5th - 1998 - New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE SHORT STORY IN ENGLISH The Global Short Story New Or eans, June 27- 30, 1998
Fifth International Conference on the Short Story in English
"THE GLOBAL SHORT STORY"
New Orleans, June 27-30, 1998
Hotellnter-Continental- All Sessions
Saturday, June 27
8:30 a.m.
REGISTRATION [THIRD F LOOR LOBBY]
9:00 a.m.
WELCOMING REMARKS [LA SALL E BALLROOM B/C]
Mary Rohrberger, Executive Director
Ma urice A Lee, Director
Please note that, throughout the con ference , books on related subjects
or by attending authors will be on sale in the ACADIAN ROOM
9:30 a.m.
PANEL A: WRITERS' AND CRITICS' ROUND TABLE: ECHOES FROM A DISTANT BATTLEFIELD­
SHORT FICTION FROM VIETNAMESE NATIONALS AND VIETNAMESE
AMERICANS
[PE LI CAN ROOM
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Rand y Fertel, moderator , Tulane University
Mary McC ay, Loyola University
Wa yne Karlin , short fiction writer
An dy Lam, short fiction writer and commentator on Asian Affairs for NPR
Eric Scroeder, University of California at Davis
PANEL B: WRITERS' ROUND TABLE: THE TICKING CLOCK-COMMITTING AND
SOLVING MURDER IN UNDER 15 PAGES [PELICAN ROOM 2]
Robe rt Skinner, fiction writer, moderator, Xavier University
Bill Cri der, fiction writer
O' Neil DeNoux, fiction writer
Skye Moody, fiction writer
PANEL C: WRITERS' ROUND TABLE: ROMANCE FICTION [FULTON R OOM]
Rexanne Becnel , moderator, fiction writer
Karen Young, fiction writer
Kathleen Nance, fiction writer
Anne Logan , fiction wn"ter
PANEL D: WRITERS' ROUND TABLE: GENDER IDENTITY AND THE SHORT STORY
[POYDRAS ROOM]
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Ellen Douglas, fiction writer, moderator
Anthony Bukowski, fiction writer
Natalie Petesch , fiction writer
Mary Robison , fiction writer
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PANEL A: WRITERS' ROUND TABLE: E THNIC IDENTI TY IN THE SHORT STORY
[PELICAN R OOM
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Janette Turner Hospital , moderator, fiction writer
Rudolfo Anaya, fiction writer
Ernest Gaines, fiction writer
Diane Glancy, fiction writer
Simon Ortiz, fiction writer
Andy Lam, fiction writer
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PANEL B: VISIONARY FICTION & MAGIC REALISM [JACKSON ROOM]
Barbara Mciver, moderator, Claflin College
"A Prophetic Vision of the Past: Sandra Benitez's 'A Place Where the Sea Remembers'"
Andrea Herrera, State University of New York at Fredonia
"The End of the World: Closure and the Fantasies of Bo rg es and Millhauser"
David Sheridan, Michigan State University
"Teaching Magic Realism in Short Fiction"
Mary Ellen Hartje , Angelo State University - Texas
PANEL C: KATe CHOPIN [POYDRAS ROOM]
'''Desiree's Baby' Emancipating Readers"
Brewster Filz , moderator, Oklahoma State University
"The Third Telegram: Interpreting My stery and Death in Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour'"
Kurt Neumann, Harper Community College - Naperville, IL
"Shifti ng the Grounds of Being: The Spiritual Geography of Chopin's 'Athenaise'"
Barbara Ewel l, Loyola University
"Offeri ng Refuge and Delivering Betrayal: An Analy sis of Speech Representation in 'Des iree's
Baby '"
Sherry Manis , San Francisco
PANEL D: GENRE I (FULTON ROOM]
"Genre, Gender and the Idea of Fiction Under Seige: Story as Autobiografiction"
Glenda Lindsey-Hicks , moderator, Midland College - Texas
"First-Person Short Story or Personal Essay: A Genre Iss ue"
Charlie McMurty, Angelo State University - Texas
"Beyond Genre: English-Canadian Surrealist Sho rt Fiction"
Allan Weiss, York University - Canada
"Anglo-Irish Identity: Th e Gothi c in Elizabeth Bowen's Irish Stories"
R. C. Feddersen, Oklahoma State University
READINGS (PELICAN ROOM 2]
Introduction, Kelly Grant, University of New Orleans
Brenda Webster
Katharine Crawford Robey
Peter 8 ell is
Abram Shalom Himelstein
[Lunch Break]
1:30 p.m.
