AMERICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION

A COALITION OF SOCIETIES

DEVOTED TO THE STUDY OF

AMERICAN AUTHORS

13^TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON AMERICAN LITERATURE

MAY 30-JUNE 2, 2002

HYATT REGENCY LONG BEACH

200 SOUTH PINE AVENUE

LONG BEACH, CA 90802

(562) 491-1234

CONFERENCE DIRECTOR

JEANNE CAMPBELL REESMAN

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, SAN ANTONIO

ACKNOWLEGMENTS

I would like to thank all the society representatives, chairs, and panelists for their contributions to the conference. Special thanks go to Alfred Bendixen, Executive Director of the ALA; at California State University, Los Angeles, to English Department Chair Steven Jones, Dean of Arts and Letters Carl Selkin, and President James M. Rosser for their continued support of the organization; and to Hortencia Sauceda at the University of Texas at San Antonio, for preparing the typed version of the program.

Best wishes for a successful conference,

Jeanne C. Reesman

Ashbel Smith Professor of English

University of Texas at San Antonio

Please Be Sure to Visit the Book Exhibit

In Regency Ballroom A

For future information on our annual conference and other upcoming ALA symposia and events, please consult our website at:

www.americanliterature.org

PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS

REGISTRATION, Regency Foyer

Thursday, May 30, 7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Friday, May 31, 7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Saturday, June 1, 7:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.

Sunday, June 2, 7:30-10:00 a.m.

BOOK EXHIBIT, Regency Ballroom A

Thursday, May 30, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Friday, May 31, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Saturday, June 1, 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.

THURSDAY, MAY 30

“Ralph Ellison: An American Journey,” California Newsreel Series, Film Screening, 5:00-6:20 p.m., Regency C

After H.D.: A Reading by Contemporary Poets

5:00-6:20 p.m., Seaview C

Resources for American Literary Studies Reception

5:00-6:20 p.m., Pacific

Welcome Reception, 6:30-8:00 p.m., Beacon Ballroom A

FRIDAY, MAY 31

Poetry, Class, Consciousness: A Reading/Performance of Writers with Working-Class Roots

5:00-6:20 p.m., Regency C

John Edgar Wideman Society/Toni Morrison Society/ African American Culture and Literature Society Reception, 5:00-6:20 p.m., Shoreline A

Society of Early Americanists/Society for the Study of American Women Writers Reception, 5:00-6:20 p.m., Seaview C

ALA Business Meeting for Official Representatives of Societies, 6:30-7:45 p.m., Regency F

SATURDAY, JUNE 1

Closing Celebration, 6:30-8:00 p.m., Seaview Rotunda and Foyer
American Literature Association

2002 Conference

May 30-June 2, 2002

Hyatt Regency Hotel, Long Beach

Session I: Thursday, May 30, 8:00-8:50 a.m.

1. BUSINESS MEETING: Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society, Regency F
2. BUSINESS MEETING: Edgar Allan Poe Society, Seaview A
3. BUSINESS MEETING: Wallace Stegner Society, Shoreline A
4. BUSINESS MEETING: Katherine Anne Porter Society, Pacific
5. BUSINESS MEETING: Stephen Crane Society, Pool Patio

Session II: Thursday, May 30, 8:30-9:50 a.m.

1. NOVELIST, DRAMATIST, ACTIVIST: A RECONSIDERATION OF THE LIFE AND WORK OF ZONA GALE, FORGOTTEN FEMINIST, Regency C

Chair: Deborah Lindsay Williams, Iona College

1. “Zona Gale and Margery Latimer: Influence, Patronage, and Narrative Control,” Joy Castro, Wabash College

2. “’We’re Hidden People – All of Us’: The Fertile Prospect of Zona Gale’s Faint Perfume,” Susan Tomlinson, Fairfield University

3. “Miss Lulu Bett from Novel to Film,” Donna Campbell, Gonzaga University

2. AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Regency D

Chair: Loretta Woodard, Marygrove College and the African American Culture and Literature Society

