Asian American Literature and the Legacy of Maxine Hong Kingston

18-20
Asian American Literature and the
Legacy of Maxine Hong Kingston
MARCH
2011
La littérature asiatico-américaine et
l’héritage de Maxine Hong Kingston
Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse, France
LLSH: Lettres Langues et Sciences Humaines
10, rue des Frères Lumière
F-68093 Mulhouse Cedex
Tél. : 03 89 33 63 81
Symposium “help desk” – 00 33 6 24 38 00 10 (Régine)
Organizers :
Sämi LUDWIG (UHA Mulhouse - ILLE)
Nicoleta ALEXOAE ZAGNI (Univ. Paris Diderot - LARCA/ISTOM)
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Conference Campus Venues
12 am-2 pm : “Le Lunch anglais”
Maxine Hong Kingston meets the UHA students
Venue : Illberg Campus, FLSH (Faculté des Lettres, Langues et Sciences Humaines)
Room 001
Chair and Facilitator : Régine Margraff, UHA Mulhouse
1-6 pm : Opening of Registration Desk. Collection of Conference Packages
Venue : Fonderie Campus, Salle des colloques
Direction
FONDERIE
2-3 pm : Official Opening of the Symposium
Prof. Alain Brillard, UHA President
Maxine Hong Kingston reads from her latest book, I Love A
Broad Margin To My Life (2011)
Venue : Fonderie Campus, Salle des colloques
FLSH
Tram Illberg Campus - Line 2 – “Illberg” Stop
Tram Fonderie Campus - Line 2 – “Tour Nessel” Stop
Symposium Special : student guides (red Symposium T-shirts) facilitate the
commute between the different venues
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9 am : Coffee/Tea & Snacks
1.30-3.15 pm :
Session 5
Venue : Illberg Campus, FLSH, Salle Starcky (210)
10-12 am : Parallel Sessions :
Session 3
Venue : Illberg Campus, FLSH, Room 201
Workshop chair : Jennifer DICK, UHA Mulhouse - ILLE, France
Venue : Illberg Campus, FLSH, Room 203
Workshop chair : Philipp Schweighauser, Basel University, Switzerland
Kuldip K. KUWAHARA, North Carolina Central University, USA
Intercultural Communication and Aesthetic Designs in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman
Warrior, Tripmaster Monkey and The Fifth Book of Peace
Amritjit SINGH, Langston Hughes Professor of English, Ohio University, USA
The Terrible Beauty of Internal Migration and Immigration: The Claiming of America in William
Attaway’s Blood on the Forge and Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men
Venus Chiu Ying TSANG, Oxford University, UK
Between Art and Life: Community Narratives and Narrative Communities in Maxine Hong
Kingston’s The Fifth Book of Peace
Anna PEHKORANTA, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
The Inheritance of Loss: Displacement, Abjection, and the Hypochondriacal Response in
Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior and Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone
Te-hsing SHAN, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Living Legacies of Writing and Peace: Maxine Hong Kingston and Her Sangha in Literature
and Peace
Janna WANAGAS, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Do ghosts grow up? Spectrality in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior and China
Men
Joanna ZIARKOWSKA, University of Warsaw, Poland
Communal Healing: Therapeutic Storytelling in Maxine Hong Kingston The Fifth Book of
Peace
Patrycja KURJATTO-RENARD, Lycée du Noordover, Grande Synthe, France
An Isolated Schoolgirl in the Playground: Maxine Hong Kingston and Nora Okja Keller
3.15-3.30 pm :
10-12 am : Parallel Sessions :
3.30-5 pm :
Session 4
Venue : Illberg Campus, FLSH, Room 207
Workshop chair : Maxine LEROY, UHA Mulhouse, France
Sorina Maria AILIESEI, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Iasi, Romania
Maxine Hong Kingston – The Rebellion of a (S)Word Warrior in Shaping Her Dual Identity
Eulalia PIÑERO-GIL, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
“I’ll be a Skylark”: Maxine Hong Kingston’s Confessional Poetics in To Be the Poet
Dorritta FONG, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
“You must not tell anyone what I am about to tell you”: Maxine Hong Kingston’s memoir as
testimonial weapon
Sihem ARFAOUI ABIDI, Gafsa University, Tunisia
The Legacy of Genre/Gender Transgression: Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior in
Fatima Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass
12 am-13.30 pm
Lunch at the Centre Sportif (2' walk)
Break (Coffee/Tea & Snacks)
Special Session 6
Venue : Illberg Campus, FLSH, Room 201
Round Table with MAXINE HONG KINGSTON and LOUIS BUFF PARRY, Vietnam
War Veteran, scholar and poet, character in The Fifth Book of Peace
5 pm : Transfer to Mulhouse by cars and tram
5.30-6.30 pm : Reception at Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) - Place de la Réunion
7.30 pm : Conference dinner - Restaurant Le Vieux Couvent
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9 am : Coffee/Tea & Snacks
3-4.30 pm :
Venue : Illberg Campus, FLSH, Salle Starcky (210)
Venue : Fonderie Campus - Salle des colloques
Workshop Chair : Pirjo AHOKAS, University of Turku, Finland
10-12 am :
Session 7
Venue : Illberg Campus, FLSH, Room 201
Workshop chair : Laurent CURELLY, UHA Mulhouse - ILLE, France
Nelly MOK, Université Bordeaux 3, France
Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior Beyond the Feminine and the Unfeminine:
Dismantling the Dualistic Perception of Gender and Ethnicity
Silvia SCHULTERMANDL, University of Graz, Austria
The Politics of Transnational Identity in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior
Mita BANERJEE, Universität Mainz, Germany
Towards a Planetary Consciousness: From Ethnicity to Global Consciousness in Maxine
Hong Kingston’s Fiction
Begoña SIMAL GONZALEZ, Universidade da Coruña, Spain
Greening The Woman Warrior and Beyond: An Ecocritical Approach to Maxine Hong
Kingston’s Literary Works
Session 1
C. Lok CHUA, California State University - Fresno, USA
Manuscript Revisions of Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior and China Men
Marie-Claude PERRIN-CHENOUR, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre, France
Between Postmodernity and Taoist Beliefs: Metamorphosis in “On Discovery” by Maxine
Hong Kingston
John WHALEN-BRIDGE, National University of Singapore
Engaged Buddhism and Engaged Aesthetics in Maxine Hong Kingston’s Fifth Book of Peace
4.30-5 pm :
Break (Coffee/Tea & Snacks)
5-6.30 pm :
Session 2
Venue : Fonderie Campus - Salle des colloques
Workshop chair : Michel FAURE, UHA Mulhouse - ILLE, France
Agnieszka SOLTYSIK MONNET, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
Maxine Hong Kingston as Counterculture Writer
12 am-13.30 pm :
Lunch at the Centre Sportif (2' walk)
1.30-3 pm : Round Table and Maxine Hong Kingston’s closing note
Christine LORRE, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3/ARIAS, France
Civil Disobedience, from Vietnam to Iraq, in The Fifth Book of Peace
Venue : Illberg Campus, FLSH, Room 201
Manuela VASTOLO, University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy
A peaceful woman warrior: formal experiments and pacifist goals in The Fifth Book of Peace
and Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace
3-5pm : Wine-tasting (Jean Dietrich Winery in Kayserberg). Time for goodbyes
6.30-9 pm : Reception (with food & drinks) and guided tour at the KUNSTHALLE
Venue : Illberg Campus, FLSH, Salle Starcky (210)