E.1 – Venue: Loria 250
Remembering Buchi Emecheta, 1944-2017
Sponsored by the Yale English Department
Roundtable (double-session 2:00-5:15pm)
Introduction: Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, PhD, President of the ALA
Talk by Sylvester Onwordi, Buchi Emecheta’s son
Preface by Nana Ayebia Clarke, Celebrating Buchi Emecheta: Through the Lens of the African Writers Series
Ernest Emenyonu, University of Michigan, Flint
Recalling Close Moments with Buchi at Home and Abroad: Unpublished Anecdotes
Helen Chukwuma, Jackson State University
The Feminism of Buchi Emecheta
Anthonia Kalu, University of California, Riverside
Buchi Emecheta: Writing African Womanhood, Feminism and Motherhood
Akachi Ezeigbo, Federal University Ndufu-Alike
Emecheta and the Rise of the African Feminist Literary Tradition
Ada Azodo, Indiana University Northwest
Buchi Emecheta: Feminist with a small “f” indeed
Wangui Wa Goro, Translator/Translation Theorist and Promoter SIDENSI
Buchi Emecheta: Lighting the Path as Maker of a Transgressive Dream
Carole Boyce-Davies, Cornell University
Talking Back with Buchi Emecheta
Debra Boyd, North Carolina Central University
Buchi Emecheta: An African-American Sister Remembers
Abena Busia, Rutgers University
A Poem for Buchi
Kadija (George) Sesay, University of Brighton
Buchi Emecheta: Igbo Woman Storyteller
Otymeyin Agbajoh-Laoye, Monmouth University
Living a Life that is More than Just Your Own and Triumphing
Thelma Pinto, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Continental African Womanism
Marie Umeh, The City University of New York
Poetic Justice for Africana Women: Buchi Emecheta’s Cri de Coeur!
E.2 – Venue: 212 York, Room 106
The Practice of the Humanities in the Age of Big Man Politics
Roundtable
Laura Murphy, Loyola University (Chair)
Gaurav Desai, University of Michigan
Laura Murphy, Loyola University
Ato Quayson, University of Toronto
Pallavi Rastogi, Louisiana State University
E.3 – Venue: Loria B51
Queer Theory in Film and Fiction
Panel 2 of 2
John Hawley, Santa Clara University (Chair)
Monique Oshame Ekpong, Veritas University, Abuja
Ama Ata Aidoo’s Countering of Patriarchy in Changes: A Love Story
Edgar Nabutanyi, Makerere University
As Ugandan as Matooke: The Gentrification of Queer Sexuality in Recent Ugandan Historical Novels
Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi, Western University, Ontario
Queer Predation, Wellness, and the Juxtapolitical Lives of Sex
Sheila Giffen, University of British Columbia
Queer Aesthetic Production in K. Sello Duiker’s The Quiet Violence of Dreams
E.4 – Venue: LC 211
Locating the Un/Popular Arts in Africa and the World
Panel 1 of 2
Lynda Spencer, Rhodes University (Chair)
Corinne Sandwith, University of Pretoria
Reading and Roaming the Racial City: R. R. R. Dhlomo in The Bantu World
Grace Musila, Stellenbosch University
Desire and Freedom in the Fiction of Yvonne Vera and Toni Morrison
Lynda Spencer, Rhodes University
“Having it all:” (Re)examining “Women’s Culture” and Conspicuous Consumption in Chick-Lit from Africa
E.5 – Venue: 220 York, Room 001
Worlding Hispanophone and Lusophone Africa: Convergences
LHCALA: Lusophone/Hispanophone Caucus – Panel 3 of 3
Arthur Hughes, Ohio University (Chair)
Supriya Daniel, IIT Bombay
The “World” of Mia Couto’s Sleepwalking Land
Cheryl Sterling, The City College of New York
Ancestral Time in Trans-formulation in the Afro-Brazilian play, Bença
Dosinda Alvite, Denison University
“The West as an Illness:” Critical Approaches by Hispanophone Writers
Clauber Cruz, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, UNESP-Assis
“World literatures:” The Anthology of African Writers
E.6 – Venue: LC 105
Saharan Identities: Travel, Nomadism, and Saharan Identities
Panel 2 of Seminar
Kevin Hickey, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (Chair)
Christa Jones, Utah State University
Human-Animal Encounters Reloaded: The Sahara in Orientalist Travel Writings
Mahan Ellison, Bridgewater College
La amada tiris, tierra de nuestros abuelos: The Real and Imaginary Spaces of the Sahara in Contemporary Sahrawi Literature
Maria G. Traub, Neumann University
A Forgotten Prototype of Algerian Women’s Writing: Histoire de ma vie: Fadhma Ait Mansour Amrouche
E.7 – Venue: Loria 351
Visions of Creative Power and Perceptions of the World
FRACALA: Francophone Caucus Panel
Christophe Konkobo, Austin Peay State University (Chair)
Aimé Angui, Université d’Abidjan-Cocody
La répression du pouvoir politique et ses conséquences victimaires dans l’oeuvre romanesque de Mohamed-Alioum Fantouré
Debra Boyd, North Carolina Central University
Jeunesse et quête du moi dans l’œuvre de Y. Khadra et de A. Diallo
Christophe Konkobo, Austin Peay State University
Auteur et Autorité: Mises en jeu du créateur dans le théâtre de Koffi Kwahulé
E.8 – Venue: 212 York, Room 04A
Les enjeux de la mémoire dans la literature actuelle du Congo RDC: entre fragments mémoriels et present perpétuel
Panel
Éloïse Brézault, Saint Lawrence University (Chair)
Karen Bouwer, University of San Francisco
Samantha à Kinshasa: apesanteur et mémoire en transit
Katherine Tidmarsh, Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7)
Tram 83: Trains, traumatismes et transnationalisme dans les écrits de Fiston Mwanza Mujila
Éloïse Brézault, Saint Lawrence University
Mondialisation et “afrocontemporanéité” dans Congo Inc. ou comment repenser la mémoire colonial
Viviane Uetto, Ecole Normale Supérieure d’Abidjan
Vision Polysémique du Féminin dans la Littérature Africaine d’émigration: Entre Réhabilitation et Caricature
E.9 – Venue: LC 205
Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction, Other Worlds & Future Worlds
Panel 2 of 2
Douja Mamelouk, Le Moyne College (Chair)
Matthew Eatough, Baruch College, City University of New York
Afro SF and the Planning Imagination
Douja Mamelouk, Le Moyne College
Dystopia in the Egyptian Novel Utopia
Raquel Baker, Rhodes College
Worlding Science Fiction: Deji Olukotun’s Nigerians in Space
Michelle Clarke, SOAS
New Waves: Blue Ecocriticism and the “Postlocal” in Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix and Lagoon
E.10 – Venue: LC 317
Afropolitanism and Cosmopolitanism
Silvia Riva, University of Milan (Chair)
Lydie Moudileno, University of Pennsylvania
Is Afropolitanism the New Black?
