Cultural Geographies: Dis/placement in Contemporary Ethnic American Literature.
May 27, 2024. Universidad de Salamanca.
PROGRAM:
Panel I. Discerning New Cultural Cartographies: Myth, Affect, Race.
9:30 – Opening. Paula Barba Guerrero
10:00 – Laura de la Parra Fernández. “(Im)probable Encounters: Towards a Politics of Care in Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric”
10:20 – Marta Bernabéu Lorenzo. “Contemporary Revisitations of Past Belonging(s) On Screen: Neo-Victorianism, Race and Taboo.
10:40 – Sofía Martinicorena Zaratiegui. “Space and the Perils of Myth-Making in Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills (1985)”
Panel II. Retrieving Cultural Pasts: Between Bodies and Boundaries
11:00 – Carla Abella Rodríguez. “Archiving Vanishing Bodies: The Poetics of Memorialisation in Courtney Faye Taylor’s Concentrate.”
11:20 – Beatriz Hermida Ramos. “An Ugly Mark in the Face of the Empire: Displaced Herstories in Nghi Vo’s The Empress of Salt and Fortune.”
Panel III. Early Researchers’ Perspectives on Ethnic American Literature Nowadays
12:00 – Vega Sánchez Rivero. “From Roots to Routes: (Dis)placement and Identity in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad.
12:20 – Leila Marandi López. “Exploring Identity, Displacement, and Cultural Resistance in Narratives of the Iranian Diaspora through Firoozeh Dumas’ A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America.”
12:40 – Claudia Alea Parrondo. “The (Re)Construction of the Postmodern Identity in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée.”
13:00 – Elsa Vidal Perojo. “Wandering Children. Nomadism and Childhood in Octavia Butler’s The Parable of the Sower.”
Group meeting.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
- Paula Barba Guerrero (chair).