Fifth International Conference

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

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

  • Russell Hamilton, Emeritus, Vanderbilt University, “‘A dolorosa raiz do micondó’: A voz poética intimista, são-tomense, pan-africanista e globalista de Conceição Lima”
  • Hilary Owen, University of Manchester, “Third World/Third Sex: Gender, Orality and a Tale of Two Marias in Mia Couto and Paulina Chiziane”
  • 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

  • Pedro Meira Monteiro, Princeton University, “Entre duas preguiças: Macunaíma e o Jeca Tatu”
  • Malcolm K. McNee, Smith College, “Writing a Modern Rurality: Spatial and Temporal Antinomies in Monteiro Lobato”
  • 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

  • Sandra I. Sousa, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, “A importância do espaço na constituição do género em O Primo Basílio de Eça de Queirós”
  • Estela Vieira, Yale University, “Furnishing the Novel: Interiors and the Framing of Eça de Queirós’s Os Maias”
  • 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

  • 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”
  • Fernando Alberto Torres Moreira, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, “Implicações sócio-culturais no Livro das Confissões de Martín Pérez (Alcobaça, 1399)”
  • 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)

8:30-9:45 am (Coffman Memorial Union)

A. Lusophone African Colloquium: Postcolonialism and Globalization | Moderator: Mark Sabine, University of Nottingham | President’s Room

  • Charlie Sugnet, University of Minnesota, “Lusophone African Film and Belated National Liberation Struggle”
  • Anne Pitcher, Colgate University, “Private Space in a Post-War City: Cars, ‘Cardolatry,’ and Social Exclusion in Luanda, Angola”
  • 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

  • Rebecca Jones-Kellogg, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Social Ramifications of the nação cadáver in Alexandre Herculano’s Eurico o Presbítero”
  • Inês Cordeiro Dias, Universidad de Puerto Rico, “O poder destrutivo da sexualidade feminina na sociedade burguesa novecentista”
  • 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

  • Lúcia Sá, University of Manchester, “Life in the Megalopolis: São Paulo in Contemporary Literature”
  • Vera Regina Teixeira, Northwestern University, “Text and Texture in Nélida Piñon’s imaginário”
  • 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

  • Pedro Serra, University of Salamanca, “Compromisso e cumplicidade: romance e romancistas durante as ditaduras peninsulares”
  • Ana Maria Delgado, Georgetown University, “Intertextualidade em Os Passeios do Sonhador Solitário de Almeida Faria”
  • Gregory McNab, University of Rhode Island, “Scrutinizing History’s Rearguard: Barranco de Cegos (1962) and A Crise da Consciência Pequeno-Burguesa (1962)

10:00-11:15 am (Coffman Memorial Union)

A. Lusophone African Colloquium: Postcolonialism and Globalization | Moderator: Marissa Moorman, Indiana University | President’s Room

  • Clara Saraiva, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, “African Altars from Guinea-Bissau in Lisbon”
  • Kesha Fikes, University of Chicago, “The Politics of Cape Verdean Labor and Residency in EU Portugal”
  • 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

  • Patrícia Graça, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, “A ocorrência de objecto nulo no Português Europeu”
  • Marian Schoenmakers Klein Gunnewiek, Universiteit Utrecht, “The Use of Person and Place Deixis by Portuguese Migrants in the Netherlands?
  • 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

  • Carmen Ramos Villar, University of Sheffield, “Life-in-Transit: Cristóvão de Aguiar’s Depiction of the Emigrant Figure”
  • Anthony Soares, Queens University, Belfast, “Lusophone Postcoloniality Reaches Contested Anglo-Space: The Case of Lusophone Migration to Northern Ireland”
  • Kimberly DaCosta Holton, Rutgers University-Newark, “Searching for a ‘Big Sky Kind of Life’: Retornados in Newark, NJ”

11:30-12:45 pm (Coffman Memorial Union)

A. Brazilian Literature and Culture: Pensando Clarice | Moderator: Lúcia Sá, University of Manchester | President’s Room

  • Claire Williams, University of Liverpool, “Clarice, Citizen of the World: Lispector’s Travels”
  • 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

  • Francisco Serra-Lopes, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, “On Evil as a Narrative Condition: Maria Gabriela Llansol’s O Senhor de Herbais”
  • Paulo de Medeiros, Universiteit Utrecht, “As duas violências”
  • 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

  • Sheila Khan, University of Manchester, “Velhas margens, novos centros em Ventos do Apocalipse de Paulina Chiziane”
  • Ana Margarida Dias Martins, University of Manchester, “‘Contra as bactérias mágicas, sobrenaturais’: um diagnóstico do exótico em O Sétimo Juramento de Paulina Chiziane”
  • 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

  • Benedict Cruz, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, “Technogender: Investigating Gender Equity Challenges in Educational Technology”
  • Margo Milleret, University of New Mexico, “Teaching Speech Acts”
  • 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
2:30-3:45 pm (Coffman Memorial Union)

A. Brazilian Literature and Culture: Probing Narratives | Moderator: Pedro Meira Monteiro, Princeton University | Room 303

