College Language Association Convention at a Glance

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Thursday, March 27 (continued)

2:30 - 5:30 p.m. CLA Executive Committee PreConvention Meeting (Tchoupitoulas)

12:00 – 1:15 p.m. Georgiana Simpson Society Board Meeting (Cotton Blossom Boardroom)

4:00 – 6:30 p.m. Registration for Pre-Registered Members Only (Atrium, 2nd floor)

12:00 – 1:15 p.m. Langston Hughes Society Luncheon featuring Brenda Marie Osbey (Blaine Kern Room Ballroom)

5:15 p.m. Buses depart Marriott to transport those who have pre-registered for the Pre-Convention Reception at the Amistad Research Center 6:00 - 8:30 p.m. Pre-Convention Reception & “The Free Southern Theater and the Black Arts Movement in the South” Exhibition (Amistad Research Center, Tulane University) *Pre-registration required.

*Special tickets required for lunch or attendance. 3:00 - 3:45 p.m. Plenary Session I: Opening Convocation & Presidential Address (Blaine Kern Ballroom) 5:30 p.m. Buses depart Marriott for CLA Reception Hosted by Tulane University 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. CLA Welcome Reception (Tulane University, Lavin Bernick Center)

Thursday, March 27, 2014 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration (Atrium, 2nd floor) 9:00 – 10:15 a.m., 10:30 –11:45 a.m., 1:30 – 2:45 p.m., 4:00 – 5:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Langston Hughes Society Annual Business Meeting (Cotton Blossom Boardroom)

Friday, March 28, 2014 7:00 - 8:15 a.m. Past Presidents’ Breakfast (Wolfe’s Den)

*Former CLA Presidents Only

8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration (Atrium, 2nd floor)

Friday, March 28 (continued)

Saturday, March 29, 2014

8:30 – 9:45 a.m., 1:30 – 2:45 p.m., 3:00 – 4:15 p.m. , 4:30 – 5:45 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

8:00 - 10:30 a.m. Registration (Atrium, 2nd floor)

10:00 - 10:45 a.m. CLA Standing Committee Meetings 11:00 – 11:45 a.m. Plenary Session II: Business Meeting & Elections (Blaine Kern Ballroom) 12:00 – 1:15 p.m. Black Studies Committee Lunch 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Pre-Banquet Reception *Cash Bar (Blaine Kern Ballroom) 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. Annual CLA Banquet Keynote, Edwidge Danticat (Blaine Kern Ballroom) 10:00 p.m. -12 midnight President’s Reception (River Bend Ballroom)

9:00 – 10:15 a.m., 10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Concurrent Sessions 12:00 noon History of Black Writing Executive Board Meeting (Fleur de Lis & Cotton Blossom Boardroom) 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Post-Convention Executive Board Meeting (Cotton Blossom Boardroom)

THE COLLEGE LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION

www.clascholars.org

March 2014 CLA Colleagues, On behalf of the CLA Program Committee, I wish personally to welcome you to New Orleans for the seventy-fourth annual convention of the College Language Association. I am delighted you are able to join us, as diligent preparations have been underway by officers of the Executive Committee as well as by the Host Committee at Tulane University, as well as members of surrounding area universities, to whom we are indebted for organizing this memorable and exciting conference. All of us, especially our Vice President and Program Chair, Dr. Dana Williams, supported by English Area Representative, Dr. Tara Green, and our Foreign Language Area Representative, Dr. Clément Akassi, are very pleased, as am I, by the overwhelming response to the call for papers for the 2014 conference. This year’s conference theme, “Pathways and Porticos: The Caribbean and the South as Catalyst in Languages and Literatures,” generated an abundance of creative, engaging proposals and sessions that have our program literally overflowing with a record number of scheduled sessions. Thank you for your interest and submissions, strong indications of the high caliber and volume for this year’s conference in New Orleans. As you can imagine, planning a conference is no easy task and challenges do surface. We sincerely appreciate your collegial spirit, and that of your representatives, as they have done their very best to serve you, our esteemed members of this organization, in this noble effort of service. Here in New Orleans, the winds of great excitement, achievement, and positive change within our organization are amongst us and palpable. For example, we are very proud to have facilitated the re-housing of the CLAJ at Howard University. We extend a warm welcome to the Journal’s new editor, Dr. Sandra Shannon. In addition, this being an election year, we are proud to cycle in a new President and Vice President, and elect new area representatives, all of whom will certainly lead us to the next level of our organization’s greatness! We are confident this will be an exciting and intellectually invigorating conference. We thank you, again, for joining us in New Orleans! Sincerely,

Mario A. Chandler Dr. Mario A. Chandler, CLA President Oglethorpe University 4484 Peachtree Rd., N.E. Atlanta, Georgia 30319 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 404-364-8382

Founded in 1937

WELCOME TO NEW ORLEANS

Dear CLA Colleagues:

Violet Harrington Bryan, PhD Xavier University [email protected]

On behalf of Tulane University, we write to welcome you to the City of New Orleans for the 2014 College Language Association Convention. The New Orleans Downtown Marriott at the Convention Center, our conference hotel site, is located in New Orleans’ historic Arts District and is within walking distance of a number of dining and entertainment attractions, including the original Cajun line-dance restaurant Mulates; the Contemporary Arts Center; the National World War II Museum; the Saengar, Joy, and Mahalia Jackson Theaters; and the French Quarters. You are invited to arrive in New Orleans and check-in to your room at the Marriott by 4:00pm, Wednesday, March 26, so that you can attend The Free Southern Theater and the Black Arts Movement in the South, an exhibition at the Amistad Research Center on Tulane’s campus. As part of a community-wide celebration honoring the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Free Southern Theater, the exhibition highlights the Theater’s records as well as its place within the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Buses to the exhibition tour will depart the Marriott at 5:15PM.

Sherita Johnson, PhD University of Southern Mississippi [email protected]

Thursday, March 27, beginning at 6:00PM, a reception welcoming CLA to New Orleans will take place at Tulane’s Lavin Bernick Center. Among the featured entertainment for this evening is a reading from Lockdown, a play produced by Voices Organized in Creative Dissent (VOIC’D), a multi-racial, anti-racist collective of New Orleans-based artists, writers, educators, and activists committed to creatively examining how systems of education varyingly reinforce and deconstruct racism in America. The evening will also feature a performance by the notable poet and spoken word artist, Gian Smith. Our banquet speaker on Friday, March 28, is the inimitable Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat. Ms. Danticat is the author of a number of critically acclaimed works, including the best-selling novel Breath, Eyes, Memory, and the soon to be released Claire of the Sea Light.

Nghana Lewis, PhD, JD Tulane University [email protected]

The Big Easy is never short on exciting things to do and see; thus, after final paper presentations on Saturday, March 29, consider taking a New Orleans city tour, a bayou & swamp tour, or a tour of one of the historic River Road plantations. As you pack for the Big Easy, please be reminded that the weather in New Orleans in March is typically mild and warm, although evening temperatures sometimes dip below sixty, so bring a jacket. You may also want to bring an umbrella, because light showers in March are frequent. We are delighted to welcome you to New Orleans for the 2014 CLA Conference, an event that we expect will be complemented by a variety of culturally enriching activities and socially engaging events for everyone.

Trimiko Melancon, PhD Loyola University [email protected]

With Warmest Regards, 2014 CLA Host Committee

Martha Pitts, MA Louisiana State University [email protected]

– EDWIDGE DANTICAT – Banquet Speaker

“The immigrant artist shares with all other artists the desire to interpret and possibly remake his or her own world. So though we may not be creating as dangerously as our forebears—though we are not risking torture, beatings, execution, though exile does not threaten us into perpetual silence—still, while we are at work bodies are littering the streets somewhere.” —from Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat has been hailed as “the bard of the Haitian diaspora, her concerns shuttling between and straddling two very different worlds,” according to the New York Times. The author of numerous novels, both adult and young adult, short stories, essays, and a children’s picture book about the 2010 Haitian earthquake, Danticat was a 2009 recipient of a prestigious MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant,” awarded to “talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits.” Writing creatively since she was a young girl, Danticat developed her acclaimed lyrical and vivid prose in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where she was born in 1969 during the dictatorship of François “Papa Doc” Duvalier. When Danticat was a toddler, her father and mother, in search of better economic opportunities, immigrated to the United States and settled in Brooklyn, New York, and Danticat and her young brother were left in the care of an aunt and uncle in Haiti. Raised in a loving family who told rich stories in Haitian Kreyòl (or Creole), Danticat read stories in French at school and wrote on paper her aunt would bring home from work. At the age of twelve, Danticat and her brother moved to the United States to join her parents and her American-born brothers in New York. As an immigrant teenager, Danticat continued to write and worked hard to learn English. It was in the summer after she turned thirteen that Danticat read her first book in English: Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. “Even with my limited English,” Danticat writes, “I was immediately captivated by Angelou’s description of her both loving and painful childhood. I think the slow, sentence-by-sentence reading of that book made me a more attentive reader and writer.” Danticat, too, had both loving and painful experiences as a young adult attempting to navigate her parents’ expectations that she pursue a medical career, while combating stereotypes of her peers who thought Haitians were dirty and different. Danticat could not forget her desire to write, feelings she harbored since she was a young girl. She began writing for New Youth Connections (now YCteen), an independent magazine for New York City teens, about her experiences as an immigrant, while meditating on and foregrounding themes of alienation and belonging. 1

After graduating from high school, she continued to write and enrolled at Barnard, where she majored in French literature. She went on to pursue an M.F.A. at Brown University, and the master’s thesis she wrote would eventually become her acclaimed debut novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, published when Danticat was twenty-five years old. Four years later, in 1998, Oprah Winfrey chose Breath, Eyes, Memory for her book club, which introduced Danticat to a broader audience and greater acclaim. In addition to the MacArthur grant, Danticat has received many awards, including, but not limited to, the National Book Award nominations for both fiction and non-fiction works, Harold Washington Literary Award, Pushcart Short Story Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, the Langston Hughes Medal, and the James Michener Fellowship. She holds, among other distinguished accolades, honorary degrees from Adelphi College, Smith College, Yale University and Brown University. In addition to her well-acclaimed Breathe, Eyes, Memory, Danticat has also authored Krik?Krak!, The Framing of the Bones, The Dew Breaker, and Brother, I’m Dying. Her latest novel, Claire of the Sea Light, was published late summer 2013. Embracing Danticat’s themes of family and Haitian culture, Claire of the Sea Light tells the story of a seven-year-old Haitian girl who disappears on the night her father gives her away in the hopes of securing a better life for his only child. —Martha Pitts

