11th INTERNATIONAL SAAS CONFERENCE * U.

LA LAGUNA, TENERIFE * 20-23 MARCH 2013

TENTATIVE PROGRAMME WEDNESDAY 20 MARCH 1000-1100: Registration 1100: Parallel Session 1: Panels 6(1), 8(1) & 19(1)
6) Transgressing Boundaries: The Interrelationship of Poetry and the Visual Arts Panel Chair: Viorica Patea Birk Institution: Universidad de Salamanca E-mail: vioricap@usal.es SESSION 1 Ddac Llorens Cubedo (UNED): Two Instances of Poetry Represented: T. S. Eliot, Francis Bacon and R. B. Kitaj Ernesto Surez Toste (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha): Tigers in red weather: Color against Color-symbolism in Modernist American Poetry Borja Aguil Obrador (Universidad de Salamanca): And All the Stones Have Wings: Reimagining the Pacific Northwest in the Work of Theodore Roethke and Morris Graves 8) Transnational/Transcultural Female Bodies in American Literature Panel Chair: Eulalia Piero Gil Institution: Universidad Autnoma de Madrid E-mail: eulalia.pinero@uam.es SESSION 1 Marinella Rodi-Risberg (University of Vaasa, Finland): The Traumatized Transnational /Transcultural Female Body in Denise Chvezs Face of an Angel Guadalupe Escobar (UCLA, USA): From the Body in Pain to the Body in Politics: Violence, Corporeal Memory, and Voice in Ana Castillos Drama Tobias Alexander Jochum (Universidad de La Laguna): The Jurez Femicides in US-Literature: Social Activism and the Representation of Violence in Alicia Gaspar de Albas Desert Blood 19) Miscellaneous Panel Panel Chairs: Begoa Simal/Vctor Junco Institution: Universidade da Corua/Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria E-mail: bsimal@udc.es / vjunco@dfm.ulpgc.es SESSION 1 Pedro Antonio Frez Mora (Universidad de Murcia): Dennis Coopers The Sluts and E- (Homo)sexual Desire: Crisscrossing Carnality and Cyberspace Mnica Calvo Pascual (Universidad de Zaragoza): Trans-corporeality and Perfection: an Analysis of Self-injury as Transcendence in Darren Aronofskys Black Swan Ana Fernndez-Caparrs Turina (Universidad de Extremadura): Transcendent Transceivers: the Postmodern Transmission of Love in Sarah Ruhls Dead Mans Cell Phone

1230: Parallel Session 2: Panels 9(1), 18(1) & 19(2)

9) Characterizing Diaspora Literatures in the U.S. Today Panel Chair: Aitor Ibarrola Armendriz Institution: Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao E-mail: ibarrola@fil.deusto.es SESSION 1 Bilyana V. Kostova (Universidad de Zaragoza): Of Other Peoples Suffering: Migration and

Trauma in Middlesex

Silvia Martnez Falquina (Universidad de Zaragoza): Transnationally-Transmitted Trauma in

Little Haiti Diasporic Community: E. Danticats Reading Lessons Contestive Imaginations 18) The Historical Significance of Border Crossing in the United States Panel Chair: Mara Luz Arroyo Vzquez Institution: Universidad Nacional de Educacin a Distancia E-mail: larroyo@flog.uned.es SESSION 1 Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz (Universidad de Deusto): On Third Thoughts: The Ambivalence of Border Crossing in Tommy Lee Jones The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Antonia Sagredo Santos (UNED): Migration and Border Crossing: Irish Immigrants in the U.S.A as a Case Study Fernando Martn Pescador (UNED): New Mexico: The Borderline which Crossed the Peoples Minds 19) Miscellaneous Panel Panel Chairs: Begoa Simal/Vctor Junco Institution: Universidade da Corua/Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria E-mail: bsimal@udc.es / vjunco@dfm.ulpgc.es SESSION 2 Susana Mara Jimnez Placer (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela): The Domestic Space in the Jim Crow Era Gerardo Rodrguez Salas (Universidad de Granada): Living in Separate Worlds: Unworking Community in Sandra Cisneross The House on Mango Street and Woman Hollering Creek. Maika Aira Gallardo (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela): Let Her Be Born: Women Transgress Gender Boundaries in Shanges For Colored Girls

Enrique Galvn-lvarez (Universidad Internacional de la Rioja): Uncertain Memories,