  • 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”
  • Talía Guzmán-González, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Masculinity and Friendship: The Case of Raul Pompéia and Lima Barreto”
  • 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

  • António Ladeira, Texas Tech University, “Formulações e ‘fingimentos’ da masculinidade em Fernando Pessoa”
  • Carlos Veloso, New York University, “Eduardo Lourenço: o esplendor do crítico no labirinto de Fernando Pessoa”
  • Maria Bolina Lopes, University of California, Los Angeles, “Publicação e ser público em Fernando Pessoa”
  • 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

  • Jessica Falconi, Università di Napoli/Universidade de Lisboa, “Fronteiras líquidas: Imagens da Ilha de Moçambique na construção discursiva da moçambicanidade”
  • Livia Apa, Università di Napoli, “Representações da guerra na literatura angolana”
  • 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

  • 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”
  • 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)

4:00-5:15 pm (Coffman Memorial Union)

A. Brazilian Literature and Culture: Afro-Brazilian Discourses | Moderator: Alessandra Pires, Missouri State University | Room 303

  • Lúcia Helena Costigan, The Ohio State University, “Ubiquidade e afirmação da cultura africana no Brasil setecentista”
  • Robert Krueger, University of Northern Iowa, “Dramatizing the Brazilian Slave Narratives”
  • 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

  • Paula Medeiros, Universidade de Coimbra, “Rioseco de Manuel Rui: conhecimentos ficcionados e poder social ?
  • 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

  • José Ornelas, University of Massachusetts Amherst, “Divergences and Convergences: Between Ensaio sobre a cegueira and Ensaio sobre a lucidez”
  • Anna M. Klobucka, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, “The Solitary Reaper Sings Again (and Again): Wordsworth, Meynell, Pessoa, Espanca, Lopes”
  • 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)

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

  • 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”
  • 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

  • Amélia Hutchinson, University of Georgia, “Gaining in Translation: The Fernão Lopes Project”
  • Eti de Vries, Universiteit Utrecht, “Os Lusíadas and the Netherlands: A Combination in Translation”
  • 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

  • Phillip Rothwell, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, “The Portuguese Thing or Facing the Real in Almeida Garrett”
  • Memory Holloway, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, “The Introjected Other, or Why Everyday Objects Matter”
  • Ana Paula Ferreira, University of Minnesota, “Lídia Jorge’s Fictions of the Real”

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

  • Dário Borim, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, “Chiquinha Gonzaga: uma pioneira ou precursora da MPB socialmente engajada?”
  • Rhonda Collier, Abilene Christian University, “Introducing Nega Gizza: Hip Hop and Black Feminism in Rio”
  • 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

  • Ana Paula Arnaut, Universidade de Coimbra, “José Saramago: singularidades de uma morte plural ?
  • David Frier, University of Leeds, “Rhetorical Technique and Intertextuality in José Saramago’s Levantado do Chão”
  • 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

  • Nicholas Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago, “African Literature, Modernism, and the Historical Sublime: Pepetela and William Gaddis”
  • 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”
  • 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

  • Carlos Assunção, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, “Noções nucleares de sintaxe em Augusto Epiphanio da Silva Dias”
  • Edyta Jabłonka, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, “Estudo comparativo do sistema dos tempos passados na língua portuguesa e polaca”
  • 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

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

  • Robin Peery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “On Abjection in Lya Luft”
  • Vanessa C. Fitzgibbon, Brigham Young University, “Ainda Viv[e] o povo brasileiro? Paródia, história e ressentimento na obra de João Ubaldo Ribeiro”
  • 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

  • Onésimo Almeida, Brown University, “Natália Correia e a sua breve aventura americana: o nãodito em Descobri que Era Europeia?
  • Mark Sabine, University of Nottingham, “Post-Imperial Penelopes in Portuguese Literature of the 1980s”
  • 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

  • José Pedro Ferreira, University of Toronto, “Portugal e África, diálogos poéticos: representações do negro em alguns poetas portugueses do século XX”
  • 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

  • Gonçalo Fernandes, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, “Amaro de Roboredo (séc. XVII): um precursor da Gramática Comparada e de Chomsky?”
  • 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”
  • Carla Simplício, University of Massachussetts Dartmouth, “A polissemia do advérbio ‘sempre’ no Português Europeu”

Refreshment Break (Room 301, Coffman Memorial Union)

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

  • Alessandra M. Pires, Missouri State University, “Janela da Alma: percepções do invisível”
  • Claudia Barbosa Nogueira, University of Tulsa, “Looking Forward: Choice, History, and Identity in Amores possíveis and A Dona da história”
  • 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

  • Ellen Sapega, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Time, Place and Memory in Irene Lisboa”
  • Paula Jordão, Universiteit Utrecht, “O desejo de ser e (re)lembrar em O Belo Adormecido de Lídia Jorge”
  • Debbie Ávila, California State University, Fresno, “Alice Ogando as Mary Love: The Romance Novel as Fantasy and Reality”
  • 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

  • Anna M. Klobucka (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
  • Amélia Hutchinson (University of Georgia)
  • 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, 2006)
Introduction: Ana Paula Ferreira, University of Minnesota
Walker Art Center (transportation will be provided)