APSA 2004 Conference Program
Thursday, October 14
9:00 am-12:00 APSA Executive Committee Meeting (Piscataway)
12:00-5:00 pm Registration
1:00-2:30 pm Conference Opening and Plenary Session (Prince George’s Room)
1 pm James Harris, Dean, College of Arts and Humanities
Michael Long, Director, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Maria José Somerlate Barbosa, President, American Portuguese Studies Association
1:15-2:30 pm Lídia Jorge, “Para um destinatário ignorado�?
Introduction: Ana Paula Ferreira, U of California at Irvine
Refreshment Break
1. Thursday, Oct 14, 2:45-4:00 pm
A. Lídia Jorge Colloquium: Memory (Nanticoke)
Chair: Paulo de Medeiros, U Utrecht
1. “Memorycide of History in O Cais das Merendas�?
José Ornelas, U of Massachusetts Amherst
2. “História e contra-histórias em O Vento Assobiando nas Gruas�?
Paula Jordão, U Utrecht
B. Brazilian Literature and Culture: Espaço e literatura I (Prince George’s Room)
Chair: Maria José Somerlate Barbosa, U of Iowa
1. “An I-thou Configuration as Reflector in Hallucinated City�?
Charles Perrone, U of Florida
2. “A Hora da Estrela e o mal estar das elites�?
Lúcia Sá, Stanford U
C. Portuguese Language and Linguistics I (Pyon Su)
Chair: Maria Tereza Biderman, U Estadual Paulista
1. “A Study of the Cultural Content of Six Portuguese Textbooks�?
Blair E. Bateman, Brigham Young U; Marilena Mattos, U of Minnesota
2. “O Ensino da Língua e Cultura Portuguesas nos EUA: do Jardim-de-Infância ao Ensino Secundário�?
Graça Castanho, U dos Açores
3. “Cooking Terms in Romance Languages (French and Portuguese) and Germanic Languages (English and Dutch)�?
Francine Melka, U Utrecht
5:30 pm Buses to the Embassy of Portugal (board at Marriott Inn and Conference Center)
6:30-8:00 pm Reception, Embassy of Portugal
2125 Kalorama Road, N.W.
Washington, DC 20008
Friday, October 15
8:00 am-1 pm Registration
8:00-9:00 am Continental Breakfast
2. Friday, Oct 15, 8:30-9:45 am
A. Lídia Jorge Colloquium: Identity (Nanticoke)
Chair: José Ornelas, U of Massachusetts Amherst
1. “Palavra e identidade(s): 20 anos de caminho�?
Isabel Pires de Lima, U do Porto
2. “Place and Displacement in O Vale da Paixão�?
Lígia Silva, U do Porto
3. “‘Quem estava a mais nessa casa era eu’: Illegitimacy and the Construction of Identity in O Vale da Paixão�?
Cláudia Pazos-Alonso, Oxford U
B. Brazilian Literature and Culture: Espaço e literatura II (Thurgood Marshall)
Chair: Susan C. Quinlan, U of Georgia
1. “From Chile to Cuba and Beyond: Fernando Gabeira’s Sojourn through Latin American Lands of Socialist Utopia�?
Dário Borim Jr, U of Massachusetts Dartmouth
2. “Synchronicity and the City: Transgendered Visions of a New Brazil�?
Leslie L. Marsh, U of Michigan—Ann Arbor
3. “Um ‘Cabeça-de-Porco’ na obra de Aluísio de Azevedo: evolução urbana do Rio de Janeiro no final do século XIX e seus efeitos na formação de uma nova identidade nacional�?
Vanina Eisenhart, U of California Los Angeles
C. Portuguese Language and Linguistics II (Pyon Su)
Chair: M. Celeste Augusto, U Utrecht
1. “A significação e a forma: polissemia ou homonímia?�?
Maria Tereza Biderman, U Estadual Paulista
2. “A expressão de um valor quantificador aproximado: uma abordagem léxico-semântica e lexicográfica�?
M. Celeste Augusto, U Utrecht
3. “Um modelo de restrições semânticas de complementos verbais para o PB�?