READINGS [LA SALLE BALLROOM BIC]
Introduction, Morris Grubbs, Lindsey Wilson College - Kentucky
Rudolfo Anaya
Shirley Ann Grau
Ernest Gaines
Mary Robison
3:00 p.m.
PANEL A: POE AND MELVILLE [POYDRAS ROOM]
"From the Rural Cemetery Movement of Spirit Photography: Poe and the Revenge of the
Exquisite Corpse"
Judith Pike, moderator, Salisbury State University
"Poe's 'Life' and Hawthorne's 'Death'"
Richard Fusco, Sf. Joseph's University - Philadelphia
"Melville' s Signifyin(g) Shadows The Mutiny of Form in Melville's 'Benito Cereno'"
Roberta Jill Craven, University of North Carolina at Carrboro
"Patricidal Puppets in Search of a Playwrite: Theatrical Imagery in Melville's Short Fiction"
Gwen Crane, State University of New York at Oneonta
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PANEL B: SHIRLEY ANN GRAU [PELICAN ROOM 2 ]
Mary Rohrberger, moderator, Tula ne University
'''The Black Prince' as Title Story "
Maurice duQuesney, University of Southwest Louisiana
"Strong Women"
Nancy Johnson, La SalJe University
"Nine Women Reconsidered"
John Saunders, Wes t Virginia Wesleyan
PANEL C: POST-COLONIAL SHORT STORY [FULTON R OOM)
Belen Marti n-Lucas, mode rator, Universidad de Vigo · Spain
"The View From the Window: Two Expatriate Iran ian Women Writers"
Rivanne Sandler, University of Toronto - Canada
"Post-Colonial Impressions: The Short Story as Liberatory Practice"
Jill Kinkade, University of Southern Indian a
"Narrative Snapshots of New Zealand' s Diverse Family Patricia Grace 's Electric City and
Other Stories"
Michael Youn g, Robert Morris Col/ege
PANEL 0 : HEMINGWAY AND FITZGERALD [PELICAN ROOM 1 J
Wayne Scott, moderator, Claflin College
"Seeking Eternity in the Snow: The Question of Harry as an Artist in 'The Snows of Ki limanjaro '"
Nick Pici , University of Dayton
"Quite Sure You'll (Never) Die in Hemingway and Rhys"
Faye Pickram, York University - Canada
"Fantasy in 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber'"
Andrew Spencer, Baylor University
"' Babylon': Revisiting the Text"
George Bellis , University of Minnesota
4:30 p.m. PANEL A: PEDAGOGY I (POYDRAS ROOM)
. Teachin g Recalcitrant Literature Through 'A Soldier's Embrace' by N. Gordimer
Zenobia Baxter Mistri , moderator, Purdue University - Calumet
"Teaching the Short Story in a Multi-Med ia Classroom"
Tara Starr Pyne, University of South Florida - Tampa
.. Teaching Recalcitrant Literature Through the Stories of Leslie Marmon Silko an d Nadine
Gordimer"
Li nda McMillan, Purdue University - Calumet
"Teaching Amb igu ity: Adu lt Stories for Ad olescent Readers"
Peter Stephan, University of Cyprus
PANEL B: GENDER I [P ELICAN ROOM 1)
"Jane Smi ley's Ordinary Love and Good Wii/: Gende r, Genre, an d the Novella"
Neil Nakadate, moderator, Iowa State Unive rsity
"Moving Beyond the Feminine: Femi nist Critical Interpretation and the Short Story"
Caryn M. Voskuil, University of Texas - Dallas
"'Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong': Tim O' Bri en's (Femi nist) Heart of Oarkness"
Terry J. Martin and Margaret Stiner, Baldwin-WalJace College - Berea , OH
PANEL C: GENRE II [PELICAN ROOM 2 ]
"Genre and the Work of Reading in Mansfield's 'Prel ude' and 'At the Bay'"
Suza nne Ferguson, moderator, Ca se Western Reserve University
"The Reader as Character / The Chara cter of the Reader in Andrew Lytle's 'Mr. McGregor'"
Tony Whall, Salisbury State University
"Irony and the Implied Reader in the Short Fiction of Dorothy Parker"
Stephanie Burt Williams, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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PANEL 0: LOUISIANA AND THE SHORT STORY [FULTON R OOM]
Nancy Johnson, moderator, La Salle University
"Sites of Struggle: Ada Jack Carver's Cane River Stories"
El iza beth Meese, University of Alabama
"Rewriting the Final Adjustment of Affairs: Culture, Ra ce, and Politics in Alice Du nba r-N elson's
New Orleans"
Jurgen Grandt, University of Georgia
"Grace King 's Reconstruction of the Old So uth"
Evelyn Koppel , Nunez Community College
Sunday, June 28
9:00 a.m.
MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE SHORT STORY:
Reports, open discussion, and nomination of new officers
(LA SALLE BALLROOM BIC}
Mary Rohrberger, Founder and Executive Director
Susan Lohafer, President
9:30 a.m.
PANEL A: LANGUAGE & SYMBOL (FULTON R OOM]
Zia Hasan, moderator, Claflin College
"Impression ism in Crane' s 'The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky'"
Winifred Morgan , Edgewood College - Madison, WI
"Fl an nery O'Connor and the Limits of th e Symbol"
Troy Th ibodeaux, New York University
"Natu re Dominates : The Impact of Environm ent on Character Development in Janette Turner
Hospital's Short Stories 'The End-of-the-line End-of-the-world Disco ' and 'Our
Own little Kakadu'"
Donna Davis, University of Northern Iowa
PANEL
B: THEORY I [POYDRAS ROOM]
"Forma lism is Not a Fad"
Charles E. May, moderator, Califomia State Un iversity at Long Beach
"Redemptive Landscapes as Theme in the Short Story "
Hilary Siebert, Radford University
"Literary Artifacts: Ekphrasis in the Sho rt Fiction of Donald Barthelme and John Edgar Wideman"
Michael Trussler, University of Regina
"Closure in the Short Story: Curtailing a Dre am"
Emmanue l Yaw Appiah, Center for Action on English - Ghana
PANEL C: WRITERS' AND CRITICS' ROUND TABLE: SHORT STORY CYCLE [PE LICAN ROOM 1]
Robert Luscher, moderator, University of Nebraska at Ke amey
Suzanne Ferguson, Case Westem Reserve University
Shirley Ann Grau , fiction writer
J. Gerald Kennedy, Louisiana State University
Jayne Anne Phillips, fiction writer
Tom Piazza , fiction writer
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PANEL 0: GENDER II [PELICAN ROOM 2)
"Women Writers: Storytelling as a Movement 'Toward Wholeness' "
Gayle Elliot, moderator, St. Lawrence University
"Pin-Ups, Pleasure and Pain Ambiguities of Sexua lity in the Short Stories of Mary Gaitskill"
Morgan Love, Unive rsity of Groningen - The Netherlands [read by Cynthia Hall ett]
"Female Dominance in Marriage Relationships in the Short Stories of Katherine A. Porter"
Linda Byrd , Sam Houston State University
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PANEL A: THE SHORT STORY AND DRAMATIC FORM I [PELI CAN ROOM 2]
Introduction , Tisch Jones , University of Northern Iowa
Scharron Clayton, moderator, University of Northern Iowa
Part I: "Short Stories into Film or Television ," Steven Rosenthal
Part II : A Readers' Theater Performance by Dillard University students of "The Blue Vein Society ,"
a play by Sam Kelly based on Charles Chesnutt's short story, "Wife of My Yourth ." Tisch
Jones and Dillard facul ty and stUdents
PANEL B: EDITORS' ROUND TABLE [PELICAN ROOM 1]
Maurice A. Lee , moderator, Journal of Ca ribbean Literature
Michael J. O'Shea , Garth Kemerling, Corinne Dale, Studies in Short Fiction
Farhat Iftekharrudin, Short Story
Jack Bedell . Louisiana Literature
Sophia Stone, New Orleans Review
Michael Griffith. The Southern Review
PANEL C: WRITERS' ROUND TABLE ON STORY ENDINGS [FULTON ROOM)
Skye Moody, fiction writer, moderator
Moira Crone, fiction writer
Tom Piazza , fiction writer
Brenda Webster, fiction writer
READINGS [POYDRAS ROOM]
Introduction, Ellen Harrington, Tulane University
Andrea Herrera
Poppy Z. Brite
Barbara Hambly
George Alec Effinger
12:30 p.m.
