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New Novel Conference1950 – 2050:
the millennial border
6-8 April 1999, University of Aberdeen
Tuesday, 6 April 1999
4 – 6 pm Session 1 (William Guild Building G36)
Language, Modernity and Politics in the Latin American Novel
Mayder Dravasa (Tufts University): "Why was the Boom a Modernist Movement?"
Jon Beasley-Murray (University of Aberdeen): "New Novels, Old Narratives: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Latin America"
Fernando Reati (Georgia State University):"Mutaciones y pérdida del lenguaje en la novela futurista argentina a fines del siglo XX"
Héctor D. Fernández L’Hoeste (Georgia State University): "Of Angels and Prospects: The End of the Millenium in Laura Restrepo’s The Angel of Galilea"
Chair: Frank McQuade (Trinity and All Saints College)
Session 2 (Regent Building, Seminar Room 3)
Reworking identities in recent writing in French
Lorna Milne (University of St Andrews): "Patrick Chamoiseau and the Creole New Novel"
Marion Sadoux (University College London): "Self Fictions: New Borders between Autobiography and the Novel in Contemporary French Writing"
James Agar (University of Aberdeen): "A new (and) novel way of reading?"
Gill Rye (Roehampton Institute): "Maternity or Paternity? Mothering by Men in Christiane Baroche’s La Rage au bois dormant"
Chair: Jeremy Lane (University of Aberdeen)
7.30 – 8.30 pm Plenary (Regent Lecture Theatre)
Jean Andrews (Goldsmiths’ College, London):
"The Historical Novel and the End of Empire in England, France and Spain"
Chair: Julia Biggane (University of Aberdeen)
8.30 – 9.30 pm Creative Writing (Regent Lecture Theatre)
New Scottish Fiction: A Reading by Alan Spence
Chair: Liam McIlvanney (University of Aberdeen)
8.30 – 9.30 pm Business Meeting (Regent Building, Seminar Room 3)
General Meeting of the New Novel Association, followed by a Meeting of the Editorial Board of the New Novel Review
Wednesday, 7 April 1999
9.30 - 10.30 am Session 3 (Regent Lecture Theatre)
Ben Stoltzfus and Judith Palmer (University of California, Riverside):
Creative Work: Romoland: Art and Fiction
9 – 10.30 am Session 4 (Regent Building, Seminar Room 1)
Modern Catalan Narrative
Montserrat Lunati (University of Wales at Cardiff):"Voice and Identity in No se sap mai by Imma Monsó"
Jordi Larios (University of Wales at Cardiff): "The Center Cannot Hold: Les Fures by Llorenç Villalonga"
Xavier Pla (Universitat de Girona): "The Concept of Self-Fiction in the Narrative of Josep Pla"
Frederic Barberà (University of Aberdeen): "'Épater le Bourgeois' in 1990s Catalonia D.G. A Novel by Ramon Solsona"
Chair: Frederic Barberà (University of Aberdeen)
9 - 10.30 am Session 5 (Regent Building, Seminar Room 3)
Corpus/Corpse?: The German Novel after the Wall
Janet Stewart (University of Aberdeen): "Flesh and Text: Reading The Reader"
Gundula Sharman (University of Aberdeen): "Heart of the Matter: Markus Werner’s Till Later"
Lyn Marven (University of Oxford): "Kirsten Hensel’s Grotesque Bodies: Images of Femininity in the Works of Kirsten Hensel"
Simon Ward (University of Aberdeen): "The End of His-story? Men Writing Men after the Wall"
Chair: Gordon Burgess (University of Aberdeen)
10.50 - 12.20 pm Session 6 (Regent Building, Seminar Room 3)
Histories in Hispanic Fiction
Josefina Delgado (Universidad de Buenos Aires): "La novela histórica argentina en los noventa"
María Serra Laliga (Universidad de Alicante): "El capitán Alatriste: nuevas tendencias y viejos recursos"
Parvati Nair (London Guildhall University): "Temporal Mosaics: Bernardo Atxaga or the Contemporary Spanish Novel as Historical Epitaph"
Jésus Rodero (University of Strathclyde): "Morirás lejos de José Emilio Pacheco: la inestabilidad de la ficción, el presente desrealizado"
Chair: Jean Andrews (Goldsmiths’ College, London)
Session 7 (Regent Building, Seminar Room 1)
autre/outre : The Passage Beyond
Mark Lee (Mount Allison University): "The Last Word: Sarraute’s Deathbed Scenes"
Seda Chavdarian (University of California, Berkeley): "Improvising the Model: Michel Butor’s Book of the Future"
Bob Plant (University of Aberdeen): "For the Love of a Stranger: Reading Kundera’s Identity after Levinas, Derrida and Barthes"
Chair: Ian Maclachlan (University of Aberdeen)
1.30 - 3.30 pm Session 8 (Regent Building, Seminar Room 1)
Anxious Identities in Latin American Novels
Frank McQuade (Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds): "Hearts and Bones: Iconography in Tomás Eloy Martínez’s Santa Evita"
Carmen Hartman (State University of New York, Albany): "Cabrera Infante’s Tres tristes tigres: On the Failure of the Speaking Subject"
Alma Blasco Blanquer (University of Aberdeen): "Scopophilia and Zoé Valdés: Woman and the Power of the Gaze"
Philip Swanson (University of Aberdeen): "It Takes Two?: (Non-) Binary Logic in Luisa Valenzuela’s Novela negra con argentinos"
Chair: Christopher Little (Berry College)
Session 9 (Regent Building, Seminar Room 3)
Robbe-Grillet: On the Border of Fiction, Film, and Fact
Lynne Diamond-Nigh (Elmira College): "Confla(gra)tions, or the Artistic Collaboration of Robbe-Grillet and Mark Tansey"
Ben Stoltzfus (University of California, Riverside): "Robbe-Grillet and Jasper Johns: Visual Affinities"
Roch C Smith (University of North Carolina): "The Camera and the Pen: Topology and the Golden Triangle"
Chair: Julia Waters (Queen’s College, Oxford)
4.00 - 5.30 pm Session 10 (Regent Building, Seminar Room 3)
US Latino/a Fiction
Christopher Little (Berry College): "The Two Faces of the Puerto Rican New Novel"
William Deaver (Armstrong State College): "Got Milk: A Case of Udder Despair – ‘Milkmaid’ from Roberto G. Fernández’s HOLY RADISHES!"
