University of Minnesota, October 5-7, 2006
Conference Program
Thursday, October 5
9:00 am-12:00 APSA Executive Committee Meeting (Folwell 51)
12:00-5:00 pm Registration and Book Exhibit coordinated by University of Minnesota Press (Weisman Art Museum)
1:00-2:30 pm Conference Opening and Plenary Session (Shepherd Room, Weisman Museum)
1 pm Opening Remarks
James Parente, Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota
Ana Paula Ferreira, Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Minnesota
Anna M. Klobucka, President, American Portuguese Studies Association
1:15-2:30 pm Paulina Chiziane, “Escritores: mensageiros da memória�? [Writers: Messengers of Memory]. English translation will be provided.
Introduction: Hilary Owen, University of Manchester
1. Thursday, Oct 5, 3:00-4:15 pm (Coffman Memorial Union and Weisman Art Museum)
A. Lusophone African Colloquium: Postcolonialism and Globalization (in Honor of Professor Emeritus Russell Hamilton)
Moderator: Fernando Arenas, University of Minnesota
Dale Shepherd Room, Weisman Art Museum
1. Russell Hamilton, Emeritus, Vanderbilt University, “‘A dolorosa raiz do micondó’: A voz poética intimista, são-tomense, pan-africanista e globalista de Conceição Lima�?
2. Hilary Owen, University of Manchester, “Third World/Third Sex: Gender, Orality and a Tale of Two Marias in Mia Couto and Paulina Chiziane�?
3. Inocência Mata, Universidade de Lisboa, “Sob o signo do micondó: a problemática da identidade na literatura são-tomense�?
B. Brazilian Literature and Culture: Monteiro Lobato, (Anti-)Modernist
Moderator: Charles A. Perrone, University of Florida
Room 303
1. Pedro Meira Monteiro, Princeton University, “Entre duas preguiças: Macunaíma e o Jeca Tatu�?
2. Malcolm K. McNee, Smith College, “Writing a Modern Rurality: Spatial and Temporal Antinomies in Monteiro Lobato�?
3. Marisa Lajolo, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, “A Nova York de Monteiro Lobato�?
C. Portuguese Literature and Culture: Space, Gender and the Novel in Eça de Queirós
Moderator: Ana Paula Arnaut, Universidade de Coimbra
Room 319
1. Sandra I. Sousa, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, “A importância do espaço na constituição do género em O Primo Basílio de Eça de Queirós�?
2. Estela Vieira, Yale University, “Furnishing the Novel: Interiors and the Framing of Eça de Queirós’s Os Maias�?
3. Gina Reis, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, “The Quest for Manhood in Eça de Queirós’s A Ilustre Casa de Ramires�?
D. Portuguese Language and Linguistics I
Moderator: Marian Schoenmakers Klein Gunnewiek, Universiteit Utrecht
Room 305
1. José Barbosa Machado, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, “A tradução portuguesa do Livro das Confissões de Martín Pérez (Alcobaça, 1399): contextualização histórica e estudo linguístico�?
2. Fernando Alberto Torres Moreira, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, “Implicações sócio-culturais no Livro das Confissões de Martín Pérez (Alcobaça, 1399)�?
3. Helena Santos, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, “Coordenadas do pensamento linguístico de Francisco Adolpho Coelho�?
4:30-6:00 Opening Reception (Gallery, Weisman Art Museum)
Remarks: Joanna Courteau, Iowa State University
Friday, October 6
8:00 am-1 pm Registration and Book Exhibit (Third Floor, Coffman Memorial Union)
8:00-9:00 am Continental Breakfast (Third Floor, Coffman Memorial Union)
2. Friday, Oct 6, 8:30-9:45 am (Coffman Memorial Union)
A. Lusophone African Colloquium: Postcolonialism and Globalization
Moderator: Mark Sabine, University of Nottingham
President’s Room
1. Charlie Sugnet, University of Minnesota, “Lusophone African Film and Belated National Liberation Struggle�?
2. Anne Pitcher, Colgate University, “Private Space in a Post-War City: Cars, ‘Cardolatry,’ and Social Exclusion in Luanda, Angola�?