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– BRENDA MARIE OSBEY – Langston Hughes Society Luncheon Speaker “I’m always trying to get beyond the surface of things. I want characters who sound real, who are recognizable. I'm happiest when black New Orleanians tell me that they see themselves, that they see a New Orleans they recognize, and that they understand the stories, that they get it. I worry about whether that little tiny group of New Orleans readers “gets it.” If they don’t, then something’s wrong. Then I know what I’m doing is not good enough, that I need to work on it. —from “An Interview with Brenda Marie Osbey” (with John Lowe) Currently, a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, New Orleans native Brenda Marie Osbey weaves language, memory, myths and history through poetry and prose—in both English and French. Her most recent work, a collection of poems entitled History and Other Poems, explores the transatlantic slave trade and other cultural forces that shaped precolonial and colonial history in the Americas. Much of Osbey’s poetry is based on her upbringing in the Seventh Ward of New Orleans, considered by many to be “the” Creole neighborhood of the city because of the large number of free people of color who settled there. The working-class black families who figure prominently in Osbey’s poetry have undoubtedly been shaped by her experiences in her hometown. Many of her poems, which are long lyrical narratives, have been influenced by such writers as Robert Hayden, Jay Wright, early Gwendolyn Brooks, Gayl Jones, and Sherley Anne Williams. A graduate of Dillard University in New Orleans, Osbey earned an M.A. at the University of Kentucky, where she studied with Dr. Charles Rowell, noted editor of Callaloo journal. Osbey also attended Université Paul Valery in Montpellier, France. Osbey’s other written works include All Saints: New and Selected Poems, which received the American Book Award; Desperate Circumstance, Dangerous Woman; In These Houses and Ceremony for Minneconjoux. She is the author of a series of Kongo-New Orleans libretti, including Sultane au Grand Marais: A New Orleans Opera. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Callaloo, Obsidian, Essence, Southern Exposure, Southern Review, Epoch, The American Voice, and The American Poetry Review. Osbey has taught creative writing, literature, and New Orleans black culture at a number of universities, including Dillard University, UCLA, Loyola University New Orleans, Southern University and Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 3

In 2005, Osbey was chosen to serve as Louisiana’s first peer-selected poet laureate, a prestigious position she held for two years. Among Osbey’s other awards and honors are the American Book Award, the Louisiana Board of Regents Award to Artists and Scholars (ATLAS), the Academy of American Poets’ Loring Williams Prize, an Associated Writing Programs Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She has been a fellow of the MacDowell Colony, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Millay Colony and the Bunting Institute of Radcliff College, Harvard University. —Martha Pitts

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College Language Association Executive Committee, 2012-2014

Mario A. Chandler CLA President Oglethorpe University 4484 Peachtree Rd., N.E. Atlanta, GA 30319 404-364-8382 (office) 678-698-4312 (cell) [email protected]

Yakini B. Kemp CLA Treasurer P.O. Box 38515 Tallahassee, FL 32315 850-599-3737/ 561-2608 (office) 850-561-2976 (fax) [email protected]

Dana A. Williams CLA Vice President Howard University Department of English 2441 6th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20059 202-806-6730/5371 (office) [email protected]

Elizabeth J. West CLA Assistant Treasurer Georgia State University Department of English University Plaza Atlanta, GA 30303 404-413-5866 (office) 404-413-5830 (fax) [email protected]

Reginald A. Bess CLA Secretary Claflin University English & Foreign Languages 400 Magnolia Street Orangeburg, SC 29115-4498 803-535-5717 (Office) [email protected] Yvonne E. McIntosh CLA Assistant Secretary Florida A & M University Department of Foreign Languages Tallahassee, FL 32307 850-599-8125 (office) [email protected]

Tara T. Green CLA English Area Representative U of North Carolina-Greensboro African American Studies Program P.O. Box 26170 Greensboro, NC 27402-6170 336-334-3889 (office) [email protected]

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Clément A. Akassi CLA Foreign Language Area Rep Howard University World Languages and Cultures 2441 6th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20059 202-806-4590 (office) [email protected] Warren J. Carson CLA Immediate Past President U of South Carolina Upstate Department of English HPAC 222 Spartanburg, SC 29303 864-503-5634 (office) [email protected] Sandra G. Shannon* (2014 only) CLA Journal Editor Howard University Department of English 2441 6th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20059 202-806-5443 (office) [email protected] Cason L. Hill* (until 2014) CLA Past Journal Editor Morehouse College Atlanta, GA 30314 404-681-2800 (office) [email protected]

College Language Association Founder The Late Hugh Morris Gloster

(1911-2002)

President Emeritus of Morehouse College

2014 College Language Association Program Committee

Dana A. Williams

Tara T. Green

Clément A. Akassi

CLA Vice President Howard University

CLA English Area Rep University of North Carolina-Greensboro

CLA Foreign Language Area Rep Howard University

2014 College Language Association Host Committee

Nghana Lewis, Chair Tulane University

Violet Harrington Bryan

Trimiko Melancon

Martha Pitts

Sherita Johnson

Xavier University of Louisiana

Loyola University

Louisiana State University

U of Southern Mississippi

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College Language Association

74th Annual Convention New Orleans, Louisiana March 26 – March 29, 2014 Conference Theme:

“Pathways & Porticos: The Caribbean and the South as Catalyst in Languages and Literatures”

Wednesday, March 26, 2014 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Pre-Convention Workshop: Digital Humanities in AfricanAmerican Studies (New Levee)

2:30 - 5:30 p.m.

CLA Executive Committee Pre-Convention Meeting (Tchoupitoulas)

4:00 - 5:45 p.m.

Registration for Pre-Registered Members Only (Atrium)

6:00 - 8:30 p.m.

Pre-Convention Reception & Exhibition: “The Free Southern Theater and the Black Arts Movement in the South” (Amistad Research Center, Tulane University) (Bus Departure at 5:30p.m.) *Pre-registration required.

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Thursday, March 27

8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration (Atrium, 2nd floor) 9:00-10:15 a.m.

Fulton

Thursday

1. History of Black Writing Inaugural New Scholars Panel: Reading and Writing the South, Africa, and the African Atlantic: Old Worlds, New Narratives and the Spaces in Between Chair: Trudier Harris, University of Alabama DaMaris B. Hill, University of Kentucky “Tendril of the Tempest” William Cunningham IV, University of Kansas “Where Did the Wood Go?: Dark Houses in Light in August” Crighton Nicholas Brown, University of Kansas “The Unintentional Writer-Activist: Space, Place, and Tourism in Julia Alvarez’s A Wedding in Haiti” Ashley Ortiz, University of Kansas “Curanderas, Santeras, y Nuestras Abuelitas: Representations of Contemporary Faith and Folk Healing in U.S. Latino/a Literature” Meredith Wiggins, University of Kansas “See the Freaks and Missin’ Links: Reading Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus through Disability and Post-Colonial Studies”

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Thursday, March 27

9:00-10:15 a.m.

Mississippi Queen

Thursday

2. Literature of the American South: Negritude, Darwinism, and Literary Intersections in Selected Novels of Charles Waddell Chesnutt Chair: Ernestine Pickens Glass, Charles W. Chesnutt Association Mary B. Zeigler, Georgia State University “Keep on Pushin’ with Amazing Grace!: Duality in Chesnutt’s Nonverbal Discourse for His Music-Inspired ‘How Dasdy Came Through’” Kokahvah Zauditu-Selassie, Coppin State University “The Axe Forgets; the Tree Remembers: Memory, Identity, and Negritude in Selected Works of Charles W. Chesnutt and Aimé Césaire” Sally Ann Ferguson, University of North Carolina, Greensboro “Chesnutt’s White Life Novels and Literary Darwinism: The Example of Evelyn’s Husband” 9:00-10:15 a.m.

New Levee

Thursday

3. Black Women Writers Transcending Time and Space Chair: Candice Love Jackson, Tougaloo College Kameelah Martin, Savannah State University “Sounding the Abeng: Michelle Cliff and Zora Neale Hurston in Transnational Literary Discourse” Elwanda Ingram, Winston-Salem State University “Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker: The Vernacular Tradition” Denise Angela Rose, Morgan State University “Michelle Cliff’s Abeng: A Commentary on Self Identity and Racial Pride” La Tanya L. Rogers, University of the District of Columbia “Examinations of Language and Consciousness in Merle Hodge’s Crick Crack, Monkey”

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Thursday, March 27

9:00-10:15 a.m.

Delta Queen

Thursday

4. Situating Voices and Selves in Caribbean and African American Literature Chair: Kendra R. Parker, Hope College Craig A. Smith, College of the Bahamas “Returning to Voice, Returning Self in Kei Miller’s The Last Warner Woman” Shauna Morgan Kirlew, Howard University “‘An Anger That Moves’: Women, Identity, and Resistance in the Poetry of Kei Miller” Timothy S. Lyle, Howard University Prolonging “Last Call”: Jamaica Kincaid’s Voyeuristic Impulses in My Brother Marie Sairsingh, The College of the Bahamas “Diasporic Connections: Erna Brodber and Toni Morrison’s Literary Explorations of the Black Existentiality” 9:00-10:15 a.m.

Creole Queen

Thursday

5. Race and Identity: The Politics of Creole Language in the U.S. Chair: Milford A. Jeremiah, Morgan State University Monique Leslie Akassi, Bowie State University “Creole, Languages, and Politics of Racial Profiling in the Trayvon Martin Case” Karima Jeffrey, Hampton University “Creole Mirrors-White Faces Looking for Meaning in the Reflections of Black Bodies and Voices” Milford A. Jeremiah, Morgan State University “Creole Language and the Language of Creoles”

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Thursday, March 27

9:00-10:15 a.m.

Tchoupitoulas

Thursday

6. Memory, Identity, and Purpose: Celebrating African American Southern Women Writers across Genres Chair: Angela L. Robinson, Jackson State University Nubia Johnson, Jackson State University “Reading Journalistic Justice in Ida B. Wells- Barnett’s’ Mob Rule in New Orleans” Rochelle Smith Glenn, Jackson State University “‘Listen to Me’: The Rhetorical Spaces of Southern African American Women” Helen Crump, Jackson State University “Resisting the ‘Single Story’: Bridging Multiple Narratives in/of Black Women’s Diaspora Fiction” C. Leigh McInnis, Jackson State University “Full Steam Ahead: Sing Literature to Sow the Locomotive Lie of Post-Racial America” 9:00 – 10:15 a.m.

