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2010 New Orleans, Louisiana April 1-4 Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanisms ACLA Conference 2010 New Orleans, Louisiana April 1-4 Annual Meeting The American Comparative Literature Association Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanisms April 1-4, 2010 New Orleans, LA Table of Contents 1. Conference Schedule 4 2. Welcome and General Information 7 3. Seminar Overview 8 4. Plenary and Special Sessions 17 5. Seminars in Detail 18 6. Acknowledgements 214 7. Hotel Maps 215 8. Index 219 9. Call for Proposals for ACLA 2011 248 10. Map of New Orleans Back Cover 3 ACLA 2010 Conference Schedule Thursday 4/1 4:00 - 8:00pm Registration and Information Open Mezzanine, Hotel Monteleone 4:30 – 6:00pm ADPCL and Graduate Caucus Round Table: Navigating the Current Job Market (Atia Sattar and Chandani Patel, presiding) La Nouvelle East Room, Hotel Monteleone 6:00 - 8:00pm Welcome Reception Queen Anne Ballroom, Hotel Monteleone Friday 4/2 7:30 -12:00pm Registration Continues Mezzanine, Hotel Monteleone 7:30 - 10:30am Continental Breakfast and Coffee/Tea Service Catering Stations in the Hotels Astor, Bienville and Monteleone, and at Arnaud’s 8:00 - 10:00am ACLA Executive Board Meeting Hunt Room, Hotel Monteleone 8:00 -10:00am Stream A panels 8:30 - 5:00pm ACLA Book Exhibit Second Mezzanine, Hotel Astor 10:15 - 12:15pm Stream B panels 12:30 - 1:30pm Business Meeting Queen Anne Ballroom, Hotel Monteleone 1:30 - 5:00pm Registration Continues Mezzanine, Hotel Monteleone 1:30 - 3:30pm Stream C Panels 3:45 - 5:45pm Stream D Panels 4 6:00 - 7:30pm Plenary Roundtable: Translation Emily Apter, NYU; Sandra Bermann, Princeton U; Jacques Lezra, NYU; Haun Saussy, Yale U; Michael Wood, Princeton U Queen Anne Ballroom, Hotel Monteleone 7:30pm – 9:30pm Graduate Student Reception 701 Dauphine St., corner of Dauphine and St. Peter Saturday 4/3 7:30 - 12:00pm Registration Continues Mezzanine, Hotel Monteleone 7:30 - 10:30am Continental Breakfast and Coffee Break Catering Stations in the Hotels Astor, Bienville and Monteleone, and at Arnaud’s 8:30 - 10:00am ADPCL Breakfast Meeting Hunt Room, Hotel Monteleone (For departmental chairs and program directors) 8:00 -10:00am Stream A panels 8:30 - 5:00pm ACLA Book Exhibit Second Mezzanine, Hotel Astor 10:15- 12:15pm Stream B panels 12:15 - 1:30pm Lunch Break 1:30 - 3:30pm Stream C Panels 3:45 - 5:45pm Stream D Panels 6:00 - 7:30pm Plenary Address: “Cosmopolitan Comparison” Sheldon Pollock, Columbia U; Queen Anne Ballroom, Hotel Monteleone 8:00 - 11:00pm Banquet and Awards 5 La Nouvelle Ballroom, Hotel Monteleone Sunday 4/4 7:30 - 10:30am Continental Breakfast and Coffee Break Catering Stations in the Hotels Astor, Bienville and Monteleone, and at Arnaud’s 8:00 - 10:00am Stream A panels 8:30 - 12:00pm ACLA Book Exhibit Second Mezzanine, Hotel Astor 10:00 - 12:00pm Registration Continues Mezzanine, Hotel Monteleone 10:15 - 12:15pm Stream B panels 12:15 - 1:30pm Lunch Break 1:30 - 3:30pm Stream C Panels 6 Welcome and General Information The City of New Orleans and the American Comparative Literature Association are delighted to welcome you to ACLA 2010. We have put in place with your intellectual and collegial assistance a dynamic and international conference with more than 200 seminars ranging in focus across the globe and through centuries. Each in its own way addresses the conference theme and allows us to explore from the creole, diasporic, and cosmopolitan vantage point of New Orleans our shared theme. In addition to roundtables on the job market and translation studies and a poetry evening at the Gold Mine, at the center of these conversations will be Dr. Sheldon Pollock’s plenary address, “Cosmopolitan Comparison.” Working with our Conference Committee, Seminar Organizers, Secretariat and our hosts in the French Quarter, we have made every effort to ensure a well-run and successful conference; some general information follows below on practical matters. We’ve tried to address all request and contingencies, though the ongoing scale of the conference with its nearly 2,000 presenters has combined with our choice of smaller historic venues to pose particular challenges. We hope that you will be patient with any glitches or delays that may arise and thank you for joining us in the Big Easy. Elizabeth Richmond-Garza and Haun Saussy BUSINESS MEETING: As this year’s conference has outgrown the capacity of any available dining hall and we do not have the advantage of any academic institutional support, the business meeting will not be able to include a lunch. It is our hope that the catered reception on Thursday evening will allow for the socializing we all have come to connect with the ACLA annual meeting, and that participants will be able to join us for a briefer and more purely business-oriented meeting on Friday at 12:30 in the Queen Anne