1. “The Whole Story: Autobiographies by African American Women and the Writing of a Womanist Intellectual Tradition,” Amanda Davis, University of Florida

2. “Harriet Jacobs and the Rochester Rappers,” Anne Warner, Spelman College

3. “The Mischling Other and Nazi Extermination Policies: Has J. Massaquoi’s Racial Torments in Destined to Witness,” Virginia Whatley Smith, University of Alabama, Birmingham

4. “Sanctified Ladies: The Transformative Power of Sanctification in 19^th-Century

Black Women’s Spiritual Autobiographies,” Rosetta Haynes, Indiana State

University

3. CRIME AND THE LEGAL SYSTEM IN ETHNIC WRITING, Regency E

Chair: Bill Mullen, University of Texas – San Antonio and The Society for the Study of Multi Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS)

1. “‘The past will drive you crazy and the future kill you dead’: Time, Space, and Abjection in Chester Himes’ Prison Fiction,” Kimberly Drake, Virginia Wesleyan College

2. “Democratic Mechanics: Migrancy and the Labor of Legal Recognition,” Valerie Karno, University of Rhode Island

3. “Gar Anthony Haywood’s Crime Fiction: Reading Current Events, Reading Community,” Albert Uriah Turner, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

4. AESTHETICS AND POLITICS IN EARLY AMERICA, Seaview B

Chair: Zabelle Stodola, University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the Society of Early Americanists

1. “Our Own Indulgence: Aesthetic Pleasure in Revolutionary Women’s Poetry,” Ed Cahill, Rutgers University

2. “Like Clockwork: Aesthetics and Models of Machinery in the Early Republic,” Paul Gilmore, Bucknell University

3. “Civic Involvement and Cosmopolitan Ideology in Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia,” Chiara Cillerai, Rutgers University

4. “John Davis, Print Culture, and the Battle over Interpretive Authority,” Scott Ellis, Emory University

Session III: Thursday, May 30, 10:00-11:20 a.m.

1. CULTURE, NATION, DIASPORA: MODERN FIGURATIONS OF THE CARIBBEAN, Regency C

Chair: Juanita Heredia, Western Oregon Univesity and Latina/o Literature and Culture Society

1. “Spiritual Thunder: Santeria as Counterculture in Alvarez’s Fiction and Poetry,” Susan Mendez, University of California, Riverside

2. “Mambo, Bolero, or Dirge: The Politics of Music and Dance Performance in Oscar Hijuelos’ Mambo Kings,” Ruth Blandon, University of Southern California

3. “Cuban Diasporas: Race and Displacement on and off the Island,” Antonio López, Rutgers University

2. WILLA CATHER AND THE AMERICAN MIND, Regency D

Chair: John N. Swift, Occidental College and the Willa Cather Society

1. “Willa Cather’s Radical Empiricism,” Merrill Skaggs, Drew University

2. “Doing Nothing: William James, Willa Cather, and Inaction,” Guy Reynolds, University of Kent at Canterbury

3. “Cather as Educator: Lessons of The Professor’s House,” David Puente, University of California, Irvine

3. NEW VOICES: EXILE, RECONCILIATION, AND PAIN, Regency E

Chair: Daniel Walden, Penn State University and the Society for American Jewish Literature/Studies in American Jewish Literature

1. “In Exile Once Again: Allegra Goodman’s Diasporic Jewish Americans,” Victoria Aarons, Trinity University

2. “Creating Narrative Golems in Michael Chabon’s ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay,’” Derek P. Royal, Prairie View A&M

3. “Thane Rosenbaum’s ‘Golems of Gotham,’” Daniel Walden, Penn State University

4. QUESTIONING TRAVEL, Regency F

Chair: Russ Pottle, St. Joseph Abbey, and Valerie Smith, Quinnipiac University and the Society for American Travel Writing

1. “That Sense of Constant Re-Adjustment”—Elizabeth Bishop and her ‘Questions of Travel,’” Sara Meyer, The University of Haifa

