Wednesday, April 6, 2016 2:30 - 5:30 p.m.
CLA Executive Committee Meeting (Conference Room 9 – 6th Floor)
4:00 - 5:45 p.m.
Registration for Pre-Registered Members Only (Study – 2nd Floor)
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Project on the History of Black Writing Annual Meeting & Luncheon
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Pre-Convention Reception & Performance* Hosted by The Ensemble Theatre Company of Houston The Ensemble Theatre of Houston will present Detroit ’67. This is a closed special performance for conference attendees and their guests. A reception and dialogue will follow the performance Ticket Price: $20 Detroit ‘67 Synopsis: “It’s 1967 and almost every single Motown release has made the charts, yet the world is changing around Chelle and Lank, who run an after-hours club in the basement of their late parents’ house. Tensions mount when the siblings discover that their dreams have diverged, and their tight-knit community is threatened by the arrival of a mysterious outsider, while the city around them erupts in violence. This powerful play unfolds at an explosive moment in our history, surrounded by the race riots that ravaged the City of Detroit in 1967, and set to a vibrant soundtrack of Motown hits of the day.” Departure from the hotel at 6:45 p.m. *Conventioneers will take the light rail from the hotel to the venue of the Performance of the Ensemble Theatre (about three or four stops). Cost of Ride: $1.25, one-way Address: 3535 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77002
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Thursday, April 7, 2016 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Registration (Study – 2nd Floor)
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Publications Vendors/Exhibits (Arboretum 1 – 2nd Floor)
9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Conference Room 1 – 6th Floor
Thursday
1. Exploring Afro-Puerto Rican Culture, Identity and Politics (of Race) Chair: Ingrid Watson-Miller, Norfolk State University Brenda Quinones Ayala, University of North Carolina, Charlotte “La Criollización a través de la Cultura Loiceña: Fiestas Patronales de Santiago” Marveta Ryan-Sams, Indiana University, Pennsylvania “Holding Haiti High: A Black Puerto Rican Defends the Black Republic” Vanessa Valdés, City College of New York “The Visual Representation of Arturo Alonso Schomburg” Ingrid Watson-Miller, Norfolk State University “Daughters of the Stone: Five Generations of a Puerto Rican Family” 9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Conference Room 2 - 6th Floor
Thursday
2. Who Shall Teach and Who Shall Learn?: Attending to (Re)Presentation and Difference in the African American Literature Classroom Chair: Samantha Leigh Anderson, University Memphis Darren Elzie, University of Memphis “You Ain’t in Kansas Anymore: Teaching Black to the Other” Elizabeth Allen, University of Memphis “Whiteness in the African American Literature Classroom” Rachel Smith, University of Memphis “Pronouns and Performance: Articulating Race and Culture in the African American Literature Classroom”
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9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Conference Room 3 - 6th Floor
Thursday
3. Shades of a Hero: Portrayals of Atticus Finch Chair: Kimberly Collins, Morgan State University Nathaniel Fuller, Morgan State University “Scout as Unreliable Narrator” Charlotte Teague, Alabama A&M University. “Atticus as Diminished Hero” 9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Conference Room 4 - 6th Floor
Thursday
4. Black Poetry through the Ages Chair: Dr. Jürgen E. Grandt, University of North Georgia Sequoia Maner, University of Texas, at Austin “Ask Your Mama about Kendrick Lamar: Reimagining the Jazz Aesthetic in the #BlackLivesMatter Era” Laura Elizabeth Vrana, Pennsylvania State University “Diasporic Lives Matter: The Politics of Awards and Reviews in the Works of Tracy K. Smith and Claudia Rankine” Drea Brown, University of Texas, at Austin “Black Fishes and Other Ghosts: Phillis Wheatley Re-imagined Across Atlantic”
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9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Conference Room 5 - 6th Floor
Thursday
5. Re-Imagining a Language for Black Rhetoric and Politics Chair: Koritha Mitchell, The Ohio State University Kendra N. Bryant, Florida A & M University “‘The Writing’s on the Wall’: The Absence of Hieroglyphics in Rhetoric & Composition Discourse and Instruction” Jennifer L. Hayes, Tennessee State University “Revenge of the Blerd: Black Masculinity in Dear White People” Anna L Hinton, Southern Methodist University “And So I Bust Back’: Violence, Race, and Disability in Gangsta Rap” 9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Conference Room 6 - 6th Floor
Thursday
6. Reading and Writing the African/Diaspora: Africa and the Caribbean Chair: Daryl C. Dance, Professor Emerita, University of Richmond Portia Owusu, University of London “Akan Rituals and Festivals and the (hidden) memories of slavery and the diaspora in Ama Atta Aidoo’s The Dilemma of a Ghost” Orrieann Florius, Howard University “Resisting Spirit Thievery: The Performance of ‘Kinopoetics’ in Erna Brodber’s Myal” Jonathan Bailey, Morgan State University “TransAfrica Cultural Activism: African-American Cultural Production Impact on the Anti-Apartheid Movement”
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9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Conference Room 7 - 6th Floor
Thursday
7. Humanities Faculty Grantsmanship and the National Endowment for the Humanities - A Special Session Chair: Wilsonia Cherry, National Endowment for the Humanities This workshop will provide an overview of grant programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities, with a focus on funding opportunities in the Division of Education Programs and in the Division of Research Programs. Participants will learn about support for professional development of teachers in national programs and through awards to institutions, as well as about support for the development of curriculum and teaching materials. Participants will also learn about support for individual research projects in the humanities and ways to strengthen the competitiveness of their submissions to the NEH Fellowships and Summer Stipends programs. 8. 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. 10:30 -11:45 a.m.
Langston Hughes Society Annual Meeting (Conference Room 9 - 6th Floor) Conference Room 1 - 6th Floor
Thursday
9. “All in the Same Boat”: Global African Migrations/Movements and Renegotiation of Identities in Hispanophone (and Francophone) World Chair: Ifeoma Nwankwo, Vanderbilt University Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas, North Carolina Central University “Three Popular Cultures in Mexico and Their African Connection” Alain Lawo Sukam, Texas A & M University “Transnational Blackness: West Africa in Rio de Plata” Elisa Rizo, Iowa State University “Afro-Hispanophone Theatre and the Emergence of a Sense of Global Citizenship” Clément A. Akassi, Howard University “African Migrations in Hispanophone and Francophone Literatures and Films: Decolonizing the Imaginary and Renegotiating Identities/Class/Race”
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10:30 -11:45 a.m.
