https://aclals.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/386e14f8318f5e05bbea8b540299292d.pdf 56bb36ac3f19781dd61b0c7d6b6fc95d PDF Text Text ACLALS 2016 Programme See also www.aclals2016.co.za for programme overview Monday 11 July – Friday 15 July Conference Opening Event Sunday 10 July 18.30-20.00 1 �SITE STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY (SU) Monday 11 July MONDAY 09.30-11.00 PANELS No Date, & Venue Function Name SU Theme Literatures of the World and for the Planet Panel Title: Chair: Meg Samuelson Mon 09.3011.00 1: Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards... Speaker 1 Kizito Z. Muchemwa (University of Great Zimbabwe) Speaker 2 Speaker 3 Speaker 4 Bibi Burger (Stellenbosch University) Esthie Hugo (University of Cape Town) Eve Nabulya (Stellenbosch University) Title of paper Of murals, granite rock paintings, sculptures and (dis-) connected worlds in Dambudzo Marechera, Yvonne Vera and Zakes Mda Khoisan culture and a decolonizing apocalypse in Thirteen Cents (2000) by K. Sello Duiker Looking Forwards, Looking Back: Animating Magic, Modernity and the African City-Future in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon Explorations in ecocriticism and rhetoric Venue coordinator 2 �No Date, & Venue Mon 09.3011.00 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Poetry: Space and Time Speaker 1 Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo (Independent Scholar) ‘Stream of My Blood’: The Fragility of Chenjerai Hove’s Poetry Speaker 2 Rosemary Alice Gray (University of Pretoria); (University of South Africa) “Beyond Culture and Below Consciousness”: Ben Okri’s Heraclitus’ Golden River (Wild 2009) Speaker 3 Uhuru Portia Phalafala (University of Cape Town) Time is NOW: Space-time conceptions in Keorapetse Kgositsile’s Poetry Speaker 4 Riacarda de Haas (University of Bayreuth) Check spelling Spoken Word Goes Online: Poetic Blogs and Videopoetry by South African Artists Venue coordinator 3 �Mon 09.3011.00 Panel Title: Chair: Achebe 1 Speaker 1 Noélle Koeries (University of Cape Town) Chinua Achebe: A Case for Reading his Non-fiction in Contemporary Africa Speaker 2 Christian Anieke (Godfrey Okoye University) Speaker 3 Neil ten Kortenaar (University of Toronto) The Metaphorical Contradictions of an Aborted Struggle: A Reflection on Achebe’s There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra Can the Suborned Speak?: The Meaning of Bribes in Achebe’s No Longer at Ease Speaker 4 Snežana Vuletić (GCSC); (University of Stockholm) Narrating Exclusion and Inclusion in Fiction: A Cultural Reading of the Forms of Deformity in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) Venue coordinator 4 �No Date, & Venue Mon 09.3011.00 Theme Function Name Panel Title: Chair: Gender and Space Speaker 1 Ruby Magosvongwe (University of Zimbabwe) Speaker 2 Sanja Nivesjö (Stockholm University) ; (Stellenbosch University) Speaker 3 Britta Olinder (Gothenburg University) Title of paper Black African Female Migrations: Space Allocations and Space Claims For and About Women in Selected Southern African Fictional Narratives of the New Millenium Sexual Entanglements of Spatial Belonging – Olive Schreiner’s From Man to Man Stories That Float From Different Prats of the World in Mavis Gallant’s Fiction Speaker 4 Venue coordinator 5 �No Date, & Venue Mon 09.3011.00 Theme Function Name Panel Title: Chair: Race, Caste, Violence Speaker 1 Bidisha Banerjee (The Hong Kong Institute of Education) Speaker 2 Asha Varadharajan (Queens’s University) Title of paper “No breasts. Two dry scars…”: The Metaphor of Rape and Postcolonial Trauma in Mahasweta Devi’s “Behind the Bodice” “Something else and something other”: Race, Caste, Biopolitics Speaker 3 Speaker 4 Raita Merivrta (University of Turku) Slum Clearances and Forced Sterilizations: Remembering the Emergency (1975-77) in Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Kothandaramannce Venue coordinator 6 �No Date, & Venue Mon 09.3011.00 Theme Function Panel Title: Chair: Connected/Excluded Spaces Speaker 1 Name Shashikantha Koudur (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal); Title of paper Religion, Gender, Exclusion: Islam, Hindutva and the Case of Sarah Aboobakar in Contemporary Karnataka Ambika G. Mallya (Srinivas Institute of Technology) Speaker 2 Neelofer Qadir (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Connected Histories of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy Speaker 3 Jennifer MacGregor (Unviersity of California, Los Angeles) Formal Hybridity: Regenerating Sierra Leone in Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love Speaker 4 Kristian Van Haesendonck (University of Antwerp) The Poetics of Disorder in Contemporary Caribbean and Lusophone African Fiction Venue coordinator 7 �No Date, & Venue Mon 09.3011.00 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Other Stories Speaker 1 Veronica Austen (St. Jerome’s University at the University of Waterloo) The Art of Loss in Goodison’s “So Who Was the Mother of Jamaican Art”? and D’Aguiar’s Feeding the Ghosts Speaker 2 Danson Sylvester Kahyana (Makerere University) Diasporic Identities and Authorial Perspectives in Noni Jabavu’s Drawn in Colour (1960) Speaker 3 Annie Gagiano (Stellenbosch University) Ironies of Fame, Appropriation & Neglect Regarding Indigenous South African ‘Ecological’ Narratives Speaker 4 Thandava Gowda T.N (Karnataka State Higher Education Council) Critiquing Postcolonial Eco-Criticism in Get A Life by Nadine Gordimer Venue coordinator 8 �No Date, & Venue Mon 09.3011.00 *Skype Presentation Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Postcolonial Questions Speaker 1 Clare Barker (University of Leeds) Genetics and Biocolonialism *Speaker 2 *Marimer Gómez-Claudio (University of Granada) Transculturation and Language: An Approach to Giannina Braschi and Puerto Rican Postcolonial Literature Laura Zander (LudwigMaximilians-University) Postimperial Emancipation – Can the Empire Write Forward? Speaker 3 Speaker 4 Venue coordinator 9 �MONDAY 4.00-5.30 PANELS No Date, & Venue SU Mon 4.005.30 Theme Literatures of the World and for the Planet Panel Title: 2: African Subjects and the World Function Name Title of paper Chair: Speaker 1 Kizito Z. Muchemwa Ryan Topper (University of Leeds) Towards an Animist Ontology, or What Comes After Sovereignty? Speaker 2 Olivier Moreillon (University of Basel) and Danyela Demir (University of KwaZulu-Natal) Heike Harting (University of Montreal) Speaker 3 Speaker 4 James Hodapp (American University of Beirut) ‘I flew too close to the sun...and fell very hard’: Representations of Psychoses in Anglophone South African Literature after 2000 from a world-literary perspective The Rise of Afropolitan Fiction: Emmanuel Dongala’s Little Boys Comes from the Stars and Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to our Hillbrow Afropolitanism and Ready-Made African World Literature Venue coordinator 10 �No Date, & Venue Mon 4.005.30 Theme Function Panel Title: Chair: Music and Art Speaker 1 Harry Sewlall (University of Venda) Speaker 2 Anne Loeber (Goethe University, Frankfurt) Khondlo Mtshali (University of Kwazulu-Natal); Gugu Hlongwane (Saint Mary’s University) Matthew Whittle (University of Leeds) Speaker 3 Speaker 4 Name Title of paper `Cape Town, its Musical Spatiality and Apartheid: Jonathan Butler, Richard Jon Smith and Zayn Adam Layers of Postcolonial States of Mind in Rap-Music Journey’s, Paths and Healing in Simphiwe Dana’s Music Illustrate the Brutes!: Reading and Representing the Imperial Souvenir in Walton Ford’s “Pancha Tantra” Venue coordinator 11 �No Date, & Venue Mon 4.005.