Luiz Alexandre Amaral, Ohio State U
Break
3. Friday, Oct 15, 10:00-11:15 am
A. Lídia Jorge Colloquium: Refractions (Nanticoke)
Chair: Cláudia Pazos-Alonso, Oxford U
1. “Migratory Polemics in Lídia Jorge’s O Vale da Paixão�?
Kimberly DaCosta Holton, Rutgers U—Newark
2. “A Landscape Transformed: Narrative Shifts in Lídia Jorge’s O Vento Assobiando nas Gruas�?
Ellen Sapega, U of Wisconsin—Madison
3. “As If�?
Paulo de Medeiros, U Utrecht
B. Brazilian Literature and Culture: Modernismo e modernidade (Thurgood Marshall)
Chair: Regina Zilberman, PUC do Rio Grande do Sul
1. “O modernismo interdisciplinar: a Caixa Modernista�?
Jorge Schwartz, U de São Paulo
2. “A denunciada denúncia: Pagu e a política, 1931-1954�?
K. David Jackson, Yale U
3. “Ruínas do moderno nas ficções do pós-moderno�?
Lúcia Helena, U Estadual do Rio de Janeiro
C. Comparative Studies in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Literatures and Cultures: Literaturas lusófonas e a tradição europeia (Pyon Su)
Chair: David Brookshaw, U of Bristol
1. “Uma crítica do construtivismo na leitura através da geneologia da figura do leitor em ficção: Cervantes, Swift, Sterne, Garrett, Machado de Assis�?
Victor Mendes, U of Massachusetts Dartmouth
2. “EccentriCities: Writing in the Madhouse of Brazilian and Russian Literature (Osman Lins’s A rainha dos cárceres da Grécia and Pelevin’s Chapaev i pustola [Buddha's little finger])�?
Sharon Lubkemann Allen, U of Pennsylvania
3. “O desafio da morte em Lorca e Mário de Sá-Carneiro�?
Joanna Courteau, Iowa State U
11:15-12:15 Plenary Session (Prince George’s Room)
Nicolau Sevcenko, U de São Paulo
“The ‘Sertão’ as the Defying Sphinx at the Crossroads of Luso-Brazilian Culture�?
Introduction: Maria José Somerlate Barbosa, U of Iowa
4. Friday, Oct 15, 1:30-2:45 pm
A. Brazilian Literature and Culture: O corpo no imaginário literário e cultural brasileiro (Nanticoke)
Chair: Lúcia Sá, Stanford U
1. “Canibalismo, conquista e violência em Terra Papagalli�?
Leila Lehnen, University of New Mexico
2. “Dreams and Eroticism in As horas nuas and La hija del embajador�?
Mónica Ayala-Martínez, Denison U
3. “Mucamas and Mulatas�?
Maria José Somerlate Barbosa, U of Iowa
B. Portuguese Literature and Culture: Literature, Ideology, Theory (Thurgood Marshall)
Chair: Paulo de Medeiros, U Utrecht
1. “Ideologia e relativismo ideológico na ficção portuguesa contemporânea�?
Carlos Reis, U de Coimbra
2. “Voices from the Margin: Considerations on the Position of Colonial Literature and the cafrealizados in Portuguese Literary History�?
Ingemai Larsen, Københavns U
3. “Aquilino, Namora e Manuel do Nascimento: o romance deles e os equívocos do volfrâmio�?
Greg McNab, U of Rhode Island
C. Lusophone African Literatures and Cultures: Angolan Literature (Pyon Su)
Chair: Mark Sabine, U of Nottingham
1. “Pepetela, the New Man and the Construction of Angolan Masculinities�?
Igor Cusack, U of Bristol
2. “Through the Chokwe Mask: Two Poems by Paula Tavares and Lopito Feijóo�?
Ana Sofia Ganho, Emory U
D. Portuguese Language and Linguistics III (Prince George’s Room)
Chair: M. Celeste Augusto, U Utrecht
1. “The Use of Deictic Elements by Portuguese Migrants�?
Marian Schoenmakers-Klein Gunnewiek, U Utrecht
2. “The Role of the Future Subjunctive and the Present Indicative in Conditional Expressions with ‘Se’ in Brazilian Portuguese�?
