5th AISCLI Conference: Contemporary Sites of Chaos in the literature and arts of the postcolonial world

Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale"

29-30 settembre 2011

5th AISCLI Conference

Contemporary Sites of Chaos
in the literature and arts of the postcolonial world

Palazzo Du Mesnil, via Chiatamone 61/62

Thursday 29 september

9.00 Registration and coffee

10.00 Welcoming addresses

Augusto Guarino, Preside Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere

Maria Laudando, Presidente Collegio Area didattica di Lingue, Letterature e Culture

Jocelyne Vincent, Direttore del Dipartimento di Studi Americani, Culturali e Linguistici

Annalisa Oboe, Presidente AISCLI, Università di Padova

10.30 Keynote address

Iain Chambers, (Università "L'Orientale") Maritime Criticism: Lessons from the Sea
introduced by Jane Wilkinson

12.00 paper session 1 chaotic routes

Chair: Maria Renata Dolce
Alessandra Di Maio (Università di Palermo) Mediterranean Burnings
Esterino Adami (Università di Torino) Chaos in a Box: Languaging Diasporic Intertextualities in Suhayl Saadi
Isabella Martini (Università di Pisa) Strategies to deal with chaos: "Irma Voth" by Miriam Toews
Simona Bertacco (University of Louisville, Kentucky) Exiles must make their own maps: Postcolonial texts and the explosion of Cartography

13.30 lunch break

14.30 paper session 2 chaos made

Chair: Marie-Hélène Laforest
Kirsten Holst Petersen (Roslikde University) Water, fire, debris, decay, cataclysmic explosions, volcanoes, molten lava and Shostakovich: the use of Chaos in the paintings by Audrey Williams
Katherine Russo (Università "L'Orientale") Affect, chaos and ecocriticism in Alexis Wright's "Carpentaria"
Elena Carraro (Università di Padova) Voicing chaos in the haitian diaspora. Disorder, turmoil and bewilderment in the work of Edwidge Danticat
Paola Della Valle (Università di Torino) "People connected to the sky in their mind": chaos and mental illiness in Janet Frame and PAtricia Grace
Roberta Cimarosti (Università Ca' Foscari) Creole art versus world chaos

16.30 tea break

17.00 paper session 3 africhaos

Chair: Carmen Concilio
Serena Guarracino (Università "L'Orientale") Music as order, music as chaos: singing the Post-colonial in the U-Carmen eKayelitsha
Giulia D'Agostini (Università di Padova) Countering State violence: Abani, Habila, Adichie and the Nigerian prison
Maria Paola Guarducci (Università Roma Tre) From chaos to canon: the presence of Dambudzo Marechera in Post-Apartheid South African writers
Claudia Gualtieri (Università di Milano) "Actions from the South": Teatro delle Albe and Takku Ligey Théâtre

20.30 conference dinner