ACLA 2006 Annual Meeting: The Human and Its Others

Translation, transposition, and transcultural intertextual dialogue figure significantly in the modern formation and transformation of critical discourse in and on fiction, film, and related literary forms. This panel critically examines such self-consciously displaced fictional and critical discourse, delineating its own territory in terms of an “otherness” that disrupts conventional configurations of purportedly “humanistic” canonical national literatures. Focused on twentieth-century transpositions (literal and literary), these papers explore the extension of earlier margins and representations of marginal or multicultural consciousness already essentially defining Russian, Latin American, and transnational literature. They examine metamorphoses of fictive form and critical discourse in terms of parody and stylization, translation and transformation, often embodied in grotesque, inhuman/e, animal or insect consciousness.

Friday, March 24

Alberto Ribas-Casasayas, Harvard University
“Post-Mortem Narrative and the Traumatic Foundation of Modern Mexico in Carlos Fuentes’ ‘The Two Shores’”
Kerri Pierce, Pennsylvania State
“Guilt By Association: The Art of Meaning in Pale Fire and ‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius’”
Antonio Gomez, University of Pittsburgh
“Exoticism vs. Otherness in Latin American Exile Discourse”
Sharon Lubkemann Allen, SUNY
“Metamorphosis: From Dostoevsky & Machado de Assis to Verrissimo, Lispector & Pelevin”

Saturday, March 25

Julia Zarankin, University of Missouri
“Nabokov’s Maps of Reading and the Creation of Transnational Space”
Tatiana Kabanova, Independent scholar
“Andrei Tarkovsky: A Human Dialogue with the Other”
Carolyn Vellenga Berman,The New School
“Jamaica Kincaid’s Fetal Narrative and the Unborn Reader”
Carolyn Shread, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Bracha Ettinger’s Feminist Ethics of Difference: Metramorphosising Translation”