2006 Papers in Advance
Below are the sessions
for which papers are available in advance. Any regular registrants can request
up to 12 complimentary papers. To request papers, please email the M/MLA office
at mmla@uiowa.edu, let us know what papers
you would like, and we will be happy to send them to you.
Permanent Sections
3. French III: Issues
in French Studies
Friday, 8:30-10:00
a.m. (LaSalle 5)
Topic: Nation, Identity, and Culture
Chair: Pascale Perraudin,
1. “Learning to Love Your Country: The Chanson de
Roland and French National Identity,” by Stephanie Lohse,
2. “Culture and National Identity: The Case of
Jean-Paul Sartre,” by
3. “Creating Mediterranean Models of Identity in
4. “Of GMOs and McDomination: What’s At Steak in the
Contemporary French/American Conflicts Over Food,” by Jennifer Willging, Ohio
State Univ.
7. Multicultural
Literature in the Classroom: Politics and Pedagogy
Friday, 8:30-10:00 a.m. (Parlor E)
Topic: The Language(s) of Multiculturalism
Chair: Keith Alan Sprouse, Hampden-Sydney Coll.
Secretary: Alpana Sharma, Wright State Univ.
1. “American multiculturalism: Teaching Difference,”
by Lesliee Antonette, East Stroudsburg Univ. of Pennsylvania Not yet received
2. “Multilingualism and the Study of Ethnic Literary
Texts,” by Maria Assif,
3. “Historia de España = Història d’Espanya: Teaching Spanish
Identity in Catalán,” by Emmy Adel Smith,
4. “Tio Conejo, Brer Rabbit’s Venezuelan Cousin: From
Badman to Culture Hero,” by
65. Canadian
Literature
Friday, 2:15-3:45 p.m. (
Topic: Post-colonialism or Diaspora?
Whither Cultural Influence?
Chair: Duncan Lucas,
Secretary: Adele Holoch,
1. “‘This Land is My Land at Long Last’: Questioning
Canada’s Postcolonialism through Plainsong
and Green Grass, Running Water,” by
Adele Holoch,
2. “Denaturalizing Canadian Citizenship: Souvankham
Thammavongosa’s Small Arguments,” by
Christine Kim,
3. “Re/placing Native
Canadian Citizenship: Reading Thomas King’s Stories in Relation to the Multicultural
Nation,” by Linda Rodenburg,
107. “Art What Thou
Eat”: Food in Literature, Art, and Culture A
Saturday, 8:30-11:45 a.m. (Clark 5), 2:15-3:45 p.m. (
Topic: Open Topic
Chair: David Schoonover
Session A
Saturday, 8:30-10:00 a.m. (
1. “Eat Me! Food as a Consuming Force in Katherine
Mansfield and Virginia Woolf,” by Leah Kind, Northern
2. “‘The Good Breast’: Women as Food-Givers in
Victorian and 21st-Century Culture,” by Laura Fasick, Minnesota State Univ.
Moorhead
3. “Food for Art’s Sake: The Culinary Writings of
Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1896),” by Janet Tanke,
Session B
Saturday, 10:15-11:45 a.m. (
4. “‘Unlimited Quantities of M-M-M Food’: The Modern
Artist as Cannibal in the Postwar American Novel,” by Michelle E. Moore, Coll.
of DuPage
5. “Allez
Cuisine!: Constructions and Deconstructions of Gender on the Food Network,”
by Cara Ogburn, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
6. “The Ghostliness of Bread: The Hidden Drama of
Baking in Pynchon's Mason & Dixon,”
by Geoffrey Stacks,
Session
C
Saturday, 2:15-3:45 p.m. (
7. “Eating Satirically: Food in the 1996 Film
Adaptations of Jane Austen's Emma,”
by Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch, Northwestern Univ.
8. “Food for Thought: Power and Foodways in Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God,” by Emily
Yu,
9. “Eat Me: Rage and
Rebellion in Rosario Castellanos’ ‘Cooking Lesson,’” by Lynne F. Margolies,
135. Short Story
Saturday, 10:15-11:45 a.m. (
Topic: Narrative Innovation in the Short Story
Chair: Kimberly A. Nance, Illinois State Univ.
1. “Painterly Ambitions: Hemingway, Cezanne, and the
Short Story,” by Monika Gehlawat,
2. “Narrating the Unnarratable: Robert Walser’s
Apophatic Narrative Mode,” Samuel Frederick,
3. “Deconstructing Magical Realism: Journey to the
Seed,” by Annette Bahringer, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
4. “Jean Rhys and Postmodern Narrative
Authority: Selina's Patois in ‘Let Them Call it Jazz,’” by Kristin Czarnecki,
177. Literary
Criticism I
Saturday, 2:15-3:45 p.m. (
Topic: The Politics of Literary Criticism
Chair: Kimberly A. Nance, Illinois State Univ.
1. “What Is Anarchist Literary Criticism?” by Jesse
Cohn,
2. “The Politics of Reception Study,” by Philip
Goldstein,
3. “The
Politics of Ambivalence: Colonial Discourse and the Limits of Postcolonial
Theory,” by Keith Alan Sprouse,
Hampden-Sydney Coll. Not yet received
4. “Kenneth Burke and Georges
Bataille: Politics or Criticism?” by Kara Cahill
235. International
Francophone Studies
Sunday, 10:15-11:45 a.m. (
Topic: Post/Colonial Francophone Studies
Chair: Keith Alan Sprouse, Hampden-Sydney Coll.