Conference Room 2 - 6th Floor
Thursday
10. Roundtable: The Endemic Martyrdom of Black Women in Literature Chair: Elizabeth West, Georgia State University Participants: Alma Vinyard, Clark Atlanta University Jan Holston, Bethune Cookman University Tamala Simmons, Pasco-Hernando State College 10:30 -11:45 a.m.
Conference Room 3 - 6th Floor
Thursday
11. New Approaches on Cultural and Political Theories in Trinidad and Tobago: Calypso, Trickster and Marxism Chair: Elwanda Ingram, Winston Salem State University Camille R. Banks, Daley College “An Explication of the Trickster: A Theory for African Diasporic Literature” Kela Nnarka Francis, University of Trinidad and Tobago “The Music of the Black Power Movement in Trinidad: A Survey of Calypsos from 1968-1983” Matteo Tommaso Pagliardi, University of Trinidad and Tobago “The Evolution of the Marxist Thought of Caribbean Intellectuals” Alison Ligon, Morehouse College “Teaching About Tantie and Toolum: Examining Trinidadian Family Life and Foodways Depicted in Merle Hodge’s Crick Crack Monkey”
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10:30 -11:45 a.m.
Conference Room 4 - 6th Floor
Thursday
12. Masculinity in James Baldwin, Elaine Brown, and Jamaica Kincaid Chair: Jervette Ward, University of Alaska, Anchorage Derwin L. Campbell, Morgan State University “The Race is Not Given: Race, Masculinity and False Perceptions in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room” Lamar Garnes, Florida A&M University “Hustler Masculinity in Elaine Brown’s A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story” Guirdex Masse, College of Staten Island (CUNY) “Sexuality and Black Masculinity in James Baldwin’s Just Above my Head and Jamaica Kincaid’s My Brother” 10:30 -11:45 a.m.
Conference Room 5 - 6th Floor
Thursday
13. Special Session: Language and Representations of Africa, Darwinism and Trans-African Experiences in Charles Waddell Chesnutt’s Fiction Sponsored by the Charles Waddell Chesnutt Society (A CLA Organization) Chair: Ernestine Pickens Glass, Professor Emerita, Clark Atlanta University Mary Ziegler, Professor Emerita, Georgia State University “Unlock the Smokehouse! Let Him Go!: Chesnutt and African American Language” Kokavah Zauditu–Selassie, Coppin State University “It Bees Dat Way Sometime: Linguistic Resistance in Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition and The Colonel’s Dream”
Sally Ann Ferguson, University of North Carolina, Greensboro “Charles Chesnutt and Early Darwinism”
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10:30 -11:45 a.m.
Conference Room 6 - 6th Floor
Thursday
14. Movie Screening: FURIOUS FLOWER III: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry There will be a 40 minutes screening of excerpts from the highlights of the 2014 Furious Flower III summit. It features today’s leading African American poets reading from their work and discussing the critical trends driving the current flowering of Black verse. Respondent: Joanne Gabbin, Executive Producer of the film project and Founder and Director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University 15. 12 noon – 1:15 p.m.
1:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Langston Hughes Luncheon Featuring Jericho Brown, Speaker (Arboretum 5 – 2nd Floor) *This is a ticketed event. Conference Room 1 – 6th Floor
Keynote
Thursday
16. African and African Diaspora Memories and Identities in Francophone Literature, Cinema, and Music Chair: Yvonne McIntosh, Florida A&M University Prospère Tiaya Tiofack, Université de Dschang (Cameroon) “Du Jazz aux ‘identités frontalières’: une lecture musico-littéraire des romans de Léonora Miano” Augustin Djossou, Université d’Abomey-Calavi (Benin) “Conflit culturel et littérature en Afrique” Jean-Jacques Taty, Howard University “Case of Little Senegal by Richard Rachid Bouchareb” Yvonne McIntosh, Florida A & M University “The Cinematic Vision in West African Folktales”
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1:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Conference Room 2 – 6th Floor
Thursday
17. Transracial Identity: Changing Definitions of Blackness in the 17th Century, the Harlem Renaissance Era, and the New Millennium Chair: Sonja S. Watson, University of Texas, at Arlington Cassander Lavon Smith, University of Alabama “Postracial, Preracial or Transracial: Examining Early Modern Blackness in the 17th Century Travel Narrative of Thomas Gage” Philathia Bolton, University of Akron “‘Fight or Flight?’: Migrating Black Identities and the Passing Trope” Sonja S. Watson, University of Texas, at Arlington “Transracial Identity and Hip Hop Culture: from Rachel Dolezal to Iggy Azalea” 1:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Conference Room 3 – 6th Floor
Thursday
18. Blackening the Books of Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton in Africanist Tongues Chair: Angelyn L. Mitchell, Georgetown University Cord J. Whitaker, Wellesley College “Black Chaucer: Color, Contrariety, and Criticism in Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale” Dennis Austin Britton, University of New Hampshire “Black Shakespeare: Lucy Negro and the Sexuality of Skin Color in the Sonnets and Measure for Measure” Reginald A. Wilburn, University of New Hampshire “Black Milton and Satanic Ratchetness in Book 2 of Paradise Lost”
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1:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Conference Room 4 – 6th Floor
Thursday
19. What’s Race Got to Do with It?—Then and Now Chair: Lianggong Luo, Central China Normal University Matthew Broussard, University of Kansas “A New Home for a New Hero: Cultural Appropriation and The Story of Little Black Sambo” Jessica Wicks, Howard University “Engendered Protests: Black Women and Stereotypes in Film” Nathan Moore, SUNY Buffalo “Black (Almost) Like Me: Africanist Impressions and the Radicality of Ororo Munroe” Respondent:
Howard Rambsy II, Southern Illinois University
1:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Conference Room 5 – 6th Floor
Thursday
20. Memory, Identity, and Definitions in Civil Rights and Black Nationalist Works Chair: Sandra Y. Govan, University of North Carolina, at Charlotte Francine Allen, Morehouse College “Proclaiming One’s Identity as a First-Class Citizen” Frank Moorer, Retired, Alabama State University “Autobiography, Memory, and the Civil Rights Movement” Rhone Fraser, Howard University “Contributions to Humanity: An Evaluation of Stokely: A Life and A Brief History of Seven Killings Using Addison Gayle Jr.’s Theories of Literary Criticism” Althea Tait, The College at Brockport (SUNY) “The Sound Behind Me: an Examination of Mari Evans’ Black Nationalism”
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1:30 – 2:45 p.m.