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Crime and Power Speaker 1 Sabine Binder (University of Zürich) Speaker 2 Kerry Vincent (Acadia University) Whose Story is Written on her Dead Body? The gender Politics of the Stories Female Victims are Made to Tell in Some Selected South African Crime Novels Censorship and the Banality of Power in Swaziland Crime Fiction Speaker 3 Tina Steiner (Stellenbosch University) Defamiliarizing the Local: Reading Hawa J. Golaki’s The Lazarus Effect (2011) and The Score (2015) Speaker 4 Jochen Petzold (University of Regensburg) Popular and Political: ‘Crime Writing’as Commentary on South African Society Venue coordinator 12 �No Date, & Venue Mon 4.005.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Decolonisation and Race Speaker 1 Marzia Milazzo (Vanderbilt University); (Rhodes University) “Playing the race card” while “even God is white”: Niq Mhlongo’s Dog Eat Dog, Post-Apartheid Black Fiction, and the Paradoxes of Nonracialism Speaker 2 Raquel Lisette Baker (Rhodes College) Undoing Wihteness: Postcolonial African Literatures and the Unfinished Project of Decoloniazation Speaker 3 Karsten Levihn-Kutzler (Goethe University, Frankfurt) Race, Risk, and the Politics of Pre-Emption in Janette Turner Hospital’s Orpheus Lost and Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows Speaker 4 Shelley Hulan (University of Waterloo) Why No One (in the West) Talks about Race in Alice Munro Venue coordinator 13 �No Date, & Venue Mon 4.005.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: History, Spectre, Perspective Speaker 1 Neville Hoad (University of Texas at Austin) A Perverse Anglicanism in a History of Desire: A 21st Century Reading of John William Colenso Speaker 2 Lizelle Smit (Stellenbosch University) Depictions of the Other through King’s I/Eye Speaker 3 Michael (Cawood) Green (Northumbria University) Ghosting Through: Migrancy and Memorialisation Speaker 4 Venue coordinator 14 �No Date, & Venue Mon 4.005.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Marlene van Niekerk and Damon Galgut Speaker 1 Mathilde Rogez (Université de Toulouse) “Only connect”? Damon Galgut’s Arctic Summer and South African Rewritings of E.M. Foster’s A Passage to India Speaker 2 Mathilda Slabbert (Stellenbosch University) “Re-mark”: Damon Galgut’s Arctic Summer Speaker 3 Keenan Dale Collett (Rhodes University) Taking out the Trash: Discussing Triomf and its Film Adaptation Speaker 4 Venue coordinator 15 �No Date, & Venue Mon 4.005.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: SciFi/Alternative Worlds Speaker 1 Rodney Jonathan Likaku (Chancellor College, University of Malawi) Speaker 2 Jessica FitzPatrick (University of Pittsburgh) Speaker 3 Timothy Wright (University of the Witwatersrand) Ecologies of Blood: Transfusion, Haemopoetics, and the African Vampire Speaker 4 Jacolien Volschenk (University of the Western Cape) Postcolonialsm and Marginalised Voices in Science Fiction: Temporal Entanglement in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber The “E” in English for Exclusions: Interrogating Fictional Languages that Dislocate the Postcolonial Home in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and George R Martin’s Game of Thrones Reconsidering the Space(s) of Global Science Fiction Venue coordinator 16 �No Date, & Venue Mon 4.005.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Adichie Speaker 1 Chelsea Haith (Rhodes University) Speaker 2 Jana Fedtke (American University of Sharjah) (Un)belonging: Exploring Systems of Inclusions and Exclusions in the Use of Nigerian, American and British English Dialects in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah Transnational Experiences in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah Speaker 3 Rhonda Cobham-Sander (Amherst College) Digital Displacements: Negotiating Place in the Transnational African Narrative Speaker 4 Ademola Adesola (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife) The Nigerian War Novel and the Female Perspective in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Roses and Bullets Venue coordinator 17 �No Date, & Venue Mon 4.005.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Gender/Queer Speaker 1 Jyothirmai.Dakkumalla (Adikavi Nannaya University) Dalit Women’s Struggle for Education: Analysis ofSelect Short Stories of Subhadra, Shyamala and Vinodini Speaker 2 Martina Vitackova (University of Pretoria) The Tales of Hybridity in Post-1994 Women’s Writing in Afrikaans Speaker 3 Eddie Ombagi (University of Witwatersrand) Becoming Queer: Rethinking an African Queer Theoretical Framework Speaker 4 Rosamond S. King (Brooklyn College, City University of New York) Does not seem to be in the Abstracts Queer Africa, in its Own Words Venue coordinator 18 �SITE STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY (SU) Tuesday 12 July TUESDAY 09.00-10.30 PANELS No Date, & Venue Tues 9.0010.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Cities Speaker 1 Magdalena Pfalzgraf (Goethe University, Frankfurt) Mobile City Worlds in Zimbabwean Fiction Post-2000: Valerie Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope and NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names Speaker 2 Wamuwi Mbao (Stellenbosch University) A House Where Nobody Lives: Reading South African Unsettledness Within A Realm of Distance Aurore Bonardin-Cadet (EA DIRE Université de La Réunion) Performing Citizenship and Sharing Identity in Cape Town Speaker 3 Speaker 4 Venue coordinator 19 �No Date, & Venue Tues 9.0010.30 Theme Function Panel Title: Chair: Autobiography 2 Speaker 1 Name Title of paper Nwabisa Bangeni (Stellenbosch University) The Affect of Reading: The Fragments of Bonnie Henna’s Eyebags & Dimples Speaker 3 Angelie Multani (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) Does not appear in the Abstracts Re-Membering and (Re)Writing: Autobiography in Two Plays by Mahesh Dattani Speaker 4 Marciana Nafula Were (Stellenbosch University) Exploring Orality in the Contemporary African Female Political Autobiography Speaker 2 Venue coordinator 20 �No Date, & Venue Tues 9.0010.