2. “Writing One’s Way Home: Travel Narratives and Postmodern American Identities,” Stacy Burton, University of Nevada, Reno

3. “Beyond Words, Time, and Space: African American Travel Writing as Teaching Tool,” Kolby W. Bilal, The College of William and Mary

5. NATURALISM, Seaview A

Chair: Lawrence I. Berkove, University of Michigan, Dearborn

1. “Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle: A Neglected Novel,” Orm Overland, University of Bergen, Norway

2. “An Aesthetic Reading of Imbalance in Sister Carrie,” Jeff Jaeckle

3. “The “Golden Girl” of Life, and of Death: Nora May French,” Mary Rudge, Alameda, California

6. JIM HARRISON, Seaview B

Chair: Dr. Robert Mott and the Jim Harrison Society

1. “Transgression and Vengeance in Jim Harrison and John D. MacDonald,” Dr. Aaron Parrett, University of Great Falls

2. “Self-presentation and Performance: Jim Harrison’s Brown Dog Writes Himself Home,” Hayley Mitchell Haugen, Ohio University

3. “The Spirit of Place: The Literature and Landscape of Jim Harrison,” Dr. Gregory Torrey, Independent Scholar

4. “A Critical ‘I’: The Evolution of Spirit in Jim Harrison’s Fiction,” Lilli Ross, Purchase College

7. SPACE AND SPIRIT IN WIDEMAN’S WORK, Seaview C

Chair: Karen Jahn, Assumption College and the John Edgar Wideman Society

1. “Trafficking Blood: Rendering Dis(-)ease and National Subjects in John Edgar Wideman’s ‘Fever,’” Nicole Waligora-Davis, Cornell University

2. “Promised Lands: The New Jerusalem’s Inner City and John Edgar Wideman’s Philadelphia Story,” Nathan Grant, SUNY Buffalo

3. “Hip Talk and Stylized Walk: Language as the ‘Key to the Kingdom’ in John E. Wideman’s Brother and Keepers,” Wilfred Samuels, University of Utah

8. JIM DANIELS AND THE POETRY OF WORKING-CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS, Shoreline A

Chair: Bill Mullen, University of Texas at San Antonio

1. “This is Not My Beautiful Poem: Jim Daniels’s Working-Class Poetics,” Renny

Christopher, University of California, Stanislaus

2. “Demystifying Racist Formations: The Complexities of Narrative as Praxis in Jim

Daniels’s ‘Time, Temperature,’” Sean Thomas Dougherty, Penn State, Erie

3. “The ‘Where You At’ of Jim Daniels’s Poetry,” Bill Mohr, University of

California, Davis

4. “Working-Class Consciousness in the Poetry of Jim Daniels,” Will Watson,

University of Southern Mississippi

Session IV: Thursday, May 30, 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.

1. MEXICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS, Regency C

Chair: Linda Longo, University of Texas at San Antonio

1. “’Digging Out Color’: The Mexican Image in María Christina Mena’s Short Stories,” Delilah A. Bermúdez, Tufts University

2. “Railroads, Resistance, Racism and Global Capitalism in Maria Ramparo Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don and Frank Norris’s The Octopus,” Scott Derrick, Rice University

2. HENRY ADAMS STUDIES: PROSPECTS, Regency D

Chair: Earl N. Harbert, Northeastern University and the Henry Adams Society

1. “Is There any Such Thing as The Education of Henry Adams?” Edward Chalfant, Hofstra University
2. “The Global Adams,” Paul A. Bové

3. BUSINESS MEETING: Latina/o Literature and Culture Society, Regency E
4. BUSINESS MEETING: Jim Harrison Society, Regency F
5. BUSINESS MEETING: Flannery O’Connor Society, Seaview A

F. BUSINESS MEETING: William Faulkner Society, Seaview B

Session V: Thursday, May 30, 12:30-1:50 p.m.