Enrique Morales-Diaz (State University of New York, Albany): "The Depiction of the Latina Woman in the United States in the works of Esmeralda Santiago and Julia Alvarez"
Chair: Eyda Merediz (University of Maryland)
Session 11 (Regent Building, Seminar Room 1)
Formal Tensions in the Modern French Novel
Sandra Beckett (Brock University): "Apocalypse and Revelation: The Novels of J M G Le Clézio"
David Gascoigne (University of St Andrews): "Perec, Order and Freedom: La Vie mode d’emploi as serialist fiction"
Marie Fournier (Royal Holloway, London): "The novel according to François Bon : ‘une histoire de voix’"
Chair: Raylene Ramsay (University of Auckland)
5.45 – 6.45 pm Plenary (Regent Lecture Theatre)
Celia Britton (University of Aberdeen):
"Nouveau Roman, ‘Roman de nous’: Disintegrated Individuals in French and French Caribbean Fiction"
Chair: Ian Maclachlan (University of Aberdeen)
Thursday, 8 April 1999
9 – 11 am Session 12 (Regent Building, Seminar Room 1)
Casa(s) Tomada(s): narrativas de lo (no tan) doméstico y lo (no tan) familiar en la segunda mitad del siglo XX
Barbara Zecchi (St Mary’s College of California): "Irse de casa: La huida de lo doméstico en la narrativa española contemporánea"
Eyda Merediz (University of Maryland): "Publicaciones diaspóricas: El home-run(azo) de Zoé Valdés"
Silvia Bermúdez (University of California, Santa Barbara): "No se lo digas a nadie: hablando a gritos de(sde) una familia peruana"
Andrés Zamora (Vanderbilt University): "Animismos domésticos en Juan José Millás, o cómo amueblar inquietantemente una novela"
Chair: Silvia Bermúdez (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Session 13 (Regent Building, Seminar Room 3)
Fantasy and History: Robbe-Grillet, Duras
Christian Milat (University of Ottawa): "Le Voyeur, ou l’érotisme de l’héautontimorouménos robbe-grillétien"
Jeremy Lane (University of Aberdeen): "The Stain, the Impotent Gaze, and the Theft of Jouissance : Towards a Zizekian Reading of Robbe-Grillet’s La Jalousie"
Julia Waters (Queen’s College, Oxford): "The Author is Dead, Long Live the Author; Reflections on Mortality in Duras’s and Robbe-Grillet’s Later Works"
Raylene Ramsay (University of Auckland): "The Representations of Collaboration and Holocaust in the Work of Robbe-Grillet and Duras"
Chair: Lynne Diamond-Nigh (Elmira College)
11.30 – 12.30 pm Plenary (Regent Lecture Theatre)
Michael Worton (University College, London):
"Telling it like it is? Men and the Fictions they Write"
Chair: James Agar (University of Aberdeen)
2 - 4 pm Session 14 (Regent Building, Seminar Room 3)
Hispanic erotic fiction
Pilar Escabias-Lloret (University of Aberdeen): "From Spectator to Spectacle or vice-versa? Almudena Grandes’ Las edades de Lulú"
Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles (University of Edinburgh): "Malena es un nombre de tango: Narrating the Power of the Body and the Pleasure Principle"
Philip Swanson (University of Aberdeen): "Coitus Interruptus: Donoso, the Post-Boom and La misteriosa desaparición de la marquesita de Loria"
Chair: Silvia Bermúdez (University of California, Santa Barbara):
Session 15 (Regent Building, Seminar Room 1)
'English' Fictions and Notions of Newness
Susan Mary Brook (Duke University): "Lucky Jim as a British New Novel? Rebellion and Form
Birgitta Johansson (University of Toronto): "Pictorial Poetics: Interdisciplinary Aspects of Berger’s and Ondaatje’ Texts"
James Agar (University of Aberdeen): "The Infection of Reading: Inoculation against the Disease of Identity"
Britta Zangen (Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf): "Prize-Winning Novels by Women: The Orange Prize for Fiction"
Chair: Fidelma Farley (University of Aberdeen)
Session 16 (Regent Lecture Theatre)
Film Showing of a new documentary on Robbe-Grillet by Edouard D’Araille
4.30 – 5.30 pm Plenary (Regent Lecture Theatre)
Luisa Valenzuela: "Don Quixote through the looking glass"
Chair: Philip Swanson (University of Aberdeen)
Hispanic Studies, School of Language & Literature
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