--1630: Opening Ceremony 1700: Parallel Session 3: Panels 12, 16 & 19(3)
12) Music Which Crosses Borders: Sounds and Songs Which Come and Go Panel Chair: ngel Chaparro Sainz Institution: Universidad del Pas Vasco E-mail: angel.chaparro@ehu.es Carmen Rueda Ramos (Universitat Rovira i Virgili): "In(fluence) and Musical Transference: Crossing Boundaries of Genre, Geography and Ethnicity in Robert Love Taylor's Blind Singer Joe's Blues" Aaron L. Feder (Universitat de Barcelona) and Carlos Delclos (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): "Post- Fordist Cultural Production in the Afrobeat Diaspora" Juan Ignacio Guijarro Gonzlez (Universidad de Sevilla): "Black Like Me?: The Jazz Cadence in the Works of Spanish Avant-Garde Author Jos Moreno Villa" 16) Encounters of the Third Space Kind: American Science Fiction as the Experience of Coming Across Otherness Panel Chair: ngel Mateos-Aparicio Martn-Albo Institution: Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha E-mail: Angel.Mateos@uclm.es Sara Martn Alegre (UAB): Resisting Alien Contact: Rewiring the Soldier in John Scalzis Old Mans War (2006) Carmen Mndez Garca (UCM): Encrucijadas: On Chicana Futurism, Trespassing and Transcending ngel Mateos-Aparicio (UCLM): Illegal Aliens: An Alternative Vision of the US-Mexico Borderlands in Monsters (2010)

19) Miscellaneous Panel Panel Chairs: Begoa Simal/Vctor Junco Institution: Universidade da Corua/Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria E-mail: bsimal@udc.es / vjunco@dfm.ulpgc.es SESSION 3 Patricia San Jos Rico (Universidad de Valladolid): Their Past in my Blood. Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma in Gayl Jones' Corregidora, Phyllis Alesia Perrys Stigmata and Octavia E. Butlers Kindred Marita Nadal (Universidad de Zaragoza): Crossing Limits: Transgression and Trauma in American Gothic Carolina Nez Puente (Universidade da Corua): Affect Theory: the Trans and the Inter of It

1830: Plenary Session 1: Isabel Durn (U. Complutense, Madrid) 2000: Welcoming Reception THURSDAY 21 MARCH 0930: Parallel Session 4: Panels 14, 17(1) & 19(4)
14) The Trials and Tribulations of Translation Panel Chair: Michael A. Rockland Institution: Rutgers University E-mail: rockland@rci.rutgers.edu Michael Rockland (Rutgers University): Lost in Translation Margarita Ardanaz Morn (Universidad Complutense): Found in Translation Cristina Garrigs Gonzlez (Universidad de Len): Adapting the Unadaptable and Being Faithful to the Text: David Cronenberg's Adaptation of De Lillo's Cosmopolis" 17) Crossing the Border in American Culture Panel Chair: Ana Mara Manzanas Calvo Institution: Universidad de Salamanca E-mail: amanzana@usal.es Session 1: Mara Henrquez Betancor (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria): The Border as a Space of Collective and Self-Definition in Chicana Literature Pedro Galn Lozano (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): Karen Tei Yamashitas I Hotel, or, the Thwarted Asian American Dream Anna M. Brgido Corachn (Universitat de Valncia) Transborder Native Networks in Leslie Marmon Silkos Almanac of the Dead 19) Miscellaneous Panel Panel Chairs: Begoa Simal/Vctor Junco Institution: Universidade da Corua/Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria E-mail: bsimal@udc.es / vjunco@dfm.ulpgc.es SESSION 4 Gabriela Jeleska (University of Warsaw): Antelope (Wo)man, (S)he Coyote: (Fe)male-Animal Transformations in Native American Fiction Miriam Hernndez Ortiz (Independent Scholar): Transgressive Raunch Food: the Female Body and Sexual Objectification in PETA and junk food Advertisements Pinar Aslan (Universidad de Salamanca): Women in Pulitzer From Edith Wharton to Jennifer Egan: What Changed? What not?

1100: Coffee Break 1130: Parallel Session 5: Panels 2(1), 3(1) & 17(2)
2) Crossing as Empowerment: the Boundaries of Theatrical Illusion Panel Chair: Barbara Ozieblo Institution: Universidad de Mlaga E-mail: ozieblo@uma.es SESSION 1 Ilka Saal (University of Erfurt, Germany): "Illusion and Transgression in Topdog/Underdog" Virginia Dakari (Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki, Greece): "Cancer and its Performative Aporias: When the Representational Collapses into the Real" Noelia Hernando Real (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): "Crossing Gazes, Crossing Gender: A Post-dramatic Approach to Contemporary Representations of Hysteria" 3) Life-Writing In The U.S.: Negotiating Border, Inter-, and Trans- Identities Panel Chair: Isabel Durn Gimnez-Rico Institution: Universidad Complutense de Madrid E-mail: idurangi@filol.ucm.es SESSION 1: TRANSGRESSIONS AND TRANSNATIONALISMS Estbaliz Encarnacin Pinedo (University of Murcia): Memoir as the Reconstruction of History: Women of the Beat Generation Mario T. Garca (University of California, Santa Barbara): Becoming Hyphenated Americans: The Autobiographical Testimonies of John Rechy and Richard Rodriguez Guadalupe Escobar (UCLA): Literary Border-Crossing & Transnational Latina Feminisms in Ana Castillos Drama 17) Crossing the Border in American Culture Panel Chair: Ana Mara Manzanas Calvo Institution: Universidad de Salamanca E-mail: amanzana@usal.es Session 2: Carmen Birkle (Philipps-Universitt Marburg, Germany): Infecting the City upon a Hill: Of th Borders and Disease in 19 -Century American Fiction Yoemichel Domnguez Gutirrez (Universidad de Salamanca): The Border as a Space of Unity and New Identity: The Cuban-American One-and-a-half Generation Ana M Manzanas (Universidad de Salamanca): Borders and Supermobility: Traditional and Smart Borders in Alex Riveras Sleep Dealer