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Achebe 2 Speaker 1 Cheela H K Chilala (University of Zambia) Gendered Spaces in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: Text, Context and Pretext Speaker 2 Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba (University of Manitoba) The Dangers of Tradition in Achebe’s Novels Speaker 3 Thomas Jay Lynn (Penn State Berks) Beyond Black and White: British Identity in Chinua Achebe’s Fiction Speaker 4 Rachel Rubin (University of Massachusetts Boston) Reading, Writers, & Lovers: Authorship and Audience in Anthills of the Savannah & Our Sister Killjoy Venue coordinator 21 �No Date, & Venue Tues 9.0010.30 Theme Function Panel Title: Chair: Film 1 Speaker 1 Name Title of paper Rosemary Chikafa-Chipiro (University of Zimbabwe) Inclusion or Exclusion: An African(a) Womanist Reading of Sembene’s Faat Kine Speaker 3 Seema Jena (United Nations – Education) Speaker 4 Martina Kopf (University of Vienna) Nation, Narration and Cinema, Inclusion and Exclusions with Special Reference to Films on the Indian Partition, 1947 Earth and Train to Pakistan Who is Giving, Who is Taking? Stories of Aid Floating Between Africa and Europe Speaker 2 Venue coordinator 22 �No Date, & Venue Tues 9.0010.30 Theme Function Panel Title: Chair: Narratives of Global Conflict Speaker 1 Name Title of paper Senath Walter Perera (University of Peradeniya) Feroza Jussawalla (University of New Mexico) Coming to Terms With (Post) Conflict, Violence, Trauma and More in Noontide Toll (Mis)Interpreting Jihad: Literary Representations Speaker 3 Vedita Cowaloosur (Stellenbosch University) Portraying Conflict, Vioelnce, Trauma: Joe Sacco’s Palestine and Vishwajyoti Ghosh’s This Side, That Side Speaker 4 Lallmahomed-Aumeerally Naseem (University of Mauritius) Formulating Dissent post 9/11 in Ishtiyak Shukri’s Silent Minaret and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist Speaker 2 Venue coordinator 23 �No Date, & Venue Tues 9.0010.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Recovering Lives Speaker 1 Nazia Akhtar (Unviersity of Hyderabad) Does not appear in the abstracts Witnessing Hyderabad: Testimony, Identity, Language, and Narration in Huma R. Kidwai’s Hussaini Alam House (2012) Speaker 2 Anurag Kumar (Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University) Critical Humanism: Cultural Reading of Ambedkar’s Bhimayana and Om Prakash Valmiki’s Joothan as Dalit Life Narratives Esther K. Mbithi (Kenyatta University) Inclusions and Exclusions: a reading of Unbowed: One Woman’s Story Speaker 3 Speaker 4 Venue coordinator 24 �No Date, & Venue Tues 9.0010.30 Theme Function Panel Title: Chair: Poetry: Aesthetic Activist Speaker 1 Ben Etherington (Western Sydney University) Does not appear in the abstracts Scanning Claude McKay’s Creole Poetry in Context Speaker 2 Roger Michael Field (University of the Western Cape) Keeping Cavafy in Mind *Speaker 3 Jogamaya Bayer (Independent Scholar) Read by Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo Sabrina Vetter (Goethe University Frankfurt - NELK) Mafika Gwala: Writer as a Cultural Worker Speaker 4 Name Title of paper Indigenous Modernities: Native American Poetry and Modes of Autonomy Venue coordinator 25 �No Date, & Venue Tues 9.0010.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Migration/Diaspora 1 Speaker 1 Gibson Ncube (Stellenbosch University) (Re)framing Home, and Belonging in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names Speaker 2 Annalisa Oboe (University of Padua) From the European South: Relocating Italy Through Postcolonial Representations Speaker 3 Murari Prasad (D.S College, Katihar) Indian Diasporic Formations in Guyana: Reading Coolie Woman Speaker 4 Craig A Smith (The College of The Bahamas) Making Something out of Nothing: Reading Erna Brodger’s Nothing Mat as mapping of the Diasporic Experience Venue coordinator 26 �No Date, & Venue Tues 9.0010.30 Theme Function Panel Title: Writing Lives in Cold War Landscapes Chair: Speaker 1 Name Title of paper Monica Popescu (McGill University) Cold War Aesthetics: Es’kia Mpahlele and the Establishment of African Literary Studies Speaker 2 Susan Andrade (University of Pitssburgh) Feminism, the Cold War, and Southern African Anticolonialism: Too Many Categories To Fit In One Novel? Speaker 3 Tal Zalmanovich (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Embodying Dissent: Pauline Podbrey, H.A. Naidoo, and the Communist Party, 1942-1956 Speaker 4 Louise Bethlehem (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Miriam Makeba in Conakry: Between Apartheid and Authenticité Venue coordinator 27 �TUESDAY 2.00-3.30 PANELS No Date, & Venue Tues 2.003.30 Theme Function Panel Title: Chair: Literary Apartheid and the Literary Imagination: Getting Under the Skin of South African Speculative Fiction Speaker 1 Name Title of paper Nadia Sanger (Stellenbosch University) Postcolonial Voices in Speculative Fiction: Imagining Africa Differently Speaker 2 Nedine Moonsamy (University of Pretoria) Landlocked and littoral: African women in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon and Lauren Beukes’s Zoo City Sindiswa Busuku-Matheese (Stellenbosch University) Monsters, Machines and Mayhem: The Indigenous Visions Bleeding through the Looking Glass of South African Speculative Fiction Alan Muller (University of Do we All Write What We Like?: Biko’s ‘Lie’ and the Genre Speaker 3 Speaker 4 28 �Kwazulu-Natal) of Speculative Fiction in South Africa Venue coordinator No Date, & Venue Tues 2.003.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Postcolonial Positions Speaker 1 Joshua Isaac Kumwenda (University of the Witwatersrand) The Role of the Surreal in Postcolonial African Novels: the Cause of Legson Kayira’s Writing Speaker 2 Alexander Fyfe (The Pennsylvania State University) The Archival Politics of the Postcolonial Special Collection: A Case Study in Cultural Capital, Value, and Amos Tutuola Beverley Jane Cornelius (University of KwazuluNatal) Postcolonial Nostalgia and Meaning: Rayda Jacobs’s The Slave Book Speaker 3 Speaker 4 Venue coordinator 29 �No Date, & Venue Tues 2.003.30 Theme Function Panel Title: Chair: Theatre; Humour Speaker 1 Name Title of paper Silvia Anastasijevic (Goethe University, Frankfurt) Inside/Outside the Joke: Forms of Exclusion and Inclusion in Transcultural Humor Speaker 3 Marcia Blumberg (York University) Performing Outsider Art: Athol Fugard’s The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek Speaker 4 *Israel Meriomame Wekpe (University of Leeds); Owens Patricia Eromosele (Univeristy of Benin) Ad/Dressing Narratives of (Dis)Connections in Nigerian Theatre Speaker 2 * Skype Venue coordinator 30 �No Date, & Venue Tues 2.003.30 Theme Function Panel Title: Chair: The Natural and the Supernatural Speaker 1 Name Speaker 2 Jhordan Layne (Queen’s University) Speaker 3 Aparna Srinivas (Independent scholar) Annel Pieterse (University of the Western Cape) Speaker 4 Title of paper Obeah Revisited: Re-Evaluating Religion and Superstition in Marlon James’s The Book of Night Women and William Earle Jr.’s Obi, or The History of Three-Fingered Jack Hybrid Ali: Ecology and Identity On the Spoor of a ‘Dwaalstorie’ Venue coordinator 31 �Tues 2.003.30 Panel Title: Chair: Wicomb Speaker 1 Anita Rosenblithe (Raritan Valley Community College) Playing in the Light and October: Feminism and the Construction of Colouredness in Zoë Wicomb Speaker 2 Alexander Negri (University of Stuttgart) Gendered inclusions and exclusion in Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story Speaker 3 Liani Lochner (Université Laval) Zoë Wicomb: Writing, the Body, and the Nation Speaker 4 Dorothy Driver (University of Adelaide; University of Cape Town) Zoë Wicomb: The Translocal, the Ordinary, and the New Grounds of Writing and ‘Self’ Venue coordinator 32 �No Date, & Venue Tues 2.003.