3. Marissa Moorman, Indiana University, “‘Bué Angolano’: Youth, Music and Nation in Contemporary Angola�?
B. Portuguese Literature and Culture: Nineteenth-Century Visual Presences and Social Power
Moderator: Victor K. Mendes, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Room 303
1. Rebecca Jones-Kellogg, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Social Ramifications of the nação cadáver in Alexandre Herculano’s Eurico o Presbítero�?
2. Inês Cordeiro Dias, Universidad de Puerto Rico, “O poder destrutivo da sexualidade feminina na sociedade burguesa novecentista�?
3. Vera Fonseca, Universiteit Utrecht, “O Crime do Padre Amaro: o ‘visível’ em Eça de Queirós, o ‘lisível’ em Paula Rego e o ‘visual’ da ‘figuração’�?
C. Brazilian Literature and Culture: Texts and Images
Moderator: Claire Williams, University of Liverpool
Room 324
1. Lúcia Sá, University of Manchester, “Life in the Megalopolis: São Paulo in Contemporary Literature�?
2. Vera Regina Teixeira, Northwestern University, “Text and Texture in Nélida Piñon’s imaginário�?
3. Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Fox Files: On Carmen Miranda�?
D. Portuguese Literature and Culture: History and Intertextuality
Moderator: Paulo de Medeiros, Universiteit Utrecht
Room 325
1. Pedro Serra, University of Salamanca, “Compromisso e cumplicidade: romance e romancistas durante as ditaduras peninsulares�?
2. Ana Maria Delgado, Georgetown University, “Intertextualidade em Os Passeios do Sonhador Solitário de Almeida Faria�?
3. Gregory McNab, University of Rhode Island, “Scrutinizing History’s Rearguard: Barranco de Cegos (1962) and A Crise da Consciência Pequeno-Burguesa (1962)
3. Friday, Oct 6, 10:00-11:15 am (Coffman Memorial Union)
A. Lusophone African Colloquium: Postcolonialism and Globalization
Moderator: Marissa Moorman, Indiana University
President’s Room
1. Clara Saraiva, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, “African Altars from Guinea-Bissau in Lisbon�?
2. Keisha Fikes, University of Chicago, “The Politics of Cape Verdean Labor and Residency in EU Portugal�?
3. Fernando Arenas, University of Minnesota, “On the Global and the Postcolonial: The Multiple Locations and Directions of Lusophone Africa�?
B. Portuguese Language and Linguistics II
Moderator: José Barbosa Machado, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Room 324
1. Patrícia Graça, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, “A ocorrência de objecto nulo no Português Europeu�?
2. Marian Schoenmakers Klein Gunnewiek, Universiteit Utrecht, “The Use of Person and Place Deixis by Portuguese Migrants in the Netherlands�?
3. Carlos Gohn, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, “Teaching the Demonstrative ‘Esse,’ ‘Este’ and ‘Aquele’ in Brazilian Portuguese for Speakers of English�?
C. Portuguese Literature and Culture: (E)Migrations
Moderator: Gregory McNab, University of Rhode Island
Room 303
1. Carmen Ramos Villar, University of Sheffield, “Life-in-Transit: Cristóvão de Aguiar’s Depiction of the Emigrant Figure�?
2. Anthony Soares, Queens University, Belfast, “Lusophone Postcoloniality Reaches Contested Anglo-Space: The Case of Lusophone Migration to Northern Ireland�?
3. Kimberly DaCosta Holton, Rutgers University-Newark, “Searching for a ‘Big Sky Kind of Life’: Retornados in Newark, NJ�?
