FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2009

10:30 - 11:45 SESSION IV

            PORTUGUESE LITERATURE

            Prospero and Caliban: A dystopian look at the
            generational gaps in the "free" Angola of Quem me
            dera ser onda

                        Mario Morera
                        Texas Tech University

            There is no other land, there is no other life but this: Fé
            e natureza adversa em As Vinhas da Ira e Os
            Flagelados do Vento Leste

                        Erin Phillips
                        Texas Tech University

            O outro "feminino"--Espaços subversivos em "O
            pescador cego" de Mia Couto

                        Brenda Adcock
                        Texas Tech University

            Chair:  Dr. António Ladeira

12:00 - 1:30  LUNCH BREAK

1:35 - 2:45  KEYNOTE ADDRESS

            A New Hybrid World: Crossing Cultures with the
            Portuguese in Asia, Africa, and Brazil

                        Dr. Kenneth David Jackson
                        Yale University

2:50 - 3:55  SESSION V

            EN TORNO A LA LITERATURA
            LATINOAMERICANA

            Asalto a la historia oficial en la literatura
            centroamericana contemporánea: algunas reflexiones

                        Dr. José Juan Colín
                        University of Oklahoma

            El lector cómplice en la 'novela negra' de Marco
            Denevi

                        Christina Miller
                        University of Oklahoma

            Simbología y redención: tres arquetipos femeninos en
            La casa verde de Mario Vargas Llosa

                        Yolani Martínez-Hyde
                        University of Okalhoma

            Chair:  Dr. José Juan Colín

4:00-4:30  A SELECTION OF POEMS AS READ BY THE
AUTHOR HIMSELF

            Nelson Suárez
            Arizona State University

6:00  CONFERENCE BANQUET AT ORLANDO'S ITALIAN RESTAURANT