Natchez

Thursday

7. North Carolina Central University Goes “Understanding by Design” (UbD), Part I Chair: Cristina R. Cabral, North Carolina Central University Cristina R. Cabral, North Carolina Central University “NCCU goes beyond UbD” Chuck Johnson, North Carolina Central University “ACTFL Guidelines of Oral Proficiency and Their Role(s) within Our New Course Redesign” Maria Mumford, North Carolina Central University “The Use of Contextualized Dialogue in the Communicative Approach to Teaching/Learning Language and Culture”

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Thursday, March 27

9:00 – 10:15 a.m.

Fleur De Lis

Thursday

8. Languages and Identities in African and Trans-Caribbean Literature and Film Chair: José Manuel Batista, University of North Carolina, Charlotte José Manuel Batista, University of North Carolina, Charlotte “El discurso de la identidad racial en las crónicas de (l poeta dominicano) Pedro Mir” Jean Jacques Taty, Howard University “New Directions in Language Appropriation: Modern Vernacular in Contemporary African Literature: The Case of Aya de Yopougon by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie” Jean-Purchas Tullock, Howard University “Léon Gontran Damas’s Trans-Lingual Legacy from Cayenne’s 2012 Centennial Retraced to his Contemporaries”

9. 10:00-12noon

10:30-11:45 a.m.

Langston Hughes Society Annual Business Meeting (Cotton Blossom Boardroom) Fulton

Thursday

10. Transcultural Films as a Doorway to Comparative Literary and Language Investigation across the German Diaspora: The Impact and the Message of the German Films of the Afroeuropean Filmmaker Branwen Opakopo—A Discussion with the Filmmaker (Sponsored by the Georgiana Simpson Society for German Diasporic Studies) Chair: Margaret Hampton, Earlham College Branwen Opakopo, Independent Filmmaker Janice D. M. Mitchell, Gallaudet University

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Thursday, March 27

10:30-11:45 a.m.

Mississippi Queen

Thursday

11. New Techniques in Teaching Composition and Memoir Chair: Milford A. Jeremiah, Morgan State University Dottie Hutcherson, Auburn University “Bearing Witness in Literature and Composition Classrooms” Betty L.Hart, University of Southern Indiana “John Oliver Killens: Old School Knowledge, New Age Lessons” DaRelle M. Rollins, Hampton University “Surviving the Incident: Teaching the Memoir at an HBCU” 10:30-11:45 a.m.

New Levee

Thursday

12. Poetry and Jazz Connections in the Black Atlantic Chair: Tony Bolden, University of Kansas Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Pennsylvania State University “Objects: For Russell Atkins” Jürgen E. Grandt, University of North Georgia “Duke Ellington, New Orleans, and the Caribbean—or How Madame Zajj Met Walter Benjamin” Claude Wilkinson, Mississippi Valley State University “Survival of the Baddest: Etheridge Knight’s Hard Rock Aesthetic” Dennis Rogers, Bowie State University “International Political Reverberations in the Southern Rooted Spirituality of Thelonious Monk’s and John Coltrane’s Jazz”

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Thursday, March 27

10:30-11:45 a.m.

Delta Queen

Thursday

13. Pathways to the Past: Narratives and Autobiographies of Enslavement Chair: Stefan M. Wheelock, George Mason University Jeffery D. Mack, Albany State University “‘Come Ye Sinners Poor and Needy’: Spirituality, Masculinity and the Slave Narrative Tradition” Willie J. Harrell, Jr., Kent State University “My master was a cruel man”: Mississippi Slave Narratives Martha Pitts, Louisiana State University “Nancy Prince’s Jamaica: Missionary Maternalism and National/Diasporic Belonging in The West Indies and A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince” 10:30-11:45 a.m.

Creole Queen

Thursday

14. Reading Octavia Butler Chair: Isaiah Lavender, III, Louisiana State University Sandra M. Grayson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee “Recurring Tropes in Ancient Mande Epics, the Earthseed Series, and ‘Amnesty’” Gregory Hampton, Howard University “Reading Aimé Césaire with Octavia Butler: A Tempest and Discourse on Colonialism as Science Fiction Narratives of Aliens Invasion” Jennifer G. Brooks, University of Memphis “Going Over Yonder: Octavia Butler’s Lilith's Brood” Kendra R. Parker, Hope College “I’m not the vampire he is. I give in return for my taking”: Tracing Vampirism and Issues of Consent in Octavia Butler’s Patternist Series and Xenogenesis Trilogy

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Thursday, March 27 10:30-11:45 a.m.

Natchez

Thursday

15. Caribbean Literature in the U.S.: The Literature of Paule Marshall Chair: Shelia Smith-McKoy, North Carolina State University Shawnrece D. Campbell, Stetson University “Using Ethiopian Healing Scrolls to Read Healing in Contemporary African American Literature by Women” Lena Ampadu, Towson University “Women’s Identities and the Immigrant Experience in Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brownstones” Shirley Toland-Dix, University of South Florida “Caliban and Prospero in Paule Marshall’s The Chosen Place, the Timeless People” Candice Pitts, Howard University “‘You Ain No Real-Real Bajan Man’: Measuring Caribbean Manhood in the North American Terrain in Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brownstones” 10:30 – 11:45 a.m.

Tchoupitoulas

Thursday

16. Exploring the Geographical Diversity of Afro-Colombianidad: Locations of Cultural Identities, and Social Changes Chair: Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo, Vanderbilt University Verny Varela, Howard University “African Music in the Construction of the Afro-Colombian Identities: Case of the Champeta in Cartegena de Indias, and Currulao in the Pacific Coast” Alain Lawo-Sukam, Texas A & M University, College Station San Basilio de Palenque: Pathway of African Heritage and Socio-Cultural Changes” Uchenna P. Vasser, Winston-Salem State University “Manuel Zapata Olivella and the Ideology of Africanidad” George Palacios, Saint Mary’s College “(Re)pensando la diáspora africana desde Manuel Zapata Olivella: el ‘muntu americano’ y la ‘casa vieja y nueva’”

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Thursday, March 27 10:30 – 11:45 a.m.

Fleur De Lis

Thursday

17. Unveiling Dominant and Subaltern/Subversive Voices in Equatorial Guinean and African Diaspora Literatures Chair: James J. Davis, Howard University Annette Dunzo, Howard University “The African Diaspora: (Re) searching African Socio-Political Identity Formation and the Teaching of Literary Writings by Africans and African Descendants within the Hispanic Cultural Context” David Akbar Gilliam, DePaul University “The Face of God, the Face of Humanity, Is There Any Resemblance? “La virgen no tiene cara” (“The Virgin Has No Face” by Ramón Díaz Sánchez) Asks the Question, What is the Role of Race in God’s Plan?” Michael Ugarte, University of Missouri The Subaltern Voices of María Nsue and Concha Buika” Nicole D. Price, Northern Arizona University “Whose Voice Is It Anyway?: The Colonial Novel in Equatorial Guinea” 18. 12 noon – 1:15 p.m. 19. 12 noon – 1:15 p.m.

Georgiana Simpson Society Board Meeting (Cotton Blossom Boardroom) Langston Hughes Society Luncheon (Blaine Kern Room Ballroom)

**Featuring Brenda Marie Osbey** Book Signing to Follow 1:30-2:45 p.m.

Mississppi Queen

Thursday

20. Africa, Haiti, and Louisiana: Porticos of Creole, Music, Vaudou, and Political Resistance Chair: Herman Bostick, Howard University Jay Lutz, Oglethorpe University “Haiti, trances, vaudou, and Gérard Chenet” Robert Agboke, Université de Lomé “La ‘’décréolisation’’ de la langue créole: un combat esthétique et politique” Herman Bostick, Howard University “Ouanga, a Haitian Opera Revisited” 16

Thursday, March 27 1:30-2:45 p.m.

Delta Queen

Thursday

21. Tradition and Memory in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora Chair: Kristine Yohe, Northern Kentucky University Jennifer D. Williams, Morgan State University “Sexual Geographies of New World Slavery: The U.S. South and the Caribbean in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora” Wallis Clinton Baxter, III, Howard University “Belief Battle: The Struggle at the Crossroads of Upholding or Dismantling Tradition in Order to (Re)-Present Truth in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora” Rochelle Sample, West Chester University “Post-Traumatic Sex Disorder, Slavery and Its Aftermath: Black Women’s Sexuality in Toni Morrison’s Sula and Gayl Jones’s Corregidora” Candice Nicole Hale, Louisiana State University “A Hard Kind of Voice, A Hard Kind of Woman: Blues Bearing Witness to Pain and Memory in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora” 1:30-2:45 p.m.

Creole Queen

Thursday

22. Gender, Religion, and Romance: New Readings of Zora Neale Hurston’s Work Chair: Warren J. Carson, University of South Carolina, Upstate Cheryl R. Hopson, Georgia Regents University “‘Us got tuh...practise on treasurin’our young’uns’: Reflecting on John Pearson as a “Family Man” in Zora Neale Hurston’s Jonah’s Gourd Vine” Amelia Hall, Georgetown University Humoring Religion: How Hurston Re-divines Southern Gender Orthodoxy in Their Eyes Were Watching God Isaiah Lavender, III, Louisiana State University “Zora Neale Hurston’s Planetary Romance: An Afrofuturist Reading of Their Eyes Were Watching God” Seretha D. Williams, Georgia Regents University “The boiled-down juice of human living: Hurston, Representation of Africa, and Intellectual Appropriation”

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Thursday, March 27 1:30-2:45 p.m.

New Levee

Thursday

23. Revisiting the Life and Literacy Legacy of Tom Dent Chair: Thabiti Lewis, Washington State University, Vancouver Jerry Ward, Central China Normal University “Tom Dent: History and Change” Kalamu Ya-Salaam, Independent Scholar and Artist “New Orleans Griot—A Tom Dent Appreciation” Tony Bolden, University of Kansas “The Cultural Politics of Historiography and Gentry Experimentation in Tom Dent’s Southern Journey” Lolis Elie, Retired Veteran Civil Rights Lawyer “Cultural and Civil Rights Reflections on Tom Dent” 1:30-2:45 p.m.

Fulton

Thursday

24. The Real Scandal: Portrayals of Black Women in Reality TV (Panel 1) Chair: Verner D. Mitchell, University of Memphis Jervette R. Ward, University of Alaska, Anchorage “Overview: Everyone’s Doing It” Sheena Harris, Austin Peay State University “Black Women: From Public Arena to Reality TV” Preselfannie Whitfield-McDaniels, Jackson State University “‘I Only Watch the ‘Good’ Dignified Ones’: Exploring Hierarchy in Reality TV” Cynthia Davis, Barry University “Cocktail Culture, Fashion, and the ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’”

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Thursday, March 27 1:30-2:45 p.m.