4. Friday, Oct 6, 11:30-12:45 pm (Coffman Memorial Union)
A. Brazilian Literature and Culture: Pensando Clarice
Moderator: Lúcia Sá, University of Manchester
President’s Room
1. Claire Williams, University of Liverpool, “Clarice, Citizen of the World: Lispector’s Travels�?
2. Barbara Pierre-Louis, University of Minnesota, “‘A Menor Mulher do Mundo’ e o olhar pertubador�?
B. Portuguese Literature and Culture: Evil, Violence and Mysticism
Moderator: Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Room 324
1. Francisco Serra-Lopes, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, “On Evil as a Narrative Condition: Maria Gabriela Llansol’s O Senhor de Herbais�?
2. Paulo de Medeiros, Universiteit Utrecht, “As duas violências�?
3. Robert Simon, Kennesaw State University, “Mysticism’s Translation: Clara Janés’s Translation of António Ramos Rosa’s O Aprendiz Secreto and its Connection to Contemporary Mystical Poetry�?
C. Lusophone African Literatures and Cultures: Dialogues with Paulina Chiziane/Diálogos com Paulina Chiziane
Moderator: Inocência Mata, Universidade de Lisboa
Room 303
1. Sheila Khan, University of Manchester, “Velhas margens, novos centros em Ventos do Apocalipse de Paulina Chiziane�?
2. Ana Margarida Dias Martins, University of Manchester, “‘Contra as bactérias mágicas, sobrenaturais’: um diagnóstico do exótico em O Sétimo Juramento de Paulina Chiziane�?
3. Eleusio Filipe, University of Minnesota, “History and Fiction in Paulina Chiziane’s Niketche: Reflections on Linguistic, Ethnic and Regional Identities in Post-Colonial Mozambique�?
D. Portuguese Language and Linguistics III
Moderator: Helena Santos, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Room 325
1. Benedict Cruz, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, “Technogender: Investigating Gender Equity Challenges in Educational Technology�?
2. Margo Milleret, University of New Mexico, “Teaching Speech Acts�?
3. Luíz Amaral, The Ohio State University, Detmar Meurers, The Ohio State University, and Gláucia Silva, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, “Using Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) Systems to Support Portuguese Instruction�?
1:00-2:15 Lunch Break
5. Friday, Oct 6, 2:30-3:45 pm (Coffman Memorial Union)
A. Brazilian Literature and Culture: Probing Narratives
Moderator: Pedro Meira Monteiro, Princeton University
Room 303
1. Charlotte Liddell, University of Manchester, “Between ‘Founding Text’ and ‘Literary Prank’: Reasoning the Roots of Nísia Floresta’s Direitos das Mulheres e Injustiça dos Homens�?
2. Talía Guzmán-González, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Masculinity and Friendship: The Case of Raul Pompéia and Lima Barreto�?
3. Patrícia Vieira, Harvard University, “Human, Less than Human: Blindness, Madness and Animality in Graciliano Ramos’s Memórias do Cárcere�?
B. Portuguese Literature and Culture: Fernando Pessoa (Special Session in Honor of Professor Joanna Courteau, First President of APSA)
Moderator: Ellen Sapega, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Room 324
1. António Ladeira, Texas Tech University, “Formulações e ‘fingimentos’ da masculinidade em Fernando Pessoa�?
2. Carlos Veloso, New York University, “Eduardo Lourenço: o esplendor do crítico no labirinto de Fernando Pessoa�?
3. Maria Bolina Lopes, University of California, Los Angeles, “Publicação e ser público em Fernando Pessoa�?
4. Tania Martuscelli, Yale University, “A poética (inédita) de Mário Henrique Leiria leitor de Fernando Pessoa�?
C. Lusophone African Literatures and Cultures: Nation, Language and Literature in Luso- African Communities I
Moderator: Adriana Alves de Paula Martins, Universidade Católica Portuguesa de Viseu
President’s Room
1. Jessica Falconi, Università di Napoli/Universidade de Lisboa, “Fronteiras líquidas: Imagens da Ilha de Moçambique na construção discursiva da moçambicanidade�?