1. WIRING THE OVERSOUL: TEACHING THE ROMANTICS ON-LINE, Regency C

Chair: Sandy Petrulionis, Penn State Altoona and the Thoreau Society

1. “Pip’s Soliloquy: Representing Race in Multimedia,” Wyn Kelley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2. “The Classroom Electric & More: Learning from the Dickinson Electronic Archives Project,” Jarom McDonald and Martha Nell Smith, University of Maryland

3. “Spinning a Transcendental Web: The Making of a Collaborative Hypertext,” Ann Woodlief, Virginia Commonwealth University

B. TRIPLE-DECKER DREISER: SISTER CARRIE, JENNIE GERHARDT, AND AN

AMERICAN TRAGEDY, Regency D

Chair: Jon Dietrick, University of Connecticut and the Theodore Dreiser Society,

1. “Consumption, Class, and the City: Dreiser’s Sister Carrie,” Catherine Jurca, California Institute of Technology
2. “Reconsidering the Coda in the Restored Jennie Gerhardt,” Annemarie Koning Whaley, East Texas Baptist University
3. “Gender and Power in the Visualizing of Dreiser’s An American Tragedy,” Jude Davies, King Alfred’s College

C. FLANNERY O’CONNOR’S CHILDREN, Regency E

Chair: Sura P. Rath, Louisiana State University and the Flannery O’Connor Society

1. “Ignoring ‘Unmistakble Likeness’: Mark Fortune’s Miss-Fortune in Flannery O’Oconnor’s ‘A View of the Woods,’” Avis Hewitt, Grand Valley State University
2. “Tarwater—One of Flannery O’Connor’s Youngest Children,” Helen R. Andretta, York College, CUNY
3. “‘Exceptional’ Children: Disposing of Bishop and Lucynell Crater,” William Monroe, University of Houston

D ELIZABETH BISHOP: DOMESTIC OR COSMOPOLITAN? Regency F

Chair: Gary Fountain, Ithaca College and the Elizabeth Bishop Society

1. “The Homely and the Hieratic: After the Symbolist Voyage,” Weixing Su, Rutgers University

2. “Bishop’s Cosmopolitan ‘Moral Owl,’” Susan McCabe, University of Southern California

3. “Bishop’s Heterotopias,” Steven G. Axelrod, University of California, Riverside

4. “Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of Three Nations?” Thomas Travisano, Hartwick College

5. DESTINATION UNKNOWN ORIGIN: THE BLACK ARTS, NATIONALISM AND REVOLUTION IN THE 1960S AND EARLY 1970S, Seaview A

Chair: Lynn Casmier-Paz, University of Central Florida and the African American Culture and Literature Society

1. “Brightness Cut Into Shadow: The Dark Matter of Post-Identitarian Form in the Event/Literature of Free Jazz,” Kevin Bell, Northwestern University
2. “Black Nationalism, Internationalism and Larry Clark’s Passing Through,” Christopher Harris, University of Central Florida
3. “Neo-hoodoo, Black Nationalism and a Midwestern Artist’s Collective: A Proposal for a Vernacular Theory,” Stephen Casmier, Saint Louis University

Respondent: Joseph Razza III, Independent Scholar

6. H.D. AND SCIENCE, Seaview B

Chair: Madelyn Detloff, California State University, Los Angeles, and the H.D. Society

1. “H.D. and Electricity, Sexuality, Science, and the Artist,” Lara Vetter, University of Maryland, College Park
2. “Uncanny Science: The ‘Occult Freud’ and H.D.’s Spiritual Repatriation in The Gift,” Stephanie L. Hawkins, SUNY at Buffalo
3. “Mathepoetics” A Topological Reading of H.D.’s Trilogy,” Brent Blackwell, Purdue University
4. “Employing the language of ‘the tangled bank’: Evolutionary Words and Revolutionary Characters in the Prose of H.D.,” Deirdre Pettipiece, Arizona State University

7. AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS, Seaview C

Chair: Jeff Jaeckle, University of Texas at Austin

1. “Modernism, Maternity and Other Global Connections in the Lyrics of Lucille

Clifton,” Julia Lisella, MIT and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2.“…take a laugh out of our black mouths….,” Yvonne Atkinson, California State

University

3. “Transgressing the Law of the Father in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower,”

Shannon Cotrell, University of Connecticut

Session VI: Thursday, May 30, 2:00-3:20 p.m.

