Latinx Lives, Matters, and Imaginaries: Theorizing Race in the 21St Century
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The 3rd Biennial U.S. Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism Conference Latinx Lives, Matters, and Imaginaries: Theorizing Race in the 21st Century John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York April 13-15, 2017 Thursday, April 13, 2017 Opening Event 5:00 p.m. – Introductory Remarks, Richard Pérez & Belinda Linn Rincón 5:15-6:00 p.m. – Keynote Address, Claudia Milian, Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, Duke University 6:00-7:30 p.m. – Opening Reception Friday, April 14, 2017 Session 1: 9:00-10:15 a.m. Room: Room: Room: Room: 1. Race, Masculinity, and the Coloniality of 2. Re/imagining Race: Borders, Gender, 3. Documenting Crisis: Myths, 4. Affective Burdens: Meloncholia, History in Puerto Rican Literature and Eugenics Immigrants and the Intervention of Shame, and Stereotypes Literature “And always Puerto Ricans”: Urban “La Leyenda Negra: Racial Imaginaries ““When the Anglo Came Into New Archipelagoes and the Coloniality of of Haiti and the US/Mexico Border” “‘Refugees of a World on Fire’: The Turn Mexico as a Foreigner”: Reies López Middle-class, White, Gay Male Desire in Katherine Steelman, University of to the Undocumented in Women of Color Tijerina and the Racial Melancholia of 1970s New York” California, San Diego Feminisms” the Indohispano” Enmanuel Martínez, Rutgers University Esmeralda Arrizón-Palomera, Cornell Nicholas M. Duron, New York “Writing While Brown: Ana Castillo, University University “Identity Starts at Home: Developing Sandra Cisneros, and Lucha Corpi” Counterhegemonic Afro-Latino Masculinity Leigh Johnson, Marymount College "Chupacabras: They Myth of the Bad “Embodied Shaming of/in Diaspora: in Piri Thomas’s Down These Mean Streets” Immigrant" Response and (Re)Negotiation of Shame in Regina Marie Mills, University of Texas at “Remapping Eugenics and Mestizaje in Silvia Rodríguez Vega, University of Migdalia Cruz’s Yellow Eyes” Austin River of Angels (2014)” California, Los Angeles L. Bailey McDaniel, Oakland University Christine Fernández, U.S. Military “‘The island was abandoned by history’: Academy, West Point “In the Cut: Latina/o Literature and “Soy Brown and Nerdy: The ChicaNerd Geographies of Race in Victor Hernández Criticism in a Time of Crisis” in Chicana Young Adult (YA) Cruz’s Red Beans” Moderator: Belinda Rincon, John Jay College Literature” Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez, University of Cristina Herrera, California State California, Santa Cruz Moderator: University, Fresno Moderator: Moderator: Friday, April 14, 2017 Session 2: 10:25-11:40 a.m. Room: Room: Room: Room: 5. Latinidad and the Undead 6. On the Colorline: The Clashing Racial 7. Politics of Identity in Children’s and 8. Title TBA Paradigms of Latinidad Young Adult Literature Chairs: Ariana Ruiz, Assistant Professor, Chair: Ana Patricia Rodriguez, University of Iowa; Richard T. Chair: Kristie Soares, University of “I Begin Within the Deep Dark Earth: University of Maryland Rodríguez, University of California, Massachusetts Amherst Spirit, Race and Gender in Children’s Riverside Literature” TBA “Nature and the Nature of Quisqueyanas’ Christina Garcia Lopez, University of “…tears and blood and rain: Their Dogs Writing on Turtle Island at the Turn of a San Francisco Came With Them and the Urban Gothic” Century” Annemarie Pérez, California State Isabel Espinal, University of “Canonical Jovenes: Adolescent Time, University Dominguez Hills Massachusetts Amherst the Chicano Bildungsroman, and the Politics of Recovery” “El Morro, Si!” “The Complexity and Vitality of Latinx Noel Zavala, University of Illinois at Eliza Rodríguez y Gibson, Loyal Theater in Chicago” Champaign-Urbana Marymount University Priscilla Page, University of Massachusetts Amherst “Becoming Latinx in Young Adult “Dark Entries: The Latina Muse and the Literature in an Era of Mass Expulsions” Bauhaus School” "Dáltonismo Chick: Colorblindness in Susana S. Martínez, DePaul University, Richard T. Rodríguez, University of Chica Lit" Chicago California, Riverside Aida Roldan Garcia, University of Massachusetts Amherst “Paint it Black: Difference and Divergence in the Work of Myriam “‘Angelito’s Not Black, He’s Cuban’: Gurba” Competing Discourses of Blackness in Ariana Ruiz, Assistant Professor, ¿Qué Pasa U.S.A.?” Moderator: University of Iowa Kristie Soares, University of Massachusetts Amherst “The Portrait of the Activist as A Young Man: Evelio Grillo, the Popular Front, and the Freemasonry of the Race” Trent Masiki, Quinsigamond Community College Friday, April 14, 2017 Session 3: 11:50-1:05 p.m. Room: Room: Room: Room: 9. Beyond and Within the Human: 10. Something There is That 11. Symbolic Crisis: Afro-Religious 12. Uncanny Translations, 13. Race, Abjection, and