REGISTRATION
Time: 1:00 p.m. on Thursday October 12, 2006
Place: Foyer, 3rd floor, Centennial Hall
Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures
Thursday October 12, 2006 1:30-3:00
SESSION 1:
Histoire et (auto)biographie dans la littérature d’expression
française
(FOYER, 3rd floor, Centennial Hall)
Session Chair: Sante VISELLI, University of Winnipeg
Franco-Américanie et triomphalisme messianique dans le roman
de la fidélité du XIXième siècle.
Vincent SCHONBERGER, Lakehead University (Ontario)
Autobiographie, histoire et fiction dans Le grand voyage de Jorge
Semprun.
Azouz Ali AHMED, Queen’s University (Ontario)
Histoire, identité migrante et (auto)biographie: le cas de
La mémoire de l’eau de Ying Chen.
Kenneth MEADWELL, University of Winnipeg
Tea/coffee break
Thursday October 12, 2006 3:30-5:30
SESSION 2:
Personal Stories in Postcards, Photographs and Songs (FOYER)
Session Chair: Liliane RODRIGUEZ, University of Winnipeg
Postcards from the Past.
Karen MALCOLM and Barbara BECKER, University of Winnipeg
Daguerrotype as Artifact and Myth.
Julie GARD, Bismarck State College (North Dakota)
Ego Eimi: The Voice Becomes the Story.
Rick WATSON, Minot State University (North Dakota)
English to Spanish Translation of El albergue de las
mujeres tristes.
Monica RUIZ, University of Winnipeg
Friday October 13, 2006 9:00-10:30
SESSION 3: Autobiography as
Representation of the Collectivity (FOYER)
Session Chair: Carol HARVEY, University of Winnipeg
Toward Immigrant Words: Claiming a Linguistic “Non-Space”
in Régine Robin’s The Wanderer.
Michèle RACKHAM, McGill University (Quebec)
A Young Man’s History in a Time of Trouble:
The Bildungsroman of Su Tong.
Hua LI, University of Manitoba
Gender and British Working-Class Life Writing: The
Case of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.
Julie CAIRNIE, University of Guelph (Ontario)
Tea/coffee break
Friday October 13, 2006 11:00-12:30
SESSION 4A: Britain in Fiction
(FOYER)
Session Chair: Karen MALCOLM, University of Winnipeg
Hermeneutics in Human Tragedy: Bibliomancy, British
Israelism, and Millenarianism in Daniel Defoe’s Journal of
the Plague Year.
Carolyn BAKER, Mayville State University (North Dakota)
Semper Eadem? Representations of a Historical Figure
across Biographical Texts.
Bryony LEWICKI, Carleton University (Ontario)
Vicente Huidobro’s Finis Britannia [sic]: Fiction
and Affairs of State.
Debra MAURY, University of North Dakota
SESSION 4B:
Exploring Identity in Fiction and Film (3M58, Manitoba Hall)
Session Chair: Glenn MOULAISON, University of Winnipeg
Radisson and Memmi: A Re-reading of Radisson’s
Fifth and Sixth Voyages.
Alan MACDONELL, University of Manitoba
Pleasure and Danger in the Pot au noir: Adèle
Toussaint-Samson and the Hypersexualization of Brazil.
Christopher LOZENSKY, Minot State University (North Dakota)
Modern (Re)Constructions of Christine Carpenter, The
Anchoress of Shere
Michelle M. SAUER, Minot State University (North Dakota)
Lunch break
Friday October 13, 2006 2:00-3:30
SESSION 5A: Fact and Fiction
(FOYER)
Session Chair: Linda DIETRICK, University of Winnipeg
The Uses of Literature: Crime Fiction as Supplemental
Reading.
Chandice M. JOHNSON, North Dakota State University
White Lies (for my mother) and Liza Potvin’s
Autobiographical Strategies.
Jason PHILLIPS, Wilfrid Laurier University (Ontario)
“That part of the story is my own”: Facts,
Fictions, and Repetitions in the Work of Tim O’Brien.
David A. GODFREY, Jamestown College (North Dakota)
SESSION 5B:
La fiction identitaire des 18e-20e siècles en France (3M58,
Manitoba Hall)
Session Chair: Joseph NNADI, University of Winnipeg
L’Italien à trois têtes dans Candide
de Voltaire.
Sante A. VISELLI, University of Winnipeg
Dans une galerie des glaces: André Gide et
sa première fiction.