A. PHILANTHROPY AND REFORM IN HOWELLS’S FICTION, Regency C

Chair: Elsa Nettels, College of William and Mary and the William Dean Howells Society

1. “Social Capital and the Problem of Benevolence in Howells’s Annie Kilburn,”

Melissa M. Pennell, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

2. “‘The Sensation of Doing Good’: The Uneasy Status of Charity in Howells’s The Minister’s Charge,” David J. Nordloh, Indiana University

3. "Charity and Realism," Agnieszka Zylowska Goeller , Rutgers University

B. KATHERINE ANNE PORTER’S NON-FICTION, Regency D

Chair: Beth Alvarez, University of Maryland and the Katherine Anne Porter Society

1. “Katherine Anne Porter’s Cotton Mather: A Failure of Convergences,”

Jeanette McVicker, State University of New York

2. “The Never-Ending Wrong: A Historic Moment of ‘millennial change’,” Jerry

Lee Findley, Austin Peay State University

3. “‘The Other Half of a Double Life’: Katherine Anne Porter’s Non-fiction

Writing and Publishing Obligations,” Alexandra Subramanian, Independent

Scholar, Perkasie, Pennsylvania

C. MINING MORRISON’S FICTION AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE,

Regency E

Chair: Mary Helen Washington, University of Maryland and the Toni Morrison Society

1. “In Love and Trouble: Toni Morrison and her ‘Other’ Contemporaries,” Robin Harris, University of Maryland

2. “’Know it, and go on out in the yard’: Memory and Limits of Reparations in Beloved,” Jesse J. Scott, University of Maryland

3. “Give Me My Propers: Black Love, Oral Memory and the Search for Safe Spaces in the Post-Civil Rights Era,” Simone Drake, University of Maryland

D. OLD WINE, NEW VOICES: THE STRAIGHT AND THE NARROW, Regency F

Chair: Janet Burstein, Drew University and the Society for American Jewish Literature/Studies in American Jewish Literature

1. “‘Passing,’ or What Have I to do with Ghettoes? Emma Wolf’s ‘Heirs of Yesterday’ and The Jewish experience in San Francisco 1890-1910,” Barbara Cantalupo, Penn State University
2. “The Postmodern Jewish response to Israel in Tova Reich’s ‘The Jewish War,’” Karen Poster, Carlsbad, California
3. “ The Subversion of the Jews: Philip Roth and Woody Allen,” J.P. Steed, Western Oregon University
4. “Regenerating Family Values: Leslea Newman’s ‘In Every Laugh a Tear’ and ‘Wedding Song,’” Helene Meyers, Southwestern University

Respondent: Janet Burstein, Drew University

E. NEGOTIATING CLASS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, Seaview A

Chair: Eric Schocket, Hampshire College

1. “Reading Class in American Literature,” Eric Schocket, Hampshire College

2. “Negotiating Class in American Literature,” Amy Lang, Sarah Lawrence

College

3. “Working-Class Writing--Is There a Difference?” Paul Lauter, Trinity College

6. RE-VISIONING CHILDHOOD IN AMERICAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE, Seaview B

Chair: Michelle Pagni Stewart, Mt. San Jacinto College and the Children’s Literature Society

1. “A Good and Bad Boy: “Learning” in Tom Sawyer,” Michael Lee Manous,

University of California, Riverside

2. “ Making it New: Discourses of Displacement in Contemporary American

Children’s Literature,” Dorothy Goldbart Clark, California State University,

Northridge

3. “Refugee Voices: Memoirs of the Holocaust for the American Child,” Luanne

Castle, California State University, San Bernadino

7. MARGARET FULLER AND WOMEN, Seaview C

Chair: Dashae Lott, Louisiana State University at Shreveport and the Margaret Fuller Society

1. “Women, Science, and Embodiment: Transcendental Electricity in Fuller’s Woman

in the Nineteenth Century,” Deandra Little, Vanderbilt University

2. “Margaret Fuller, Literary Criticism, and the Golden Rule: ‘In Fine, Read Me,

Even as You Would Be Read,’” Martha Casey, Texas A&M University

3. “Margaret Fuller and Bettine von Arnim’s Concept of Genius,” Sabine Noellgen,

Quigdao University, People’s Republic of China

Session VII: Thursday, May 30, 3:30-4:50 p.m.