1300: Plenary Session 2: Karen Tei Yamashita (U. California, Santa Cruz, USA)

1630: Parallel Session 6: Panels 2(2), 3(2) & 6(2)

2) Crossing as Empowerment: the Boundaries of Theatrical Illusion Panel Chair: Barbara Ozieblo Institution: Universidad de Mlaga E-mail: ozieblo@uma.es SESSION 2 Araceli Gonzlez Crespn (Universidad de Vigo): "Let Me Be: The Search for Empowerment in Sarita" Emeline Jouve (University Toulouse 2, France): "The Emperor Jones by the Wooster Group (1993-2006): Transgression and Empowerment" Rovie Herrera Medalle (Universidad de Mlaga): "Is This the Real Life? Transcending Theatrical Illusion, a Cognitive Approach 3) Life-Writing In The U.S.: Negotiating Border, Inter-, and Trans- Identities

Panel Chair: Isabel Durn Gimnez-Rico Institution: Universidad Complutense de Madrid E-mail: idurangi@filol.ucm.es SESSION 2: TRANSLOCATIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS Tom F. Wright (University of Sussex, United Kingdom): How Silence Spoke for Lucy Parsons Ruth van den Akker (VU University in Amsterdam): Crossing the Rockies on a Sidesaddle: The Representation of Travel and Femininity in the Diary of an American Female Missionary in the Nineteenth Century Constante Gonzlez Groba (University of Santiago de Compostela): Transgressing Boundaries of Race and Class: Self-Transformation in Katharine Du Pre Lumpkins The Making of a Southerner 6) Transgressing Boundaries: The Interrelationship of Poetry and the Visual Arts Panel Chair: Viorica Patea Birk Institution: Universidad de Salamanca E-mail: vioricap@usal.es SESSION 2 Thomas Austenfeld (University of Fribourg): Transposing the Key: Tracking the Confessional Voice from Poetry to Memoir and Beyond Page Richards (The University of Hong Kong): Fading into History: Speed and Light in Derek Walcotts Poems Viorica Patea (Universidad de Salamanca): Robert Haas and the Visual Arts

1800: Coffee Break & Book Presentations (1) 1830: Parallel Session 7: Panels 8(2), 9(2), 18(2)
8) Transnational/Transcultural Female Bodies in American Literature Panel Chair: Eulalia Piero Gil Institution: Universidad Autnoma de Madrid E-mail: eulalia.pinero@uam.es SESSION 2 Julia Salmern (Universidad Autnoma de Madrid): Marilyn Chins Poetry: A Hyphenated Identity Mara Jos Chivite Len (Universidad de La Laguna): Othering the Lesbian Body, Figurating the Queer in Barbara Wilsons Gaud Afternoon Eulalia Piero Gil (Universidad Autnoma de Madrid): Sui Sin Fars Transnational Body and Transcultural Poetics 9) Characterizing Diaspora Literatures in the U.S. Today Panel Chair: Aitor Ibarrola Armendriz Institution: Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao E-mail: ibarrola@fil.deusto.es SESSION 2 Esther lvarez Lpez (Universidad de Oviedo): Girls in Translation: Education and Literacy in the Transnational City M Concepcin Brito Vera (Universidad de La Laguna): Memory, Experience and Exoticism in the Production of Homeland by Three Singaporean Authors Patricia Alves de Carvalho (University of Lisbon): Why Esperanzas hair never obeys barrets and bands: The Chicana Acculturation Dilemma 18) The Historical Significance of Border Crossing in the United States Panel Chair: Mara Luz Arroyo Vzquez Institution: Universidad Nacional de Educacin a Distancia E-mail: larroyo@flog.uned.es SESSION 2 Avital H. Bloch (University of Colima, Mexico): Transnational Multiculturalism: The United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