I LUNCHEON
[LA SALLE BALLROOM A ]
PRESENTATION OF CONTEST WINNERS:
B B C WORLD SERVICE, pres ented by E lis abeth Edwards
Marg uert te Lau rence , Bedfordale - Western Australia
Janet Keiffer, Colorado
SSSS SHORT STORY CONTEST WI NNERS , presented by John Biguenet, Loyola Univ.
1998 Winners
First Pla ce : Alli son McNeill
Second Place : Andrea Simon
Honorable Mention: Paula Martin , Leo Dubray
1997 Winners
First Place: Tom Chiarella
Second Place: Joan Heck
Honorable Mention : Nancy Roberts , Stanka Radovic
SPEAKER: KENNETH RAMCHAND , introduced by Maurice A Lee
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2:00 p.m.
PANEL A: B B C CHAT ON THE SHORT STORY: HISTORY, PRODUCTION, WINNERS
[PE LICAN ROOM 1J
B B C World Service:
Introduction, Elisabeth Edwards
Readings:
Marguerite Laurence, Bedforda /e - Western Australia
Janet Keiffe r, Colorado
PANEL B: REALISM (POYDRAS ROOM]
"Finding the Worm in the Apple: John Cheever and Middle-Class Anxiety"
Robert Beuka, moderator, Louisiana State University
"'What We Talk About When We Talk About Love' and 'Rock Springs': Raymon d Carver and
Richard Ford Craft the Anti-parables of Dirty Realism"
Tamas Dobozy, University of British Columbia
'''Where I'm Calling From'" Inside the Loop"
Robert Johnson, Midwestern State University · Texas
"Envyi ng the Leisure Class: Rereading Jean Stafford' s T he Mountain Day'''
Cathryn Halverson, University of Michigan
PANEL C: THE SHORT STORY AND POLITICS [P ELICAN ROOM 2]
"Tribal StorIes, Scribal Worlds: Mahasweta Devi and the Politics ofTranslation "
Minoli Salgado, moderator, University of Sussex - England
"Creating Nation al Fictions: H. G. De Lisser's 'Story of the Maroons'"
Hyacinth Simpson, Yo rl< University - Canada
"Wharton's Short Fiction of War: The Politics of 'Coming Home'"
Mary Carn ey, University of Georgia
3:15 p.m.
PANEL A : CRITICS' ROUND TABLE: HISTORY AND DeVELOPMENT OF TH E SHORT STORY
[PELI CAN ROOM 1]
Ann Charters, moderator, University of Connecticut
Charles E. May, University of California at Long Beach
Susa n Lohafer, University of Iowa
Mary Roh rberg er. Tulane University
Kenneth Ramchand , University of the West Indies
Morris Grubbs, Lindsey Wilson College - Kentucky
PANEL B: SHORT STORY CYCLE I: ETHNIC IOENTITY IN THE SHORT STORY [PELICAN ROOM
"Winesburg, Mexico : Albert Alvaro Rios' Pig Cookies and Other Stories"
Charles Dameron, moderator, University of Texas at Brownsville
"Form and Structure: Sandra Ci sneros's The House on Mango Street'
Farhat Iftekharrudin, University of Texas at Brownsville
"Imagining the Reservation in Winesburg Form: Sherman Alexie's Th e Lone Ranger and Tonto
Fistfigh/ in Heaven"
Robert Luscher, University of Nebraska at Keam ey
PANEL C: THE SHORT STORY AND DRAMATIC FORM II [POYDRAS ROOM]
Introduction , Beverley Byers Pevitts, moderator, Texas Women's University
A dramatic reading of "The Enemy," by J.E. Franklin, based on her story of the same name .