2. Livia Apa, Università di Napoli, “Representações da guerra na literatura angolana�?
3. Victor K. Mendes, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, “A crise angolana da representação em O Manequim e o Piano de Manuel Rui�?
D. Comparative Studies in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Literatures and Cultures: Transcontinental Reflections
Moderator: Kimberly DaCosta Holton, Rutgers University-Newark
Room 325
1. Monica Faust, The Ohio State University, “The Decolonization of the Psychic Space in Marilene Felinto’s As Mulheres de Tijucopapo and Gayl Jones’s Corregidora�?
2. Jeroen Datema, Universiteit Utrecht, “O impasse da impersonalidade na crítica fradiquiana: a ‘Razão Ocidental’ revisitada por José Eduardo Agualusa em Nação Crioula�?
Refreshment Break (Third Floor, Coffman Memorial Union)
6. Friday, Oct 6, 4:00-5:15 pm (Coffman Memorial Union)
A. Brazilian Literature and Culture: Afro-Brazilian Discourses
Moderator: Alessandra Pires, Missouri State University
Room 303
1. Lúcia Helena Costigan, The Ohio State University, “Ubiquidade e afirmação da cultura africana no Brasil setecentista�?
2. Robert Krueger, University of Northern Iowa, “Dramatizing the Brazilian Slave Narratives�?
3. Dawn Duke, University of Tennessee, “Early Black Brazilian Press: Origins of Consciousness and Literature�?
B. Lusophone African Literatures and Cultures: Nation, Language and Literature in Luso- African Communities II
Moderator: Livia Apa, Università di Napoli
Room 324
1. Paula Medeiros, Universidade de Coimbra, “Rioseco de Manuel Rui: conhecimentos ficcionados e poder social�?
2. Leonor Simas-Almeida, Brown University, “A interferência dos afectos nas narrativas de A Ilha Fantástica de Germano Almeida�?
C. Portuguese Literature and Culture: Special Session in Memory of Professor René Garay
Moderator: Onésimo Almeida, Brown University
Room 325
1. José Ornelas, University of Massachusetts Amherst, “Divergences and Convergences: Between Ensaio sobre a cegueira and Ensaio sobre a lucidez�?
2. Anna M. Klobucka, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, “The Solitary Reaper Sings Again (and Again): Wordsworth, Meynell, Pessoa, Espanca, Lopes�?
3. José Suárez, University of Northern Colorado, “Pessoa and the Occult: Selected Poems�?
6:00-7:00 pm Plenary Session and Roberto Reis Memorial Lecture
(James Ford Bell Library, Wilson Library, West Bank)
Welcoming Remarks: Marguerite Ragnow, Curator, James Ford Bell Library Luiz Felipe de Alencastro , Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), “‘They Don’t Want to Work, So They Don’t Speak’: Language, Slavery and Culture in Brazil and Angola�?
Introduction: Lúcia Sá, University of Manchester
7:00-8:00 pm Reception (James Ford Bell Library)
8:15 pm Informal Soirée (Guthrie Theater)
(Transportation will be provided)
Saturday, October 7
8:00-9:00 am Continental Breakfast (Room 301, Coffman Memorial Union)
7. Saturday, Oct 7, 8:30-9:45 (Coffman Memorial Union and Weisman Art Museum)
A. Brazilian Literature and Culture: Narrative, Modernism and Memory
Moderator: Lúcia Helena Costigan, The Ohio State University
Room 303
1. Vivaldo Andrade dos Santos, Georgetown University, “Neither Cosmopolitan nor Regionalist, Neither National nor Universal, but a Global Literature: A Study of José Geraldo Vieira’s A Quadragésima Porta�?
