5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE SHORT STORY IN ENGLISH The Global Short Story New Or eans, June 27-30, 1998 Fifth International Conference on the Short Story in English "THE GLOBAL SHORT STORY" New Orleans, June 27-30, 1998 Hotellnter-Continental- All Sessions Saturday, June 27 8:30 a.m. REGISTRATION [THIRD F LOOR LOBBY] 9:00 a.m. WELCOMING REMARKS [LA SALL E BALLROOM B/C] Mary Roh rberge r, Executive Director Ma urice A Lee, Director Please note that, throughout the conference, books on related subjects or by attending authors will be on sale in the ACADI AN ROOM 9:30 a.m. PANEL A: WRITERS' AND CRITICS' ROUND TABLE: ECHOES FROM A DISTANT BATTLEFIELD­ SHORT FICTION FROM VIETNAMESE NATIONALS AND VIETNAMESE AMERICANS [PELI CAN ROOM 1] Randy Fertel, moderator, Tulane University Mary McCay, Loyola University Wayne Karlin, short fiction writer An dy Lam, short fiction writer and commentator on Asian Affairs for NPR Eric Scroeder, University of California at Davis PANEL B: WRITERS' ROUND TABLE: THE TICKING CLOCK-COMMITTING AND SOLVING MURDER IN UNDER 15 PAGES [PELICAN ROOM 2] Robert Skinner, fiction writer, moderator, Xavier University Bill Cri der, fiction writer O' Neil DeNoux, fiction writer Skye Moody, fiction writer PANEL C: WRITERS' ROUND TABLE: ROMANCE FICTION [FULTON R OOM] Rexanne Becnel, moderator, fiction writer Karen Young, fiction writer Kathleen Nance, fiction writer Anne Logan , fiction wn"ter PANEL D: WRITERS' ROUND TABLE: GENDER IDENTITY AND THE SHORT STORY [POYDRAS ROOM] Ellen Douglas, fiction writer, moderator Anthony Bukowski, fiction writer Natalie Petesch, fiction writer Mary Robison , fiction writer ~ --r:; t\1 W~ Ieh 11 :00 a.m. PANEL A: WRITERS' ROUND TABLE: ETHNIC IDENTI TY IN THE SHORT STORY [PELICAN R OOM 1] Janette Turner Hospital , moderator, fiction writer Rudolfo Anaya, fiction writer Ernest Gaines, fiction writer Diane Glancy, fiction writer Simon Ortiz, fiction writer Andy Lam, fiction writer June 1998 Fifth International Conference on the Short Story in English Page 2 Saturday, 11:00 a.m., cont'd. PANEL B: VISIONARY FICTION & MAGIC REALISM [JACKSON ROOM] Barbara Mciver, moderator, Claflin College "A Prophetic Vision of the Past: Sandra Benitez's 'A Place Where the Sea Remembers'" Andrea Herrera, State University of New York at Fredonia "The End of the World: Closure and the Fantasies of Bo rg es and Millhauser" David Sheridan, Michigan State University "Teaching Magic Realism in Short Fiction" Mary Ellen Hartje, Angelo State University - Texas PANEL C: KATe CHOPIN [POYDRAS ROOM] '''Desiree's Baby' Emancipating Readers" Brewster Filz, moderator, Oklahoma State University "The Third Telegram: Interpreting My stery and Death in Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour'" Kurt Neumann, Harper Community College - Naperville, IL "Shifting the Grounds of Being: The Spiritual Geography of Chopin's 'Athenaise'" Barbara Ewel l, Loyola University "Offering Refuge and Delivering Betrayal: An Analysis of Speech Representation in 'Desiree's Baby '" Sherry Manis, San Francisco PANEL D: GENRE I (FULTON ROOM] "Genre, Gender and the Idea of Fiction Under Seige: Story as Autobiograficti on" Glenda Lindsey-Hicks, moderator, Midland College - Texas "First-Person Short Story or Personal Essay: A Genre Iss ue" Charlie McMurty, Angelo State University - Texas "Beyond Genre: English-Canadian Surrealist Short Fiction" Allan Weiss, York University - Canada "Anglo-Irish Identity: Th e Gothi c in Elizabeth Bowen's Irish Stories" R. C. Feddersen, Oklahoma State University READINGS (PELICAN ROOM 2] Introduction, Kelly Grant, University of New Orleans Brenda Webster Katharine Crawford Robey Peter 8 ell is Abram Shalom Himelstein [Lunch Break] 1:30 p.m. READINGS [LA SALLE BALLROOM BIC] Introduction, Morris Grubbs, Lindsey Wilson College - Kentucky Rudolfo Anaya Shirley Ann Grau Ernest Gaines Mary Robison 3:00 p.m. PANEL A: POE AND MELVILLE [POYDRAS ROOM] "From the Rural Cemetery Movement of Spirit Photography: Poe and the Revenge of the Exquisite Corpse" Judith Pike, moderator, Salisbury State University "Poe's 'Life' and Hawthorne's 'Death'" Richard Fusco, Sf. Joseph's University - Philadelphia "Melville' s Signifyin(g) Shadows The Mutiny of Form in Melville's 'Benito Cereno'" Roberta Jill Craven, University of North Carolina at Carrboro "Patricidal Pup pets in Search of a Playwrite: Theatrical Imagery in Melville's Short Fiction" Gwen Crane, State University of New York at Oneonta June 1998 Fifth International Conference on the Short Story in English Page 3 Saturday, 3:00 p.m., cont'd. PANEL B: SHIRLEY ANN GRAU [PELICAN ROOM 2] Mary Rohrberger, moderator, Tula ne University '''The Black Prince' as Title Story " Maurice duQuesney, University of Southwest Louisiana "Strong Women" Nancy Johnson, La Sa lJe University "Nine Women Reconsidered" John