Tchoupitoulas

Thursday

25. Roundtable: Teaching African American Literary and Cultural Studies in the 21st Century Chair: Angelyn Mitchell, Georgetown University Deborah H. Barnes, Jackson State University Soyica Diggs Colbert, Georgetown University Robert J. Patterson, Georgetown University Danille Taylor, Texas Southern University Dana A. Williams, Howard University 1:30-2:45 p.m.

Natchez

Thursday

26. “Examining Film and Literature to Challenge Popular Representation of Race, Class, and Gender in the American South” Chair: Sharynn O. Etheridge, Claflin University April McCray, Florida A & M University “‘In the Confusion of Seductive Repentance’: Conflict and Disillusionment in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand” Antiwan Walker, Georgia Gwinnett College “Queering the Self: Saving Black Women to Save Yourself and Other Shadows in Selected Tyler Perry Filmic Productions” Na’Imah H. Ford, Florida A & M University “Who Are The Beasts and Is There Really ‘No Love in the Wild?’: A Critical Discussion of Race, Class, and Gender in ‘Beasts of The Southern Wild’”

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Thursday, March 27

1:30-2:45 p.m.

Fleur De Lis

Thursday

27. Black Representations and Subjectivities in Cuban Narratives Chair: Matthew Pettway, University of Kansas Carmen E. Lamas, La Salle University “The Black Lector in Nineteenth-Century Transamerican Cuban Fiction” Krishauna Hines-Gaither, Salem College “Afro-Cubans, African-Americans, Creoles and Cajuns: An Afro-Cubana’s Journey from Cuba to New Orleans” Matthew Pettway, University of Kansas “Un mestizaje ilusorio: Construyendo subjetividad en la segunda generación de los poetas afrocubanos” 1:30-2:45 p.m.

Magnolia

28. Caribbean Literature in America Chair: Marva Stewart, Paine College Mary Mears, Middle Georgia State College “Silence is Golden or Is It? Elizabeth Nunez’s Beyond the Limbo Silence Derrilyn Morrison, Middle Georgia State College “Growing Silence, Harvesting Pain in Edwidge Danticat and Carmen Esteve” Australia Tarver, Texas Christian University “The Power of the Writing Trickster in Karen Lord’s Redemption in Indigo” 29. 3:00-3:45pm

PLENARY SESSION I Opening Convocation and Presidential Address (Blaine Kern Ballroom)

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Thursday

Thursday, March 27 4:00 – 5:15 p.m.

Mississippi Queen

Thursday

30. Negritude and Global Black Consciousness Chair: Margaret L. Morris, South Carolina State University Margaret L. Morris, South Carolina State University “Negritude as Defined by the Dominican Poet Blas R. Jiménez” James J. Davis, Howard University “Négritude and Negrismo: The Contributions of African American Scholars at HBCUs (1900-1960)” Sylviane Townsel, Virginia State University “Négritude dans Ségou et dans Cahier d’un retour au pays natal” Debra Boyd, North Carolina Central University “Negritude and Beyond: the Legacy of Aimé Césaire in the 21st Century” 4:00 – 5:15 p.m.

Magnolia

Thursday

31. Pathways into Pathology: The Strange Case of Trayvon Martin Chair: Sandra Govan, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Daryl Lynn Dance, University of Kansas “Speaking for Others: Understanding Trayvon Martin through Rachel Jeantel” Daryl Cumber Dance, University of Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University “‘Can Trayvon Get a Witness?’ Southern African American Folklore Elucidates the Trayvon Martin Case” Trudier Harris, University of Alabama “Trayvon Martin: His Historical and Literary Roots” Opal Moore, Spelman College “The American Dream of Victimhood”

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Thursday, March 27

4:00-5:15 p.m.

Delta Queen

Thursday

32. African American Literary Heritage: Three Mississippi Writers Chair: John Zheng, Mississippi Valley State University Toru Kiuchi, Nihon University, Japan “The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright’s A Father's Law” Li Quanwen, Hubei Minzu University, China “The Mobility of Space in Margaret Walker’s Poetry” Hermine Pinson, College of William and Mary “Sterling Plumpp’s Tragic Vision”

4:00-5:15 p.m.

Creole Queen

Thursday

33. Mistresses, Mammies, and Momma’s Boys: Post-Civil Rights Era Writers Revisit the South Chair: Joy Myree Mainor, Morgan State University Guy Mark Foster, Bowdoin College “The South, Queer Affect, and Ann Allen Shockley’s ‘The Mistress and the Slave Girl’” Angelo D. Robinson, Goucher College “Nostalgia, Lies, and Alibis: Margaret Walker’s Genre-Making Undertaking in Jubilee” Keith Clark, George Mason University “South to a Very Queer Place: Destabilizing Race, Place, and Sexuality in Randall Kenan’s ‘Run, Mourner, Run’”

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Thursday, March 27 4:00-5:15 p.m.

Natchez

Thursday

34. The Gift of Laughter: Follies and Funnies and African American Satire Chair: Christopher A. Shinn, Howard University Lisa Guerrero, Washington State University “‘I am not myself today’: Mimesis and the Crisis of Black Visibility in Percival Everett’s Erasure and I Am Not Sidney Poitier” Darryl Dickson-Carr, Southern Methodist University “The Tom-tom Laughs...at Us: African American Art Forms and the Diaspora in the Harlem Renaissance” Christopher A. Shinn, Howard University “Paul Beatty’s Anti-Utopianism; or When Ritual Suicide in Japanese Samurai Films Meets Death and Nihilism in Hip- Hop Culture” 4:00-5:15 p.m.

Tchoupitoulas

Thursday

35. Re- Inventing the Self as a Challenge to the System Chair:

Sabrina J. Curtis, Howard University

Alfonso Arteaga, Texas Southern University “Leading and Following, Race and Enslavement, Gender and Domination in the Tango Embrace: Fantasies of a Cripple” Novella Brooks de Vita, Texas Southern University “The Suppression of Sub-Saharan Homo-Sapiens’ Intelligence” Arelia Johnson, Texas Southern University “An African American Woman’s Collegiate Manifesto” Sabrina J. Curtis, Howard University “Dual Notions of Reality: Personal Narratives by Social Activists of African Descent”

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Thursday, March 27 4:00 – 5:15 p.m.

Fulton

Thursday

36. Film Screening and Discussion of “Maestra” Discussant: Catherine Murphy, Director of “Maestra” Respondent: Krishauna Hines-Gaither, Salem College *“Maestra” is a 33 minute-long documentary. Discussion will also include the Cuban Literacy Campaign of 1961 and the theme of “Women, Memories, and Resistances in the Caribbean and South” 4:00 – 5:15 p.m.

New Levee

Thursday

37. The Porous Boundaries between Text and World Chair: Elwanda Ingram, Winston-Salem State University Sue E. Houchins, Bates College “Bessie Head’s A Question of Power: Where Mysticism and Madness Converge” Therí A. Pickens, Bates College “New Directions: African American Narrative in the 21st Century: An Examination of ‘Craziness’ in the Work of Victor Lavalle” Sandra Shannon, Howard University “I am a Woman Who Thinks like a Man: Bessie Head’s Response to Feminism” 4:00 – 5:15 p.m.

Fleur De Lis

Thursday

38. The Writings of Langston Hughes: Pathway and Portico to Circum-Caribbean Literature (Sponsored by the Langston Hughes Society) Chair: Sharon Lynette Jones, Wright State University Carmaletta Williams, Johnson County Community College John Edgar Tidwell, University of Kansas “Agony and Ecstasy: Recovering Family in My Dear Boy” Dellita Martin-Ogunsola, University of Alabama, Birmingham “The Musico-Poetry of Langston Hughes: Pathway and Portico to Circum-Caribbean Verse” Lianggong Luo, Central China Normal University “Call and Response: Langston Hughes and Derek Walcott in the Blues Spirit”

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Thursday, March 27 39. 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

CLA Reception Hosted by Tulane University (Bus Departure at 5:30pm)

Excerpt of "Lockdown" Written and performed by Derek Roguski and Michael "Quess" Moore Directed by Kiyoko McCrae Performance by Poet-Artist Gian Francisco Smith ***

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Lockdown: A Play about Race, Education, and the American Dream In post-Katrina New Orleans, how do we grapple with a rapidly changing education landscape, and the issues of race, class and gender (in)justice it has brought to the forefront of local and national conversation? With the development of three different school systems, an upsurge in charter takeovers, and the wholesale firing of a large majority of veteran teachers, students in New Orleans are struggling to receive a solid education amidst intense upheaval. Set in the context of the privatization of public schools, Lockdown is an original play that explores the impact of education reform in New Orleans post-Katrina. Voices Organized in Creative Dissent (VOIC'D) is a multiracial, anti-racist collective of artists, writers, educators, and activists Hannah Adams, Troi Bechet, Keshia “Peaches” Caldwell, Kiyoko McCrae, Michael "Quess" Moore, Rebecca Mwase, Thena Robinson-Mock, Derek Rankins, and Derek Roguski.

GIAN FRANCISCO SMITH Gian Francisco Smith is a New Orleans-based artist. His craft spans over several media—including writing, acting, and video production—but he is probably most notably recognized as a spoken word poet. Gian has made several television appearances, some on local New Orleans stations, some international including VH-1 and HBO. His poem “O Beautiful Storm” was featured in a preview for season 2 of HBO’s Treme. Smith is also well known locally for his community organization, including NOYOpresents: “Pass It On” open mic. He can often be found at local high schools and middle schools when asked to speak to children and aspiring poets. Gian is a proud member of the Melanated Writers Collective, a group of writers of color in New Orleans which boasts a strong cast of talented individuals.

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Friday, March 28

40. 7:00-8:15 a.m

Past Presidents’ Breakfast *Former CLA Presidents Only (Wolfe’s Den)

8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Registration (Atrium, 2nd floor)

8:30 – 9:45 a.m.

Fulton

Friday

41. Special Session I: Remembering Amiri Baraka Chair: Joanne V. Gabbin, James Madison University Meta D. Jones, Howard University Margo Crawford, Cornell University Kenton Rambsy, University of Kansas 8:30 – 9:45 a.m.

Magnolia

Friday

42. Race and Identities across the Trans-atlantic and Caribbean Worlds Chair: Reginald Bess, Claflin University Mauricio Almonte, Florida Atlantic University “Sobre el correo a la antigua, epistolaridad e identidad colectiva en la República Dominicana, 1889-1953” Scheel Charles, Université Antilles Guyane - Campus de Schoelcher “Junot Diaz’s The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: McOndo for sure, but Magical Realism nonetheless – with a New Twist” Mesi Walton, Howard University “In Curiepe and La Sabana as in the Caribbean: Analyzing the Ethnic and Ancestral Retentions of African Language and Instruments in Venezuela” Reginald Bess, Claflin University “Race and Identity in Afro-German Autobiography: Ika Huegel Marshall’s Daheim unterwegs. Ein deutsches Leben and Hans J. Massaquoi’s Neger, Neger, Schornstein Feger”

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Friday, March 28

8:30 – 9:45 a.m.