Flávia Cunha, Ohio State U
3. “The Role of Performance in the Undergraduate Curriculum�?
Margo Milleret, U of New Mexico
5. Friday, Oct 15, 2:45-4:00 pm
A. Brazilian Literature and Culture: Escritoras brasileiras e modernidade literária (Nanticoke)
Chair: Dário Borim Jr, U of Massachusetts Dartmouth
1. “A modernidade brasileira escrita por mulheres�?
Regina R. Félix, U of North Carolina at Wilmington
2. “Papéis femininos no romance de 30�?
Helenita Rosa Franco, PUC do Rio Grande do Sul
B. Portuguese Literature and Culture: Portugal and Postcolonialism (Thurgood Marshall)
Chair: Onésimo Almeida, Brown U
1. “The Violent Maintenance of the Portuguese Colonial Identity and the Search for a Postcolonial One: Literary Images of Portugal as a Colonial and Postcolonial Nation�?
Anthony Soares, Queen’s U Belfast
2. “Circulating ‘Moorishness’ in Portuguese National Space�?
Shawn Parkhurst, U of Louisville
3. “Memories of Empire, Mythologies of the Soul: Fado Performance and the Shaping of Saudade�?
Lila Ellen Gray, Duke U
4. “Portugal, Europe and the World�?
Julieta Almeida Rodrigues, Georgetown U
C. Portuguese Language and Linguistics IV (Pyon Su)
Chair: Margo Milleret, U of New Mexico
1. “Constructing a Supernatural Landscape through Talk�?
Janet Chernela, University of Maryland; Patrícia Pinho, U of California Davis
2. “As lacunas e as gralhas no primeiro livro impresso em língua portuguesa�?
José Barbosa Machado, U de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Refreshment Break
6. Friday, Oct 15, 4:15-5:30
A. Brazilian Literature and Culture: Sistemas literários em diálogo (Nanticoke)
Chair: K. David Jackson, Yale U
1. “Ferdinand Denis e os paradigmas da história da literatura�?
Regina Zilberman, PUC do Rio Grande do Sul
2. “Coleção da Livraria e Editora Globo: uma estratégia para a formação e organização do público leitor�?
Alice T. Campos Moreira, PUC do Rio Grande do Sul
3. “Mário de Andrade e a Argentina: um país e sua produção cultural como espaço de reflexão�?
Patricia M. Artundo, U de Buenos Aires
B. Portuguese Literature and Culture: Literary History and Aesthetics (Thurgood Marshall)
Chair: Victor Mendes, U of Massachusetts Dartmouth
1. “Ventos de direcções variadas: uma análise do discurso realista em Seara de Vento e Os Flagelados do Vento Leste�?
Leonor Simas-Almeida, Brown U
2. “Impressions of a Literary Revolution: Eça de Queirós and Cesário Verde�?
Catharien Hamerslag, U Utrecht
3. “A razão da razão cínica: uma aproximação ao conto português dos anos 60�?
Sílvia Oliveira, Purdue U
C. Comparative Studies in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Literatures and Cultures: O triângulo luso-afro-brasileiro—divergências e confluências (Pyon Su)
Chair: Maria Angélica Lopes, U of South Carolina
1. “Reverberações lusotropicais: Gilberto Freyre em Africa�?
Fernando Arenas, U of Minnesota
2. “Race Relations in Brazil from the Perspective of an Angolan Exile: José Eduardo Agualusa’s O ano em que Zumbi tomou o Rio�?
David Brookshaw, U of Bristol
3. “Terra estrangeira: língua, cultura e contrabandos transatlânticos�?
Fernando Rocha, U of Southern California
5:30-6:30 pm Cultural Attachés’ Round Table (McKeldin Library, Room 6137)
Moderator: Regina Igel, U of Maryland
6:30-7:30 Reception (McKeldin Library)
Saturday, October 16
8:00-9:00 am Continental Breakfast
7. Saturday, Oct 16, 8:30-9:45
A. Brazilian Literature and Culture: Etnia e criação literária no Brasil (Nanticoke)
Chair: Lúcia Costigan, Ohio State U
1. “Banalidade do mal: a representação cinematográfica racial em Cidade de Deus�?