Conference Room 6 – 6th Floor
Thursday
21. Reading Deeply from W. E. B. Du Bois, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, and Paul Laurence Dunbar Chair: Wallis C. Baxter, III, Howard University Dolan Hubbard, Morgan State University “Diasporan Night Songs: Du Bois, the Spirituals, and the Sounds of Affirmation” Jo Ann Pavletich, University of Houston-Downtown “Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Plagiarist, Power Broker, or Postmodern Forerunner?” Matthew Teutsch, University of Louisiana, at Lafayette “‘[S]natch them from the brink of that yawning chasm’: Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Dayton Tattler” 1:30 – 2:45 p.m.
Conference Room 7 – 6th Floor
Thursday
22. Cross-cultural explorations of Food, Narratives, and Womanism Chair: Donna Akiba S. Harper, Spelman College Ebony O. Lumumba, Tougaloo College “Global Gastronomics: Tales of Exile, Survival, Endurance, and Memory through Food in Postcolonial African and African American Literatures” Preselfannie E. Whitfield McDaniels, Jackson State University “Examining Cross-Cultural Narratives in the Modern Literary Classroom Setting” Mary Mears, Middle Georgia State College “Negotiating Choices within Cultural Boundaries” Denise Jarrett, Morgan State University “‘Making Do’ and Identity in the Caribbean”
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1:30 – 2:45 p.m.
Conference Room 8 – 6th Floor
Thursday
23. Dominant Genre Emeritus: Taking Academic Writing Beyond the Essay Special Session Sponsored by the CLA Standing Committee on Curriculum (English) Chair: Adam J. Banks, Stanford University In a media landscape where rapid technology change and information overload affect both teaching and learning, how should our approach to teaching writing change to meet these challenges? This workshop will help participants identify specific shifts in literacy that demand new approaches to academic writing pedagogy; make a case for moving beyond the essay as the “dominant” genre that informs our teaching of writing; share samples of alternative assignments that help students navigate the tensions between “remix culture” and the classroom; and brainstorm activities and assignments they can use to meet the needs of their students and their disciplinary and institutional contexts. 24. 3:00 – 3:45 p.m.
4:00 – 5:15 p.m.
PLENARY SESSION I Opening Convocation and Presidential Address (Arboretum 4 – 2nd Floor) Conference Room 1 – 6th Floor
Thursday
25. IRT @ CLA: Dialoguing with and Teaching the Africanist Text Chair: Reginald Wilburn, University of New Hampshire Jessica R. Edwards, University of Delaware “’Even at the Risk of Having it Bruised or Misunderstood’: Critical Race Theory, Framing Writing Assignments, and Teaching the Diaspora” Tristan Striker, Wesleyan University “How Nathaniel Turner Became a Text: Dialoguing as Self-Actualization in the Literary Classroom” Michael McGee, University of California, Berkeley “‘Where is Africa in African American Double Consciousness?’: Teaching Freedom in DuBois’s Souls of Black Folk” Andrea Adomako, Purdue University “Post-Colonial Ghanaian Children’s Literature: Narratives and the Nation, A Pedagogical Approach”
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4:00 – 5:15 p.m.
Conference Room 2 – 6th Floor
Thursday
26. Roundtable: “The Stars Are Black”—A Tribute to Arnoldo Palacios, a Pioneer of Afro-Colombian Literature Chair: James Davis, Howard University Participants: George Palacios, Clemson University Alain Lawo Sukam, Texas A & M University James Davis, Howard University 4:00 – 5:15 p.m.
Conference Room 3 – 6th Floor
Thursday
27. Margaret Walker’s Jubilee Revisited Chair: Maryemma Graham, University of Kansas Robert Luckett, Jackson State University “Jubilee at 50 and the Margaret Walker Papers at Jackson State University” doris davenport, Independent Scholar “How I Read Jubilee: from BlackfemNaturalism to (Dystopic?) Afro-futurism” Seretha D. Williams, Georgia Regents University “Bearing Witness: Margaret Walker, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and the Postgenerational Novel” RaShell R. Smith-Spears, Jackson State University “’My grandmotherswere … full of sturdiness and singing’: Margaret Walker’s Literary Portrayal of Working Class Women”
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4:00 – 5:15 p.m.
Conference Room 4 – 6th Floor
Thursday
28. Zora Neale Hurston, the Wizard of Oz, and Conjuring Cultural Practices Chair: Juanita Gilliam, Morgan State University Yolanda J. Franklin, Florida State University “There’s No Place Like Home: Rewriting The Wizard of Oz as a Diasporic Trope in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day” Alana King, University of Memphis “Teaching Color Struck in the ‘Color Blind’ 21st Century Classroom” Christopher Peace, Jackson State University “Conjuring Cultural Practices of Afrocentrism” 4:00 – 5:15 p.m.
Conference Room 5 – 6th Floor
Thursday
29. Deconstructing a Diaspora Deferred: Teaching the Diaspora to the Millennial Student Chairs: Daintee Glover Jones, Playwright and Producer Toniesha L. Taylor, Prairie View A & M University Participants: DeLinda Marzette, Prairie View A & M University Dione Sibley, Prairie View A & M University Carol S.Taylor-Johnson, West Virginia State University
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4:00 – 5:15 p.m.
Conference Room 6 – 6th Floor
Thursday
30. Exploring Boundaries of the Francophone Diaspora in the Classroom Chair: E. Nicole Meyer, Augusta University Joyce Johnston, Stephen F. Austin State University “Current Events in Africa and Women’s Issues” Anita Alkhas, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee “Films by and about Women in Francophone North Africa” Elizabeth-Christine Muelsch, Angelo State University “Manifestations of Colonial Discourses in 1930s French Films" E. Nicole Meyer, Augusta University “Crossing Boundaries and Narratives Gaps in Postcolonial French and Francophone Women’s Writings: Lessons from the Classroom” 4:00 – 5:15 p.m.
Conference Room 7 – 6th Floor
Thursday
31. Considerations of Frank Silvera, Chester Himes, and Contemporary Black Theatre Chair: Jean-Phillipe Marcoux, Université Laval, Québec (Canada) Carolyn Grimstead, Long Island University, Post Campus in Brookville “The Concept of Ubuntu as Evidenced in the Artistry of Frank Silvera” Kelsey Kiser, Southern Methodist University “If He Hollers Let Him Go and the State of Emergency” Lisa B. Thompson, University of Texas, at Austin “A Single Story: Sexual Trauma and African Women in Contemporary Black Theatre”
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4:00 – 5:15 p.m.