Mississippi Queen

Friday

43. Ancestral and Feminist Memory in Black Brazilian Women’s Writing Chair: Antonio D. Tillis, Dartmouth College Maria Aparecida Salgueiro, State University of Rio de Janeiro “Cultural Memory in Conceião Evaristo’s Work” Denise Nascimento, Universidad Federal Juiz de For a “Saindo dos escmbros: a escrita-formação de Geni Guimaraes” Ana Beatriz Gonçalves, Universidad Federal Juiz de Fora “Nina Silva: Third-World Poet?” 8:30 – 9:45 a.m.

Delta Queen

Friday

44. From Africa to the American South: Sermonic and Musical Performances Chair: Jürgen E. Grandt, University of North Georgia McKinley E. Melton, Gettysburg College “Sermon on the Mic: Remixing the Southern Preacher on the Hip Hop Stage” Donald Ray Jenkins, Albany State University “How a Southern Minister Uses Literature to Predict His Impending Death: The Apocalyptic Vision in Martin Luther King’s ‘I’ve Been to the Mountaintop’ Speech/Sermon” Christopher Okonkwo, University of Missouri, Columbia “Achebe’s Blue(s) Notes: Things Fall Apart and the Blues (Aesthetic)”

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Friday, March 28 8:30-9:45 a.m.

Creole Queen

Friday

45. Africana Women Negotiating Positions of Power: In Community, In Family and through Dance Chair: M’baré N’gom, Morgan State University Lauren Chambers, University of Georgia “Unclaimed Baggage: Community as Home in Breath, Eyes, Memory” Julia Tigner, Auburn University “The Mother-Daughter Relationship in Reyita: The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century and Mama’s Girl” Ondra Dismukes, Georgia Gwinnett College “Afro-Caribbean Meets African American South: The Dance Connection in Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men” 8:30-9:45 a.m.

Natchez

Friday

46. Democratic Fictions in Black Literature and Film: A Roundtable Discussion Chair: La Tanya L. Rogers, University of the District of Columbia Jamila S. Lyn, Morehouse College Erica R. Edwards, University of California, Riverside Soyica Diggs Colbert, Georgetown University Robert J. Patterson, Georgetown University 8:30-9:45 a.m.

Tchoupitoulas

47. Purposeful Pathways: Eastern Porticos in African American Culture Chair: Janelle Jennings Alexander, Florida State University Christina Pinkston-Betts, University of Connecticut “Art and Activism: Fred Ho and Afro Asian Collaborations” Valerie Sweeny Prince, Allegheny College “Black Yin: The Feminine Principal or Looking for Booker T” Hoke S, Glover, III, Bowie State University “Black Yin and Civil Rights”

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Friday

Friday, March 28

8:30-9:45 a.m.

Fleur De Lis

Friday

48. Charles Chesnutt’s Louisiana Purchase: Paul Marchand, F. M. C. as Both the Embodiment of and Hypothesis for “The Future American” Chair: Ladrica Menson-Furr, University of Memphis Darren Joseph Elzie, University of Memphis “Aimé Césaire and the Theology of Negritude” Rachel Leigh Smith, University of Memphis “On the Body and in the Blood: American Citizenship in the Writing of Charles W. Chesnutt and Anna Julia Cooper” Elizabeth G. Allen, University of Memphis “Charles Chesnutt’s ‘Mrs. Darcy’s Daughter’”

8:30-9:45 a.m.

New Levee

Friday

49. Strategies for Black Studies in the 21st Century—A Roundtable Special Session Sponsored by the Black Studies Committee Chair: Thabiti Lewis, Washington State University, Vancouver Iva Revels, Ira Revels Consulting “Managing Digital Collections for Black Studies Programs and Literature Projects” Yemisi Jimoh, University of Massachusetts Amherst “How Black Studies Shifts the Site of Knowledge and Disrupts the Dominate Narratives on Justice and Equality in the United States” Gordon Thompson, City College of New York “Maximizing Natural Connections between Black Studies and the Study of Literature.” Dawn Duke, University of Tennessee, Knoxville “Issues of Diversity—Challenges for Black Studies”

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Friday, March 28 50. 10:00-10:45 a.m.

CLA Standing Committee Meetings

All members are encouraged to join a standing committee. Archives (Magnolia) Chair: Dolan Hubbard, Morgan State University Awards (Natchez) Chair: Emma Waters Dawson, Florida A&M University (Members appointed by President) Black Studies (Creole Queen) Co-Chairs: Gordon Thompson, CUNY and Thabiti Lewis, Washington State University, Vancouver CLA and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (Fulton) Chair: Paula Barnes, Hampton University CLA and Historically White Colleges and Universities (Fulton) Chair: Eleanor Q. Tignor, LaGuarida Community College/CUNY Constitution (Magnolia) Chair: Warren J. Carson, University of South Carolina, Upstate Creative Writing (Mississippi Queen) Chair: Ramona L. Hyman, Independant Scholar Curriculum: English (New Levee) Chair: Aaron Oforlea, Washington State University Curriculum: Foreign Language (New Levee) Chair: Leroy Hopkins, Millersville State University Membership (Delta Queen) Chair: Yvonne McIntosh, Florida A&M University Nominations (Tchoupitoulas) Chair: Geneva Baxter, Spelman College Research (Tchoupitoulas) Chair: Venetria Patton, Purdue University 30

Friday, March 28 51. 11:00 – 11:45am

PLENARY SESSION II Business Meeting & Elections (Blaine Kern Ballroom)

52. 12 noon – 1:15pm 1:30-2:45 p.m.

Black Studies Committee Lunch Magnolia

Friday

53. North Carolina Central University Goes “Understanding by Design” (UbD), Part II Chair: Rachel Brooks, North Carolina Central University José Agudelo, North Carolina Central University “Development of a complete Spanish thematic unit based on an authentic Afro-Latino song” Martha Espinel, North Carolina Central University “Implementation of a complete Spanish thematic unit based on an authentic Afro-Latino song” Rachel Brooks, North Carolina Central University “Rompiendo modelos establecidos: Reevaluating the AfroHispanic Presence through Understanding by Design” 1:30-2:45 p.m.

Mississippi Queen

Friday

54. “Saving” the Souls of Black Folk: Preserving Folklore and Projecting Cultural Authenticity in African American Literature Chair: Rita Edwards, Winston-Salem State University Michelle Bachelor Robinson, University of Alabama “Longing for Days Gone By: Infectious Nostalgia and Renegotiation of Slavery in Chesnutt’s The Conjure Woman” Anton L. Smith, University of Alabama “Eating to Live, Living to Eat: Consuming Passions and the Representations of Soul Food in Ellison’s Juneteenth” Lauren Cardon, University of Alabama “‘The skin like tar against the canary yellow dress’: Visions of ‘Authentic Blackness’ in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby”

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Friday, March 28

1:30-2:45 p.m.

Delta Queen

Friday

55. African American Male Writers in the Public Sphere: DuBois, Reed, and Mosley Chair: Mona Lisa Saloy, Dillard University Dolan Hubbard, Morgan State University “Du Bois, Modernity, the Color Line and the Atlantic Formation” Reginald Martin, University of Memphis “Ishmael Reed and the Civil War: Flight to Canada and Dangers of Racial Ambiguity during War-Time” Jennifer Larson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “Why Easy Is So Big: Understanding Walter Mosley’s Popular Success” Blessing Diala-Ogamba, Coppin State University “Manipulation and Deceit in Roby’s Too Much of a Good Thing and Kenney’s Preacha’ Man” 1:30-2:45 p.m.

Creole Queen

56. Language and Place in Black Women Writers’ Poetry and Drama Chair: Justin Shaw, University of Houston Violet Harrington Bryan, Xavier University of Louisiana “‘Tomorrow’s Spaces in the Poetry of Jamaican Writer Velma Pollard” Daintee G. Jones, DeVry University “The South as Mecca: Pearl Cleage’s Freedom Plays” Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, Texas Southern University “Performances of Freedom in Alice Childress’s Copra: A West Indian Drama”

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Friday

Friday, March 28

1:30-2:45 p.m.

Natchez

Friday

57. Pathways to the Ancestral Presence in Black Women’s Films and Literature Chair: Dana A. Williams, Howard University Carol E. Henderson, University of Delaware “Ancestral Life Boat: The Cost of Progress in Down in the Delta” Venetria Patton, Purdue University “From Ogbanjes to Revenans—the Disruption of the Ancestral Cycle” Tara T. Green, University of North Carolina, Greensboro “Ancestors Speak: Representations of (Abused) Women in 12 Years a Slave” 1:30-2:45 p.m.

Fulton

Friday

58. When “Knowing is Obsolete”: Learning African American Literature “In the Clouds” Chair: Charles Tita, University of North Carolina, Pembrooke Ashley McNeil, Georgia State University “Representation and the Matter of Physical Presence” R. Nicole Smith, Georgia State University “Grounding the Cloud-based Hybrid Course” Elizabeth J. West, Georgia State University “Precipitating Collaborative Learning in a Literature Course: The Cloud-based Hybrid Course in Action” Respondent : Kameelah Martin, Savannah State University Respondent : Jamila S. Lyn, Morehouse College

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Friday, March 28 1:30-2:45 p.m.

New Levee

Friday

59. The Continuum of Blues and Jazz in the African American Poetry Tradition— The Artists Speak Chair: Kimberly A. Collins, Morgan State University Eugene B. Redmond Kalamu ya Salaam Kimberly A. Collins Charlie Braxton 1:30-2:45 p.m.

Tchoupitoulas

Friday

60. Caribbean Women and the Diaspora Chair: Marie Sairsingh, The College of the Bahamas Alison Ligon, Morehouse College “Out of the Mouths of Babes: Re-Visioning the Value of Adolescent Protagonists as Voices of Protest in Selected Works of Anglophone Caribbean Fiction” Brandon Erby, Seton Hall University “Is Post-Colonialism Nonexistent? A Comparative Analysis of Prospero’s Daughter and Windward Heights” Corey Lamont, Howard University “Bangarang at the Border: Diasporic Crossings and the Nation-State’s Monopoly of ‘Legitimate’ Violence” Mary Kemp Davis, Florida A & M University “‘What the hell is this! What is the matter with this kid!’: Magic Realism in Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then”

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Friday, March 28

3:00-4:15 p.m.