Vanessa C. Fitzgibbon, U of Wisconsin–Madison
2. “Paulo Calda’s A cor da pele and the Myth of Racial Democracy in Brazil�?
Isabel C. R. Ferreira, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B. Portuguese Literature and Culture: Saramago (Thurgood Marshall)
Chair: Carlos Reis, U de Coimbra
1. “Todos os Nomes de José Saramago: o romance como labirinto genológico�?
Ana Paula Arnaut, U de Coimbra
2. “O ver, o não ver e o retorno à lucidez: Ensaio sobre a Cegueira de José Saramago�?
Alessandra Pires, U of Pennsylvania
3. “Seeing Women�?
Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez, U of Wisconsin–Madison
4. “Fictions of Blindness and Enlightenment�?
David Frier, U of Leeds
C. Lusophone African Literatures and Cultures: Mozambican Literature I (Pyon Su)
Chair: Claire Williams, U of Liverpool
1. “What Lies Beyond the Edge of the World: National Liberation and the Locations of the Future in Mia Couto’s Early Fiction�?
Luís Madureira, U of Wisconsin—Madison
2. “Gender, Race, and Violence in Luís Bernardo Honwana’s Nós Matámos o Cão-Tinhoso: The Emasculation of the African Patriarch�?
Mark Sabine, U of Nottingham
3. “A Varanda do Frangipani, uma leitura autopoiética�?
Paula Gândara, Miami U
Break
8. Saturday, Oct 16, 10:00-11:15 am
A. Brazilian Literature and Culture: Memória e narrativa literária (Nanticoke)
Chair: Charles Perrone, U of Florida
1. “Inventing Memories: The Art of Autobiographical Disguise�?
Susan Quinlan, U of Georgia
2. “Oswaldo França Júnior e sua ‘História de Aviadores’�?
Maria Angélica Lopes, U of South Carolina
3. “Flávio Tavares’s Memórias do esquecimento: Testimony or Literary Memoir?�?
Rebecca Atencio, University of Wisconsin—Madison
B. Portuguese Literature and Culture: Reading Pessoa’s Others (Thurgood Marshall)
Chair: Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez, U of Wisconsin–Madison
1. “The Image of the Child in the Poetry of Alberto Caeiro and �?lvaro de Campos�?
Gina M. Reis, U of Massachusetts Dartmouth
2. “Ironic Multiplicity: Fernando’s ‘Pessoas’ Suspended in Kierkegaardian Irony�?
Michelle Pulsipher Hale, Brigham Young U
3. “Mimesis, Pseudonimity, and the Case of Fernando Pessoa�?
Rex Nielson, Brigham Young U
C. Comparative Studies in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Literatures and Cultures: O olhar do outro (Prince George’s Room)
Chair: Joanna Courteau, Iowa State U
1. “A Voyage of Discovery: The Azores in Three Travel Journals�?
Carmen Ramos Villar, U of Sheffield
2. “Silêncios e manipulações no cânone literário: Domingos Caldas Barbosa e Luís da Gama�?
Lúcia Costigan, Ohio State U
D. Portuguese Language and Linguistics V (Pyon Su)
Chair: Rosa Marina de Brito Meyer, PUC do Rio de Janeiro
1. “Falando e agindo: o verbal e o não verbal nas línguas portuguesa e inglesa�?
Rosa Marina de Brito Meyer, PUC do Rio de Janeiro
2. “Formas de tratamento no mundo da fala portuguesa�?
Marta Almeida, Yale U
3. “Working Portuguese: uma nova proposta de ensino�?
Monica Rector, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11:15-12:15 Plenary session (Prince George’s Room)
Laura Cavalcante Padilha, U Federal Fluminense
“Viagens de sujeitos pela alteridade no moderno romance africano�?
Introduction: Phyllis Peres, U of Maryland
12:15-1:30 Lunch
9. Saturday, Oct 16, 1:30-2:45 pm
A. Brazilian Literature and Culture: Memória, narrativa literária e teatro (Nanticoke)
Chair: Maria Angélica Lopes, U of South Carolina
1. “Aporrinhação existencialista: uma leitura do conto ‘A Força Humana’ de Rubem Fonseca�?