A. RALPH ELLISON AND VISUALITY, Regency C

Chair: Hsuan L. Hsu, University of California, Berkeley

1. “Sound and Vision: Fingering Paul de Man’s Blues in Ellison’s Invisible Man,”

Cynthia Dobbs, University of the Pacific

2. “Understanding Frames in Invisible Man: Portraits of Gender and Race,” Lena Hill,

Yale University

3. “Regarding Mimicry: Race and Visual Ethics in Invisible Man, Hsuan L. Hsu,

University of California, Berkeley

B. AMBROSE BIERCE, Regency D

Chair: Loretta Woodward, Marygrove College

1. “The Parallel Tracks of Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce,” Lawrence I. Berkove,

University of Michigan, Dearborn

2. “Bitter Medicine: Ambrose Bierce and O. W. Holmes,” Ian F. Roberts, Missouri

Western State College

3. “Explorations on a Narrative Device of Ambrose Bierce,” Don A. Habibi, University

of North Carolina at Wilmington

C. FIELD WORK: THE PRACTICES OF ECOCRITICISM, Regency E

Chair: Mark C. Long, Keene State College and Association for the Study of

Literature and the Environment

1. “The Tempered, Anthropocentric Stewardship of the United States’s Oldest Nature

Magazine for Children,” Arlene Plevin, University of Washington

2. “Ecological English: Genres and Criticism of Participation,” Randall Roorda,

University of Kentucky

3. “Exploring Boundaries: Geographical Fieldwork and Ecocriticism,” Patrick

Barron, University of Nevada, Reno

D. JAMES AND ENGLAND, Regency F

Chair: Philip Horne, University College, London, and the Henry James Society

1. “Dickens and James,” Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading

2. “Whose Girl of the Period? Henry James and Mrs. Linton,” Clair Hughes,

International Christian University, Tokyo

3. “James’s ‘London’: The Writing of Fog,” Melanie Ross, The New School

E. ROBERT PENN WARREN’S POETRY, Seaview A

Chair: Anthony Szczesiul and the Robert Penn Warren Circle

1. “From Bloodsport to Blood Marriage: Robert Penn Warren’s Revision of Harold

Bloom,” John Langan, City University of New York

2. “‘Heart of Autumn’ as Impure Act,” Kathryn Mapes, University of Wisconsin,

Stout

3. “Robert Penn Warren’s Audubon: A Vision as Postmodern Western,” Daniel

Turner, Vanderbilt University

Respondent: John Burt, Brandeis University

F. POE AS A SOURCE FOR POE, Seaview B

Chair: Richard Fusco, Saint Joseph’s University and the Poe Studies Association

1. “Detecting the Critic: the Presence of Poe’s Critical Voice in the Dupin Tales,”

Warren Kelly, University of Mississippi

2. “The Marketing of ‘Genius’ in Poe’s Critical Writings,” Peter Norberg, Saint

Joseph’s University

Respondent: Dennis Eddings, Emeritus, Western Oregon University

G. BUSINESS MEETING, TEACHING ROUND TABLE: TONI MORRISON’S NON-FICTION, Seaview C

Facilitator: Richard Schur, Drury University

Session VIII: Thursday, May 30, 5:00-6:20 p.m.

A. CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, Regency C

Chair: Jennifer Tuttle, University of New England and the Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society

1. “’Amazon of Industry’: The Maternal Realism of Gilman’s What Diantha Did,”

Jill Bergman, University of Montana

2. “‘A Pretty Idiot’ and a Pretty Pickle: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Grace E.