Fulton

Friday

61. The Real Scandal: Portrayals of Black Women in Reality TV (Panel 2) Chair: Jervette R. Ward, University of Alaska, Anchorage Detris Honora Adelabu, Wheelock College “A Home Without Walls, A Family Without Boundaries” Monica Flippin-Wynn, Jackson State University “Where is Claire Huxtable When You Need Her?: The Desperate Search for Positive Media Images of African American Women in the Age of Reality TV” Ladrica Menson-Furr, University of Memphis “Atlanta: Reality Television’s City as Text, City of Choice” 3:00-4:15 p.m.

Natchez

Friday

62. Performance in the African Diaspora Chair: Patricia Young, Western Illinois University Valerie L. Brown, University of Memphis “Mule Versus MULE: The Conversion of Tragedy into Triumph” Tracyann F. Williams, The New School For Public Engagement “Reading Quality into Pinky” Lakina C. Freeman, Howard University “Folktales, Fairytales, Double-Consciousness, and Identity in Disney’s The Princess and the Frog” Bennis M. Blue, Virgina State University “How is The Help like Like One of the Family?”

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Friday, March 28 3:00-4:15 p.m.

Creole Queen

Friday

63. Memory, History, and Identity: Representations of the Slavery in Contemporary Literature Chair: Monica L. Granderson, Jackson State University Candis Pizzetta, Jackson State University “Walk through Darkness and The Known World: The Neo-slave Narrative as Discourse on Family in the American South” James Coleman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “A Godlike Omniscient Narrator, Irony, Humor, and the Critique of Slavery in Edward P. Jones’s The Known World” Tangela Serls, University of South Florida “The Amalgamation of Problem-Spaces in Andrea Levy’s The Long Song” 3:00-4:15 p.m.

New Levee

Friday

64. “Don't Deny My Voice”: An NEH Summer Institute Panel Sponsored by the Project on the History of Black Writing (KU) and Furious Flower Poetry Center (JMU) Chairs:

Joanne V. Gabbin, James Madison University Maryemma Graham, Kansas University

Sara Rude Walker, Pennsylvania State University “Black Vernacular Practices and Black Arts Poets: Listening to the South” KamauKemayo, University of Illinois, Springfield “Funk, Spoken Freely” Paula Barnes, Hampton University “Reclaiming Hidden African American Lives through Contemporary Southern Poetry: Frank X Walker and Natasha Trethewey” Gregg Murray, Georgia Perimeter College “Reading Langston Hughes’s Jazz Poetry as Play and Work” Respondent: William J. Harris, University of Kansas

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Friday, March 28 3:00-4:15 p.m.

Delta Queen

Friday

65. Writing Space, Languages, and Representations of Self/Other in the Caribbean and the Maghreb/North Africa Chair: Uchenna P. Vasser, Winston-Salem State University Khady Diène, University of Maryland, College Park “The Politics of Writing as a Space to Shape Caribbean Identity(ies)” Foued Laroussi, Université de Rouen “Langue et expression de l'altérité dans la littérature de la diaspora maghrébine” Marveta M. Ryan-Sams, Indiana University of Pennsylvania “From Anacaona to Mardi Gras Indians: Some Caribbean Representations of Native Americans” Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo, Vanderbilt University “‘My Grandmother Tell Me’: The Supranational Pedagogies of Panama’s Colón Women” 3:00 – 4:15 p.m.

Mississippi Queen

Friday

66. Rememoring from West Indies and the Caribe: Renegotiating Africanness, Self-Identity and Citizenship Chair: Mario Chandler, Oglethorpe University Mercedes Tibbits, Howard University “Catalanes y afrodescendientes en Cuba a fines del XIX: Lo que nos indica la literatura” Ingrid Watson-Miller, Norfolk State University “Memory as the Catalyst for Identity in Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s Daughters of the Stone” Sonja Stephenson Watson, University of Texas at Arlington “’Reading’ National Identity in Panama through Renato, A First Generation Panamanian Reggae en Español Artist” Jerry Williams, West Chester University “Approaches to Teaching the Inquisition in Latin America as Theatre”

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Friday, March 28 3:00-4:15 p.m.

Magnolia

Friday

67. Race, History, and Memory: Pathway Narratives from the South Chair: Rashmila Maiti, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Stefan M. Wheelock, George Mason University “Heart’s Delight: Utopian Disappearance and Historical Treachery in Sacred Hunger” Sara Taylor Boissonneau, University of North Carolina Greensboro “Out of the South: William Melvin Kelly’s A Different Drummer” Megan Feifer, Louisiana State University “Salvaging the Self: Re-Writing Representations of Southern Blackness” Jennifer Hayes, Judson College “A Rev Record: Revision and Memory in Lynn Nottage’s Crumbs from the Table of Joy” 3:00 – 4:15 p.m.

Tchoupitoulas

Friday

68. Migration, Neo-Colonialism, and Nationalism: Caribbean Male Writers Chair: Lianggong Luo Central China Normal University, China Julia Udofia, University of Uyo, Nigeria “Phases of Neo-Colonialism in the Caribbean Novel: George Lamming’s In the Castle of my Skin” Denise Jarrett, Morgan State University “Carnival, Anancy, and Afro-Caribbean Nationalism” Kim Green, Claflin University “Pathways of Resistance: Discourses of Opportunity and Dreams of Mobility in Austin Clarke’s The Meeting Point” Kristine Yohe, Northern Kentucky University “Up from Contemporary Slavery: Healing and Abolitionism in Jean-Robert Cadet’s Two Memoirs, Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American and My Stone of Hope: From Haitian Slave Child to Abolitionist”

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Friday, March 28 4:30-5:45 p.m.

Tchoupitoulas

Friday

69. African Literature in Spanish: New Trends in Nueva Antología de la literatura de Guinea Ecuatorial – A Roundtable Chair: Clément A. Akassi, Howard University M’baré N’gom, Author German Jones Ndjoli, Author Basilio Rodríguez Cañada, Publisher 4:30-5:45 p.m.

New Levee

Friday

70. Louisiana Writers: Alice Dunbar Nelson, Ernest J. Gaines, and Brenda Marie Osbey Chair: Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper, Spelman College doris davenport, Stillman College Un-poems & Poetic Pathologies: Alice Dunbar Nelson & Brenda Marie Osbey Reggie Scott Young, University of Louisiana, Lafayette “Discredited Knowledge and in the Works of Ernest J. Gaines” Jennifer Morrison, University of Louisiana at Lafayette “‘Catherine Is Not the Answer’: Creole Identity, Black Femininity and Isolation in Ernest Gaines’s Catherine Carmier” 4:30-5:45 p.m.

Mississippi Queen

Friday

71. Pathways from the South, Porticos to the Caribbean: Comparative Literary Studies Chair: Sonja Stephenson Watson, University of Texas, Arlington April Lenoir, University of Memphis “Without a Home: Exiles in Evelyn Scott’s Escapade and Gisele Pineau’s Exile According to Julia” Tiffany Austin, Florida Memorial University “Passioning Memory: Sites of Desire in Two Works of Millicent Graham and Nikky Finney” Nagueyalti Warren, Emory University “Maryse Condé and Margaret Walker: Retrieving the Grandmother” Dorita Barr, Rice University “Inherited History and its (Un)Conscious Revision in Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard and Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”

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Friday, March 28

4:30-5:45 p.m.

Delta Queen

Friday

72. Identity, Politics, and Memory in the Dominican Republic: The Literature of Julia Alvarez and Angie Cruz Chair: Regine Latortue, Brooklyn College - CUNY Renee Latcham, Morgan State University “Women and War: Female Victimization and Non-representation in Julia Alvarez” Rashmila Maiti, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville “Letter Writing and Imperialism in Return to Sender and Before We Were Free”

4:30-5:45 p.m.

Magnolia

Friday

73. Examining Selected Works by Edwidge Danticat Chair: Venetria Patton, Purdue University Abigail Prang, Howard University “The Sanguine Revolution in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory” Susana M. Morris, Auburn University “‘This is a stop on the journey where my sister leaves us’: Resistance and Border Crossing in Edwidge Danticat’s Krik? Krak!” Derayeh Derakhshesh, Howard University “To Leave or Not to Leave? That’s the Question: A Look at Edwidge Danticat’s ‘Seven,” Nancy Hustson’s ‘The Mask,’ and Mariama Bâ’s Scarlet Song”

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Friday, March 28 4:30-5:45 p.m.

Natchez

Friday

74. The Caribbean Presence in Harlem: The Writings of Claude McKay Chair: Ceron Bryant, Florida A&M University Marina Magloire, Duke University “Mystics and Mechanists: Parties, Possession, and the Voodoo Aesthetic in Interwar Harlem” Susan Cooke Weeber, Pennsylvania State University “Vagabond Aesthetics” Clement Ndulute, Alabama State University “Claude McKay and the Growth of Liberative Consciousness: From Rural Sensibility to PanAfricanism” 4:30-5:45 p.m.

Creole Queen

Friday

75. Activism and Protest: Representative Politics in Film and Autobiography Chair: Alexis Brooks de Vita, Texas Southern University Angela M. Fubara, Rivers State University, Nigeria “Tropes of Protest as Weaponry: Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain and Ngugi’s Devil on the Cross” Douglas Taylor, Howard University “Robert Williams’s Negroes with Guns and Black Power Autobiography” Ayesha Hardison, Ohio University “What is Black Liberation?: Fettered to the Past in Night Catches Us” 4:30-5:45 p.m.

Fulton

76. Special Session II: Celebration of a Generation Eleanor W. Traylor, Howard University

77. 4:30-5:45 p.m.

Alice Childress Society Annual Business Meeting (Cotton Blossom Boardroom)

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Friday

Friday, March 28

78. 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Pre-Banquet Reception *Cash Bar (Blaine Kern Ballroom)

79. 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Annual College Language Association Banquet

**Featuring Edwidge Danticat, Keynote Speaker** (Blaine Kern Ballroom)

80. 10:00-12 midnight

President’s Reception (River Bend Ballroom)

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Saturday, March 29 8:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Registration (Atrium, 2nd floor)

9:00-10:15 a.m.

Fulton

Saturday

81. Approaches to Teaching Composition Chair: Carol Marsh-Lockett, Georgia State University Xavia Harrington- Chate, University of Southern Indiana “Intersectionality and First- Year Composition: (Re)envisioning the Importance of Historical African American Rhetoric” Elizabeth Baddour, University of Memphis “The Rhetorical Expedience of Passing: A Compositionist’s Approach to Standard Academic English in the College Classroom and Beyond” Khirsten L. Echols, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa “Southern Culture and the Composition Classroom: Including Language Diversity and Afrocentric Teaching Practices in Composition Instruction” 9:00-10:15 a.m.

