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TOWARDS A LITERARY GEOGRAPHY
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TOWARDS A LITERARY GEOGRAPHY
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Colloquium 2008
Wivenhoe House
8-10 April 2008
Participants
The external speakers at the colloquium were:
Gordon Brotherston, Emeritus Professor in the Department of LiFTS,
University of Essex. His many publications include Image of the New
World (1979) and Book of the Fourth World: Reading the Native Americas
through their Literature (1992). Gordon will give the opening talk of
the colloquium, introducing the theme of the American Tropics.
Jamesgordon.Brotherston@manchester.ac.uk
Celia Britton, Professor of French at University College London.
Her publications include Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies
of Language and Resistance (1999) and Race and the Unconscious:
Freudianism in French Caribbean Thought (2002).
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/French/Pages/cb.html
celiabritton@talk21.com
Susan Castillo, Professor of American Studies at Kings College London.
She is the author of Colonial Encounters in New World Writing, 1500-1787:
Performing America (2005) and editor of collections such as Native
American Women in Literature and Culture and the Blackwell anthology The
Literatures of Colonial America (2001). She is currently working on a
project on the Gothic of the Caribbean South.
susan.castillo@kcl.ac.uk
Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Associate Professor of English at Cornell
University. She is the author of Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean
and Pacific Island Literatures (2006) and co-editor of Caribbean
Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture (2005).
emd23@cornell.edu
Ottmar Ette, Professor of Romance Literature at the University of
Potsdam. He is the author of books on José
Martí and Alexander von Humboldt, as well as Literature on the Move
(2003). His essay, "Islands, Borders and Vectors: The Fractal World of the
Caribbean" (in Caribbean Interfaces, ed. Lieven D'hulst et al.,
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007, pp. 109-151) offers an approach very similar to the one
we adopt in American Tropics.
ette@rz.uni-potsdam.de
Mary Gallagher, Associate Professor
of French and Francophone Studies at University College Dublin. She is the
author of La Créolité de Saint-John Perse
(1998) and Soundings in French Caribbean Writing since 1950 (2002), and
editor of Ici-là: Place and Displacement in Caribbean writing in French
(2003).
mary.gallagher@ucd.ie
Sharon Monteith, Professor of American Studies at the University of
Nottingham. She works mainly on the US South and is author, for example,
of a book on southern women's friendship, Advancing Sisterhood? (2000)
and American Culture in the 1960s (forthcoming) which takes the South as
its starting point, as well as co-editor of collections including Gender and
the Civil Rights Movement (1999 and 2004) and South to A New Place:
Region, Literature, Culture (2002). She is a member of the Advisory Board
for the new journal The Global South (Indiana) and is currently writing a
book on civil rights in the melodramatic imagination.
Sharon.Monteith@nottingham.ac.uk
Lúcia Sá, Professor of Brazilian
Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester. She is the author
of Rain Forest Literatures: Amazonian Texts and Latin American Culture
(2004) and Life in the Megalopolis: Mexico City and São Paulo (2007).
Lucia.Sa@manchester.ac.uk
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John Cant (LiFTS, University of Essex)
Matt Carter (PhD student, LiFTS, University of Essex)
Valerie Fraser (Art History, University of Essex)
Maria Cristina Fumagalli (LiFTS, University of Essex)
Leanne Haynes (PhD student, LiFTS, University of Essex)
Peter Hulme (LiFTS, University of Essex)
Ben Jefferson (PhD student, LiFTS, University of Essex)
Jak Peake (PhD student, LiFTS, University of Essex)
Owen Robinson (LiFTS, University of Essex)
Matthias Röhrig Assunçao (History, University of Essex)
Anne Schröder (PhD student, LiFTS, University of Essex)
Penny Woollard (PhD student, LiFTS, University of Essex)
Lesley Wylie (SRO, LiFTS, University of Essex)
Programme
Tuesday
6.30 Drinks and Dinner (Albert Room)
8.30—10.00 (Morant Room)
Gordon Brotherston, “Dream and Number in the Fourth World”
Chair: Peter Hulme
Wednesday
(7.00—9.00 for residents, breakfast in Garden Room)
9.30—11.00 (Morant Room)
Peter Hulme, “Oriente: Cuba’s Wild East”
Mary Gallagher, “Homing in on the American Tropics with Lafcadio Hearn: From Space to Place”
Commentators: Ottmar Ette/Susan Castillo/Sharon Monteith
Chair: Lesley Wylie
Format: Each commentator speaks for 10 minutes (30 total), each paper writer responds for 5 minutes (10 total), then general discussion.
