Austin Clarke: Bajan-Canadian Transnational Representations
Joseph McLaren, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York

The Return of History: The Historical Novel in Recent Postcolonial Fiction
Reed Dasenbrock, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Chair: Simon Lewis, College of Charleston
J. M. Coetzee, J.G. Farrell and Alison Lurie
Postcolonial Landscapes and Environmental Ethics: J. M. Coetzee's Animals and Humans
Hans-Georg Erney, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Absurd Collisions of the 'Mother' Country and the Colonials: J.G. Farrell's Empire Triptych and Alison Lurie's Foreign Affairs
Rebecca Ziegler, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA  Chair: Catherine Chaput, Georgia Southern University
Women's Stories

Public Use of Personal Histories: The Memory Books of HIV/AIDS Positive African Women
Julie O'Neill Kloo, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA

Reflections of Truth and Reconciliation: Women's Roles, Women's Writing, and the Effects of the Truth Commission on Narrative in South Africa
Neelika Jayawardane, SUNY-Oswego, NY

Biography as Imperialism: Eilersen's Reading of Bessie Head's A Question of Power
Laverne Nishihara, Indiana University East, Richmond, IN

Noon - 1:30 PM
KEYNOTE LUNCHEON/ADDRESS
Robert J. C. Young, University of Oxford, Wadham College

“Walter Benjamin: At the Border”Chair: Frank Arasanyin, Georgia Southern University
Globalization: Should "It's a Small World After All" Be Burned to the Ground?
Globalization and the Envisioning of Resistance: The Reinvention of the African Novel in Ngugi wa Thiongo's Devil on the Cross
Lopamudra Basu, City University of New York Chair: Hans-Georg Erney, Emory University
The Power of the Ordinary Chair: Amritjit Singh, Rhode Island College
New Zealand/Australia - "Trafficking" Moderator Pushpa Parekh, Spelman College
Cultural Othering in Diaspora and Migration Narratives: Undergraduate Discussion Panel
Nana Yeboah, Amy Chinanzvavana, Mwikali Muindi, Tanya Faublas, and Ebonne Rufffins, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA 3:30 PM - 5:00 pm Chair: Kildip Kuwahara, North Carolina Central University
Ascetics, Exiles, and Sojourners Chair: Deborah Fonteneau, Savannah State University
Transnational - Postnational - Circumnational

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

Architectonics and Postcolonial Literature: Searching for the Relation of Author to Hero in Joyce Cary's Mr Johnson, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and Buchi Emecheta's The Slave Girl
Russell Greer, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX
 
Globalization, Transnational Capital and Indian Literature in English
Feroza Jussawalla, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

The Power of Inequality: Nigerian Pidgin in Achebe's Fiction
Thomas J. Lynn, Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College, Reading, PA

Shades of Black Consciousness in South African Coloured Literature: Chris van Wyk's Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy
Simon Lewis, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC

How Things Fell Apart in South Africa: The Political Necessity of Presenting Ordinary Life Under Apartheid
Neelika Jayawardane, SUNY-Oswego, NY

Cultural Souvenirs: Fetishization of Authenticity in Two New Zealand Authors
Bev Hogue, Marietta College, Marietta, OH

Convicts and Bushrangers: Aussie (Out)Law Tales and Post-colonial Identity
Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND

Tilting on the Axis of Evil: Australian Novels and Moral Relativism
Dennis Haskell, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

Firanghis and Foreigners: Exile and the Formation of Identity in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay
Sharada Balachandran-Orihuela, Mills College, Oakland, CA

Can The Subaltern Dream? Magical Realism and the "Othering" of Hinduism in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
Ritu Raju, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX

The Gandhian Body in Raja Rao's Kanthapura
Chandrima Chakraborty, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

The Return of the Magi: Postcolonial Literature and the Problem of the "World"
Weihsin Gui, Brown University, Providence, RI

The Uncomfortable Crossing of Borders in Naipaul's Mimic Men and Ghosh's In An Antique Land
John C. Hawley, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA  

Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls Trilogy, Buchi Emecheta's Second-Class Citizen and the National Longing for Lack of Form
Kathryn L. Kleypas, Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York 