1. “Postcolonial Studies Meet Visual Rhetoric: The
Case of Description de L’Egypte,” by
Maha Baddar,
2. “Camus’s Algeriance: Rethinking Colonial Identity
and Discourse,” by Phil Bridges, Missouri State Univ. Not yet received
3. “The [M]Other Tongue in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Chemin d’ecole: Performative Linguistic
Spaces in a French Creole Childhood,” by Janice Morgan, Murray State Univ. Not yet received
4. “Violence in postcolonial
Caribbean literature,” by
Special Sessions
46. Is High Culture
Possible?
Saturday, 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m. (LaSalle 4)
Moderator: Maria Polski,
1. “Postmodernism and Syncretism: Deconstructing High
Culture,” by
2. “Teaching Literature to the Animaniacs Generation,” by Ellen McManus,
3. “The Law of Non-Destruction and Accumulation of
Culture by Yuri Rozhdestvensky,” by Maria Polski,
119. Memory,
Forgetting, and Commodification: Revisiting the
Relations of Culture and Politics
Saturday, 8:30-10:00 a.m. (
Moderator: Paige Sweet,
1. “The ‘Forgetive’: Towards An Ethics of Seeing,” by
Matt Hadley,
2. “Cultural Memory, Grief, and Filmic Representations
of 9/11,” by Nick Muntean, Univ. of Texas-Austin
3. “Vaseline and Hands: Browning, Genet, Hegel, and
the Spontaneous Labor of the Anecdote,” by Matthias Rudolf, Univ. of
Wisconsin-Madison
4. “Edith Wharton’s Time-Blurred Substances: Memory
and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in The
Age of Innocence,” by Joshua Kotzin, Marist Coll.
126. West African
Fiction A
Saturday, 8:30-1:30 p.m. (
Session A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (
Moderator: Karen Remedios,
1. “From Other to Etcetera: Rethinking Postcolonial
Discourse on African Subjectivity,” by Gilmer Cook,
2. “How African
is African Literature?” by Nada Fadda,
3. “Nouveau Voice: African Experiences in a Worldwide
Language,” by Francis Tobienne,
4. “W(h)ither the Politics of Postcolonial
Literature? Intersections Between
Achebe’s Study of National Politics and Aesthetics,” by Namrata Mitra,
5. “Phallic Violence in Ibrahim
Tahir's The
Last Imam,” by Amna Al Ahbabi,
Session B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (
Moderator: Umme Al-wazedi,
6. “Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire: Tricks of
Commodification, Violence and Desire in Amos Tutuola’s West African Bush,” by
Cassander L. Smith,
7. “A Highly Flammable Substance: Politics,
Photography and the Creation of “Visature” in Ben Okri’s
8. “The Re-Fashioning of the Anti-War Novel in
Ken-Saro-Wiwa’s’s Sozaboy,” by Gerald
Maki,
9. “Women’s Bodies as a Site for Patriarchal Violence
in Novels by Buchi Emecheta, Ken Saro-Wiwa’ and Ibrahim Tahir,” by Elizabeth
Hermans,
10. “The Construction of African Masculinities in Ken
Saro-Wiwa’s Sozaboy and Ama Ata
Aidoo’s Changes,” by Jeffret Lanier
Jones,
Session C
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m. (
Moderator: Cassander L. Smith,
11. “Story Telling and Myth as Symbols of Resistance
in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the
Savannah,” by Roberto Ferreira Junior,
12. “The Urban Nomad: Transportation and the
Navigation of Urban Space in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes,” by Jennifer Backman,
13. “Uptown Girls: Women and the City in Ama Ata
Aidoo’s Changes,” by Karen Remedios,
14. “Faceless but not Voiceless: Representation of the
Subalterns in Amma Darko’s Faceless,”
by Umme Al-wazedi,
15. “Gnostic Politics
and the Tension of Existence in Ben Okri's The Famished Road,” by René
Harrison,
158. Shakespeare’s
Sisters: Women Writers and Stationers in Early Modern
Saturday, 12:00 noon-2:00 p.m. (LaSalle 2)
Moderator: Terri Bourus,
1. “
2. “Tracing Ephelia’s Metaphysical Roots,” by Tamara
Wiandt,
3. “Singing Her Praises: Philip’s Fashioning of Femininity,”
by Rachel Spear, Louisiana State Univ.
4. “‘The ordering and joining therof’: The (Con)text
of Margaret Cavendish’s Plays,” by Lise Mae Schlosser, Northern Illinois Univ.
5. “Reframing the Runaway Success of Haywood's
Love in Excess,” by Lisa B. Higgins,
6. “‘He that shuns love doth love himself the less’:
Lady Mary Wroth’s Transformational Dialectic in Pamphilia to Amphilanthus,” by Heather Bowlby, California State
Univ.,
7. “The Winking Poet: The Structural Effect of the
Passion in ‘Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum,’” by Jonathan Sircy,
8. “Iago and Salome: What is the Gender of
Malcontent?,” by Karen Smith,
9. “‘Not to be led by precedent’: Subverting the System in
Elizabeth Cary’s ‘Tragedy of Miriam,’” by
Jossalyn Gale Folmer,