Conference Room 8 – 6th Floor
Thursday
32. Beyond the Ivory Tower & the Tenure Track: Envisioning Alternative Careers for Humanities Ph.D.s - A Roundtable of the Black Studies Committee Chair: Thabiti Lewis, Washington State University, Vancouver Participants: Lanisa Kitchiner, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution Doretha Williams, George Washington University, DC Africana Archives Project Crystal Boson, Independent Scholar; Program Analyst, Academic Expat Megan Lease, Instructional Design and Researcher, Academic Expat 33. 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
CLA Reception Reception at University Museum at Texas Southern co-hosted by Prairie View A & M University and University of HoustonDowntown—featuring Daniel Black, Clark Atlanta University and author of The Coming Buses will begin to depart at 5:30 p.m. (every fifteen/15 minutes until 6: 30 p.m.) and to return at 7:30 p.m.
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Friday, April 8, 2016 34. 7:00 – 8:15 a.m.
Past Presidents’ Breakfast *Former CLA Presidents Only (Conference Room 10 – 6th Floor)
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Registration (Study – 2nd Floor)
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Publication Vendors/Exhibits (Arboretum 1 – 2nd Floor)
8:30 – 9: 45 a.m.
Conference Room 1 – 6th Floor
Friday
35. Caribbean and African American Female Voices and Narratives Chair: Trudier Harris, University of Alabama Ashley Burge, University of Alabama “Variegated Voices in Kindred and Beloved: The Impact of gender, race, and identity in the Neo-Slave Narrative” Briana Whiteside, University of Alabama “The Unclosed Portal of the Tape Recorder and the Slasher Quilt: The Impact of Forcefully Remembering the Past in Louisiana and Stigmata” Delia Steverson, University of Alabama “Madness, Melancholia, and Suicide in Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees”
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8:30 – 9: 45 a.m.
Conference Room 2 – 6th Floor
Friday
36. Revolutionary Love: Black Women Resistance Writers Chair: Ayesha Hardison, University of Kansas Thabiti Lewis, Washington State University, Vancouver “Irresistible Love and Struggle in Bambara’s Short Fiction” Timothy S. Lyle, Iona College “’She Came to Liberate’: Janet Mock and Revolutionary Love among Trans Women” Tara Betts, University of Illinois, Chicago “You Owe Something Big: The Cross-Pollination in June Jordan’s Essays and Poetry” Tony Bolden, University of Kansas “The Funk Diva as Black Blues Resistance Writer: The Musico-Poetry of Jessica Care Moore” Respondent: Sequoia Maner, University of Texas, Austin 8:30 – 9: 45 a.m.
Conference Room 3 – 6th Floor
Friday
37. Race, Religion and Politics in Vintage 1930s Film and Millennial Filmmaking Chair: Na’Imah H. Ford, Florida A & M University Kameelah Martin, Savannah State University “Vintage Hollywood Voodoo: Black Women in 1930s Film” Brittany Prince, San Francisco State University “All the Ways the Wind Goes: Representations of Race and Gender in Classic and Contemporary Literature and Film” Hope Jackson, North Carolina A & T University “(Re)Making Diasporic despotism through Millennial Student Filmmaking”
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8:30 – 9: 45 a.m.
Conference Room 4 – 6th Floor
Friday
38. Adolescent Girls, Vulnerabilities, and Silences in Jesmyn Ward, Martha Southgate, Toni Morrison Chair: Sandra Shannon, Howard University Kemeshia Randle, Gardner-Webb University “Keep Your Dress Tail Down: Sex, Pregnancy, and Silence in Black Communities” Angelyn L. Mitchell, Georgetown University “#SayHerName: Pecola, Esche and Exposing the Vulnerabilities of Black Girls” Rondrea Mathis, University of South Florida “From Breeding Love to Briding Well: An Alternative Ending for Pecola Breedlove in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child” 8:30 – 9: 45 a.m.
Conference Room 5 – 6th Floor
Friday
39. From the Caribbean to Canada: Resistance and Identity through History and Literary Works (Danticat, Marshall) Chair: Candice Pitts, Albany State University Angela Ards, Southern Methodist University “‘Children of the Sea’: Diasporic Consciousness in Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying” Ceron L. Bryant, Jackson State University “Relying on the Past to Identify the Present: Oral Lore and Ritual in Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow” Kim Green, Claflin University “Empowerment and Resistance in African Diaspora Dialogues: Reconfiguring 19th Century Canada”
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8:30 – 9: 45 a.m.
Conference Room 6 – 6th Floor
Friday
40. Special Session: The Poetic Influences of Langston Hughes Sponsored by the Langston Hughes Society Chair: Tara T. Green, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Jean-Philippe Marcoux, Université Laval, Québec (Canada) “‘Gonna Be Some Sweets Sound Coming Down:’ Langston Hughes and the Umbra Poets” Luo Lianggong, Central China Normal University “Sound Experiment: From Langston Hughes to Amiri Baraka” Sharon L. Jones, Wright State University “Writing Across Centuries: Jacqueline Woodson’s brown girl dreaming and the Poetry of Langston Hughes” Christopher Allen Varlack, University of Maryland, Baltimore County “‘Let America Be America Again:’ Echoes of Hughes in Claude Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric” 8:30 – 9:45 a.m.
Conference Room 7 – 6th Floor
Friday
41. Pedagogy Matters: Teaching Black Literature, Life, and Culture in NonTraditional Spaces Chair: Warren J. Carson, University of South Carolina, Upstate Kendra R. Parker, Hope College “Intergroup Dialogue and ‘Difficult Conversations’: Teaching Octavia Butler at a Private, Christian PWI” Derik Smith, University of Albany, State University of New York “Collectivist Pedagogy for African American Literature” LaTasha Levy, University of Virginia “#BlackLivesMatter: Teaching the Movement Online”
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42. 10:00 – 10: 45 a.m.
CLA Standing Committee Meetings *All members are encouraged to join a standing committee.