2. Helenita Rosa Franco, PUC-Rio Grande do Sul, �?Literatura e acervos literários�?
B. Portuguese Literature and Culture: Medieval and Renaissance Readings and Translations
Moderator: Pedro Serra, Universidad de Salamanca
Room 319
1. Amélia Hutchinson, University of Georgia, “Gaining in Translation: The Fernão Lopes Project�?
2. Eti de Vries, Universiteit Utrecht, “Os Lusíadas and the Netherlands: A Combination in Translation�?
3. Josiah Blackmore, University of Toronto, “António Ferreira and the Renaissance Fanchono�?
C. Comparative Studies in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Literatures and Cultures: Lusophone Lacan
Moderator: Hilary Owen, University of Manchester
Dale Shepherd Room, Weisman Art Museum
1. Phillip Rothwell, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, “The Portuguese Thing or Facing the Real in Almeida Garrett�?
2. Memory Holloway, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, “The Introjected Other, or Why Everyday Objects Matter�?
3. Ana Paula Ferreira, University of Minnesota, “Lídia Jorge’s Fictions of the Real�?
8. Saturday, Oct 7, 10:00-11:15 am (Coffman Memorial Union)
A. Brazilian Literature and Culture: Brazilian Women in Musical Performance
Moderator: Malcolm McNee, Smith College
Room 303
1. Dário Borim, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, “Chiquinha Gonzaga: uma pioneira ou precursora da MPB socialmente engajada?�?
2. Rhonda Collier, Abilene Christian University, “Introducing Nega Gizza: Hip Hop and Black Feminism in Rio�?
3. Charles A. Perrone, University of Florida, “Women’s Voices in Brazilian Transamerican Lyric�?
B. Portuguese Literature and Culture: José Saramago
Moderator: José Ornelas, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Room 319
1. Ana Paula Arnaut, Universidade de Coimbra, “José Saramago: singularidades de uma morte plural�?
2. David Frier, University of Leeds, “Rhetorical Technique and Intertextuality in José Saramago’s Levantado do Chão�?
3. Ana Letícia Fauri, Brown University, “A questão da identidade e a representação do sujeito em José Saramago�?
C. Comparative Studies in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Literatures and Cultures: Pepetela in Counterpoint
Moderator: Carmen Ramos Villar, University of Sheffield
Dale Shepherd Room, Weisman Art Museum
1. Nicholas Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago, “African Literature, Modernism, and the Historical Sublime: Pepetela and William Gaddis�?
2. Adriana Alves de Paula Martins, Universidade Católica Portuguesa de Viseu, “Post-Imperial Spaces and the Politics of Return in As Naus and A Geração da Utopia�?
3. Fabiana B. Carelli Marquezini, Universidade de São Paulo, “Estilhaços na estrada: a estética da guerra nos romances de Lobo Antunes e Pepetela�?
D. Portuguese Language and Linguistics IV
Moderator: Amélia Hutchinson, University of Georgia
Room 304
1. Carlos Assunção, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, “Noções nucleares de sintaxe em Augusto Epiphanio da Silva Dias�?
2. Edyta Jabłonka, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, “Estudo comparativo do sistema dos tempos passados na língua portuguesa e polaca�?
3. Ana María García Martín, Universidad de Salamanca, “Ficções da origem: teorias sobre a origem do português no contexto hispânico�?
11:30-12:30 Plenary session (Shepherd Room, Weisman Art Museum)
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Universidade de Coimbra/University of Wisconsin- Madison, “Portugal: At the Crossroads of Different Historical Times�?
Introduction: Anna Klobucka, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
12:30-1:45 Lunch Break
9. Saturday, Oct 7, 1:45-3:00 pm (Coffman Memorial Union and Weisman Art Museum)
A. Brazilian Literature and Culture: Brazilian Narrative of the 1980s
Moderator: Marisa Lajolo, Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Room 303
1. Robin Peery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “On Abjection in Lya Luft�?
2. Vanessa C. Fitzgibbon, Brigham Young University, “Ainda Viv[e] o povo brasileiro? Paródia, história e ressentimento na obra de João Ubaldo Ribeiro�?
