2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

THURSDAY
8:30 – 10:00 P.M.
"Marx and the Motorcycle in the American Fifties"
Steven E. Alford, Nova Southeastern University
Mardi Gras A (3rd Floor)
2223 Southern Literature & Culture VI: Louisiana Literature and Culture
Chair: Christopher Bloss, Georgia Gwinnett College
"The Tragic Mulatta Reconfigured, Slavery as Female Desire, and Grace King's
Defense of Racial Hierarchy"
Ryan Crider, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
"Representing New Orleans: The Allure of Exoticism"
Tracey Watts, Loyola University in New Orleans
"A Confederacy of Dunces: How Ignatius Got to New Orleans"
Jane Bethune, Salve Regina University
"Travels with Toole: Inspiration from a Dead Writer, the Cajun Wayne Newton, and
the Waters of the Mississippi"
Billy Merck, Washington State University
"Walking Through New Orleans: New Reflections on New Orleans Culture in the
Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina"
William White, Tarleton State University
Audubon (5th Floor)
2224 Latin American Literature & Culture II: Latin American Literature and
Culture II
Chair: Patricia Montilla, Western Michigan University
"Love in the Time of Cholera’s Framing of Elderly Passion"
April D. Marshall, Pepperdine University
"Trauma y violencia en la literatura del exilio hispanoamericana: el caso chileno y
el caso español: dos experiencias"
Jaime Retamales, University of Houston
"Fantasy in the Short Fiction of Ana Gloria Moya"
Patricia M. Montilla
Preservation Hall Studio 5 (2nd Floor)
2225 German Literature & Culture III
Chair: Claude Desmarais, University of British Columbia, Okanagan
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