Saunders, West Virginia Wesleyan PANEL C: POST-COLONIAL SHORT STORY [FULTON R OOM) Belen Martin-Lucas, moderator, Universidad de Vigo · Spain "The View From the Window: Two Expatriate Iran ian Women Writers" Rivanne Sandler, University of Toronto - Canada "Post-Colonial Impressions: The Short Story as Liberatory Practice" Jill Kinkade, University of Southern Indiana "Narrative Snapshots of New Zealand's Diverse Family Patricia Grace 's Electric City and Other Stories" Michael Young, Robert Morris Col/ege PANEL 0 : HEMINGWAY AND FITZGERALD [PELICAN ROOM 1J Wayne Scott, moderator, Claflin College "Seeking Eternity in the Snow: The Question of Harry as an Artist in 'The Snows of Ki limanjaro'" Nick Pici, University of Dayton "Quite Sure You'll (Never) Die in Hemingway and Rhys" Faye Pickram, York University - Canada "Fantasy in 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber'" Andrew Spencer, Baylor University "' Babylon': Revisiting the Text" George Bellis, University of Minnesota 4:30 p.m. PANEL A: PEDAGOGY I (POYDRAS ROOM) . Teaching Recalcitrant Literature Through 'A Soldier's Embrace' by N. Gordimer Zenobia Baxter Mistri, moderator, Purdue University - Calumet "Teaching the Short Story in a Multi-Media Classroom" Tara Starr Pyne, University of South Florida - Tampa .. Teaching Recalcitrant Literature Through the Stories of Leslie Marmon Silko an d Nadine Gordimer" Li nda McMillan, Purdue University - Calumet "Teaching Ambiguity: Adult Stories for Ad olescent Readers" Peter Stephan, University of Cyprus PANEL B: GENDER I [PELI CAN ROOM 1) "Jane Smiley's Ordinary Love and Good Wii/: Gender, Genre, an d the Novella" Neil Nakadate, moderator, Iowa State University "Moving Beyond the Feminine: Feminist Critical Interpretation and the Short Story" Caryn M. Voskuil, University of Texas - Dallas "'Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong': Tim O' Bri en's (Feminist) Heart of Oarkness" Terry J. Martin and Margaret Stiner, Baldwin-WalJace College - Berea , OH PANEL C: GENRE II [PELICAN ROOM 2] "Genre and the Work of Reading in Ma nsfield's 'Prelude' and 'At the Bay'" Suzanne Ferguson, moderator, Ca se Western Reserve University "The Reader as Character / The Character of th e Reader in Andrew Lytle's 'Mr. McGregor'" Tony Whall, Salisbury State University "Irony and the Implied Reader in the Short Fiction of Dorothy Parker" Stephanie Burt Williams, University of North Carolina at Charlotte June 1998 Fifth International Conference on the Short Story in English Page 4 Saturday, 4:30 p.m., cont'd. PANEL 0: LOUISIANA AND THE SHORT STORY [FULTON ROOM] Nancy Johnson, moderator, La Salle University "Sites of Struggle: Ada Jack Carver's Cane River Stories" El izabeth Meese, University of Alabama "Rewriting the Final Adjustment of Affairs: Culture, Ra ce, and Politics in Alice Du nba r-N elson's New Orleans" Jurgen Grandt, University of Georgia "Grace King 's Reconstruction of the Old So uth " Evelyn Koppel , Nunez Community College Sunday, June 28 9:00 a.m. MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE SHORT STORY: Reports, open discussion, and nomination of new officers (LA SALLE BALLROOM BIC} Mary Rohrberger, Founder and Executive Director Susan Lohafer, President 9:30 a.m. PANEL A: LANGUAGE & SYMBOL (FULTON ROOM] Zia Hasan, moderator, Claflin College "Impression ism in Crane's 'The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky'" Winifred Morgan , Edgewood College - Madison, WI "Fl an nery O'Connor and the Limits of th e Symbol" Troy Thibodeaux, New York University "Natu re Dominates: The Impact of Env ironment on Character Development in Janette Turner Hospital's Short Stories 'The End-of-the-line End-of-the-world Disco ' and 'Our Own little Kakadu'" Donna Davis, University of Northern Iowa PANEL B: THEORY I [POYDRAS ROOM] "Formalism is Not a Fad" Charles E. May, moderator, Califomia State Un iversity at Long Beach "Redemptive Landscapes as Theme in the Short Story " Hilary Siebert, Radford University "Literary Artifacts: Ekphrasis in the Sho rt Fiction of Donald Bart helme and John Edgar Wideman" Michael Trussler, University of Regina "Closure in the Short Story: Curtailing a Dre am" Emmanuel Yaw Appiah, Center for Action on English - Ghana PANEL C: WRITERS' AND CRITICS' ROUND TABLE: SHORT STORY CYCLE [PELI CAN ROOM 1] Robert Luscher, moderator, University of Nebraska at Ke amey Suzanne Ferguson, Case Westem Reserve University Shirley Ann Grau, fiction writer J. Gerald Kennedy, Louisiana State University Jayne Anne Phillips, fiction writer Tom Piazza , fiction writer June 1998 Fifth International Conference on the Short Story in English Page 5 Sunday, 9:30 a.m., cont'd. PANEL 0: GENDER II [PELICAN ROOM 2) ~ "Women Writers: Storytelling as a Movement 'Toward Wholeness'" Gayle Elliot, moderator, St. Lawrence University "Pin-Ups, Pleasure