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: War, Trauma Speaker 1 Frank Schulze-Engler (Goethe University, Frankfurt) Afrasia at War: Transregional Imaginaries Beyond the Indian Ocean Speaker 2 David Wafula Yenjela (Stellenbosch University) Nation and Human Destiny: Reading Contestations of Mau Mau Histories in Kenya in Yvonne Owuor’s Dust (2013) Speaker 3 Ludmila Volná (ERIAC Université de Normandie) “Stories and Totalitarianism” (Havel): Voices Unheard Before – and Now? Speaker 4 Nick Mdika Tembo (Stellenbosch University) Decidedly Katabatic: Adult betrayal in China Keitetsi’s Child Soldier Venue coordinator 33 �No Date, & Venue Tues 2.003.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Zim Literature Speaker 1 Chow Shun Man Emily (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) The Seeds of Limitlessness: Dambudzo Marechera’s Utopian Thinking Speaker 2 Rachael Gilmour (Queen Mary University of London) ‘Them asylym-seeker eyes’: Brian Chikwava’s Harare North and the Limits of English Hospitality Speaker 3 Vusilizwe Thebe (University of Pretoria) Ethnicity, Language and Enculturation, and the Politics of Exclusion in Postcolonial Zimbabwe Speaker 4 Venue coordinator 34 �No Date, & Venue Tues 2.003.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Representation and Reception Speaker 1 Marlen Eckl (LEER/ Universidade São Paulo) Between Two Worlds – Memory, History and Identity in Contemporary South African Jewish Literature Speaker 2 Lucy Graham (University of the Western Cape) Representing Marikana Speaker 3 Peter Blair (University of Chester) A Case of Marginalization: Daphne Rooke’s The Greyling Speaker 4 Manav Ratti (Salisbury University) Alan Paton and the Idea of Justice in South Africa Venue coordinator 35 �No Date, & Venue Tues 2.003.30 Theme Function Panel Title: Chair: Places, Spaces Speaker 1 Name Rosanna Masiola (University for Foreigners of Perugia) Title of paper Flower-scapes, Phytonymy and Lexicography in the Outer Circle Speaker 2 Hiya Chatterjee (Scottish Church College, Calcutta University) Does not appear in abstracts Space, Environment and Identity in Bandopadhyay’s The Boatman of the River Padma and Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide Speaker 3 Lorna Down (The University of the West Indies, Mona) On the Edge: The Politics of Place in Esther Figueroa’s Limbo Speaker 4 Christine Prentice (University of Otago) ‘Fractured Light’: From Globalisation’s Hyper-Illumination to Culture as Symbolic Exchange Venue co- 36 �ordinator TUESDAY 19.30: CONFERENCE DINNER SITE STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY (SU) Wednesday 13 July WEDNESDAY 09.00-10.30 PANELS No Date, & Venue Wed 09.0010.30 Theme Function Panel Title: The World, The Globe and The Postcolony Chair: Speaker 1 Name Title of paper Laura Moss (University of British Columbia) Kristine Kelly (Case Western Reserve University) “What Stories Float Afar? Disassembling Expectations in Global Literature” Virtual Wandering: A Postcolonial Approach to Global Networks Speaker 3 Doseline Wanjiru Kiguru (University of Cape Town) Language and Literary Awards: Expanding Cultural Boundaries Speaker 4 Caroline Kögler (Westfälische WilhelmsUniversität Münster) Critical Branding in Postcolonial Studies Speaker 2 37 �Venue coordinator No Date, & Venue Wed 09.0010.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Fluid Zones Speaker 1 Jarret Brown (Howard University, Wash, DC) Writing Ravings: Investigating Madness Theory in Caribbean Culture Speaker 2 Sandra Boergen (JohannWolfgang-GoetheUniversity, Frankfurt) Floating Memories: South African Visual Artists and the Indian Ocean Speaker 3 Dawid W. de Villiers (Stellenbosch University) Speaker 4 Maria Geustyn (University of Cape Town) Oceanic Ectopia: Metaphoric Tensions in the Field of Oceanic Studies “High Tide”: Reading the Littoral in Apartheid South African Fiction 38 �Venue coordinator No Date, & Venue Wed 09.0010.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Intellectuals, Justice and the Canon Speaker 1 Donette Francis (University of Miami) Discrepant Intellectuals: Stuart Hall and Rex Nettleford Speaker 2 John Njenga Karugia (Goethe University, Frankfurt) Multidirectional Afrasian Mnemoeconomics Speaker 3 Alex Nelungo Wanjala (University of Nairobi) Emerging from the Barriers Erected by the Canon; Contemporary Forms of Kenyan Literature Speaker 4 Matthew Blatchford (University of Fort Hare) Complicity or Resistance? Recent South African Literature and Academia as Political Agents Venue co- 39 �ordinator No Date, & Venue Wed 09.0010.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Coetzee Speaker 1 Johan Jacobs (University of KwaZulu-Natal) The Migrant Subject in JM Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus Speaker 2 Xioran Hu (Queen Mary, University of London) Does not appear in abstracts In the Cracks Between Worlds: Childjhood, Language and Body in JM Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus (2013) Speaker 3 Nedine Moonsamy (University of Pretoria) Lynda Gichanda Spencer (Rhodes University) “Not the Story You Wanted to Hear”: Reading Chick-Lit in JM Coetzee’s Summertime Speaker 4 Marie Herbillon (University of Liège) Men Without A Past: Exile and the Erasure of History in JM Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus 40 �Venue coordinator No Date, & Venue Wed 09.0010.30 Theme Function Panel Title: Chair: Migration/Diaspora 3 Speaker 1 Name Title of paper Speaker 2 Ifeyinwa Juliet Anwadike (Rural Women Rights and Advancement Initiative – Independent Scholar) Migration, Racism and Diasperic Experiences in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah Speaker 3 Nonye Chinyere Ahumibe (Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria) The Odysseus Metaphor: A Reading of Amma Darko’s Beyond The Horizon Speaker 4 Tomi Adeaga (University of Vienna) Locating African Diaspora Literatures within Global Literatures Venue coordinator 41 �No Date, & Venue Wed 09.0010.30 Theme Function Name Panel Title: Chair: Spirituality and Afterlife / Spirituality 2 Speaker 1 Josephine Muganiwa (University of Zimbabwe) Speaker 2 Ashma Shamail (University of Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) Speaker 3 Barbra Chiyedza Manyarara (University of Zimbabwe) Does not appear in abstracts Speaker 4 Anas Tabraiz (Zakir Husain Delhi College, Delhi University) Title of paper Representations of Religion and Spirituality in Chidavaenzi’s Ties That Bind (2015) and Marangwanda’s Shards (2014) Stories from the Sea Islands of South Carolina: History, Cultural Survival, and Identity in Praisesong for the Widow An Exploration of the Fictionalisation of Death and Afterlife in Selected Writings by the Colombian, Gabriel Garcia Marques (1927-2014) and the Zimbabwean, Charles Mungoshi (1947-) “Drawing the Divine Seed”: India, Alterity and the Real in the Works of JM Coetzee Venue coordinator 42 �No Date, & Venue Wed 09.0010.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Gender and Family Speaker 1 Pauline E. Bullen (Women’s University in Africa) Everyday Mothering: Activism and Womanist Ethics Speaker 2 Denise deCaires Narain (University of Sussex) Speaker 3 Emmanuel Ngwira (University of Malawi – Chancellor College) Intimate Proximities: Narrating the Ambiguous possibilities of Sisterly Solidarity-in-servitude in the Work of Rhys, Antoni, Wicomb and Van Niekerk “Daughterly Texts”?: Father-Daughter Relationships in Zoë Wicomb’s You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun Speaker 4 Ken Junior Lipenga (University of Malawi) The (Un)making of a Man: Fathers and Sons in the African Novel Venue coordinator 43 �No Date, & Venue Wed 09.0010.