Archives (Conference Room 1 – 6th Floor) Chair: Dolan Hubbard, Morgan State University Awards (Conference Room 2 – 6th Floor) Chair: Emma Waters Dawson, Florida A & M University (Members appointed by President) Black Studies (Conference Room 3 – 6th Floor) Chair: Thabiti Lewis, Washington State University, Vancouver CLA and Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and CLA and Historically White Colleges and Universities (Conference Room 4 – 6th Floor) Chair: Preselfannie W. McDaniels, Jackson State University Constitution (Conference Room 5 – 6th Floor) Chair: Warren J. Carson, University of South Carolina, Upstate Creative Writing (Conference Room 6 – 6th Floor) Chair: Ramona L. Hyman, Oakland University Curriculum English (Conference Room 7 – 6th Floor) Chair: Aaron Orfolea, Washington State University Curriculum Foreign Languages (Conference Room 7 – 6th Floor) Chair: Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr., Millersville State University Membership (Conference Room 8 – 6th Floor) Chair: Yvonne McIntosh, Florida A&M University Nominations (Conference Room 8 – 6th Floor) Chair: Geneva Baxter, Spelman College Research (Conference Room 9 – 6th Floor) Chair: Venetria Patton, Purdue University
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43. 11:00 - 11:45 a.m.
PLENARY SESSION II CLA Business Meeting & Elections (Arboretum 4 – 2nd Floor) AGENDA Presiding Dr. Dana A. Williams, CLA President Howard University
Call to Order
Dr. Dana A. Williams, President
Memorial Moments Minutes
Dr. Reginald A. Bess, Secretary
Executive Committee Reports College Language Association Journal
Dr. Sandra G. Shannon, Editor
Report of the Treasurer
Dr. Yakini B. Kemp, Treasurer
Standing Committee Reports Archives
Chair: Dr. Dolan Hubbard
Awards
Chair: Dr. Emma Waters Dawson
Black Studies
Chair: Dr. Thabiti Lewis
CLA & Historically Black Colleges CLA & Historically White Colleges
Chair: Dr. Preselfannie McDaniels Chair: Ms. Xavia Harrington-Chate
Constitution:
Chair: Dr. Warren J. Carson
Creative Writing
Chair: Dr. Ramona Hyman
Curriculum: English
Chair: Dr. Aaron Oforlea
Curriculum: Foreign Languages
Chair: Dr. Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr.
Membership
Chair: Dr. Yvonne McIntosh
Research
Chair: Dr. Venetria Patton
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Nominations
Chair: Dr. Geneva Baxter
Old Business New Business Announcement Adjournment
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44. 12:00 noon - 1:15 p.m.
Georgiana Simpson Society Board Annual Meeting (Conference Room 1 – 6th Floor)
45. 12:00 noon - 1:15 p.m.
Black Studies Committee Lunch (Conference Room 8 – 6th Floor)
1:30 – 2:45 p.m.
Conference Room 1 – 6th Floor
Friday
46. Africa is the “New” Black: Transatlantic Vogue(s) and African American Literary Studies Chair: Dana A. Williams, Howard University Elizabeth West, Georgia State University “Transnationalism and the Newly Black American: from Early to Contemporary TransAtlantic Writings” Venetria K. Patton, Purdue University “Transnational Complications of Black Identity in An Untamed State” Shauna Morgan Kirlew, Howard University “Racialized Borders and Ethnic Restrictions on the United States American Literary Landscape” Tosha Sampson-Choma, Kansas State University “Echoes From the Diaspora: Reshaping 21st Century Black Identity in Literature”
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1:30 – 2:45 p.m.
Conference Room 2 – 6th Floor
Friday
47. Negotiating Power, Identity and Visibility in Afro-Hispanic World and Works Chair: Krishauna Hines-Gaither, Salem College Monica Polanco and Rosa Carrasquillo, Holy Cross College “Hidden in the Open: Afro-Argentines in Buenos Aires, Yesterday and Today” Melva Persico, Clemson University “Negotiating Power in Colonial Peru: Malambo as Neo Slave Narrative” George Palacios Clemson University “Sopinga, Marmato y Chambacú: Capitalismo local y global, destierros y resistencias afrodiaspóricos en Colombia” Krishauna Hines-Gaither, Salem College “Garifuna Women of Guatemala: Narratives of Resistance and Pride” 1:30 – 2:45 p.m.
Conference Room 3 – 6th Floor
Friday
48. Affirmation and Preservation of African American Drama Chair: Verner Mitchell, University of Memphis Ladrica Menson-Furr, University of Memphis “August Wilson’s Southern Diaspora: A Re-Examination of August Wilson’s South” Cynthia Davis, University of Memphis “Stage Left: The Art and Politics of Rose McClendon and Edna Thomas” Verner Mitchell, University of Memphis “The Quest for an African American Theater: From Rose McClendon to August Wilson”
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1:30 – 2:45 p.m.
Conference Room 4 – 6th Floor
Friday
49. #FrederickDouglass: Utilizing Technology to Enhance African American Studies Chair: Howard Rambsy II, Southern Illinois University Jeremiah Carter, Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville “The Literary Artist and Moments of Consciousness” Kenton Rambsy, University of Texas, Arlington “From Frederick Douglass to Jay Z” Elizabeth Cali, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville “Digitization and Frederick Douglass as a Public Figure” Erin Ranft, North Harris College, Houston “Teaching Douglass at a two-Year College” 1:30 – 2:45 p.m.
Conference Room 5 – 6th Floor
Friday
50. Special Session: CLAJ Publication Lab A CLA Professional Development Session organized by Jenise Hudson (Florida A & M University) and Janeen Price (Florida State University) in collaboration with the CLAJ Editor and the CLA Program Chair. This “publication lab” will provide graduate students and junior scholars with the opportunity to receive 1:1 feedback from seasoned scholars in the field (“reviewers”) and in so doing fulfill a need for professional development in the area of scholarly production.
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1:30 – 2:45 p.m.
Conference Room 6 – 6th Floor
Friday
51. Special Session: Cross-Disciplinary Issues in German Diaspora Studies: Languages, Literature & Media Sponsored by the Georgiana Simpson Society (A CLA Allied Organization) Chair: Janice D. M. Mitchell, Retired, Gallaudet University John W Long, Retired, University of Illinois, Chicago “STEM AND STEAM, the African American, and German: Remembering the Transatlantic Legacy and Tradition Through Language, Literature and Focused Cultural Studies” Leroy Hopkins, Retired, Millersville State University “Making the Case for Germanic Languages as a part of the Equation” Rhonda Collier, Tuskegee University “Xavier Naidoo and Double Consciousness: Introducing Afro-German Singers to the American Literature Classroom” 1:30 – 2:45 p.m.
