Literary Tradition, Cultural Identities, and Theoretical Discourses in the Anglo-Canadian Fictions of the Late 20th Century
A Spain, UK and TransCanada Institute collaboration with the support of a three-year €85,000 grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education.
Project Leader
Dr. Eva Darias Beautell
Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts: Narratives of English Canada Today, edited by Eva Darias Beautell (forthcoming)
Research Team
Dr. Eva Darias Beautell (U of La Laguna, Research Director)
Dr. Ana Fraile Marcos (U of Salamanca)
Dr. María Jesús Hernáez Lerena (U of La Rioja)
Dr. Coral Ann Howells (U of Reading, UK)
Dr. Smaro Kamboureli (U of Guelph, Canada)
Dr. Belén Martín Lucas (U of Vigo)
Event Program
June 6th to 8th, 2008
Friday
• 4:30-7:00 Reception and general discussion
• 7:00-9:00 Dinner at Bollywood Bistro
Saturday
• 9:30-10:30 “Rewriting Tradition: Stories and Literary Histories since 1970.”
Coral Ann Howells, University of Reading, England
• 10:30-11:30 “The Production of Vancouver: Notes on the Ideology of Recent
Fiction and Art from the West Coast” Eva Darias Beautell, University of La
Laguna
• 11:30-12:00 Wrap up of session
• 12:00-1:00 Lunch
• 1:00-2:00 “Of Mutant Bodies and Ghostly Hauntings: the Spectral Nation”
Belén Martín-Lucas, University of Vigo
• 2:00-3:00 “Newfoundland unfolding: Pathways of creativity in three
contemporary Newfoundland novelists”, María Jesús Hernáez Lerena,
University of La Rioja
• 3:00-3:30 Coffee break
• 3:30-4:30 “Writing B(l)ack: African Canadian Reconfigurations of National
Identity”, Ana Maria Fraile, University of Salamanca
• 4:30-5:00 Wrap up session
• 5:00-7:00 Free time
• 7:00-12:00 Dinner at Smaro’s house, 8 Maplewood Drive (off Edinburgh St.)
Sunday
• 9:30-10:30 “CanLit, Method, and the Nation” Smaro Kamboureli, University of
Guelph
• 10:30-11:00 Coffee break
• 11:00-12:00 Wrap up session
• 12:00-1:00 Lunch
• 1:00-3:00 Discussion