Mississippi Queen

Saturday

82. Poetic Sounds from the Caribbean and North America Chair: Amy Yeboah, Howard University Amanda Lockett, Clark Atlanta University “The Role of Kamau Brathwaite’s National Language in the Afro-Futurism Movement” Chezia Thompson Strand, Maryland Institute College of Art “The Vertical Technique in Kamau Braithwaite’s ‘El Egguas’ and Jean Toomer’s Cane” Kela Francis, Independent Scholar “Preserving Rituals: The Carnival Litany”

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Saturday, March 29 9:00-10:15 a.m.

Delta Queen

Saturday

83. The Challenge of Place in Contemporary Women’s Writing Chair: Tracyann F. Williams, The New School For Public Engagement Desperina E. Broaster, Howard University “Slippery Slopes: The Convergence of ‘Errancy’ and ‘Elsewhereness’ in Maryse Conde’s Heremakhonon” Barbra Chin, Howard University “Choosing Confined Spaces: Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and the Power of Agency in Re-defining Womanhood” Dorothy Randall Tsuruta, San Francisco State “‘She Scrape She Knee’: Opal Palmer Adisa as Womanist in Thought and Deed” Maxine L. Montgomery, Florida State University “Bearing Witness to Forgotten Wounds: Toni Morrison’s Home and the Spectral Presence” 9:00-10:15 a.m.

Creole Queen

Saturday

84. Voices from the South: Southern Women of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Chair: James A. Miller, George Washington University Kemeshia Randle, University of Alabama “Southern Hospitality or Sexual Hysteria: Who Does Kathryn Stockett Help?” Reginald Wilburn, University of New Hampshire “Routes of Miltonic Presence and Serpentine Pathways in Anna Julia Cooper’s A Voice from the South” Janaka Bowman Lewis, University of North Carolina, Charlotte “A Black Woman’s Guide to Freedom and Southern Conduct” Edward M. Jackson, Retired “Invisible Woman in To Kill a Mockingbird”

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Saturday, March 29 9:00-10:15 a.m.

New Levee

Saturday

85. The Invention of Racism to Colonize Africa and the Diaspora Chair: Mingle Moore, Texas Southern University Dirk Taylor, Texas Southern University “Displaced People of the Enlightenment: Europeans Inventing the Colonized African” Avery Johnson, Texas Southern University “The Degradation of Women in African and Diaspora Literature” Rayya Carrington, Texas Southern University “Taking It In and Vomiting It Up: History, Self Image and Self Destruction of the African Women in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions” Mingle Moore, Texas Southern University “Living White Skin/Wearing Black Masks: Dependency and Inadequacy in Colonized African Communities”

9:00-10:15 a.m.

Tchoupitoulas

Saturday

86. Teaching/Interpreting Chinua Achebe and the Diverse African Literature - An Interdisciplinary Panel Chair: Tara T. Green, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Elisa Rizo, Iowa State University “Re-enacting Structures of Power in Afro-Hispanic Theater” Warren J. Carson, South Carolina University, Upstate “The Miseducation of Okonkwo: Teaching African Colonialism in the 21st Century Classroom” Clément A. Akassi, Howard University “Chinua Achebe in Dialogue with Francophone and Hispanophone African Literature”

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Saturday, March 29 9:00-10:15 a.m.

Magnolia

Saturday

87. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Afro-Caribbean Expressions in the Diaspora Chair: Rhonda Collier, Tuskegee University Zanice Bond, Tuskegee University “‘Of Jibaros and Hillbillies’: The Global South and the Caribbean Presence in Affrilachian Poetry” Dawn Duke, University of Tennessee and Norma Rita Guillard Limonta, University of Havana “Ines Maria Martiatu’s ‘Follow Me’ and Gloria Rolando’s ‘My Footsteps in Baragua’: Jamaican and Haitian Influences in Cuba” Antonio Murillo, Howard University “Approaches to Language Teaching in Europe and in Contemporary Africa” Rhonda Collier, Tuskegee University “Caribbean Roots of Hip Hop: Poetics of Relation in U.S. Rap Music” 9:00 – 10:15 a.m.

Natchez

Saturday

88. Les liens historiques, linguistiques et identitaires entre les Haïtiens et les Ewés Chair : Anne François, Eastern University Caesar Akuete, Knox University “A la quête des liens historiques, linguistes et identitaires entre les Haïtiens et les Ewés” Cécile Accilien, Columbus State University “D’Elmina à Haïti : le parcours historique ‘des migrants nus’” André Siamundele, Wells College “Haïti-Martinique-Congo” Anne François, Eastern University “L’importance du vaudou dans la formation de l’identité haïtienne”

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Saturday, March 29 10:30-11:45 a.m.

Fulton

Saturday

89. Pathways to Identity: Black Masculinity from Caribbean and U.S. Perspectives Chair: Carol Marsh Lockett, Georgia State University LaToya Jefferson-James, University of Memphis “George Lamming’s Caribbean Rewrite of Native Son’s Destructive Masculine Identity” Julie Naviaux, University of Kentucky “The Twentieth Century’s Trinidadian Man: New Masculinity and New Worlds in Earl Lovelace’s The Dragon Can't Dance and V.S. Naipaul’s Miguel Street” Carol Taylor Johnson, West Virginia State University “John Frederick Matheus: The Haiti Effect” Rebecca S. Dixon, Tennessee State University “Black Manhood as Negotiated Space, the Migration from Hypermasculinity to Impotence in Caryl Phillips’s Dancing in the Dark”

10:30-11:45 a.m.

New Levee

Saturday

90. The Politics of Place in Gloria Naylor and Toni Morrison Chair: Carol E. Henderson, University of Delaware Sharon Lynette Jones, Wright State University “Evaluating Places: Southern Settings from Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Toni Morrison’s Sula, and Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day” Brian Reed, University of Nigeria “The Bound and the Dead: Two Lands to Flee in Toni Morrison’s Beloved” Angelyn Mitchell, Georgetown University “Ontological Whiteness and Nation-building: The Case of A Mercy and Beloved”

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Saturday, March 29 10:30-11:45 a.m.

Mississippi Queen

Saturday

91. Porticos of Prejudice: An Examination of Two Historical Novels by Southern Author and Veteran Media Personality Dodie Cantrell-Bickley and the Period That Shaped Them Chair: Karen Becnel Moore, Xavier University of Louisiana Dodie Cantrell-Bickley, University of Georgia “Porticos of Prejudice: Readings from The Reason of Fools and A Reason to Fear and Discussion” Margaret Eskew, Mercer University “Porticos of Prejudice: A Reason to Teach–Issues of Justice in Cantrell-Bickley’s The Reason of Fools and A Reason to Fear” Calvin Moret, Tuskegee Airman, World War II “Porticos of Prejudice: World War II Military, An Insider’s Insights” Katrina Croom, Author “Porticos of Prejudice: Bud and C.T., Uncommon Protagonists in Black and White in The Reason of Fools”

10:30-11:45 a.m.

Tchoupitoulas

92. Creolizing the Academic Space: A Roundtable Co-Chairs:

Janeen Price, Florida State University Jenise Hudson, Florida State University

Karla Holloway, Duke University Emma Dawson, Florida A & M University Vershawn Young, University of Kentucky Judy Jackson, University of Kentucky Therí A. Pickens, Bates College Rhea Lathan, Florida State University Patricia A. Matthew, Montclair State University

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Saturday

Saturday, March 29

10:30-11:45 a.m.

Delta Queen

Saturday

93. From Theory to Practice: Black Feminism in Africa and America Chair: Jennifer G. Brooks, University of Memphis Rondrea Mathis, University of South Florida “Life in the Spirit: A Personal Journey to Wholeness though bell hooks’ remembered rapture” Chioma Opara, Rivers State University of Science and Technology “Foundations and Colonnades: Dialectical Structures of African Feminism” Earl Brooks, University of Pennsylvania “Feminist Afro-futurism in Hip Hop: The Futuristic Aesthetic of Janelle Monáe, Missy Elliott, Erykah Badu, and Kelis” 10:30-11:45 a.m.

Magnolia

Saturday

94. Meet the Authors: Re-writing the African American South Chair: Alexis Brooks de Vita, Texas Southern University Karen Kossie-Chernyshev, Texas Southern University Author of Recovering Five Generations Hence: The Life and Writing of Lillian Jones Horace Daniel Black, Clark Atlanta University Author of Twelve Gates to the City, Perfect Peace, The Sacred Place, and They Tell Me of a Home Alexis Brooks de Vita, Texas Southern University Author of Left Hand of the Moon, The 1855 Murder Case of Missouri versus Celia, an Enslaved Woman, Mythatypes: Signatures and Signs of African/Diaspora and Black Goddesses and the Books of Joy Trilogy: Burning Streams, Blood of Angels, Chain Dance

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Saturday, March 29 10:30-11:45 a.m.

Creole Queen

Saturday

95. Pathways from Slavery to Freedom: New and Atlantic World Perspectives Chair: Yolanda Page, Dillard University Cassander L. Smith, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa “Black African Interventions in the 17th Century Atlantic World: Re-examining the Slave Presence in Jonathan Dickinson’s God’s Protective Providence” Laura Elizabeth Vrana, Pennsylvania State University “Intertext and Historiography in M. Nourbese Phillip’s Zong!” Cassandra L. Jones, University of South Carolina, Upstate “Bodies, Memory, and Resistance: Anyanwu as Lieux de Memoire in Octavia Butler’s Patternist Series” 10:30-11:45 a.m.

Natchez

Saturday

96. “Black and Blue”: Three Readings of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man Chair: DaRelle M. Rollins, Hampton University Jeremiah Carter, Hampton University “Intellectualism at Its Darkest: The Role of the Organic Intellectual in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man” Kyr Mack, Hampton University “‘We Wear the Masks’: Masking Hegemony in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Percival Everett’s Erasure” Lauren Highsmith, Hampton University “Five Different Recordings of the Invisible Man’s Blues” 97. 12:00 noon

98. 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.