Conference Room 7 – 6th Floor
Friday
52. Roundtable: Finding Unity in Literature and in Ourselves: The Black Lives Matter Movement across Borders Chair: Icess Fernandez Rojas, Lone Star College-North Harris and San Jacinto College North Participants: Jasminne Mendez, Independent Artist Debora D.E.E.P Mouton, Independent Artist
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3:00 – 4:15 p.m.
Conference Room 1 – 6th Floor
Friday
53. Writing/Filming Race, Masculinity and Women Voices in Africa, the Caribbean and Brazil Chair: Clément A. Akassi, Howard University Mamadou Badiane, University of Missouri “Mulattoes and the Challenges of the Third Space in the Film Roble de Olor” Matthew Pettway, Bates College “Black Cuban Literati in the Age of Conspiracy: the Unholy Alliance of Plácido and Manzano” Wendy McBurney, Howard University “The un-silencing or silencing of the black female voice and the representation of gender in his(s)tory and her (s)tory in the Hispanic African literature” Sarah Ohmer, Lehman College (CUNY) “What Does It Mean to (not) be a Black Woman in Sȃo Paulo? E/Merging Black Women Voices and Writings” 3:00 – 4:15 p.m.
Conference Room 2 - 6th Floor
Friday
54. Richard Wright Writing America at Home and from Abroad Chair: Virginia Whatley Smith, University of Alabama, at Birmingham Robert Butler, Canisius College “Richard Wright's Rite of Passage and a Reconsideration of His Portrayal of Women” Joseph Keith, SUNY, Binghamton “Keeping Secrets: The Cold War and the Politics of Un-Belonging in Richard Wright's The Outsider” John Lowe, University of Georgia “Wright in Patmos: The European Refiguration of Mississippi in The Long Dream” Yoshinobu Hakutani, Kent State University “The Triangular Vision of Richard Wright: The African American Poet's Achievement of Solace by Means of Eastern Poetics and African Philosophy”
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3:00 – 4:15 p.m.
Conference Room 3 - 6th Floor
Friday
55. (Re)Collecting Our Selves in the Diaspora: Black Poets Remember and Reconnect Chair: McKinley E. Melton, Gettysburg College April C. Logan, Salisbury University “Frances Harper’s Africa: (Re)Imagining Christianity” Christopher Rose, Portland Community College “When He Calls, I Will Answer: Memory and the Call to Remember in the Poetry of Melvin Dixon” Shauna Morgan Kirlew, Howard University “’The Soul of Your Variety’: Cultural Memory and Africana Aesthetics in 21st C. Black Poetry” McKinley E. Melton, Gettysburg College “Beyond Ancestral Homeland: Africa and the Poetic Present” 3:00 – 4:15 p.m.
Conference Room 4 - 6th Floor
Friday
56. Special Session: The Physics of Blackness: Questioning ‘Blackness’ Here and Now Sponsored by the Black Studies Standing Committee Chair: Thabiti Lewis, Washington State University Vancouver Doretha Williams, George Washington University “Remembering Chocolate City Through the Archive: The DC Africana Archives Project” Aisha Damali Lockridge, Saint Joseph’s University “Oreos, Sunflowers and Residue of Strategic Essentialism: Mat Johnson’s Loving Day” Scot Brown, University of California, Los Angeles “The Epistemological Physics of the Black Studies Movement” Respondent: Ron Bailey, University of Illinois
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3:00 – 4:15 p.m.
Conference Room 5 - 6th Floor
Friday
57. 18th and 19th Century Narratives of Previously Enslaved Folks Chair: Kameelah Martin, Savannah State University Charles L. Chavis, Jr., Morgan State University and Erica L. Chavis, Bowie State University “The Black Heroine Witness: Resistance, Social Agitation, and The History of Mary Prince” Jessie LaFrance Dunbar, University of Alabama at Birmingham. “Russian Role Models and Recombination: Refashioning the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince” Stefan Wheelock, George Mason University “Reassessing Redemption: Venture Smith, Sacred Rhetoric, and the Problem of Freedom” 3:00 – 4:15 p.m.
Conference Room 6 - 6th Floor
Friday
58. Paule Marshall and Black Atlantic Feminism Chair: Helane Androne, Miami University of Ohio W. Miranda Freeman, Tougaloo College “‘It Takes a Village’: Revisioning the Black Aesthetic ‘Community’ in Paule Marshall’s The Chosen Place, The Timeless People and Octavia Butler’s Kindred” Justin Haynes, Randolph-Macon College “Seeing the Light—Illusion and Misdirection in Paule Marshall’s The Chosen Place the Timeless People” Shirley Toland-Dix, University of South Florida “Theorizing Black Atlantic Feminism: Envisioning Liberatory Community”
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3:00 – 4:15 p.m.
Conference Room 7 - 6th Floor
Friday
59. Diasporic Routes and African Roots: Journeys through Space and Consciousness Chair: Haiqing Sun, Texas Southern University Michon Benson, Texas Southern University “Roots in the Readings: Facilitating Students’ Success in the HBCU Classroom” Paul Griffith, Texas Southern University “Spiritual Adventure through Song” Phillip Jones. Texas Southern University “African Americans' Use of Satire during the Harlem Renaissance” Albert Turner, Texas Southern University “Beyond Atavism, Toward Activism: Ancestry and Diasporic Tales of Resistance and Quince Duncan’s A Message from Rosa” 4:30 – 5:45 p.m.
Conference Room 1 – 6th Floor
Friday
60. Black Women Writers Responding to the Call for Healing in Their Communities Chair: Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, Texas Southern University Violet Harrington Bryan, Xavier University, LA “Erna Brodber’s Nothing’s Mat: A Family Picture of Diaspora” Juluette F. Bartlett, DeVry University, Houston “Women’s Pursuit of Freedom in Zulu Sofala’s The Sweet Trap” Romanus Muoneke, University of St. Thomas, Houston “Woman Trapped: A Route to Freedom In Buchi Emecheta’s The Family” Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, Texas Southern University “From Backstage to Center Stage: Black Women Playwrights as Change Agents during the Harlem Renaissance”
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4:30 – 5:45 p.m.
Conference Room 2 – 6th Floor
Friday
61. The African Diaspora in Spain and the Dominican Republic Chair: Margaret L. Morris, South Carolina State University Valencia Tamper, University of Alabama “The Black African in Spain’s Golden Age: A Literary Representation” José Batista, University of North Carolina at Charlotte “Ethnicity, Language and Dislocation in Avelino Stanley’s Tiempo Muerto” Margaret L. Morris, South Carolina State University “Blas R. Jiménez as a Representative of the Diaspora in the Dominican Republic” 4:30 – 5:45 p.m.