Tisch Jones and Dillard faculty and students
READINGS [LA SALLE BALLROOM BIC]
Introduction , Joh n Saunders, West Virginia Wesleyan
Tom Piazza
Patty Friedman
Lawrence Wharton
Ca ryn Voskuil
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4:30 p.m.
9:00 a.m.
READINGS [LA SALLE BALLROOM B/C]
Introduction, Allan Weiss, York University - Canada
Janette Tu rner Hospital
Antho ny Bu kowski
Astrid Roemer
Marion Bloem
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PEDAGOGY II [FULTON ROOM)
"Revisiting Worksh opping: Structurin g the First Worksh op Experie nce"
John Childrey . moderator, Florida Atlantic Unive rsity
"Situating Gender in the Short Story Workshop"
Susan Hubbard, University of Central Florida
"Bobbie Ann Mason and The New Yorker The Crafting of a Short Story Writer"
Morns Grubbs, Lmdsey Wilson College - Kentucky
"Teaching Jack London's 'To Bu ild a Fire' in Alaska"
Terry Reilly, University of Alaska - Fairbanks [read by Cynthia Hallett]
PANEL B: SHORT STORY CYCLE II [POYDRAS ROOM]
"The Genre Which is Not One: Hemingway's In Our Time, Difference , and the Short Story Cycle"
Peter Donahue, moderator, Sam Houston State University
"Canadian Short Story Cycles in English A Communal Sense of Place"
Belen Martin-Lucas , Universidad de Vigo - Spain
"The Lines that Bind: Intertextuality in Hemingway's In Our Time and Ri chard Bra utigan 's Tro ut
Fishing in America and Revenge of/he Lawn : Stories 1962-1970"
Brenda M. Palo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"The Narrator as Unifyi ng Factor in Win esburg, Ohio"
Michael Depp, University of New Orleans
PANEL C: 20TH-CENTURY WOMEN WRITERS [JACKSON ROOM]
"Romantic Irony in Grace Paley and Virginia Woolf'
Cha rlotte Zoe Walker, moderator, State University of New York al Oneonla
"Motherhood as Co nflict in Katherine An ne Porter' s Short Fiction"
Susana Jimenez Placer, Universidad de Santiago de Compos tela - Spa in
''The Ambiguities of History in Alice Munro's T he Love of a Good Woman "
Mary Conde, University of London
"The Challenge of Welty's 'June Recital'"
Do nna Jarrell, Case Weste m Reserve Un iversity
PANEL 0: CARIBBEAN SHORT STORY [PELICAN ROOM 1]
"Creole Languages in Short Stories from the Caribbean"
Sharon Spencer, moderator, Montclair State University
"Socia l and Textual Polyphony : Language in the Sho rt Fiction of Jama ican Women Writers"
Ana Bringas-Lopez, Universidad de Vigo - Spain
·Womanist Traditions in Green Cane and Juicy Flotsam : Short Stories by Caribbean Women "
Supriya Nair, Tulane University
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PANEL E: THE AMERICAS [PELICAN ROOM 2]
"Trickster or Buffoon?: Clever Stupidity in 'Pelt Kid and His Grandmother' "
Will Crawford, moderator, University of Illinois
"Cuentitos on Religion , Culture , and Life's Vicissitudes : Sandra Cisneros's 'Little Miracles, Kept
Promis es'"
Albert Griffith, Our Lady of the Lake University · Texas
"B uilding the Bridge: Robert Gish 's Meditation on Ethnic Problems"
Noor Islam, University of Texa s at Brownsville
10:1 5 a.m.
READINGS [LA S ALLE BALLROOM B/C]
Introduction, Charl es E. May, California State University at Long Beach
Ellen Douglas
Diane Glancy
Nata lie Petesch
Tom Whalen
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{lunch Break]
1:30 p.m.