History of Black Writing Executive Board Meeting (Fleur de Lis) Post-Convention Executive Board Meeting (Cotton Blossom Boardroom)

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PARTICIPANT INDEX

NAME Accilien, Cécile Adelabu, Detris Honora Agboke, Robert Agudelo, José Akassi, Clément A. Akassi, Monique Leslie Akuete, Caesar Alexander, Janelle Jennings Allen, Elizabeth G. Almonte, Mauricio Ampadu, Lena Arteaga, Alfonso Austin, Tiffany Baddour, Elizabeth Barnes, Deborah H. Barnes, Paula Barr, Dorita Batista, José Manuel Baxter, Wallis Clinton III, Bess, Reginald Black, Daniel Blue, Bennis M. Boissonneau, Sara Taylor Bolden, Tony Bond, Zanice Bostick, Herman Boyd, Debra Braxton, Charlie Broaster, Desperina E. Brooks, Earl Brooks, Jennifer G. Brooks, Rachel Brown, Crighton Nicholas Brown, Valerie L. Brown-Guillory, Elizabeth Bryan, Violet Harrington

PANEL

NAME

88 61 20 53 69, 86 5 88 47 48 42 15 35 71 81 25 64 71 8 21 42 94 62 67 12, 23 87 20 30 59 83 93 14, 93 53 1 62 56 56

Bryant, Ceron Cabral, Cristina R. Campbell, Shawnrece D. Cañada, Basilio Rodríguez Cantrell-Bickley, Dodie Cardon, Lauren Carrington, Rayya Carson, Warren J. Carter, Jeremiah Chambers, Lauren Chandler, Mario Charles, Scheel Chin, Barbra Clark, Keith Colbert, Soyica Diggs Coleman, James Collier, Rhonda Collins, Kimberly A. Crawford, Margo Croom, Katrina Crump, Helen Cunningham, William IV Curtis, Sabrina J. Dance, Daryl Lynn Dance, Daryl Cumber davenport, doris Davis, Cynthia Davis, James J. Davis, Mary Kemp Dawson, Emma de Vita, Alexis Brooks Derakhshesh, Derayeh Diala-Ogamba, Blessing Diène, Khady Dickson-Carr, Darryl Dismukes, Ondra Dixon, Rebecca S. 51

PANEL 74 7 15 69 91 54 85 22, 86 96 45 66 42 83 33 25, 46 63 87 59 41 91 6 1 35 31 31 70 24 17, 30 60 92 75, 94 73 55 65 34 45 89

PARTICIPANT INDEX NAME Duke, Dawn Dunzo, Annette Echols, Khirsten L. Edwards, Erica R. Edwards, Rita Elie, Lolis Elzie, Darren Joseph Erby, Brandon Eskew, Margaret Espinel, Martha Etheridge, Sharynn O. Feifer, Megan Ferguson, Sally Ann Flippin-Wynn, Monica Ford, Na’Imah H. Foster, Guy Mark Francis, Kela François, Anne Freeman, Lakina C. Fubara, Angela M. Gabbin, Joanne Gilliam, David Akbar Glass, Ernestine Pickens Glenn, Rochelle Smith Glover, Hoke S. III, Gonçalves, Ana Beatriz Govan, Sandra Graham, Maryemma Granderson, Monica L. Grandt, Jürgen E. Grayson, Sandra M. Green, Kim Green, Tara T. Guerrero, Lisa Hale, Candice Nicole Hall, Amelia Hampton, Gregory Hampton, Margaret

PANEL

NAME

49, 87 17 81 46 54 23 48 60 91 53 26 67 2 61 26 33 82 88 62 75 41, 64 17 2 6 47 43 31 64 63 12, 44 14 68 57, 86 34 21 22 14 10

PANEL

Hardison, Ayesha Harper, Donna Akiba Sullivan Harrell, Willie J., Jr. Harrington- Chate, Xavia Harris, Sheena Harris, Trudier Harris, William J. Hart, Betty L. Hayes, Jennifer Henderson, Carol E. Highsmith, Lauren Hill, DaMaris B. Hines-Gaither, Krishauna Holloway, Karla Hopson, Cheryl R. Houchins, Sue E. Hubbard, Dolan Hudson, Jenise Hutcherson, Dottie Ingram, Elwanda Jackson, Candice Love Jackson, Edward M. Jackson, Judy Jarrett, Denise Jefferson-James, LaToya Jeffrey, Karima Jenkins, Donald Ray Jeremiah, Milford A. Jimoh, Yemisi Jones, Cassandra L. Jones, Daintee G. Jones, Meta D. Jones, Sharon Lynette Johnson, Arelia Johnson, Avery Johnson, Carol Taylor Johnson, Chuck Johnson, Nubia 52

75 70 13 81 24 1, 31 64 11 67 57, 90 96 1 27, 36 92 22 37 55 92 11 3, 37 3 84 92 68 89 5 44 5, 11 49 95 56 41 38, 90 35 85 89 7 6

PARTICIPANT INDEX NAME Kemayo, Kamau Kirlew, Shauna Morgan Kiuchi, Toru Kossie-Chernyshev, Karen Lamas, Carmen E. Lamont, Corey Laroussi, Foued Larson, Jennifer Latcham, Renee Lathan, Rhea 92 Latortue, Regine Lavender, Isaiah III, Lawo-Sukam, Alain Lenoir, April Lewis, Janaka Bowman Lewis, Thabiti Ligon, Alison Lockett, Amanda Lockett, Carol Marsh Luo, Lianggong Lutz, Jay Lyle, Timothy S. Lyn, Jamila S. Mack, Jeffery D. Mack, Kyr Magloire, Marina Mainor, Joy Myree Maiti, Rashmila Marsh-Lockett, Carol Martin, Kameelah Martin, Reginald Martin-Ogunsola, Dellita Mathis, Rondrea Matthew, Patricia A. 92 McCray, April McInnis, C. Leigh McNeil, Ashley Mears, Mary Melton, McKinley E.

PANEL

NAME

64 4 32 94 27 60 65 55 72

Menson-Furr, Ladrica Miller, James A. Mitchell, Angelyn Mitchell, Janice D. M. Mitchell, Verner D. Montgomery, Maxine L. Moore, Karen Becnel Moore, Mingle Moore, Opal Moret, Calvin Morris, Margaret L. Morris, Susana M. Morrison, Derrilyn Morrison, Jennifer Mumford, Maria Murillo, Antonio Murphy, Catherine Murray, Gregg Nascimento, Denise Naviaux, Julie Ndjoli, German Jones 69 Ndulute, Clement N’gom, M’baré Nielsen, Aldon Lynn Nwankwo, Ifeoma Kiddoe Okonkwo, Christopher Opakopo, Branwen Opara, Chioma Ortiz, Ashley Page, Yolanda Palacios, George Parker, Kendra R. Patterson, Robert J. Patton, Venetria Pettway, Matthew Pickens, Therí A. Pinkston-Betts, Christina Pinson, Hermine Pitts, Candice

72 14, 22 16 71 84 23, 49 60 82 89 38, 68 20 4 46, 58 13 96 74 33 67, 72 81 3, 58 55 38 93 26 6 58 28 44 53

PANEL 48, 61 84 25, 90 10 24 83 91 85 31 91 30 73 28 70 7 87 36 64 43 89 74 45, 69 12 16, 65 44 10 93 1 95 16 4, 14 25, 46 57, 73 27 37, 92 47 32 15

PARTICIPANT INDEX NAME Pitts, Martha Pizzetta, Candis Prang, Abigail Price, Janeen Price, Nicole D. Prince, Valerie Sweeny Quanwen, Li Rambsy, Kenton Randle, Kemeshia Redmond, Eugene B. Reed, Brian Revels, Iva Rizo, Elisa Robinson, Angela L. Robinson, Angelo D. Robinson, Michelle Bachelor Rogers, Dennis Rogers, La Tanya L. Rollins, DaRelle M. Rose, Denise Angela Ryan-Sams, Marveta M. Salaam, Kalamu ya Sairsingh, Marie Salgueiro, Maria Aparecida Saloy, Mona Lisa Sample, Rochelle Serls, Tangela Shannon, Sandra Shaw, Justin Shinn, Christopher A. Siamundele, André Smith, Anton L. Smith, Cassander L. Smith, Craig A. Smith, R. Nicole Smith, Rachel Leigh Smith-McKoy, Shelia Stewart, Marva

PANEL

NAME

13 63 73 92 17 47 32 41 84 59 90 49 86 6 33 54 12 3, 46 11, 96 3 65 59 4, 60 43 55 21 63 37 56 34 88 54 95 4 58 48 15 28

PANEL

Strand, Chezia Thompson 82 Tarver, Australia 28 Taty, Jean Jacques 8 Taylor, Danille 25 Taylor, Dirk 85 Taylor, Douglas 75 Thompson, Gordon 49 Tibbits, Mercedes 66 Tidwell, John Edgar 38 Tigner, Julia 45 Tillis, Antonio D. 43 Tita, Charles 58 Toland-Dix, Shirley 15 Townsel, Sylviane 30 Traylor, Eleanor W. 76 Tsuruta, Dorothy Randall 83 Tullock, Jean-Purchas 8 Udofia, Julia 68 Ugarte, Michael 17 Varela, Verny 16 Vasser, Uchenna P. 16, 65 Vrana, Laura Elizabeth 95 Walker, Antiwan 26 Walker, Sara Rude 64 Walton, Mesi 42 Ward, Jerry 23 Ward, Jervette R. 24, 61 Warren, Nagueyalti 71 Watson, Sonja Stephenson 66, 71 Watson-Miller, Ingrid 66 Weeber, Susan Cooke 74 West, Elizabeth J. 58 Wheelock, Stefan M. 13, 67 Whitfield-McDaniels, Preselfannie 24 Wiggins, Meredith 1 Wilburn, Reginald 84 Wilkinson, Claude 12

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PARTICIPANT INDEX NAME Williams, Carmaletta Williams, Dana A. Williams, Jennifer D. Williams, Jerry Williams, Seretha D. Williams, Tracyann F. Ya-Salaam, Kalamu Yohe, Kristine Yeboah, Amy Young, Patricia Young, Reggie Scott Young, Vershawn Zauditu-Selassie, Kokahvah Zeigler, Mary B. Zheng, John

PANEL 38 25, 57 21 66 22 62, 83 23 21, 68 82 62 70 92 2 2 32

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Funds to host this 74th Convention of the College Language Association have been provided by a very generous allocation from the host institution, Tulane University: especially the Office of the Provost and Tulane’s School of Liberal Arts, along with support from Tulane’s New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, Program in African and African Diaspora Studies, Department of French and Italian, and English Department. Additional financial support has by provided by donations from Loyola University’s Center for Intercultural Understanding, Department of English, and Program in African and African American Studies. Special thanks to the Amistad Research Center at Tulane, Zapp’s, the Twomey Center for Peace through Justice Printshop at Loyola, and Devin Reynolds who designed the cover illustration for the conference program.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Seventy-Sixth Annual CLA Convention Dallas, TX Hosted by Southern Methodist University Conference Theme: "Expanding Frontiers: Freedom, Resistance, and Transnational Identities in Languages and Literatures"

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