Ballroom. BANQUET: The festive banquet and awards presentation on Saturday will be held in La Nouvelle Ballroom, Mezzanine B with appropriate Louisiana cuisine and drinks overlooking Royal Street, following Dr. Pollock’s address in the near 7 by Queen Anne Ballroom. GRADUATE STUDENT RECEPTION: A Graduate Student Reception has been organized by the Comparative Literature Graduate Organization (CLGO) and the Faculty in Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University” Cash Bar and Readings by Louisiana Writers in the “Haut-Lieu” of Literary Life in New Orleans, “The Gold Mine Saloon” (701 Dauphine St., corner of Dauphine and St. Peter). Special thanks to poet Dave Brinks. BREAKFAST AND COFFEE BREAKS: As part of the conference registration fee, each participant is invited to enjoy pastries and coffee or tea before the first stream of seminars on all three days of the conference. Because of the small and historic nature of each of our four venues, we are asking participants to take breakfast in the venue in which they will be presenting or hearing papers. All four hosts, the Monteleone, the Astor, the Bienville and Arnaud’s will also continue coffee service in the break between Stream A and Stream B seminars until 10:30 AM. BOOK EXHIBIT: The book exhibit will be located in the Hotel Astor in the midst of the break-out rooms on the Second Mezzanine. The exhibit is open 9-5 on Friday and Saturday, 9-12 on Sunday. International Dictionary of Literary Terms (DITL www.ditl.info), an ICLA project, Jean-Marie Grassin, General Editor A DITL information desk will be available during the Book Exhibit DITL contributors, prospective authors, project representatives, interested persons welcome 8 Seminar Overview A1 Aftermath as Affirmation: Rethinking the Classic After Hybridity...18 A2 Agamben’s Intricate Meanings........................................................19 A3 Archival Travels/Traveling Archives.................................................20 A4 Being‐in‐the‐World: Chinese Cinema and its Cosmopolitan Perspectives..................................................................................21 A5 Between Alienations: Mimicry, Parody, and Desire in Transnational Spaces ...........................................................................................22 A6 Breaking Languages, Broken Subjects .............................................23 A7 Chosen by Language: Exile and Negotiating Discourse Across National Borders .........................................................................................24 A8 Comparative World Literature.........................................................25 A9 Cosmopolitan Irreverence: Subversion, Parody, Put Down.............26 A10 Cosmopolitan Poe..........................................................................27 A11 Cosmopolitanism and Collectivity: Cultural Representations vs. Theories of Community in the 20th and 21st Century..................28 A12 Cosmopolitanism and Religion ......................................................29 A13 Creole Europe................................................................................30 A14 Crossing Borders: Personal Narratives of 20th Century Writers/Critial Thinkers ................................................................31 A15 Cultures of Migration: Local Cosmopolitanisms............................32 A16 Cultures of Neoliberalism ..............................................................33 A17 Digital Diasporas: Distances, Cultures, Languages ........................34 A18 Estranged Desire: Romance Resisting Romance............................35 A19 Extending Ourselves: Caribbean Latitudes and Scales, Landscapes and Seascapes...............................................................................36 A20 Fictions of the Autobiographical....................................................37 A21 Flowing Tales, Diverse Resonances ...............................................38 A22 Food in World Literature ...............................................................39 A23Form and Content ..........................................................................40 A24 Frontiers of Life: Biopolitical Imaginations in Latin America .........41 A25 Genre Dynamics: Exchange and Transformation ..........................42 9 A26 “Gross Anatomy”: Intervention and Negotiation in Literary/ Cultural Representations of Medicine...........................43 A27 Media, Medium, Mediation: Media Aesthetics Before 1900 ........44 A28 Melville’s Cosmopolitan(ism) ........................................................45 A29 Migration, Cultural Production and Resistanc...............................46 A30 “Nations are notions”: Literary Materiality and the 20th Century Nation‐State..................................................................................47
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