Channing, and the ‘romantic summer’,” Cynthia J. Davis, University of South

Carolina

3. “Deconstructing Dialogics: Gender & Genre in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s

Herland-Durland Saga,” Caroline Nunez Puente

2. FILM: “Ralph Ellison: An American Journey,” California Newsreel Series, Film

Screening, 5:00-6:20 p.m., Regency D

Chair: TBA

3. EMERSON AND THE MATTER OF WAR, Regency E

Chair: Jennifer Gurley, University of California, Berkeley, and the Emerson

Society

1. “War and Emerson’s Language of Revolution,” Jean Darcy, CUNY

2. “Emerson’s Self and Another Self,” Shoji Goto, Rikkyo University

3. “A War on Words: Sincerity and Emerson’s Antislavery Writing,” T.

Gregory Garvey, SUNY, Brockport

4. SAUL BELLOW’S RAVELSTEIN AS FICTION, BIOGRAPHY AND

AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Regency F

Chair: Ben Siegel, Cal Poly Pomona and the Saul Bellow Society

1. “Bellow as Novelist, Biographer, and Subject,” Ben Siegel, Cal Poly Pomona

University

2. “Ravelstein-A Prayer for the Dead: Chick’s Channeling of Abe,” Gloria L. Cronin,

Brigham Young University

3. “The Reality of Ravelstein,” David Anderson, Michigan State University

4. “Unraveling Bellow Through Ravelstein,” Jay L. Halio, University of Delaware

5. THE TASK OF THE TRANSLATOR IN NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN’S WRITING, Seaview A

Chair: Stephen Brandon, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

1.“Disrupting the Fiction of Translation: Sarah Winnemucca’s Life Among the Piutes

and Lectures in the Northeastern United States,” Carolyn Sorisio, West Chester

University of Pennsylvania

2.“Cultural Translation in Zitkala-Sa’s Old Indian Legends and American Indian

Stories,” Ruth Spack, Bentley College

3. “Palimpsestic Translation in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Almanac of the

Dead,” Martha J. Cutter, Kent State University

6. RACIAL AND ETHNIC HUMOR, Seaview B

Chair: Joseph McCullough, University of Nevada, Los Vegas, and the American Humor Studies Association

1. Ann Ryan, Le Moyne College

2. John Bird, Winthrop College

3. Judith Y. Lee, Ohio University

4. David E. E. Sloane, University of New Haven

7. AFTER H.D.: A READING BY CONTEMPORARY POETS, Seaview C

Madelyn Detloff, California State University, Los Angeles, and the H.D. Society

1. Brian Glaser, University of California, Berkeley

2. Catherine Daly, UCLA

3. Madelyn Detloff, California State University, Los Angeles

4. Eric Paul Shaffer, Maui Community College

5. Charlotte Mandel, Barnard College Center for Research on Women

8. WHAT IS WORKING-CLASS LITERATURE? Shoreline A

Chair: Paul Lauter, Trinity College

1. “Lucy Larcom and the Poetics of Labor,” Joe Lockard, University of California-

Davis

2. “The Federal Theatre Project Puppet Production of ‘Little Black Sambo,” Leslie

Frost, St. Augustine’s College

3. ”’Breaking the Silence’: The Intersections of Public and Private History in Cheri

Register’s Packinghouse Daughter,” Lisa Cooper, Texas Christian University

4. “Poor Representations/Representing Poverty: A Class of Our Own,” Vivyan C.

Adair, Hamilton College, and Sandra L. Dahlberg, University of Houston-

Downtown

9. RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN LITERARY STUDIES RECEPTION,

Pacific

“Ralph Ellison: An American Journey,” California Newsreel Series, Film

5:00-6:20 p.m., Regency D

Chair: Loretta Woodward, Marygrove College

ALA Welcome Reception,

6:30-8:00 p.m.,

Beacon Ballroom A

Session IX: Friday, May 31, 8:0