Writing Slavery after Beloved: Literature, Historiography, Criticism
http://www.writingslavery.univ-nantes.fr
International Symposium
Université de Nantes – France
March 16-17, 2012
Thursday, March 15
14:30-17:00: Walking Tour: Nantes and the Slave Trade
Meeting point: Tourist Information Office
Friday, March 16
8:45: Opening address by Pr. Sabine BROECK, President of CAAR
Revisiting Slavery after Beloved: Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
9:00: Darrell MOORE, De Paul University, Chicago: “Slave-Authorship and Abandonment: Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Political Philosophy”
9:20: Samira SPATZEK, University of Bremen, Germany: “Toni Morrison’s A Mercy: Re-Visiting Property”
9:40: Joyce Hope SCOTT, Wheelock College, Boston: “ ‘Don’t be Afraid.My telling can’t hurt you’: A Womanist, Post-Modernist (Re)Memory of Slavery & the Founding of America in Morrison’s A Mercy”
10:00: Discussion
Coffee Break
10:40 : Emmanuelle ANDRES, Université de La Rochelle, France : “No sweet home: mother love in A Mercy”
11:00:Rachel FRANKEL, Columbia University, NY: “Unspeakable Things Spoken? Dispossession and Address in Morrison’s A Mercy”
11:20: Discussion
11:35: Monica MICHLIN, Université Paris-Sorbonne, France:“Writing/Reading Slavery as Trauma: Voice, Unbridgeable Silence and the Impossibility of Closure in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy.”
11:55: Stefanie MUELLER, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany: “The Art of Standing Up to Words – Writing and Resistance in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy”
12:15: Discussion
12:30: LUNCH BREAK
Remembering Slavery on the Global Stage: Postcolonial Passages
14:00: Diane SELIGSOHN, Université Paris X, France: Screening of her film African Slave Trades: Across the Indian Ocean (Diane Seligsohn, Richard Rein, USA, 2008, 26 min)
14:30: Discussion
Coffee Break
15:00:Sue E. HOUCHINS, Bates College: “The Vida of Teresa Chicaba: Straddling Fiction and Historiography”
15:20:Maria OLAUSSEN, Linnaeus University, Sweden: “Beloved and the Indian Ocean World: Reading Yvette Christiansë’s Unconfessed”
15:40:Evie SHOCKLEY, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ: “African/Diasporic (Re)Visions of the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery: Yvette Christiansë and George Elliott Clarke”
16:00: Discussion
Coffee Break
17:00-18:00: Keynote Address: Judith MISRAHI-BARAK
“Review, Revitalize, Recalculate: Post-Beloved Writing and the Multidirectional Approach”
Conference Dinner at the Bistrot de l’Ecrivain
Saturday, March 17
Transatlantic Crucibles
9:00: Alan RICE, UCLAN, Preston, UK: “Summoning Ghostly Presences: Toni Morrison’s Beloved and its Legacy for African Atlantic Cultural Studies in the Twenty First Century”
9:20: Iyunolu OSAGIE, Penn State University: “Spirit of the Amistad: Women and Resistance in Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Echo of Lions”
9:40: Markus NEHL, University of Münster, Germany: “A Stranger at Home: The African Experience in Lawrence Hill’s Neo-Slave Narrative”
10:00: Discussion
Coffee Break
10:40: Marc Mvé BEKALE, Université de Reims, France: “Writing the Middle Passage: The Experience of Dis-location and Re-location in Charles Johnson’s and Fred D’Aguiar’s Fiction”
11:00: Vivekanand A. RANKHAMBE, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Pune, India: “Significance of Home and Family Relationship in Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage”
11:20: Discussion
Coffee Break
LUNCH BREAK
Kissing the Chokecherry Tree: Traumatic Inscriptions and Creative Reinscriptions
14:00: Michael AWKWARD, University of Michigan:“On Black Collective Trauma, Curative Gestures, and the Will to Disremember”
14:20:Melba J. BOYD, Wayne State University, Detroit: “Toni Morrison and Frances E. W. Harper: A Century Apart”
14:40:Claude LE FUSTEC, Université de Rennes, France: “Beyond magic realism: the stuff of ordinary lives? Lorene Cary’s rewriting of Beloved”
15:00: Discussion
Coffee Break
15:40: Cedric A. ESSI, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany:“Historiographic and Fictional Explorations of Interracial Intimacy Under Slavery: Edward Ball’s Slaves in the Family & Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone”
16:00:Danné L. JOHNSON, Oklahoma City University: “Fighting Freedmen: Seeking Legal Remedy through the Freedmen’s Courts”
16:20: Discussion
17:00: End of debates
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