Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies
In association with Liverpool University Press
Postcolonial Bodies
Friday 16 & Saturday 17 November 2012
Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London,
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1 7HU
PROGRAMME
Friday, 16 November 2012
10.30-11.00 Registration
11.00-11.10 Welcome
11.10-12.10 Panel 1: Love and Sex
- David Murphy, ‘Love, Trauma and War: the tirailleurs sénégalais and sexual-racial politics in 1920s France’
- Alessandra Benedicty, ‘Same-Sex Encounters in Haitian Literature: A Discreet, Yet Traceable Lineage’
12.10-2.00 Lunch/AGM
2.00-3.30 Panel 2: Parallel Sessions
Panel 2a: Bodies as Spectacle
- James Williams, ‘Showing the Colonial Body: postcolonial spectacle and the obscene in Abdellatif Kechiche’s Vénus Noire/Black Venus (2010)’
- Claire Griffiths, ‘The enslaved body – an icon of modernity in contemporary francophone African art?’
- Charlotte Hammond, ‘‘Fou’ cé boug la bel’: the reception of costume as gender play in the French Caribbean’
Panel 2b: Gendered Bodies
- Kaiama Glover, ‘Altered States: defensive self-consciousness and the postcolonial Haitian body’
- Sarah Burnautzki, ‘Les ambivalences de la représentation du corps postcolonial dans En Famille (1990) et Trois femmes puissantes (2009) de Marie NDiaye’
- Gillian Nicheallaigh, ‘Parental Troubling and the Abjection of Maternity in Linda Lê’s In Memoriam (2007) and Cronos (2011)’
3.30-4.00 Coffee/Tea
4.00-5.00 Panel 3: Parallel Sessions
Panel 3a: Embodied Performances
- Liz Jones, ‘Embodied Performances of Space in Maghrebi Women’s Writing’
- Dorthea Fronsman-Cecil, ‘Créolité Embodied: Locating Culture’s Human Form in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Solibo Magnifique’
Panel 3b: Body Modification
- Emma Bielecki, ‘Fatalitas!’ Destiny and the Flesh in Gaston Leroux’s Chéri-Bibi novels’
- Kate Averis, ‘Organ Transplants: Malika Mokkddem’s Grafted Postcolonial Body’
5.00-6.00 Dorothy Blair Memorial Lecture
Bill Marshall, ‘Queering the Field: Colonial Oedipus and Anti-Oedipus’
6.00-7.00 Vin d’Honneur
7.30 Dinner
Saturday, 17 November 2012
10.00-11.30 Panel 4: Parallel Sessions
Panel 4a : Metaphors of Physicality
- Margaret Gray, ‘Ingesting the Raw and the Cooked: Cuisine, Culture and The Body in Beyala’s Comment Cuisiner son mari à l’africaine (2000)’
- Sarah-Louise Cooper, ‘Learning, pain, memory, and the child’s body in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Une enfance créole’
- Magali Compan, ‘Décomposition, régurgitation et éviscération dans Nour 1947 de Jean-Luc Raharimanana’
Panel 4b : Body Politics
- Liam Gray Mulroy, ‘Itinerant Bodies in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s La Prière de l’absent’
- Charlotte Baker, ‘“Leur visage raconte leur histoire”: Physical and Psychological Suffering in Libar Fofana’s Le Cri des feuilles qui meurent and l’Etrange rêve d’une femme inachevée’
- Ruth Kitchen, ‘The Violated Body: Complicity and Resistance in Franco-Algerian Cultural Memory’
11.30-12.00 Coffee/Tea
12.00-1.00 Panel 5: Parallel Sessions
Panel 5a: Body marks/markers
- Caroline Williamson, ‘“There is a scar but I lie to people and tell them that it is a birthmark”: The stigmatised bodies of Rwandan women genocide survivors’
- Jennifer Yee, ‘Zola and the “Primitive Within”: Racial Othering of the Western Body’
Panel 5b: Biopolitics
- Alessandro Corio, ‘Édouard Glissant, the Colonial Body and Biopolitics’
- Megan MacDonald, ‘Disposability/Mobility, Or France/Algeria in Jacques Audiard’s “Un prophète” (2009)’
1.00-2.30 Lunch
2.30-3.30 Panel 6: Parallel Sessions
Panel 6a: Dead Bodies
- Justin Izzo, ‘Talking Corpses and the Body Politic: Abasse Ndione’s Narrative Corporeality’
- Karine Ramondy. ‘Le martyr du corps assassiné des leaders africains au temps des indépendances : entre visibilité et invisibilité’
Panel 6b: Writing Women’s Bodies
- Mairead Walsh, ‘Re-appropriating the Female Body: Valcin, Chauvet and Danticat’
- Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani, ‘Postcolonial Incorporations: Destabilising Space, Re-mapping the Body in Nicole Brossard’s French Kiss: étreinte et exploration (1974)’
3.30-4.00 Tea/Coffee
4.00-5.00 Keynote Speaker
Zoe Norridge, ‘Survivor bodies – looking, seeing, living – Rwanda after 1994’
5.00 Close of Conference
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To download the original call for papers, click here.