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Novel Ideas Speaker 1 Joseph McLaren (Hofstra University) Diran Debayo and Afro-British Inclusive Literary Style in Some Kind of Black and My Once Upon A time Speaker 2 Jean Rossmann (University of KwaZulu-Natal) Endless Quest/ioning: Marlene van Niekerk’s Triomf, Agaat and Memorandum Speaker 3 Elizabeth Jackson (University of the West Indies, St Augustine (Trinidad) Campus) Interrogating National/Cultural Affiliations in Postcolonial Literature: Inclusions and Exclusions in the Reception of Doris Lessing and VS Naipaul Speaker 4 Michael Chapman (Durban University of Technology) “Our story is different, it does not run in a straight line”: Andre Brink, Mevrou Sadie and Me Venue coordinator 44 �WEDNESDAY 2.00-3.30 PANELS No Date, & Venue Function Name SU Theme Literatures of the World and for the Planet Panel Title: Title of paper Chair: Philip Aghoghovwia Wed 2.003.30 3: Water, Oil and Slow Violence Speaker 1 Charne Lavery (University of Witwatersrand) New dark places Ashleigh Harris (Uppsala University) Meg Samuelson (University of Cape Town) Decelerating fiction: slow violence in four African novels Speaker 2 Speaker 3 Speaker 4 After the water wars: speculations from Africa on the Anthropocene Venue coordinator 45 �No Date, & Venue Wed 2.003.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Boundary-Crossing, Female Sexuality, and the Exclusions of Colonized Knowledge Speaker 1 Julia V. Emberley (Western University) Indigenous Knowledges and the Queering of Christianity in Louise Erdrich’s The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse Speaker 2 Nandi Bhatia (The University of Western Ontario) Actresses and the Nation: Qurratulain Hyder’s “The Missing Photograph” Speaker 3 Teresa Hubel (Huron University College) Begum Samru and the Nautch Girl as Ruler Speaker 4 Bernard Fortuin (Stellenbosch University) Indotas and Cross-dressing Men: Structuring Dissident Desire Venue coordinator 46 �No Date, & Venue Wed 2.003.30 Theme Function Panel Title: Dennis Brutus and Arthur Nortje Chair: Speaker 1 Name Title of paper Andrea Susan Thorpe (Queen Mary University of London) Between Gutted Warehouses and Pleasure Streets: Arthur Nortje’s Poems set in London Speaker 2 Bernth Lindfors (University of Texas at Austin) Dennis Brutus in the Dock Speaker 3 Tyrone Russel August (Stellenbosch University) No Place Like Home: The Life and Poetry of Dennis Brutus Speaker 4 Mark Espin (University of the Western Cape) Black or Blues: Arthur Nortje and a Black Aesthetic Venue coordinator 47 �No Date, & Venue Wed 2.003.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Gordimer – Pasts and Futures Speaker 1 Edward Powell (Independent Scholar) Where to Now? The Sue of Utopia After Apartheid in Nadine Gordimer’s No Time Like the Present Speaker 2 Ileana Dimitriu (University of KwaZulu-Natal) Gordimer’s Passing: From Novel to Document? Speaker 3 Geraldine Skeete (The University of the West Indies, St. Augistine) Refugees on “The Ultimate Safari” in Nadine Gordimer’s Crimes of Conscience Speaker 4 Venue coordinator 48 �No Date, & Venue Wed 2.003.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Zim/Gender Speaker 1 Pauline Kazembe (University of Zimbabwe) Zimbabwean Female Migrants and Sexuality: Discoursing the Poscolonial and Identity Speaker 2 John C. Ball (University of New Brunswick) Achebe’s Arrow of God and Vera’s Nehanda: Generic Exclusions and Gendered Inclusions Speaker 3 Sheunesa Mandizvidza (University of Zimbabwe); Tanaka Chidora (University of Zimbabwe) Voices From the Margins: An Analysis of the Ecological and Feminine in Bones Speaker 4 Venue coordinator 49 �No Date, & Venue Wed 2.003.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Autobiography 1 (Speaker)1 Reader: Madhumita Chakraborty (Zakir Husain Delhi College (Evening), University of Delhi) A Journey to Empowerment: Autobiography in Bessie Head’s The Collector of Treasures Speaker 2 Walter Goebel (University of Stuttgart) VS Naipaul’s Autobiographical Gestures and Fragments Speaker 3 Marie Sairsingh (The College of the Bahamas) History, Reclamation, and Identity in Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying Speaker 4 Katja Sarkowsky (Muenster Writing Lives, Writing Citizenship(s): Negotiating 50 �University) Indeginous Citizenship in Indigenous North American Autobiographies Venue coordinator No Date, & Venue Wed 2.003.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Migration/Diaspora 2 Speaker 1 Henrietta Nyamnjoh (University of Cape Town) Migrants’ Informal Economy and the Changing Dynamics: The Case of Cameroonian Migrants in Cape Town Speaker 2 Kasia Juno van Schaik (McGill University) Translating the Periphery in Mavis Gallant Speaker 3 Chantal Katherine d’Offay (University of Cape Town) “Where the turban’d Moslem, bearded Jew, and woolly Afric, met the brown Hindu”: Mutliculturalism and Postcolonial Diasporas in Anna Barbauld Speaker 4 Venue coordinator 51 �No Date, & Venue Wed 2.003.30 Theme Function Panel Title: Chair: Invoking History Speaker 1 Speaker 2 Speaker 3 Name Title of paper Veronica Thompson (Athabasca University) Danie Stander (Stellenbosch University) “I can speak freely now that I am dead”: Audrey Thomas’s Local Customs Reza de Wet’s Gothic Performances of South Africa’s Colonial Past Soofia Siddique (St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi) The ‘Habit of Writing History’: Gandhi’s reading and negotiation of Kaye’s and Mallesons’s History of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58 Speaker 4 Venue coordinator 52 �No Date, & Venue Wed 2.003.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: The Contemporary, The Future Speaker 1 Clelia Clini (John Cabot University) The Diaspora Experience in South Asian Diasporic Cinema: Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion Speaker 2 Catherine Makhumula (Stellenbosch University) Intermediality on 21st Century African Literature and Performance Speaker 3 Padmini Mongia (Franklin & Marshall College) Does not appear in abstracts Amish Tripathi’s Mythic Popular Speaker 4 John Masterson (University of Sussex) Black Lives Shatter: Postcolonial ReVisions of Life Writing in Obama’s End Times Venue coordinator WEDNESDAY 4.00-5.30: ACLALS EXECUTIVE MEETING WEDNESDAY 19.30: INZYNC PERFORMANCE AT AMAZINK UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN PANEL Thursday 14 July 53 �Venue: Lecture Theatre 3A & Room 116, AC Jordan Building, Upper Campus, University of Cape Town Hosted by the African Textualities Project, Programme for the Enhancement of Research Capacity, University of Cape Town SITE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN (UCT) Thursday 14 July No Date, & Venue Thurs 10.2011.30 Theme Function Name Panel Title: Literatures of the World and for the Planet: Plenary Panel (Intro & Keynote) Chair: Opening address Philip Aghoghovwia