 Chair: Dean G. Hall: Kansas State University
Female Identity and Agency Jhabvala's Heat and Dust, Mehta's Earth, Mukherjee's The Holder of the World, and Divakaruni's The Mistress of Spices Chair: John Parcels: Georgia Southern University
Postcolonial Conflict/Postcolonial Nature
 

Jhabvala's Heat and Dust: Comparing Female Agency in the Novel and Film
Dean G. Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Border-Crossing Feminism: Deepa Mehta's Earth as Adaptation of Sidhwa's Cracking India
Jamie Durler, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

The Embodiment of Desire: Asset Hunting in Bharati Mukherjee's The Holder of the World
Carla Reimer, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

Threads of Indianness: Raven's Role in Intersecting Creations of 'Indian' Identity in The Mistress of Spices
Becky Rhodehouse, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

Directions for a South African Ecocriticism: Revisiting Critical Response to J. M. Coetzee's Michael K
Anthony Vital, Translvania University, Lexington, KY
Imperial Green: Environmentalism in/and African Colonial Literature
Byron Caminero-Santangelo, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

Memories of Hawai’i: U.S. History and the Future of Indigenous Expansionism

Cara Cilano, University of North Carolina at Wilmington 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
An Evening with Writers

Welcome: Eric Nelson, Georgia Southern University

Co-hosted by: Amritjit Singh and Darius Cooper
Ferosa Jussawalla, Saleem Peeradina, Dennis Haskell, Amritjit Singh & Laksmisree Banerjee

Saturday, February 26, 2005 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Registration and Continental Breakfast Chair: Kuldip Kuwahara, North Carolina Central University
Cultural Otherness

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracing a Woman’s Poetic World Without Borders: Comparative Studies of World Women Poets in India and the West

Laksmisree Banerjee, Jamshedput Women’s College of the Ranchi University, India  Chair: Marc Cyr, Georgia Southern University
Immigration, Emigration and Identity in the Arab World
Effects of Colonialism on Arab Muslim Identity
Maryam El Shall, University of Florida  Chair: Darius Cooper, San Diego Mesa College
Curry, Football, and Plagiarism

To Err or Not to Err: Conflicting Narratives in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Unknown Errors of Our Lives
Brewster E. Fitz, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Blending Two Modes of Life: The East-West Fiction and Autobiography of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Heat and Dust
Bobbie McDonald, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA

Creating New Maps: Arab-American and Arab-Canadian Women Writers and Racial Othering
Pushpa Parekh, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA

Curry on the Divide in Rudyard Kipling's Kim and Gurinder Chadha's Bend it Like Beckham
Winnie Chan, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN  Chair: Deepika Bahri, Emory University
Race and Place: The Politics and Poetics of Geography and Embodiment
 
Searching for the Promised Land in the American West: An Examination of Migration in Sherley Anne Williams' Dessa Rose
Folashadé Alao, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
USACLALS PRESIDENTIAL FORUM                                                                                                  
Greetings: Amritjit Singh, Rhode Island College, President, USACLALS & Introduction: Pushpa Parekh, Spelman College

"Piss off, Paki!:" Bend it Like Beckham and Racism in Sport
Prabhjot Parmar, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Indianizing Devonshire: Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen's Plagiarized Novel
Gillian Gane, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

From Barbados to Brooklyn: Identity and Reconciliation in Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones
Susana Morris, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

"Where the World Is": Race, Place, and the Task of Imagination in Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup
Aida Hussen, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

The Anglo-Indian in the Annexe: Making Room for the Minor in PostcolonialLiterature
Deepika Bahri, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Carole Boyce Davies, African New World Studies, Florida International University, Miami, FL (Sponsored by the Ethel Waddell Githii Honors Program, Spelman College)

“Imperial Geographies and Post-Colonial Legacies: At the Border between ‘Dying Colonialism’ and U.S. Hegemony”

Noon - 1:30 PM
Lunch on Your Own

1:15 – 1:45 PM  USACLALS BUSINESS MEETINGChair: John Hawley, Santa Clara University
South Asian Fiction: British and American1:45 PM - 3:15 PMCHAIR: Deborah Fonteneau, Savannah State University                     Caribbean Politics in Literature and Art Moderator: Quentin Heyward, Savannah State University
Post-Colonialism and African-American Literature: An Undergraduate Roundtable
Quentin Heyward, Teri Schell, Gerald Darden, Hadara Brown, Reggie Johnson, Alisha Castor, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Chair: Sara Hallisey, Harvard University
Arundhati Roy's - The God of Small ThingsChair: Howard Keeley, Georgia Southern University
Metaphor and Representations
 