Linda NESS, University of Toronto (Ontario)
Un bateau en enfer: la fiction autobiographique de
Rimbaud.
Glenn MOULAISON, University of Winnipeg
Tea/coffee break
Friday October 13, 2006 4:00-5:00
Welcome from the Associate
Vice-President, International
(1L13, Lockhart Hall)
Neil BESNER, University of Winnipeg
PLENARY TALK
(1L13, Lockhart Hall)
Chair: Kenneth MEADWELL, University of Winnipeg
The World, the Text and
the Transcultured Writer:
Religiosity and the Imaginary in Novels of the 1990s
Marie VAUTIER,
University of Victoria (British Columbia)
Friday October 13, 2006 5:00-6:30
Reception
in the Faculty Club of the University of Winnipeg
(4th floor, Wesley Hall)
Saturday October 14, 2006 8:30-10:00
SESSION 6A:
Literary Techniques and Compositional Strategies (FOYER)
Session Chair: Alan MACDONELL, University of Manitoba
“Such Pelmanism”: Theme and Narrative
Technique in The English Patient.
Mark BROWN, Jamestown College (North Dakota)
Jean Genet and Arthur Kopit: Using the Fake for Good
Effect.
Andrew TRUMP, North Dakota State University
Ironic Self-Quotation and Parodic Program Music: Richard
Strauss’s Autobiographical “Fiction”.
Kimberly FAIRBROTHER CANTON, University of Toronto (Ontario)
SESSION 6B:
Exemples de la fiction identitaire en France et au Sénégal
(3C27, Centennial Hall)
Session Chair: Vincent SCHONBERGER, Lakehead University
(Ontario)
Au-delà du récit autobiographique:
Tassadit Imache et le flou identitaire.
Anissa TALAHITE-MOODLEY, University of Toronto (Ontario)
Image des marginaux dans les romans de Gary/Ajar.
Vina TIRVEN, Athabasca University (Alberta)
Autobiographie et féminisme dans le roman sénégalais.
Joseph NNADI, University of Winnipeg
Tea/coffee break
Saturday October 14, 2006 10:30-12:00
SESSION 7A: Autobiography
and History (FOYER)
Session Chair: Debra MAURY, University of North Dakota
Diederich Hessling, c’est moi!: Autobiographical
Elements in Heinrich Mann’s Untertan.
Katherine STEVENSON, Jamestown College (North Dakota)
“In these times of liberty, a girl can elope
if she gets the notion”: Reflections of the French Revolution
in Two Plays by German Women.
Linda DIETRICK, University of Winnipeg
De la Rue à la Route: la fiction autobiographique
de Gabrielle Roy.
Louise RENÉE, University of Manitoba
SESSION 7B: Identity and Selfhood
(3C27, Centennial Hall)
Session Chair: Vina TIRVEN, Athabasca University (Alberta)
“Give me a break. I’m just an ordinary
person”: Murakami Haruki and the I-Novel Tradition in Modern
Japanese Literature.
William LEE, University of Manitoba
Till We Have Faces: C. S. Lewis’ Fictional Autobiography.
Dale SULLIVAN, North Dakota State University
“My mother died at the moment I was born”:
Jamaica Kincaid’s Autobiography from a Systemic Perspective.
Gustav ARNOLD, University of North Dakota
Lunch break
Saturday October 14, 2006 1:00-2:00
Business Meeting
of the Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota
(FOYER)
Saturday October 14, 2006 2:00-3:30
SESSION
8: (Auto)biography in Canadian Literature (FOYER)
Session Chair: Marie VAUTIER, University of Victoria
(British Columbia)
“All that can happen to me here has happened.”:
Michael Winter, Gabriel English, and Canonicity in This All Happened.
Brenna CLARKE GRAY, University of New Brunswick
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams: Joey Smallwood’s
Secular Spiritual Autobiography.
Kevin FLYNN, University of Saskatchewan
From a Watcher to a Translator: A Biographer’s
Self-Realization in Small Ceremonies.
Ying KONG, University of Manitoba
Saturday October 14, 2006 4:30
Guided tour of the childhood
home of author Gabrielle ROY
with Prof. Carol HARVEY, University of Winnipeg,
author of Le Cycle manitobain de Gabrielle Roy.
375, rue Deschambault, Saint-Boniface.
Saturday October 14, 2006 7:00
Banquet
at
Papaluci’s Ristorante Italiano
203 Kennedy Street.
Cost of $30.00 payable at registration.
Vegetarian meal available upon request at registration.
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