Keynote Speaker Jennifer Wenzel (Columbia University) Venue coordinator Meg Samuelson Meg Samuelson Title of paper Introduction: Literatures of the world and for the planet Double check title in abstracts Reading for the Planet THEME: Literatures of the World and for the Planet: African Literary/Cultural Positions 54 �No 2 Date, & Venue UCT Thurs 11.3012.30 Theme Function Name Panel Title: Literatures of the World and for the Planet: Plenary Panel session 1 Chair: Speaker 1 Sandra Young Speaker 2 Title of paper Louise Green (Stellenbosch University) Everyday Catastrophes: Ecology and Ideology in Africa Fiona Moolla (University of the Western Cape) Niger Delta Literature: A Post-postcolonial Case for the Constitution of Planetary Literature? Venue coordinator LUNCH: 12.30-1.30 55 �No Date, & Venue UCT Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Chris Ouma Thurs 1.302.30 Literatures of the World and for the Planet: Plenary Panel session 2 Speaker 1 Stefan Helgesson (Stockholm University) (Literary) Theory from the South Double check title in abstracts Speaker 2 Madhu Krishnan (University of Bristol) African Literatures, Extraversion and the World Venue coordinator 56 �No Date, & Venue UCT Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Khwezi Mkhize Thurs 2.303.30 Literatures of the World and for the Planet: Plenary Panel session 3 Speaker 1 Sam Durrant (University of Leeds) Creaturely transitions in South African literature and visual culture Speaker 2 Brendon Nicholls (University of Leeds) African Vernacular Theories, Psychoanalysis, Environmentalism Venue coordinator Meg Samuelson 57 �TEA: 3.30-4.00 No Date, & Venue UCT Theme Function Name Panel Title: Chair: Meg Samuelson Thurs 4.005.45 Literatures of the World and For the Planet: Roundtable and Closing discussion Speaker 1 Roundtable speakers: Title of paper This does not appear in abstracts. Not sure if it is meant to be left out. Philip Aghoghovwia (University of the Free State), Harry Garuba (University of Cape Town) Khwezi Mkhize (University of Cape Town), Sarah Nuttall (University of the Witwatersrand), Chris Ouma (University of Cape Town), Daniel Roux (Stellenbosch University), Hedley Twidle (University of Cape Town) 58 �Venue coordinator Meg Samuelson SITE DISTRICT SIX MUSEUM Thursday 14 July THEME: Heritage, Memory, Archives TEA: 10.00-10.30 No Date, & Venue Homecoming Centre Theme Function Name Panel Title: Chair: Nadia Sanger Title of paper 59 �Thurs 10.3011.30 District Six Museum: Memory in a Time of Freedom GROUP A Speaker 1 Bonita Bennet (District Six Museum) Digging Wider: The Work of the District Six Museum Speaker 2 Tina Smith (District Six Museum) Shaun Viljoen (Stellenbosch University) Digging Deeper: The Huis Kombuis Project at the District Six Museum District Six Food Stories: The Work of Memory in a Time of Failed Freedom Speaker 3 Speaker 4 Venue coordinator No Date, & Venue Thurs 10.3011.30 GROUP B Theme Function Panel Title: Chair: Tour of the District Six Museum Guide 1 Guide 2 Name Title of paper Mandy Sanger (District Six Museum) Noor Ebrahim (District Six Museum) Venue coordinator 60 �No Date, & Venue Thurs 11.451.15 Theme Function Plenary Panel Title: Chair: “Comrades, Cameras, Canvases: Photography and Art in South African Political Activism”. A Conversation Between Generations of ArtistActivists. Convenor M. Neelika Jayawardane (State University of New York-Oswego) Panelist Omar Badsha (South African History Online, photographer) Cedric Nunn (Independent photographer) Greer Valley (Artist, Stellenbosch University) Justin Davey (Burning Panelist Panelist Panelist Name Title of paper 61 �Panelist Panelist Panelist Museum) Lihlumelo Toyana (Photographer, University of Free State) Thulile Gamedze (Artist, University of Cape Town) Nomusa Makhubu (University of Cape Town) WALKING THE CITY 1.00-3.00 No Date, & Venue Homecoming Centre Thurs 3.004.00 Theme Function Name Panel Title: Chair: Nadia Sanger District Six Museum: Memory in a Time of Freedom Speaker 1 Bonita Bennet (District Six Museum) Title of paper Digging Wider: The Work of the District Six Museum 62 �GROUP B Speaker 2 Speaker 3 Tina Smith (District Six Museum) Shaun Viljoen (Stellenbosch University) Digging Deeper: The Huis Kombuis Project at the District Six Museum District Six Food Stories: The Work of Memory in a Time of Failed Freedom Speaker 4 Venue coordinator No Date, & Venue Thurs 3.004.00 GROUP A Theme Function Panel Title: Chair: Tour of the District Six Museum Guide 1 Guide 2 Name Title of paper Mandy Sanger (District Six Museum) Noor Ebrahim (District Six 63 �Museum) No Date, & Venue Theme Function Name Title of paper Venue coordinator TEA & KOESISTERS: 4.00-4.30 64 �1 Thurs 4.306.00 Panel Title: Chair: Museums, Archives and The Urban Speaker 1 Speaker 2 Marie Kruger (University of Iowa) Trauma on Display: Commemorating Apartheid on Constitution Hill Speaker 3 Deborah Seddon (Rhodes University) Speaker 4 Suzanne Frasier (Morgan State University); WrdArc: An Online Archive of South African Oral and Performance Poetry: A Project to Promote Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary Urbanism, Consumer Culture, and Civic Engagement in Contemporary New Delhi Debayan Chatterjee (Morgan State University); Niyanta Muku (Morgan State University) Venue coordinator PARALLEL SESSIONS 65 �No 2 Date, & Venue Thurs 4.306.00 Theme Function Panel Title: Chair: Imperial Archive, Local Archive Speaker 1 Speaker 2 Speaker 3 Speaker 4 Name Matthew Shum (University of KwaZulu-Natal) Serah Kasembeli (Stellenbosch University) Kanika Batra (Texas Tech University) Title of paper “Housed only by the starry sky”: William Burchell’s Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa (1822) Launguage and Power in Yvette Christiansë’s Unconfessed and André Brink’s Philida Archiving Violence and Imprinting Gender justice Under Apartheid in Durban, South Africa Venue coordinator SITE CAPE PENINSULA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (CPUT) Waterfront Hotel School 66 �Thursday 14 July THEME: Education, Teaching, Language and Literacy No Date, & Venue CPUT Thurs 10.30 - Theme Function Name Chair: Keynote Speaker Rajendra Chetty Jaspal Singh (Northern Michigan University) Title of paper Critical Postcolonial and Environmental Intersections in South African Literature This title does not seem to be the matching one for the writer in the abstracts 11.45 67 �PARALLEL SESSIONS No 1 Date, & Venue CPUT Thurs 12.00 1.