11.00—11 30 Coffee (Patio Room)
11.30—1.00 (Morant Room)
Lesley Wylie, “Traveller’s Tales from the Putumayo, 1874 to 1907”
Lúcia Sá, “Zola in Rio de Janeiro: The Production of Space in Aluísio Azevedo’s O Cortiço”
Commentators: Val Fraser/Jak Peake/Matthias Rohrig Assunçao
Chair: Owen Robinson
Format: Each commentator speaks for 10 minutes (30 total), each paper writer responds for 5 minutes (10 total), then general discussion.
1.00—2.00 Lunch (Patio Room)
2.30—4.00 (Morant Room)
Maria Cristina Fumagalli, “‘This place was here before our nations’: The Haitian Revolution and Border (Un)writing”
Celia Britton, “Memory and the City: Representations of Fort-de-France in Edouard Glissant’s Le Quatrième Siècle and Patrick Chamoiseau’s Texaco”
Commentators: Elizabeth DeLoughrey/Mary Gallagher/Anne Schröder
Chair: John Cant
Format: Each commentator speaks for 10 minutes (30 total), each paper writer responds for 5 minutes (10 total), then general discussion.
4.00—4.30 Tea (Patio Room)
4.30—6.00 (Morant Room)
John Cant, “Cormac McCarthy and the Myth of American Exceptionalism: The Crossing”
Sharon Monteith, “Southern Like US?”
Commentators: Owen Robinson/Leanne Haynes/Gordon Brotherston
Chair: Maria Cristina Fumagalli
Format: Each commentator speaks for 10 minutes (30 total), each paper writer responds for 5 minutes (10 total), then general discussion.
7.00 Dinner (Albert Room) followed by leisurely evening of informal discussion (bar)
Thursday
(7.00—9.00 for residents, breakfast in Garden Room)
9.30—11.00 (Morant Room)
Elizabeth DeLoughrey, “Natural Figures: Yam, Roots and Rot: Excavating the Soil of the Provision Grounds”
Ottmar Ette, “Islands, Borders and Vectors: The Fractal World of the Caribbean”
Commentators: Peter Hulme/Lesley Wylie/Lúcia Sá
Chair: Val Fraser
Format: Each commentator speaks for 10 minutes (30 total), each paper writer responds for 5 minutes (10 total), then general discussion.
11.00—11.30 Coffee (Patio Room)
11.30—1.00 (Morant Room)
Susan Castillo, “Darker Hauntings: The Gothic of the Caribbean South”
Owen Robinson, “North to the South: New Orleanian Identities in the Work of W. Adolphe Roberts and George Washington Cable”
Commentators: Maria Cristina Fumagalli/John Cant/Celia Britton
Chair: Matthias Röhrig Assunçao
Format: Each commentator speaks for 10 minutes (30 total), each paper writer responds for 5 minutes (10 total), then general discussion.
1.00—2.00 Lunch (Patio Room)
2.30—4.00 (Morant Room)
Closing Panel: Final Reflections
Ottmar Ette/Gordon Brotherston/Elizabeth DeLoughrey
Chair: Peter Hulme
Format: Each panellist speaks for 10 minutes (30 total), then general discussion.