Depictions of Spain, Spaniards, and the Spanish New World: Religious and Ethnic Othering, Xenophobia, and the Black Legend in British and American Children’s Literature
Horacio Sierra, University of Florida, Gainesville, GA
Sporting Bodies and Race in the Postcolonial World
John Nauright, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
Chair: Thomas J. Lynn, Penn State Berks – Lehigh Valley College
New Home for Transnationals
Chair: Pat Ingle Gillis, Georgia Southern University, emeritus
Postcolonial Pedagogy

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

Bhaji and the Bitch: Meera Syal's Anti-Female Agenda in Bhaji on the Beach
John Rooks, Morris College, Sumter, SC

Redefining Englishness: Shattering the Monolithic Community in British Asian Fiction
Rebecca S. Godlasky, Clayton College and State University, Morrow, GA

The Uncharted Course: Narratives of South Asian American Isolation
Sailaja Sastry, Columbia University, New York City, NY
 
 
 

Post-colonial Factors in Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies
Darren Broome, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA

 
Derek Walcott's Omeros: Soul Music of the Reluctant Shaman
Natalie King-Pedroso, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL

No "Locusts Stand I": Abjection in The God of Small Things
Barbara Gardner, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
"A Tomb of One's Own": The Construction of the History House in The God of Small Things
Sara Hallisey, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
The 'Terror' of Colonialism and Caste in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
Jennifer Jackson, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
Locating and Assessing the Voice of Arundhati Roy since The God of Small Things
Geoffrey Kain, Embry-Riddle University, Daytona Beach, FL

The Foreign as Home: Migration and Memory in New Black Diasporic Literature
Newtona (Tina) Johnson, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN

When a Book 'Speaks' for a 'People': Reading the Cultural Debate surrounding Chang-Rae Lee's Native Speaker and Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine
Terri A. Hasseler, Bryant University, Smithfield, RI  
India in Africa: Naipaul and Vassanji
Robin Visel, Furman University, Greenville, SC

Putting Africa on the Mental Map: Designing and Teaching an Interdisciplinary Introduction to African Studies
Pamela A. Rooks, Francis Marion University, Florence, SC

Teaching Achebe's Things Fall Apart as a Liminal Text
Tom Kucharski, Loyola University, Chicago, IL

Sunday, February 27, 2005 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Registration and Continental Breakfast  8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Chair: Candy Schille, Georgia Southern University
Theatricality and Representation

Thinking Beyond Pink: The Misuses of Jimi Mistry in The Guru and A Touch of Pink
Willie Tolliver, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA

Playing the Part: Rituals and Theatrics in Kincaid's Annie John
Katy Howe, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI

The Ocean of Fire: An Examination of the Process of Self-Integration in the Development of a Hybrid Identity
Annette McGrew, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

The Eco-Philosophical Metaphysic of Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali
Mina Surjit Singh, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Moderator: Emmanuel Quarcoo, Fulbright Scholar in Residence, Savannah State University
African Literature and Postcolonialism: An Undergraduate Roundtable
Sherika Minor, Anita Matchett, Christopher Daniel, Gabriel Bata, Marsha Johnson, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA  

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Chair: Caren Town, Georgia Southern University
USA - CaptivitiesChair: Chair: Mitali P. Wong, Claflin University
Strangers in a Strange Land: South Asian Poetry in America

A Veil of Tears: Post-colonial Reflections on Ricky Bragg's I Am A Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story
Linda M. Baeza, University Of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND

A Great Basin Case Study of the American Indian Reservation System: A Colonial Construct in a Postcolonial World
JoEllen Broome, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA

In Her Own Words: Revealing Boundaries in Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative
Kari R. Mitchell, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND

Exile and Inner Conflict: The Poetry of A. K. Ramanujan, Shiv Kumar Kumar, G. S. Sharat Chandra
Mitali P. Wong, Claflin University, Orangeburg, SC

Identity and Loss: The Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali, Zulfikar Ghose, and Meena Alexander
Syed Hassan, Claflin University, Orangeburg, SC