Conference Room 3 – 6th Floor
Friday
62. Street Protests and #SayHerName: Tracing the Rhetoric of Resistance Chair: Monique Akassi, Virginia Union University Milford Jeremiah, Morgan State University “Street Protests: Topics for Language Study” Trimiko Melancon, Loyola University, New Orleans “#SayHerName—or, Why Black Women Are Otherwise Absent in Discourses About Police Brutality” Nicole Wilson, Texas A&M University “Under Surveillance: Diasporic Tropes, Gender Violence and Audience Reception” Monique Akassi, Virginia Union University “Voices of the Speaking Text, #SayHerName: The Visual Rhetoric of the Black Female Hashtag”
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4:30 – 5:45 p.m.
Conference Room 4 – 6th Floor
Friday
63. Roundtable: What I Say: The Current State of Experimental African American Poetry Chair: Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Pennsylvania State University Participants: giovanni singleton, New Mexico State University Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Pennsylvania State University Lauri Ramey, California State University, Los Angeles 4:30 – 5:45 p.m.
Conference Room 5 – 6th Floor
Friday
64. Narration of Black Gender, Motherhood, Class, and Identity Chair: Antonio Tillis, College of Charleston Barbra Chin, Howard University “Baroque Jazz Poetics: The Paradox of History in Palace of the Peacock” Helen Crump, Jackson State University “‘mother’s voice may call out’: Examining Black Women’s Diaspora Identity through Maternal Narratives” Cheryl R. Hopson, Georgia Regents University, Augusta “‘Accepted in the Eye of the Storm’: Yearning for Family/ Recognition in Rebecca Walker’s Debut Novel: Ade: A Love Story” 4:30 – 5:45 p.m.
Conference Room 6 – 6th Floor
Friday
65. Writing Resistance, Feminism and Power in Francophone Works Chair: Jay Lutz, Oglethorpe University Iona Wynter Parks, Oglethorpe University “Quiet Power in Marie Ndiaye’s Trois femmes puissantes” Nelly Noury-Ossia, University of Houston “Mémoires et (dé)connections algériennes: Assia Djebar, Maïssa Bey et Faïza Guène” Jay Lutz, Oglethorpe University “Dany Laferrière’s Several Returns to Haiti Before and After the Earthquake”
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4:30 – 5:45 p.m.
Conference Room 7 – 6th Floor
Friday
66. Contemporary African American Writers: Jericho Brown, Daniel Black, and Jesmyn Ward Chair: Sharon L. Jones, Wright State University Warren J. Carson, University of South Carolina, Upstate “Words of Truth: Real (Good) Talk in Jericho Brown’s Please and The New Testament” Danille K. Taylor, Clark Atlanta University “A Voice from the Dirty South, Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones” Dana A. Williams, Howard University “Making Meaning in Daniel Black’s The Coming”
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Friday, April 8, 2016 67. 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Pre-Banquet Reception/*Cash Bar (Imperial West – 3rd Floor)
68. 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Annual College Language Association Banquet Featuring Author Jesmyn Ward, Keynote Speaker (Imperial West – 3rd Floor)
69. 10:00 p.m. - 12 midnight
President’s Reception (Window Box – 2nd Floor)
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Saturday, April 9, 2016 8:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Registration (Study – 2nd Floor)
8:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Publication Vendors/Exhibits (Arboretum 1 – 2nd Floor)
9:00 - 10:15 a.m.
Conference Room 1 – 6th Floor
Saturday
70. Afro-German Studies in the 21st Century Chair: Reginald Bess, South Carolina State University Kristin Moriah, City University of New York “Black Kabarrett and the Voelkerschau” Cerue Diggs, Howard University “Diasporic Triangulations: African Germans and Germanized Africans in Haile Gerima’s Teza (2010) and Olumide Popoola’s Also by Mail” Margaret Hampton, Earlham University “In the Spirit of Sankofa: The History of Alle Lernen Deutsch and the Committee’s Vision of the Future” Reginald Bess, South Carolina State University “Expanding the German Literary Cannon: A Case for German Language Crime Fiction”
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9:00 - 10:15 a.m.
Conference Room 2 – 6th Floor
Saturday
71. Black Women in Dialogue: The Nellie Y. McKay/ Nell Irvin Painter Letters Chair: Shanna Greene Benjamin, Grinnell College Jermaine Steward Webb, Grinnell College “Discussing Black Female Sexuality with Private Letters: The Nellie McKay and Nell Irvin Painter Correspondence” Batsheva Greenwood, Grinnell College “Nellie Y. McKay, Nell Irvin Painter, and the Origins of the 21st Century Black Public Intellectual” Shanna Greene Benjamin, Grinnell College “‘Pedagogies of Life Writing: the Nellie McKay-Nell Irvin Painter Correspondence” 9:00 - 10:15 a.m.
Conference Room 3 – 6th Floor
Saturday
72. Dialogue of Toni Morrison’s Work with the Global African Diaspora Chair: Danille K. Taylor, Clark Atlanta University Melina Yates-Richard, Rice University “Sounding Diasporic Testimony: Echoes of Trauma in Notebook of a Return to the Native Land and A Mercy” Julia Udofia, University of Uyo (Nigeria) “Towards a Pan-African Definition of Feminism in African and African Diaspora Women Discourses: Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s The Last of the Strong Ones and Toni Morrison’s Sula”
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9:00 - 10:15 a.m.
Conference Room 4 – 6th Floor
Saturday
73. Richard Wright, William Wells Brown: Migration, Visualization, and Invisibility Chair: Antiwan Walker, Georgia Gwinnett College Samantha Anderson, University of Memphis “Migratory Memphis: African American Literary Visitations” Michael Lindsay, Clayton State University “Spiritual Suicide: The Unholy Embrace of a White God” Camille May, Spelman College “More than Blindness: A Reconsideration of Richard Wright’s Native Son” Amanda McAvoy, Southern Methodist University “Visualizing Black Achievement: William Wells Brown’s Word Pictures in The Black Man” 9:00 - 10:15 a.m.
Conference Room 5 – 6th Floor
Saturday
74. Colonial Imagination and Cultural Memory Chair: Trimiko Melancon, Loyola University, New Orleans Helena Woodard, University of Texas at Austin “Kinship and Memory: The Diaspora Slave Descendant African in the Belly of the Stone Monster” Jennifer D. Williams, Morgan State University “Black Maps: Urban Geographies of Cultural Memory” Brian Reed and Agatha Ukata, American University of Nigeria “The Awakening of the Prophet: Forgotten Hope in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat”
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9:00 - 10:15 a.m.
