis: From Girl to Woman in the Work of Ken Bugul and Werewere Liking

Allia A. Matta, Long Island University

Nervous Conditions: Conflicting Aspects of African Womanhood and Identity

Ketty Thomas, State University of New York-Stonybrook

Spaces Where Absences Occur

F4: Bible Translations: A Lighthouse and Library for African Languages and Literature

Location: Room B

Chair: George Joseph

Ernst R. Wendland, United Bible Societies

Bible Translation as a Lighthouse and a Library in the Preservation and Promotion of Language and ‘Literature’ in Africa: The example of Chinyanja

George Joseph, Hobart & William Smith Colleges

Bible translation and the Quest for koine Wolof

Aloo Osotsi Mojola, United Bible Studies

Okot p’Bitek and the Translation of Divine Names Across Languages and Cultures-A Case of Contested Terrains and Constructed Categories?

F5:  Literary Tourism, Ethnography, and Travelogue 

Location: Auditorium
Chair: Gareth Griffiths

Lindy Stiebel, University of Durban-Westville

Literary Tourism in KwaZulu Natal: Possibilities for a Research Agenda

Gareth Griffiths, State University of New York—Albany

Sites of Purchase: Slavery, Missions and Tourism in East Africa

 Mustafa Mirzeler, Western Michigan University

Reading Ethiopia Through the Russian Eyes: Political and Racial Sentiments in the Travel Writings of Alexander Bulatovich 1896-1898

F6:  Politics,  Poetics, Translation

Location: Floating Room 3

Chair: Ajoke Mimiko Bestman

Annie Gagiano, University of Stellenbosch

South African Stories of Transgressing Women from Four Cultural Time-Frames

Meryem Ouedghiri, Mohammed V University

Towards a Poetics of the Body Politics in Arab Women’s Writings

Tomi Adeaga, Universitaet GH, siegen

    Translating Pidgin English   

F7:  Memoirs, Histories, and Nostalgia

Location: Nobel Auditorium

Chair: Faiza Shereen

Leila Ahmed, Harvard University

A Border Passage

Leila Abouzeid, Morocco

Return to Childhood

Samia Serageldin, Duke University

The Cairo House

G1:  Staging Africa: Theatrical Contexts

Location: Nobel Auditorium

Chair: Donald Hoffman

Yvette Hutchison, King Alfred’s College

Performance on Trial: Oral Tradition as Judicial Theatre

Peter Ukpokodu, University of Kansas

African Cultural Adaptations of Greek Classical Drama: Tawfiq al-Hakim, Ola Rotimi, and Athol Fugard

Donald Hoffman, Northeastern Illinois University

“Africanizing” the African: Biyi Bandele’s Dramatization of Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko

Donald Morales, Mercy College

Drama

G2: WOCALA Panel II: How African Traditions have Been Reflected in Women’s Writing in the

African Diaspora, Particularly in Black British

Literature and Performance 

Location:  Room A

Chair: Kadija George

Wangui wa Goro, Middlesex University

Dorothea Smartt, Writer

Kadija George, Sable LitMag

G3:  Language, Literacy and the Nationhood

Location: Nobel Meeting Room

Chair: Irene Marques

P-J Ezeh, University of Nigeria

University in Thematic Conceptions in Autochthonous Literature—Some Paroemiological Clues

Simone A. James Alexander, Seton Hall University

Reclaiming the Mother Tongue: Cultural and Linguistic Creolization in Praisesong For The Widow

Laila Ahmad Helmi, University of Alexandria

Linguistic Imperialism and Cultural Fidelity in Ngugi’s Weep Not, Child

Irene Marques, University of Toronto

Attempting to Deliver a Difficult but Beautiful Baby: A Discussion of Language and Nationhood in Mia Couto’s Stories of the Birth of the Land

G4: Lost Identity in African Literature

Location: Auditorium

Chair: Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi

Ranen Omer-Sherman, University of Miami and St. Louis University, Madrid Campus

Transnational Orientalism in Maalouf’s Leo Africanus

Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, University of Southern Mississippi

“Almost the Same, but not Quite”: Books and the Discourse of Orientalism in African Literature

Manal Sultan, Alexandria University

Harkis et enfants de harkis: Une histoire refusée et une mémoire refoulée

G5:  Looking for a Few Devils, Gargoyles, Buffoons, and Good People: Intertextual Design and the Re-Lighting of Contemporary African Literatures and Cultures

Location: Room B

Chair: Abioseh Michael Porter, Drexel University

Eustace Palmer, Georgia College and State University

Re-Lighting Sierra Leonean History: A Comparative Study of the Re-Interpretation of Aspects of Sierra Leonean History by Sierra Leonean Novelists Syl Cheney-Coker and Yema Lucilda Hunter

A. Onipede Hollist, University of Tampa

Patrick Muana, Texas A & M University

Abioseh Michael Porter, Drexel University

G6:  Memory as History/

         History as Memory

Location: Room C

Chair: Marcy Jane Knopf Newman

Ayo Abietou Coly, Unviersity of Notre Dame

In Quest of Africa: Ken Bugul’s (Post)-Colonial Itinerary

Janet Hollier, Georgia Perimeter College

African Heritage Preserved in Harlem Renaissance Literature:  A Review of Selected Poems and Three Lynching Plays by Georgia Douglas Johnson

Natalie Edwards, Northwestern University

History, Autobiography and Exile in Hélène Cixous’s Les Reveries de la Femme Sauvage

Marcy Jane Knopf Newman, Boise State University

Signs of Sinai: Making Memory Public in Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage

G7:  L’Orient dans l’espace de la Francophonie: du Littéraire au Politique

Location: Floating Room 3

Chair: Mounia Benalil

Mounia Benalil, McGill University

La Crise de l’Interculturel dans le Discours de L’Orientalisme: le Roman Francophone au Québec et au Maghreb

Pierre-Luc Brassard, L’Université de Paris-Sorbonne

Le Journalisme en Occident: Perspectives sur le Conflit Israélo-Palestinien

Christian Nakhlé, diplomate Quai Orsay

La Diplomatie au Levant et à l’heure de l’Orientalisme

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