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Orality & Translation Chair: Speaker 1 Rosemary Gray Idette Noomé (University of Pretoria) The Marula Tree on the Boundary: Inclusive Translation? Speaker 2 Samuel M. Obuchi (Moi University) Orality and Writing: The Inescapable Interdependence Speaker 3 Adrie le Roux (Stellenbosch University) Speaker 4 Melanie Susan Steyn (Cornerstone Institution) Wordless Picture Books: An Exploration of their Potential to Encourage Parent-Child Reading in the South African Context Reading in a Different Cultural Paradigm Venue coordinator Rajendra Chetty 68 �No 2 Date, & Venue Thurs 12.00 1.30 Theme Language, Culture and Identity Function Name Chair: Naomi Nkealah Title of paper Speaker 1 Olushola Bamidele Are (Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko) Towards an Indigenous Language Literary Culture in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects Speaker 2 Jaywant Mhetre (SBS College Karad, Maharashtra)Check surname in abstracts The Use of Politeness Principle in Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan Speaker 3 Victor Chikaipa (Stellenbosch University) Identity Construction of a Malawian Community in Media Reporting After Recent Catastrophic Flooding Speaker 4 Taryn Bernard (Stellenbosch University) Corporate Stakeholder Discourse as Neo-Colonial Discourse: A Critical Analysis of Linguistic Constructions of “The Stakeholder” in South African Corporate Sustainability Reports Venue coordinator 69 �No 3 Date, & Venue Thurs 12.00 1.30 Theme Function Name Panel Title: Language, Discourse, and Analysis Chair: Speaker 1 Renato Tomei Maureen Enongene Double check name in abstracts Laksmisree Banerjee (Kolhan University) Speaker 2 Speaker 3 Diana Benyuei NjweipiKongor (St Jerome Catholic University Insitute, Douala)Check order of name in abstract as it’s different Title of paper Language-based Gender Constructions: the Case of Cameroon Pidgin English Exclusion & Dissent for Impacting Reconfigurations, Inclusions and Reconstructions of New Human Bridges by Global Women Writers Evidence of Appropriation of English Language in a PostColonial Setting: the Case of L1 Features in Doctor-Patient HIV/AIDS Consultation in ELF in Some Clinics in South Africa Speaker 4 Venue coordinator LUNCH 1.30-2.30 70 �PARALLEL SESSIONS No 4 Date, & Venue CPUT Thurs 2.304.00 Theme Children, Learning and Literature Function Name Chair: Speaker 1 Idette Noomé Jane Wangari Wakarindi (University of the Witwatersrand) Oluwole Coker (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ie-Ife) Christine Anthonissen (Stellenbosch University) Shalini Nadaswaran (University Malaya) Speaker 2 Speaker 3 Speaker 4 Title of paper It Does Matter, How Intelligent the Writer is: Character Portrayal in Young Adult Fiction The Folklore Factor in Childhood Education: An African Model “These Children, They Will be Angry” Wayde Compton’s The Outer Harbour and “The Creaking of the Word”. Literary Inclusions, Exclusion and Contradictions: Troubling Subversions of the ‘Child’ in African Literature Titles don’t match Venue coordinator 71 �No 5 Date, & Venue CPUT Thurs 2.304.00 Theme Teaching, Reading, Adaptation Function Name Chair: Speaker 1 Adri le Roux Heather Snell (University of Winnipeg) Speaker 2 Speaker 3 Speaker 4 Thandeka Cochrane (Cambridge University) Raphael d’Abdon (University of South Africa) G A Horrell (Cambridge University) Title of paper “I Am Also Having Mother Once, and She Is Loving Me”: Postcolonialism, Affect, and the Child in Uzodinma Iweala’s and Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation Literacy and Intimacy: Embodied Practices of Paired Reading and Respect in Rural Malawi Promoting and Innovating Poetry Teaching Across Borders: The Experience of The Caribbean Poetry Project (CPP) and The South African Poetry Project (ZAPP) Embodying the Word: Exploring the use of Performance Poetry in Transforming the Classroom Venue coordinator 72 �No 6 Date, & Venue Thurs 2.304.00 Theme Function Name Panel Title: Education, Decolonization, and Globalization Chair: Speaker 1 Jaspal K Singh Nard Choi (Cambridge University) Speaker 2 Speaker 3 Speaker 4 Thando Njovane (University of Leeds) does not appear in abstracts Maninder Sidhu (PG-GCG, Panjab University, Chandigarh) Amitendu Bhattacharya (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus) Title of paper Negotiating Subjectivity in Sade Adeniran’s Imagine This: Pushing Cultural and Genealogical Boundaries of Adult Normativity In the Name of the Other or the Perils of Writing in French: Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah is Not Obliged Re-emergence of Logocentrism in Ethnocentric Postcolonial Language Theorizations Universities at the Crossroads and the Humanities at a Dead-End: What is the Way Forward? Venue coordinator 73 �No Date, & Venue Thurs 4.30 6.00 Event Function Name Chair: Rajendra Chetty English Academy Gold medal presentation Title of paper Rosemary Gray Venue coordinator Rajendra Chetty 74 �SITE UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE (UWC) Thursday 14 July THEME: Place, Environment and Identity No 1 Date, & Venue Thurs 10.00 – 11.00 Theme Place, Environment and Identity Function Plenary Name Panel Title: Reading and Performance Chair: Michael Wessels (University of Western Cape) Title of Paper 75 �Speaker 1 Selina Tusitala Marsh (University of Auckland) Poetry performance Speaker 2 Jolyn Phillips (University of Western Cape) Reading - Tjieng Tjang Tjerries & Other Stories Speaker 3 Julia Martin (University of Western Cape) Reading – 'Something Growing.' 76 �PARALLEL SESSIONS No Date, & Venue Theme Function Name Title of paper 1 Thurs 11.30 – 1.00 Panel Title: parallel session Chair: Hermann Wittenberg (University of Western Cape) South African Literature Speaker 1 Sally-Ann Murray (Stellenbosch University) City Imaginaries Across Portrait with Keys and Broken Monsters Speaker 2 Dirk Klopper (Rhodes University) Becoming Country, Becoming Peasant in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace 77 �Speaker 3 Margriet van der Waal (University of Groningen) Space, place and power: postcolonial ecocriticism and the representation of the South African environment 78 �No Date, & Venue Theme Function Name Title of paper 2 Thurs 11.30 – 1.00 Workshop Faciltators: Selina Tusitala Marsh (University of Auckland) Identity Chants, Poetry and Performance: an Interactive workshop Glen Arendse (University of Western Cape) LUNCH 1.00-2.00 79 �PARALLEL SESSIONS 2.00-3.30 No Date, & Venue Theme Function Name 3 Thurs 2.003.30 Panel Title: Chair: William Ellis (University of Western Cape) Orality Speaker 1 Margery Fee (University of British Columbia) Title of paper Sustainable Epistemology: Indigenous Theory on Reading Oral Story 80 �Speaker 2 Selina Tusitala Marsh (University of Auckland) The Unfaithful and Un/Ethical Blacking Out of Albert Wendt’s Pouliuli: Avant-Garde or Appropriation? Janet Neigh (Pennsylvania State University Digitizing Indigenous Oral Memory in Janet Marie Rogers’s Peace in Duress Speaker 3 Speaker 4 Venue coordinator 81 �No 4 Date, & Venue Thurs 2.003.30 Theme Function Name Panel Title: Chair: Geoffrey Davs Questions of Place, Environment and Identity Zimbabwean Literature Speaker 1 Irikidzayi Manase (University of the Free State) Speaker 2 Frances Hemsley (University of Leeds) Speaker 3 Rangarirai A Musvoto (University of South africa Title of paper Memory-making and the land in Graham Lang’s Place of Birth “Feeling like a fish”: Ecologies of skin and water resources management in Dambudzo Marechera The individual versus the group? A critical interrogation of representations of individual and collective identities in two Zimbabwean novels Speaker 4 82 �TEA 3.30 – 4.00 No 5 Parallel Sessions: 4.00-5.30 Date, & Theme Venue Thurs 4.00 – 5.30 Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Margery Fee The Indigenous in Postcolonial Space Speaker 1 Russell McDougall (University of New England Seasonal Calendar Representations