3. Marcus Vinícius Câmara Brasileiro, University of Minnesota, “A crise é a prova dos 9�?
B. Portuguese Literature and Culture: Telling and Weaving Stories in the Portuguese Twentieth Century
Moderator: David Frier, University of Leeds
Dale Shepherd Room, Weisman Art Museum
1. Onésimo Almeida, Brown University, “Natália Correia e a sua breve aventura americana: o não-dito em Descobri que Era Europeia�?
2. Mark Sabine, University of Nottingham, “Post-Imperial Penelopes in Portuguese Literature of the 1980s�?
3. Joana Duarte, Universidade de Coimbra, “Uma teia para duas mãos: história e memória em Os Cus de Judas e As Naus de António Lobo Antunes�?
C. Comparative Studies in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Literatures and Cultures: Portugal and Africa
Moderator: Phillip Rothwell, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Room 304
1. José Pedro Ferreira, University of Toronto, “Portugal e �?frica, diálogos poéticos: representações do negro em alguns poetas portugueses do século XX�?
2. Denise Saive, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “‘A Verdadeira Notícia’: Representações do Outro africano em textos portugueses e holandeses do século XVI�?
D. Portuguese Language and Linguistics V
Moderator: Margo Milleret, University of New Mexico
Room 305
1. Gonçalo Fernandes, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, “Amaro de Roboredo (séc. XVII): um precursor da Gramática Comparada e de Chomsky?�?
2. Helena Topa Valentim, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, “Enunciação relatada e construção de um valor polémico: o caso de alguns predicados subjectivos e a construção de um ponto de vista modal duplo�?
3. Carla Simplício, University of Massachussetts Dartmouth, “A polissemia do advérbio ‘sempre’ no Português Europeu�?
Refreshment Break (Room 301, Coffman Memorial Union)
10. Saturday, Oct 7, 3:15-4:30 pm (Coffman Memorial Union and Weisman Art Museum)
A. Brazilian Literature and Culture: Brazilian and Lusophone Film
Moderator: Dário Borim, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Room 303
1. Alessandra M. Pires, Missouri State University, “Janela da Alma: percepções do invisível�?
2. Claudia Barbosa Nogueira, University of Tulsa, “Looking Forward: Choice, History, and Identity in Amores possíveis and A Dona da história�?
3. Bonnie Sue Wasserman, Rutgers University-Newark, “Mass Appeal: Religion in Lusophone Cinema�?
B. Portuguese Literature and Culture: Women, Place and Time
Moderator: Ana Paula Ferreira, University of Minnesota
Room 304
1. Ellen Sapega, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Time, Place and Memory in Irene Lisboa�?
2. Paula Jordão, Universiteit Utrecht, “O desejo de ser e (re)lembrar em O Belo Adormecido de Lídia Jorge�?
3. Debbie �?vila, California State University, Fresno, “Alice Ogando as Mary Love: The Romance Novel as Fantasy and Reality�?
4. Ana Raquel Fernandes, Universidade de Lisboa, “In Less Than No Time: Maria Judite de Carvalho’s Tanta Gente, Mariana�?
C. Portuguese Language and Linguistics VI: Presentation of Ponto de Encontro: Portuguese as a World Language (Prentice Hall, 2007)
Dale Shepherd Room, Weisman Art Museum
Speakers: Anna M. Klobucka (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth), Amélia Hutchinson (University of Georgia) and Rachel McCoy (Prentice Hall)
5:00-6:00 pm General Membership Meeting (Room 303, Coffman Memorial Union)
8:00 pm Film Screening: O Herói (Zezé Gamboa [Angola], 2004)
Introduction: Fernando Arenas, University of Minnesota
Walker Art Center (transportation will be provided)
Sunday, October 8
1:00 pm Film Screening: Juventude em marcha (Pedro Costa [Portugal/France/Switzerland/Cape Verde], 2006)
Introduction: Ana Paula Ferreira, University of Minnesota
Walker Art Center (transportation will be provided)