Conference Room 6 – 6th Floor
Saturday
75. Speculative Fiction, Digital Griot, and Afrofuturism Chair: Esther Jones, Clark University Marlene Allen, United Arab Emirates University “Memory Is in the Blood: Representations of Africa in the Speculative Fictions of Pauline Hopkins and Tananarive Due” Cassandra L. Jones, University of South Carolina, Upstate “The Digital Griot, the Data Thief, the Cyberflaneur, and Rhythm Science: Challenging Anti-Technological Blackness with the Metaphors of Afrofuturism” William H. Mosley, III, University of Texas, Austin “‘Demonic Tendencies’ of ‘Grim Fantasy’: Queer Time & Black Resistance in Octavia Butler’s Kindred & Alexis De Veaux’s Yabo” 9:00 - 10:15 a.m.
Conference Room 7 – 6th Floor
Saturday
76. Afro-Brazilian Identities through Women Discourses and Representations Chair: Danielle de Luna Silva, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Dawn Duke, University of Tennessee, Knoxville “Chica de Silva: The Legendary Queen of Tijuco” Luciana Prestes, Middle Tennessee State University “Negociando Espacios e Identidades en Um defeito de cor de Ana Maria Goncalves” Jerry (Kiko) Scruggs, University of Tennessee, Knoxville “Representations of the Debunking of the Racial Democracy Myth in Sortilege ll: Zumbi Returns” Danielle de Luna Silva, University of Tennessee, Knoxville “Remembering and Representing Slavery in Three Novels by Afro-Brazilian Female Writers”
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10:30 – 11:45 a.m.
Conference Room 1 – 6th Floor
Saturday
77. Harlem Renaissance, Negritude and the (Early) Construction of Black Aesthetics of Resistance Chair: Vida Robertson, University of Houston Downtown Christopher Varlack, University of Maryland, Baltimore County “‘His Role of a Wandering Black without Patriotic or Family Ties’: Banjo, Négritude, and the Transnationalist Frame” Cocoa M. Williams, Florida State University “Primitivism in Art, Letters, and Performance: Modernist Aesthetics in the New Negro Movement” Carol Taylor-Johnson, West Virginia State University “Race, Manliness, and Broken Hearts: Uncle Tom Stages His Own Reality Show” Patricia Young, Western Illinois University “Acts of Terrorism, or Violence on a Sunday Morning in the South” 10:30 – 11:45 a.m.
Conference Room 2 – 6th Floor
Saturday
78. The Magic and the Voodoo in the Empowerment of Race and Feminism Chair: Mario Chandler, Oglethorpe University Toni Pressley-Sanon, Eastern Michigan University “Reading the Spirits in Julia Alvarez’s A Wedding in Haiti” Trevon Pegram, Howard University “Working Roots from Douglass to D’Angelo: Haitian Voodoo (Vodou) Root Narratives in Popular Culture”
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10:30 – 11:45 a.m.
Conference Room 3 – 6th Floor
Saturday
79. Identity and Sexuality in Lynn Nottage, Chimamanda Adichie, and Alice Walker Chair: Stacie McCormick, Texas Christian University Shayla Atkins, Howard University “Who Do You Think You Are?: Claims to Identity through Blood, Sweat, or Murder in Lynn Nottage’s Mud, River, Stone” Sonia Mae Brown, Howard University “The Erotics of Seduction: Subjectivity and Female Sexuality in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americannah” Na’Imah Ford, Florida A&M University “An Exploration of Identity, Popular Culture, and Diaspora in the Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie” Tangela Serls, University of South Florida “Lovers and Friends: A Critical Examination of Celie and Shug’s bond in The Color Purple” 10:30 – 11:45 a.m.
Conference Room 4 – 6th Floor
Saturday
80. Writing Stories, Languages, Masculinity, and Freedom as Marronage Chair: Judah-Micah Lamar, Old Dominion University Rebecca S. Dixon, Tennessee State University “A People Marooned: Masculinity and Diaspora in Caryl Phillips’s Higher Ground” Candice A. Pitts, Albany State University “Writers, Stories of Marronage, and the Creation of Alternative Societies” La Tanya L. Rogers, University of the District of Columbia “The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Merle Hodge’s Crick Crack Monkey and the Dialogues Between African Consciousness and Languages”
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10:30 – 11:45 a.m.
Conference Room 5 – 6th Floor
Saturday
81. Speaking Truth: Using Rhetorical Studies to Explore Historical and Contemporary Black Experiences Chair: Kendra Parker, Hope College Sarah Harvin, Hope College “One ‘Triflin’ Project: Exploring ‘Trifling’ and Incorporating African American Vernacular English in High School Curricula” Alexis Boyd, Howard University “Engaging the Master’s Tools: How Western Ideologies Complicate the Rhetoric of Protest and Resistance Literature” Drew Monroe, Hope College “Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Complexion’: A Poet’s Take on Black Experiences” Layla June West, Howard University “Eloquence in the Discipline of Rhetoric: Kemetic Roots, Often Forgotten” 10:30 – 11:45 a.m.
Conference Room 6 – 6th Floor
Saturday
82. Representation of Self/by Other: Pride, Beauty, Anger, and Ai among African/Diaspora Chair: Jacqueline C. Jones, Francis Marion University Phyllisa Smith Deroze, United Arab Emirates University “Denying My Roots is Denying My African Pride: Beneatha’s Big Chop and the Problem With Abridging A Raisin in the Sun” Monica Flippin Wynn, Jackson State University “Teaching the Diaspora to the Millennial Student: What Is Beauty?” Tanya E. Walker, Winston-Salem State University “Anti-rape Discourse in Early African American Women’s Drama” doris davenport, Retired, Independent Scholar “(Re)/Claiming Ai: The Poetry of Another ‘Dimension’”
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10:30 – 11:45 a.m.
Conference Room 7 – 6th Floor
Saturday
83. Movie Screening: BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez by Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater, and Sabrina Schmidt Gordon There will be a screening of a 55 minutes excerpt from the feature length documentary BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez. This award-winning film offers unprecedented access to the life, work, and mesmerizing performances of the renowned poet/activist Sonia Sanchez who for over 60 years has helped redefine American culture Respondent: Jennifer Williams, Morgan State University 84. 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
Post-Convention CLA Executive Board Meeting (Conference Room 9 – 6th Floor)
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