SESSION II: Thursday, April 3, 3:45-5:15 p.m.

2.A AIDS, Narrative, Anti-Narrative
President's Ballroom

Cesare Cesarino, Cornell University
"Meditations in Blue"

Eleanor Kaufman, Duke University
"Three Temporalities of Narrative in the Foucault Biographies"

Yonatan Touval, Rutgers University
"Reports from America"

Moderator: Cesare Casarino, Cornell University

2.B Bodies/Politics/Narratives in the Civil Rights Movement
Capriccio

Mary Jane Dickerson, University of Vermont
"From Emmett Till to Rosa Parks and Beyond: Anne Moody Comes of Age in Mississippi"

Jeffrey Leak, University of Vermont
"'To Be A Whole Man': Matters of Maternity and Masculinity in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon"

Yvonne Paschal, Ohio State University
"Between a Rock and a Hard Place: James Baldwin and the Dramatization of the Black Intellectual"

Moderator: Herman Beavers, University of Pennsylvania

2.C Daughters, Sisters, and Wives: Family Plots in the Nineteenth Century
University A

Linda Raphael, George Washington University
"Sacrificed at the Altar: Three Jamesian Daughters"

Diane Chambers, Malone College
"Sister Plots as Code of Conduct: The Deceased Wife's Sister Controversy"

Jules David Law, Northwestern University
"Marrying and Burying: The Archaeology of Wife-Selling in Wittgenstein, Frazer, and The Mayor of Casterbridge"

Moderator: Barbara Perkins, University of Toledo

2.D Sex, Bodies, and Subjects in the Nineteenth Century
Conference Room 1

Katherine Ready, University of Ottawa
"Sarah Jeannette Duncan's Daughter of Today: Feminist (Re)presentation of the Fin-de si&232;cle Magic Picture Narrative"

Ellen Bayuk Rosenman, University of Kentucky
"Who's On Top?: Sex and Subject Position in My Secret Life and Venus in India"

Chris Snodgrass, University of Florida
"Aubrey Beardsley and the Fin-de-si cle Narrative of Female Sexuality"

2.E Polyphony and Dialogic Structure in Multicultural Literatures
Conference Room 3

Dean McWilliams, Ohio University
"Mikhail Bakhtin, Charles Chesnutt and the Forms of Linguistic Interaction in the Narrative"

Phillip Page, California State University, San Bernadino
"Multiple Narrators in Contemporary African American Novels"

James H. Brownlee, Palm Beach Atlantic College
"N. Scott Momaday's Man of Words: House Made of Dawn's J.B.B. Tosamah"

Moderator: Dean McWilliams, Ohio University

2.F Something Borrowed: Expanding Generic Conventions
Conference Room 2

Kathryn Benzel, Kearney State University
"'The arts flirt and joke and pay each other compliments': Verbal Painting in Virginia Woolf's Short Fiction"

Dennis Allen, West Virginia University
"Why Things Don't Add Up In The Sum of Us: Sexuality and Genre Crossing in the Romantic Comedy"

Shirley A. Stave, University of Wisconsin Center
"Divine Comedy: Jane Smiley's Moo as Sacred Ritual"

Moderator: Shirley A. Stave, University of Wisconsin Center

2.G The Dialogics of Popular Culture and Modernist Literature
Conference Room 4

R. Brandon Kershner, University of Florida
"Modernism and Popular Culture: Joycean and Eliotic Examples"

Fiona A. Paton, Pennsylvania State University
"Stylization and Subversion: Popular Culture and Narrative Form in Kerouac's 'Doctor Sax'"

Robin Blyn, University of Washington, Seattle
"The Freak Shows of Fiction: Countering the Carnivalesque"

Moderator: R. Brandon Kershner, University of Florida

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