of Indigenous Weather Knowledge in Australia Speaker 2 Kwashirai Zvokuomba (Women's University in Africa) African indigenous knowledge systems in the Zambezi valley Speaker 3 William Ellis (University of Western Cape) What does it mean to be a Bushmen today? bushmen postcoloniality, technics, recognition and the neo-Khoisan revival. Speaker 4 Michael Wessels (University of the Western Cape) David Donald’s Blood’s Mist: Imagining the Encounter between San and Settler in the Drakensberg 83 �No 6 Date, & Venue Thurs 4.00 – 5.30 Theme Function Name Panel Title: Spaces of Performance Chair: Iri Manase (University of Free State) Rachel MoseleyWood (University of the West Indies) Speaker 1 Title of paper Postcolonial film in Jamaica: Trying to Bridge the Divide Speaker 2 Hermann Wittenberg (UWC Animated Animals: Allegories of Transformation in Khumba Speaker 3 Dusty Ross (University of North Carolina at Greensboro Brave Ones: Gender, Violence, and Poverty on the Margins Speaker 4 Geoffrey V. Davis (Universtiy of Aachen “Hard Truths and Real Facts”: Theatre for Development in India 84 �SITE STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY Friday 15 July FRIDAY 9.00-10.30 PANELS No Date, & Venue Fri 9.0010.30 Theme Function Name Panel Title: Chair: David Attwell Disciplinary Forces of English Literature Speaker 1 Kate Highman (University of the Western Cape) Scenes of Education and Seduction in Zoë Wicomb’s ‘You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town’ and JM Coetzee’s ‘Disgrace’ Speaker 2 Idowu Omoyele (University of Cape Town) Marshalling the Disciplinary Forces: Africa and the Caribbean in the Formation of English Literature Speaker 3 Carol Leon (The University of Malaya Speaker 4 Michelle Kelly (Oxford University) Title of paper Evening is the Whole Day: Stories of Inclusions and Exclusions University Discipline(s) and the TRC in JM Coetzee’s Disgrace and Niq Mhlongo’s Dog Eat Dog Venue coordinator 85 �No Date, & Venue Fri 9.0010.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Poetry Speaker 1 Isah Ibrahim (Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria) Mal Periodization and Nigerian Literature: the Intertextual dimension of Contemporary Nigerian Poetry titles don’t match Speaker 2 Renato Tomei (University for Foreigners of Perugia) The Poetics and the Mysticism of John R. Bradburne Speaker 3 Tim Cribb (Churchill College, Cambridge) Postcolonial Yeats Speaker 4 Francine Simon (Stellenbosch University) In/Between the Äffidamento”: a South African Perspective on Éxperimentalisms’and Female Poetics in Intercontinental Poetry Writing Venue coordinator 86 �No Date, & Venue Fri 9.0010.30 Theme Function Panel Title: Chair: Queer Stories Speaker 1 Barrington Marais (University of Zululand) Illuminating the Interstice: Masculinity, Mothering and the Moffie in Rayda Jacobs’s Confessions of a Gambler Speaker 2 Edgar Nabutanyi (Makarere University) Autocratic Fatherhood, Violent Sexuality, and Critique in Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples Speaker 3 Michael A. Bucknor (University of the West Indies, Mona Campus) Cheryl Stobie (University of KwaZulu-Natal) Horizons of Desire: Altered States in Caribbean Queer Speculative Fiction Speaker 4 Name Title of paper Re-Tailoring Can Themba’s “The Suit”: Queer Temporalities in Two Stories by Makhosazana Xaba Venue coordinator 87 �No Date, & Venue Fri 9.0010.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Feminism, Womanising. Performance in Africa Speaker 1 Naomi Nkealah (University of South Africa) Critical Issues in African Feminisms: Learning From Oral Narratives Speaker 2 Oluchi Joyce IGILI (Adekunle Ajasin University, AkungbaAkoko, Ondo State) Cultural Emasculation and Creative Emancipation in Amasiri Women Satirical Songs Asante Mtjene (Stellenbosch University) Negotiating Motherhood and Female Sexal Desire in Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives Speaker 3 Speaker 4 Venue coordinator 88 �No Date, & Venue Fri 9.0010.30 Theme Function Panel Title: Chair: Visual Culture Speaker 1 Name Title of paper Ralph Goodman (Stellenbosch University) Photography and the Limits of Certainty Speaker 3 Laura A. Pearson (University of Leeds) Transcultural Graphic Fiction and Unorthodox Manga Speaker 4 Sharlene Khan (Rhodes University) ‘Postcolonial Masquerading’ and ‘Bio-Mythography’ in Retelling the Postcolonial Lives of Our Mothers Speaker 2 Venue coordinator 89 �No Date, & Venue Fri 9.0010.30 Theme Function Panel Title: Chair: Migration/Diaspora 4 Speaker 1 Name Title of paper Speaker 2 Ganesh Vijaykumar Jadhav (D.P. Bhosale College, Koregaon, Satara Maharashtra India) Diasporic Consciousness in Sunetra Guptas’s So Good in Black Speaker 3 Feroza Jussawalla (University of New Mexico) Seaming Sisterhood: Creating Home in Diaspora Speaker 4 Anthea Margaret Morrison (University of the West Indies, Mona) ‘Stories from England’, Stories From Home: Competing Voices in Caryl Phillips’s In The Falling Snow Venue coordinator 90 �No Date, & Venue Fri 9.0010.30 Theme Function Panel Title: Chair: Forests, Animals, Insects Speaker 1 Name Title of paper Speaker 2 Joan-Mari Barendse (Stellenbosch University) The Representation of Insects in Willem Anker’s Siegfried (2007) and Samsa-masjien (2015) Speaker 3 Allison Mackey (University of the Free State) Speaker 4 Maria Olaussen (University of Gothenburg) Speculative Renegotiations of Relationality: Guilt and Animality in Lauren Beukes’s Zoo City and Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death The Re-enchantment of the World: Animal Voices in African Novels Venue coordinator 91 �No Date, & Venue Fri 9.0010.30 Theme Function Panel Title: Chair: Telling Lives Speaker 1 Speaker 2 Speaker 3 Speaker 4 Name Emma Laubscher (Rhodes University) Gabriele Dau (Stellenbosch University) Anita Moraes (Fluminense Federal University) Does not appear in abstracts Gen’ichiro Itakura (Kansai University) Title of paper “Madness slunk in through a chink in History”: the Familiar and the Insensible in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things Sheherazade writing loneliness: Emily Ruete/Princess Salmé’s Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, a Reader of Conrad: Intertextuality and Representation in Os Papéis Dos Inglês Screaming Horses and a Leopard Cub: Violence and Ethics in Nadeem Aslam’s The Blind Man’s Garden Venue coordinator 92 �No Date, & Venue Fri 9.0010.30 Theme Function Name Title of paper Panel Title: Chair: Memory,Testimony and Precarity Speaker 1 Felicity Hand (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) The Ethics of Remembering: Dr Goonam’s Coolie Doctor Speaker 2 Gail Fincham ( University of Cape Town) Speaker 3 Katherine Hallemeier (Oklahoma State University) Constructing Memory through Narrative: Shaun Johnson’s The Native Commissioner (2006) and Anne Landsman’s The Rowing Lesson (2007) Pan-African Precarity in A Squatter’s Tale and Graceland Speaker 4 Venue coordinator FRIDAY 4.30-5.30: CONFERENCE PLENARY FRIDAY 20.00: CONFERENCE PARTY 93 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 17th Triennial Conference Program Subject The topic of the resource Conference Program Triennial Conference Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016