Silvia Riva, University of Milan
World Literature in the African Literary Landscape
Bernard Ayo Oniwe, University of South Carolina
The Global Imagination and 21st Century African Novels
E.11 – Venue: LC 104
Popular and Cinematic Visions of Change
Patrick Mensah, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Chair)
Patrick Mensah, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Rethinking the Politics of Conflict, Decolonization, and the Nation-State; Abderrahmane Sissako’s Timbuktu (2014), and Jean-Stephane Sauvaire’s Johnny Mad Dog (2009)
Bernie Lombardi, Rutgers University
A New Immigrant Aesthetic: Still and Moving Images in Andrew Dosunmu’s Mother of George
Nafeesa Nichols, University of Bergen
Popular Culture in Niq Mhlongo’s After Tears and Kgebetli Moele’s Room 207
E.12 – Venue: 212 York, Room 004
African Texts in American Contexts
John Masterson, University of Sussex (Chair)
John Masterson, University of Sussex
Black Lives Scatter in Obama’s Late Period: Writing Risk, Risky Writing and Deferred Dreams in Teju Cole’s Known and Strange Things and Okey Ndibe’s Never Look an American in the Eye
Jerome Masamaka, University of Ghana
From Dystopia to Utopia, Mythopoeia to Ethiopia: The Rhetoric of Dis/Placement and pan African Zionism in the Root Reggae lyrics of Joseph Hill
Joya Uraizee, Saint Louis University
Diasporic African Literature: Dave Eggers’ What is the What? as a Refugee Narrative
E.13 – Venue: LC 208
Print Cultures & Literary History
Stéphane Robolin, Rutgers University (Chair)
Stéphane Robolin, Rutgers University
Subterranean Circulations: Banned Books and Apartheid South Africa’s Institutional Underground
Maria-Gratias Sinon, SUNY Buffalo
Examining Ivoirian Writers’s Publishing Challenges: The General History of Publishing in Ivory Coast and the Relationship between Editors, Writers, and Readers
Kerry Manzo, Texas Tech University
Not a Network, but a Rhizome: The Mbari Movement and the Internationalization of African Literature
Bernth Lindfors, University of Texas, Austin
Some Early Soyinka Letters
E.14 – Venue: Loria B50
Slavery in West African Narratives
Kerry Sinanan, National University of Ireland, Galway (Chair)
Kerry Sinanan, National University of Ireland, Galway
“Scrapeing the world for money:” Nicholas Owen’s African Journal of a Slave Dealer
Anthea Morrison, University of West Indies
From Elmina to Charleston: Cartographies of remembering in Caryl Phillips’ The Atlantic Sound
Paul McElhinny, University of South Carolina
A Shared Nightmare
E.15 – Venue: Loria 360
The Past and Future in East African Literature
Panel 2 of 2
Kate Haines Wallis, University of Bristol (Chair)
Romy Rajan, University of Florida
Going Beyond the Mau Mau in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s Dust
Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire, King’s College, London
The Introversion of Jennifer Makumbi’s Kintu
Aurélie Journo, Université Paris 13
Literary Media as “Loaded Vehicles” in World Literature: A Case Study of the Kenyan Journal Kwani?
E.16 – Venue: LC 210
Post-Apartheid Art Worlds
Panel 2 of 2
Lisa Propst, Clarkson University (Chair)
Lisa Propst, Clarkson University
Truth Commissions and Wordless Transformations in Post-Transitional South African Literature
Daniel Gover, Kean University
Zakes Mda: A Higher Love
Kudzayi Ngara, University of the Free State
Schizophrenic Urbanities – Identity, Spectacle and the Absurd in Ivan Vladislavić’s Early Short Stories
Jan Steyn, Cornell University
“Translated from the Dead:” Contemporaneity in “The Reading” by Ivan Vladislavić