Decolonial Doesn’t Love a Ghost: Racial Visions, Performance, and Or, the Enterprise of Art Imaginaries (Post) Memory, ‘Bare Race’, Transformations “Home as a Territory of African Hauntings, and Patriarchal “Reimagining “Other” Desire: Divine Queer “Transmogrifications in Brown: Exorcism in Latinx Literature “Brujos: At the Intersection of Latinos/as: The Relationality and Racialized Materiality, Humanness, Affect and Race” Technological and Spectral Belonging in Chicana and The Undocumented Body in Chair: Ylce Irizarry, University Thomas Conners, University of Origins of “Othered” Literature” The Real Death Valley” of South Florida Pennsylvania Latinidad” Sofi Chavez, Bryn Mawr Marcos Santiago Gonsalez, Cynthia Martínez, Indiana College CUNY Graduate Center “Off the Radar or Front and “‘Working juju with the word on the University - Bloomington Center: Racial (Post) Memory in world’: Afro-Latinas’ Poetry and "Tomate & Chocolate: There Is Life Latinx Writing” Performance as Transformative “Moctesuma Esparza’s “Love and Salvation Beyond the Human, or How to Karen Christian, California Racial and Identity Counter- Artistic and Business Unites the Body and Soul” Exist in Disgust and Dirt" Polytechnic State University discourse” Enterprises” Julia Torrico, Marymount Elena Igartuburu, University of Maria Esther Alvarez Lopez, Elda María Román, University Massachusetts Amherst “Ecology and Environment in Universidad de Oviedo University of Southern Montero’s in The Palm of California “Unsettling the Category of the Darkness” “Sick of the Symbolic: Trance and Human: Reading the Decolonial Ylce Irizarry, University of South Ritual in Lyn DiIorio Sandin’s "Sounds, Translation, and Imaginations of Gloria Anzaldúa Florida Outside the Bones, Toni Cade Interlingualism in Woman and Sylvia Wynter in the Era of the Bambara’s The Salt Eaters, and Hollering Creek" Anthropocene” “Afro-Dominicanas Write Back: Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Abraham Encinas, Victoria Sánchez, University of Deconstructing the Canonical Widow” University of California, Los California, Santa Cruz Latina/o Gaze” Victoria A. Chevalier, Medgar Angeles Marion Rohrleitner, University Evers College (CUNY) Moderator: of Texas at El Paso Moderator: Moderator: Friday, April 14, 2017 Session 4: 2:40-3:55 p.m. Room: Room: Room: Room: Room: 14. Goth Girls, Vampires, and Ghosts: 15. Queer Motion and the 16. Love and the Potentiality 17. Textual, Visual, and 18. Feminist Currents in Queer Subjectivity, Rebellion, and Longing for Home of Race Archival Contestations of Latina Literature Freedom in Latinx Literature Blackness and Afro-latinididad “Jotería in Popular Culture: “Love & Justice in Ana in the Puerto Rican and Title TBA Moderator: Carlos Ulises Decena, Queer Identities in Motion” Castillo’s Peel My Love like Dominican U.S. Diasporas Rutgers University Daniel Enrique Pérez, an Onion” “Meditations on the University of Nevada, Reno Susan C. Méndez, “Digital Dominicanidad: Race Shadow: Stereotypes of “Reading Rechy and Zapata in an Era of University of Scranton (on)-line(s)” Latinx Women in Yaqui Homonormativity and Homonationalism” Megan Jeanette Myers, Iowa Delgado Wants to Kick Jorge Estrada, SUNY Oneonta “The Uncertain Harbor of Home: “Decolonial Love against State University Your Ass and Jane the Queering Families in Manuel Racialization and Virgin” “Brown Skin, Goth Drag: The use of Muñoz’s ‘Bring Brang Brung’” Intergenerational Trauma in “Generic Transgressions: The Jessica Flores, California Goth Aesthetics as Rebellion in William Orchard, Queens The Brief and Wondrous Life Chronicles of Arturo Alfonso State University, Fullerton Caribbean Diaspora Novels” College, City University of New of Oscar Wao” Schomburg” Virginia Arreola, Hartwick College York Rafael Vizcaino, Rutgers Vanessa K. Valdés, City University College of New York “Of Stone and Paper: Mapping the Memory of AIDS through the Writing of Moderator: “Afro-Latina Lives Matter: “On the Cusp of Blackness: Gil Cuadros' and Grave Markers in Los Marta Moreno Vega as Junot Díaz, African American Angeles Cemeteries” Transnational Literature, and Black Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., SUNY Scholar/Cultural Worker” Recognition” Oneonta Juanita Heredia, Northern Raj Chetty, St. John’s College Arizona University “Beyond Black & White?: Photography in Loida Martiza Pérez, Julia Alvarez, and Félix Moderator: Morisseau-Leroy” John Ribó, Florida State University Friday, April 14, 2017 Session 5: 4:05-5:20 p.m. Room: Room: Room: Room: 19. Sounding Latinidades: Race, 20. Imagining Black-Brown 21. Redoubling Consciousness: 22. John Jay Student Panel 23. Cultural Citizenship, and In the Solidarity: Forms, Limits, the Body, Invisibility, and Heights Futures Whiteness in Latinx Literature “Sonic Pan-Ethnicity: Listening in Chair: Randy Ontiveros, “The Double Consciousness