PANEL A: THEORY II [PELICAN ROOM 2]
"A Democracy of Letters: Best Short Stories and the Literary Aesthetic of Edward J. O'Brien"
Jacquelyn Spa ngler, moderator, Ohio State UniverSity
"Baby in the Bathwater: Indeterminacy in Robert Coover's 'The Babysitter'"
Andrew Sang imino, Michigan State University
"The Fringe Story: Or, How to Integrate the Res isting Text"
Rolf Lunden, Uppsala University · Sweden
"Gathering Souvenirs of 'City Life': the 'Material Grammar' of Donald Ba rthel me and Walter
Benjamin"
Tim Waltonen , George Washington University
PANEL B: HAWTHORNE [FULTON ROOM]
"Hawthorne's T he Gray Champion' and the (Re)Emergence of the Ameri can Spirit"
Michael Cody, moderator, University of South Carolina at Columbia
"Robin Molineux's Kinsman: Hawthorne's 'David Swa n'"
C. P Seabrook Wi lkinson, University of South Carolina
"Hawthorne's Hypnagogic Imagery in Several Short Stories "
Susan K. H. Kurjiaka, Florida Atlantic University
PANEL C: SHORT STORY CYCLE III: ABOUT WOMEN [PELICAN ROOM 1]
"Jean T oo mer' s Cane"
Don Petesch , moderator, University of Pittsburgh
"Creating a Self: Short Sto ry Cycles and Women' s Identity"
Karen E. Weekes , University of Georgia
"The Paradox of Female Identity in Steinbeck's Th e Pasture of Heaven"
Charlotte Rich, University of Georgia
"Jean Toomer's Twilight Ladies: Feminine Power and Paradox in the Short Story Cycle Ca ne"
Sally Bishop Shigley, Weber State University
PANEL 0 : WRITERS' ROUND TABLE: SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, AND HORROR
[P OYDRAS ROOM]
Barbara Hambly, moderator, fiction writer
George Effinger, fiction writer
Poppy Z. Brite, fiction writer
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3:00 p.m.
PANEL A: WRITERS' ROUND TABLE: THE GLOBAL SHORT STORY [PELICAN ROOM 1]
Rudolfo Anaya , moderator, fiction writer
Janette Turner Hospital, fiction writer
Simon Ortiz , fiction writer
Ernest Gaines , fiction writer
Velma Pollard, fiction writer
George Clark , fiction writer
PANEL B: GLOBAL ApPROACHES TO KINGSTON'S THE WOMAN WARRIOR AS SHORT STORY
[PELICAN ROOM 2]
"Postmodern Approaches to The Woman Warrior"
Jennie Wang, moderator, University o { Northern Iowa
"Pigeon or Pin Yin: Kingston's Creolizati on"
Mary Gravitt, University of Northern Iowa
"Turn ing Silence into Speech: Chinese Legends in The Woman Warrior"
Diah Ariani Arimbi, University of Northern Iowa
"Language and Identity in The Woman Warrior. A Lacanian Reading"
Michelle Van Wert, University of Northern Iowa
READINGS: 1997 AND 1998 SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNERS [POYDRAS ROOM ]
Introduction, Troy Thibodeaux, New Yorl< Univers ity Allison McNeill Andrea Simon Pa ula Martin 4'30 p.rn.
READINGS A [PEL ICAN ROOM 1]
IntrodUction, Larry Wharton, University of Alabama at Birmingham
John Biguenet
Wayne Karlin
An dy Lam
Charlotte Zoe Walker
READINGS B [PELICAN ROOM 2]
Introducti on, Mau ri ce A . Lee , University of Northern Iowa Minoh Salgado Juani Gue rra George Clark Larry Gnffin READINGS C [POYDRAS ROOM]
Introd uction, Paula Hilton, University of New Orleans Liz Rosen Maxine Conant Catherine Krotzer-Laborde Jonathan Leavitt 6:30 p.m.
BANQUET [LA SALLE BALLROOM BIC]
READING: ALICE
MUNRO, introduced by Susan Lohafer cancelled
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Tuesday, June 30
9:30 a.m.
