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CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE – Thursday
CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE – Friday
08:30-8:55 Welcome address
09:00-09:55am
09:00-09:55am
IDENTITY IN THE FRANCOPHONE WORLD
PERSPECTIVES ON MODERN MEXICAN LITERATURE
10:00-10:55am
10:00-10:55am
PARRA AND THE CONCEPT OF ANTI-POETRY
NATIONHOOD AND INDIGENOUS IDENTITIES
11:10-12:05pm
11:10 – 12:05pm
POWER AND POLITICS IN THE LATIN AMERICAN
NARRATIVE
GLIMPSES OF CREATIVE EXPRESSION
12:05 – 1:30pm LUNCH BREAK
12:05-1:30pm LUNCH BREAK
1:30-2:25pm
1:30-2:25pm
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: IGNACIO SÁNCHEZ PRADO
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: YURI HERRERA
2:40 – 3:25pm
2:40-3:35pm
EMERGING VOICES AND IDENTITIES OF MEXICO
DEFINING ARGENTINE IDENTITIES
3:30-4:15pm
4:00- 4:55
POLITICS AND DECADENCE IN HISPANIC CINEMA
BOOK PRESENTATON: YURI HERRERA
4:20-5:05pm
5:00-5:30
PERSPECTIVES ON CARIBBEAN LITERATURE
FORUM WITH KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
06:00pm CONFERENCE BANQUET
THURSDAY
THURSDAY
08:30-8:55 Welcome address
10:00-10:55am
Dr. Nancy LaGreca, Department Chair
09:00-09:55am
PERSPECTIVES ON MODERN MEXICAN
LITERATURE
Retornos e introspecciones: la nación en entredicho en dos
novelas latinoamericanas del nuevo milenio
Luis Alberto Rodríguez Cortés, University of Kansas
NATIONHOOD AND INDIGENOUS IDENTITIES
Choque de identidades en La otra conquista
Tugba G. Sevin, Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Idealized Indigeneity and the Case of National
Representation
Julia Brown, University of California Santa Barbara
The Ark of Memory: Indigenous Rights and the Politics of
Indebtedness in Rosario Castellanos’ Balún Canán
Stephanie Padilla, University of California Santa Cruz
2666: De la relación de los femicidios en Ciudad Juárez y
las políticas del estado neoliberal
Judith Martínez, University of Arkansas
El “Manifiesto Crack”: historia, relevancia y encuadre
crítico
Tomás Regalado-López, James Madison University
10:55-11:10am COFFEE BREAK
11:10 – 12:05pm
GLIMPSES OF CREATIVE EXPRESSION
Dejá vu (o estuarios de neón)
Juan Antonio Gonzalez, Texas Southmost College
“Nueva York no existe” y “Según me lo contaron”
Rosa Julia Bird, University of Central Oklahoma
Death of the Heir: Translation of a short story by M.
Rioseco
Arthur Dixon, University of Oklahoma
THURSDAY
THURSDAY
12:05 – 1:30pm LUNCH BREAK
3:30-4:15pm
POLITICS AND DECADENCE IN HISPANIC CINEMA
1:30-2:25pm
KEYNOTE
SÁNCHEZ PRADO
SPEAKER:
IGNACIO
World Literature as Cinema: Rethinking Adaptation in the
Mexican ‘’Golden Age
2:25-2:40pm COFFEE BREAK
Freud's Iconic Representations and Spain's Collective
Orphanhood Hysteria in The Devil's Backbone
Jesús A. González, Tarrant County College
La trilogía de la decadencia política en tres películas de
Luis Estrada. La ley de Herodes, Un mundo maravilloso y
La dictadura perfecta
Guillermo Martínez-Sotelo, University of Central Oklahoma
2:40 – 3:25pm
EMERGING VOICES AND IDENTITIES OF MEXICO
Cruel Optimism in Two Novels of Mexico’s Cultural
Revolution: A Reading of La Inmaculada by Catalina
D’Erzell, and La Única, by Guadalupe Marín
4:20-5:05pm
PERSPECTIVES ON CARIBBEAN LITERATURE
La interpretación incorrecta del pensamiento martiano por
Fidel Castro
Alysa Schroff, Indiana University
Angel L Hidalgo, University Of North Texas
Border Narratives in La frontera de cristal by Carlos
Fuentes
Pariendo engendros: Una lectura alegórica de Yuyo y La
guaracha del Macho Camacho
Anne McGee, Arkansas State University-Jonesboro
Brenda Quiñones-Ayala, University of North Carolina at
Charlotte
06:00pm CONFERENCE BANQUET – Restaurant
“PUEBLA”
FRIDAY
FRIDAY
09:00-09:55am
11:10-12:05pm
IDENTITY IN THE FRANCOPHONE WORLD
POWER AND POLITICS IN THE LATIN AMERICAN
NARRATIVE
Transfrontaliarité et transtextualité chez Alain Mabanckou
Rokiatou Soumaré, University of Oklahoma
Out running fate: identity and space in Maryse Condé's
Windward Heights
Brandon Harney, University of Oklahoma
La herencia de la Revolución en el campo triunfante del
capitalismo en Nicaragua en El cielo llora por mí de Sergio
Ramírez
Filemón Zamora, Sul Ross State University
Le rôle de l’Autre dans la quête identitaire québécoise
Las batallas perdidas de Marco Antonio Flores: novelar la
reescritura de la guerra clandestina en Guatemala
Kyle Podrecca, University of Oklahoma
William Clary, University of the Ozarks
10:00-10:55am
La otra cara del realismo: Sobre el ensayo y el periodismo
de Mario Vargas Llosa
PARRA AND THE CONCEPT OF ANTI-POETRY
César Ferreira, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Parra y Neruda: Entre el dolor y la esperanza
Julie Henderson, Wichita State University
La antimateria inevitable de Nicanor Parra
Samuel Worthington, Wichita State University
Nicanor Parra traduce a Shakespeare
12:05-1:30pm LUNCH BREAK
1:30-2:25pm KEYNOTE SPEAKER: YURI HERRERA
Conversation with Yuri Herrera: Contemporary Literature
and Politics in Mexico
Mónica Oizumi, University of Oklahoma
2:25-2:40pm COFFEE BREAK
10:55-11:10am COFFEE BREAK
FRIDAY
2:40-3:35pm
DEFINING ARGENTINE IDENTITIES
Comunidades en trance: el lugar de la estética en la
definición del trabajador en textos de Roberto Arlt y
Roberto Mariani
Marcos Del Cogliano, New York University
Mito y símbolo en La pesquisa, de Juan José Saer
Diana Ramírez, University of Texas A & M
Sujetos marginados en El interior de Martín Caparros
Luvia Estrella Morales, University of Oklahoma
4:00- 4:55 BOOK PRESENTATON: YURI HERRERA
5:00-5:30 FORUM WITH KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
(Limited to conference presenters and internal department
members)