Vivaldo Andrade dos Santos, Georgetown U
2. “Os malucos não usam relógio�?
Carlos Veloso, New York U
3. “Theater for the People: São Paulo’s Companhia do Latão Theater Company�?
Steven K. Smith, U of Wisconsin—Madison
B. Portuguese Literature and Culture: Portuguese Culture and National Identity (Thurgood Marshall)
Chair: Ellen Sapega, U of Wisconsin—Madison
1. “A polémica entre Teixeira de Pascoaes e António Sérgio sobre a saudade: uma revisitação�?
Onésimo Almeida, Brown U
2. “Identidade cultural portuguesa: espaço de autonomia e diversidade�?
Fernando Alberto Moreira, U de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
3. “Melodia portuguesa para voz e piano no século XX�?
José de Oliveira Lopes, Instituto Politécnico do Porto
C. Lusophone African Literatures and Cultures: Mozambican Literature II (Pyon Su)
Chair: Phillip Rothwell, Rutgers U—New Brunswick
1. “Matriarchs and Martyrs: Mozambican Women in the Works of Lília Momplé�?
Claire Williams, U of Liverpool
2. “Gendering the Lusotropics: Lília Momplé and the Women in White�?
Hilary Owen, U of Manchester
3. “The Image of ‘America’ in Mozambican Poetry: A Mirror Held Up to an Imagined Other�?
Luís R. Mitra, U Aberta
D. Portuguese Language and Linguistics VI: Apresentação do número de ellipsis dedicado à Linguística (Prince George’s Room)
Chair: Marta Almeida, Yale U
Speakers: Marta Almeida, Yale U; Maria Tereza Biderman, U Estadual Paulista;
Rosa Marina de Brito Meyer, PUC do Rio de Janeiro; M. Celeste Augusto, U Utrecht
10. Saturday, Oct 16, 2:45-4:00 pm
A. Brazilian Literature and Culture: Cânone em questão (Nanticoke)
Chair: Vivaldo Andrade dos Santos, Georgetown U
1. “Doença e escritura: A menina morta de Cornélio Penna�?
Lúcia Pereira de Lucena-Guerra, U de São Paulo
2. “Vozes marginais: fato ou ficção?�?
Tânia Pellegrini, U Federal de São Carlos
B. Portuguese Literature and Culture: Poetry, Sexuality, and Masculinity (Thurgood Marshall)
Chair: Anna Klobucka, U of Massachusetts Dartmouth
1. “Amores obscuros: coincidências estéticas entre Pessoa e Lorca�?
Maria Bolina Lopes, U of California Los Angeles
2. “‘Eu era um homem—e um homem beija a sua própria boca’: ficções da masculinidade na obra de Herberto Helder�?
António Ladeira, Texas Tech U
C. Lusophone African Literatures and Cultures: (Dis)locating Luso-Africa (Pyon Su)
Chair: Hilary Owen, U of Manchester
1. “Traveling at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century to Angola and Mozambique: Bay of Tigers and Blood on the Tracks�?
Phyllis Peres, U of Maryland
2. “Havana in Luanda: Globalization and Loss in Ondjaki’s Bom Dia Camaradas�?
Phillip Rothwell, Rutgers U—New Brunswick
3. “Mapas pós-coloniais de Angola em romances portugueses�?
Ana Mafalda Leite, U de Lisboa
Refreshment Break
11. Saturday, Oct 16, 4:15-5:30
A. Portuguese Literature and Culture: Medieval and Renaissance Rereadings (Thurgood Marshall)
Chair: Greg McNab, U of Rhode Island
1. “Patterns of Emplotment: The Construction of the Crónica de D. Fernando as the Tragedy of a King�?
Amélia P. Hutchinson, U of Georgia
2. “Até que a morte nos separe: as núpcias das plantas n’Os Lusíadas�?
Valéria Souza, U of Massachusetts Dartmouth
B. Lusophone African Literatures and Cultures 5: Launch of Sexual/Textual Empire: Gender and Marginality in Lusophone African Literature (Pyon Su)
Chair: Hilary Owen, U of Manchester; Phillip Rothwell, Rutgers U—New Brunswick
5:30-6:30 General Membership Meeting (Prince George’s Room)