PANEL A: GENDER III [PELICAN ROOM 1)
"'Something More Th an That': Deconstructi ng Gender in Peter Taylor's '1939'"
S. L. Yentzer , moderator, University of Georgia
"The Didactic Ju dgm ent of a Woman Writer in Bessie Head's The Col/ector of
Tre asures"
Lorretta Sted, San Francisco Stafe University
"Reply to Patriarchy: The Reconstruction of Self and Others in the Short Stories of Alicia Gaspar
de Alba"
Gerdien Blom, University of Groningen -The Netherlands
"Living in a World of Make-Believe: Fantasy, Female Identity and Modern Short Stories by
Women in the British Trad ition"
Adrienne Gavin , Canterb ury Christ Church College
PANEL B: TRANSLATION, INFLUENCE, AND CANONICAL TEXTS [ PELI CAN RO OM 2]
Cynth ia Hallett , moderator
"The Horror, The Horror: Canonical Texts' Infl uence in Bill Manire's 'Cannibals'"
Catherine Ramsdell, Auburn University
"Hawthorne's Critique of Plato in 'The Birthma rk'"
Michael Crowley, University of Georgia
"Beasts of Desire: The Lure of Sexual Archetypes in Angela Carter's Short Fiction"
John Breitmeyer, University of New Orleans
"Translati ng the Sho rt Story"
Marie-Odile Fortier- Masek
READINGS [POYDRAS ROOM)
Introducti on, Paula Martin , University of New Orleans
Mirian Ben-Yoseph
O' Neil DeNoux
Skye Moody
Mark Whitaker
Sandy Huss
11 :00 a.m.
READINGS [LA S ALLE BALLROOM B/CJ
Introduction, Charles Dameron, University of Texas at Brownsville
Simon Ortiz
Velma Pollard
Jayne Ann e Phillips
Moira Crone
1 :00
p.m.
PANEL A : THEORY III [PELICAN R OOM 2)
"A Topographical Visualization of the Short Sto ry: julio Cortazar' s 'Continuity in the Parks'
and Francine Prose's 'Rubber Life ': Two Case Studies"
Juani Guerra, moderator, Canary Islands
"A Place for the Short Story"
Victoria Sferlazza, Naussau Community College - New York
"Dialectic Outline of the Micronarrative"
Antonio Planells and Lila de Jubecourt, University of Northern Iowa
"Plagi arizing Chekhov"
Susan Pepper Robbins and Rosalind Hingeley, Hampden-Sydney College
PANEL B: JOYCE AND DAVENPORT [PELICAN ROOM 1]
"The In active Short Story: Dead and Living Narratives in James Joyce's Oubliners"
Howard Martin Lindh olm, moderator, Michigan State University
"His Journey We stward: Gabriel's Ambiguous Epip hany in 'The Dead'"
Blake Bailey, University of New Orleans
"The Fourierist Parables of Selected Short Stories by Guy Davenport"
Patrick Meanor, Sta te University of New York at Oneonta
"Translating the Mode rn Short Story : Drying Out Joyce's 'Clay'"
Tere sa Calleda Cabrera , Univetsidad de Vigo - Spain
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DISCUSSION OF THE SHORT STORY IN THE NETHERLANDS
[F ULTON R OOM]
Wa nda Boeke , moderator
Astrid Roemer
Marion Bloem
READINGS
[POYDRAS ROOM ]
Introduction, Rebecca Trainor, Tulane University T im Parrish Jocelyn Paxton Paula Hilton Rita Washam 2:30 p.m.
CLOSING REMARKS FROM CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS: Where Do We Go
From Here? [LA SALLE BALLROOM BIC]
Mary Rohrberger, Executive Di rector
Maurice A. Lee, Director
Note: The SSSS thanks the Program Coordinator, Cynthia Hallett, for her indispensable work in fieldin g inquiries, accepti ng pa ­
pers , and corresponding with participa nts . The final program was arranged by the conference organizers and the president of the
SSSS
SPONSORS OF THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE SHORT STORY IN ENGLISH
The Society for the Study of the Short Story University of New Orleans Metropolitan College University of Texas at Brownsville State University of New York at Oneonta New Orleans Tourism and Marketing Corporation University of New Orleans Department of English Tulane University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Tulane Department of Eng/ish Claflin College Texas Women S UniversIty Faulkner House Books Great Acquisitions Books E & M Specialty Company Wisznia Associates Breazeale, Sachse & Ilson, L.L.p. Dorothy and Jacob Weisler Kim Glazer Goldberg Patty Friedman Montgomery Stire and Partners The appearance of Alice Munro is made possible in part by the Canadian Consulate in Dallas