A.1 – Venue: 220 York, Room 001
Worlding Hispanophone and Lusophone Africa: The Politics of Gender
LHCALA: Lusophone/Hispanophone Caucus Panel 1 of 3
Dorothy Odartey Wellington, University of Guelph (Chair)
Ellen Ryan Robinson, Indiana University, Bloomington
Women Writing (New?) Worlds: Trauma and Polygamy in Mekuy and Chiziane
Arthur Hughes, Ohio University
Woman, Nation, and History: Problematizing Female Gender in Nation Formation in Mia Couto’s Mulheres de Cinzas
Joanna Boampong, University of Ghana
Negotiating the “World:” Reflexions on the Female African Protagonist of Hispanophone African Literature
A.2 – Venue: 212 York, Room 004A
Women’s Voices in Africa: Rethinking Ourselves and Others
Panel
Thelma Pinto, Hobart and William Smith Colleges (Chair)
Keiko Kusonose, Kyoto Seika University
Comparison of Zoe Wicomb to Chimananda Adichie
Thelma Pinto, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Charlotte Maxeke as portrayed by Zubeida Jaffer in Beauty of the Heart
Yuan-Chih Yen, University of the Witswatersrand
Love in the Queer Time of South Africa: Be(com)ing in Barbara Adair’s In Tangier We Killed the Blue Parrot and End
Asabe Kabir Usman, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto
Revisiting the Female Question in Hausa Women’s Writings: Examples from the Fictional Works of Balkisu Salisu Ahmad
A.3 – Venue: LC 211
Human Rights I – Migrant Crises Across the Oceans: Discourses and Perceptions in Africa and Europe
EC-sponsored Panel 1 of 2
Ketu Katrak, University of California, Irvine (Chair)
Tendai Mangena, Bremen University
(Re)negotiating “Illegal” Migrant Identities in Zimbabwean Postcolonial Fiction
Tekle Woldemikael, Chapman University
Discourses and Representations of the Drowning of African Refugees in Lampedusa in 2013
Mamadou Moustapha Ly, University of Denver
Immigration and National Identity in Quand les murs tombent: L’identité hors-la loi? by Edouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau
A.4 – Venue: 212 York, Room 106
Twenty-First Century Maghrebi Cinema: Boundaries Marked, Breached, and Transformed
Panel
Suzanne Gauch, Temple University (Chair)
Ziad Bentahar, Towson University
Arabic Silenced and Arabic Sung: Language Repression in Nadir Moknèche’s Viva Laldjérie
Meg Furniss Weisberg, Wesleyan University
Clandestine Emigration as a Twenty-first Century Meme in North African Cinema and Literature
Suzanne Gauch, Temple University
Globalization’s Underworlds: Leila Kilani’s Sur la planche and Moroccan Neo-Noir
A.5 – Venue: Loria 351
Bernard Binlin Dadié: Living and Creating Beyond his Century: A Tribute to Bernard Binlin Dadié for his 100th Birthday Celebration
EC-sponsored Roundtable 1 of 2
Janis A. Mayes, Syracuse University & Mohamed Kamara, Washington and Lee University (Chairs)
Irène Assiba d’Almeida, The University of Arizona
Christophe Konkobo, Austin Peay State University
Stella Omonigho, University of Benin
Marc Papé, St. John Fisher College
Paul Touré, Millikin University
Viviane Uetto, Ecole Normale Supérieure d’Abidjan
A.6 – Venue: Loria B50
African (No)bodies: Revisiting Colonial Narratives through African Films and Literature
Panel
Divisha Chummun, Boston University (Chair)
Rakotobe (Franck) Andrianarivo, Emory University
Female Subversion in Djo Tunda wa Munga’s Viva Riva
Michael Lehman, Emory University
“The Plankton of History”: Winnowing the Remains in the Work of Tchicaya U Tam’si
Cristina Onesta, Boston University
The Camera-body…A Skylight on the World. Aujourd’hui by Alain Gomis and The Cathedral by Harrikrisna Anenden
Divisha Chummun, Boston University
The Quest of a Chagossian Nation: Amnesic Stories, Fragmented Identity
A.7 – Venue: LC 205
Well-being and Stories from Rwanda
Panel
Sarah Arens, University of Edinburgh (Chair)
Sarah Arens, University of Edinburgh
Introductory Comments: Well-being and Stories from Rwanda
Laura Apol, Michigan State University
Using the Writing Workshop Model to Facilitate Healing Among Genocide Survivors in Rwanda
Nicki Hitchcott, University of St. Andrews
From Mourning to Recuperation in the Writings of Scholastique Mukasonga
Hannah Grayson, University of St. Andrews
Resilience in Rwanda: Finding Well-Being in and through Testimonies
A.8 – Venue: 212 York, Room 004
Conflict and Struggle in South African Literature
Panel
Blessing Diala-Ogamba, Coppin State University (Chair)
Chioma Opara, Rivers State University of Science and Technology
Propping Up the Underbelly: Echoes of Repression in Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup
Nnenna Oke, Micheal Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike
The Dual Aesthetics of Protest and Revolution: Laureate Ngocbo’s And They Didn’t Die
Blessing Diala-Ogamba, Coppin State University
Remembering the Women: Conflict and Oppression in Lauretta Ngocbo’s And They Didn’t Die
A.9 – Venue: LC 104
Conflict and (Anti)Colonial Literary Histories
Matuku Ngame, Yale University (Chair)
Andia Augustin-Billy, Centenary College of Louisiana
“Entre deux mondes”: l’anticolonialisme réimaginé dans Le Vieux nègre et la médaille de Ferdinand Oyono
Unionmwan Edebiri, University of Benin
Anti-Colonial Resistance in Francophone African Theater
Simeon Osazuwa, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma
Le conflit comme fondement de la literature (Conflict as the Bedrock of Literature)
Lise Mba Ekani, Louisiana State University
Police, polis et politique du polar Africain francophone
A.10 – Venue: 220 York, Room 002
Literary Performance in Cyberspace
Susanna Sacks, Northwestern University (Chair)
Susanna Sacks, Northwestern University
Digital Voices: Negotiating Global Forms & Local Identity in Cape Town Performance Poetry
Afam Ebeogu, Abia State University, Uturu
Contemporary African Oral Performance: Uche Ogbuagu as a Satirist on the Electronic Media
Saeedat Aliyu, Kwara State University
Fictionists in Cyberspace: Lola Opatayo’s Fiction in the Context of World Literature
A.11 – Venue: Loria B51
Mammywater in the Animal Kingdom in Njideka Nwapa-Ibuaka’s book, Mammywater Tales
Roundtable
Marie Umeh, The City University of New York (Chair)
Helen Chukwuma, Jackson State University
Ernest Emenyonu, University of Michigan
Pat Emenyonu, University of Michigan-Flint
Akachi Ezeigbo, Federal University Ndufu-Alike
Chimalum Nwankwo, Nnamdi Azikiwe University
Otymeyin Agbajoh-Laoye, Monmouth University