 Andrea Borella (University of Turin, Italy): American, German, or Christian?: An Anthropological Sight on Old Order Amish Contemporary Identity Mara Luz Arroyo Vzquez (UNED): Building Interracial Bridges: Womens Work to Remove the Barriers of Injustice and Inequality in the US ---

2100: Conference Dinner FRIDAY 22 MARCH 0930: Parallel Session 8: Panels 1(1), 11, 13(1)
1) Trans-textuality in American Literature, Film, and Culture Panel Chair: Jess ngel Gonzlez Institution: Universidad de Cantabria E-mail: gonzalezja@unican.es SESSION 1 Floriana Puglisi (University of Catania): Trans-forming and -creating in Waldrops Poetics of the Collage Marie C. Bouchet (University of Toulouse): The SKIN Project by Shelley Jackson : A Transient and Transmedial Literary Work Ellen McCracken (University of California, Santa Barbara): Trans-textuality in Enhanced E- Books: Kerouac, Styron, and Poe 11) Food Crossings: From Transgenics to Black Vegans Panel Chair: Salvador Rodrguez Nuero Institution: Universidad Politcnica de Madrid E-mail: salvador.rodriguezn@upm.es Claudia Alonso Recarte (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha): "Factory Farming, Animal Rights and Animal Welfare in Documentary Films: A Comparative Approach to Earthlings and Food, Inc." Daniela Fargione (Universidad de Turn, Italia): Meat, Somaesthetics, and Trans-corporeality: Mediated Body Consciousness in Ruth Ozekis My Year of Meats Nina Augustynowicz (University of Silesia, Poland): By no way it was ever cooked in Morgana. Exclusionary Practices and the Excluded in the Alimentary System of Eudora Weltys Short Stories 13) Opaquely Transparent: Crisscrossing Identities in American Literature and Film Panel Chair: Isabel Gonzlez Daz Institution: Universidad de La Laguna E-mail: igonzad@ull.es SESSION 1 Manuel Herrero Puertas (University of Wisconsin-Madison): The Child, The Freak, The Slave: Charles Stratton as Tom Tit in H.J. Conways Dred Rodrigo Andrs Gonzlez (Universitat de Barcelona): Not Revealing, Failing to Interrogate, Crisscrossing (un)neighbourly Gazes Ins Casas Maroto (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela): Sexless and White: Transgressing Gender Boundaries in Carson McCullerss The Ballad of the Sad Caf

1100: Coffee Break 1130: Parallel Session 9: Panels 1(2), 4, 7(1) & 13(2)
1) Trans-textuality in American Literature, Film, and Culture Panel Chair: Jess ngel Gonzlez Institution: Universidad de Cantabria E-mail: gonzalezja@unican.es

SESSION 2 Martn Urdiales Shaw (Universidad de Vigo): Everything but 9/11?: Art SpiegeImans In the Shadow of No Towers as Intertextual and Self-reflexive Postmodern Artifact Manuel Gonzlez de la Aleja Barbern (Universidad de Salamanca): The New Journalism, the New Novel and the New TV Show. The Wire: A New Criminal Fiction? Miriam Fernndez Santiago (Universidad de Granada): E.A. Poes Use of Dramatic Devices in Short Narrative 4) The Transgressional Impulse in Chuck Palahniuks Fiction Panel Chair: Francisco Collado Rodrguez Institution: Universidad de Zaragoza E-mail: fcollado@unizar.es Sonia Baelo Allu (Universidad de Zaragoza): Chuck Palahniuks Invisible Monsters and the Road Story of Transgression Nieves Pascual (Universidad de Jan): Foodgasmology in Choke by Chuck Palahniuk Francisco Collado Rodrguez (Universidad de Zaragoza): Trespassing Limits In Palahniuks Early Fiction 7) Transnationalism and Masculinities: U.S. Literary and Filmic Representations Panel Chair: Josep M. Armengol Institution: Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha E-mail: JoseMaria.Armengol@uclm.es SESSION 1 - Chair: Josep M. Armengol, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Thomas B. Byers (University of Louisville): Look at What They Make You Give: Hollywood and Hegemonic Late-Capitalist Masculinity Barbara Ozieblo (Universidad de Mlaga): Innovation and Re-Invention of the Male Stereotype in Plays by Asian American Dramatists Marta Bosch (Universitat de Barcelona): Defying the Binary: Delineating Ambivalent Configurations of Arab American Transnational Masculinity in Randa Jarrars A Map of Home 13) Opaquely Transparent: Crisscrossing Identities in American Literature and Film Panel Chair: Isabel Gonzlez Daz Institution: Universidad de La Laguna E-mail: igonzad@ull.es SESSION 2 Sergio Hernndez Lpez (Universidad de La Laguna): Masking Identity in Art Spiegelmans Maus Maite Escudero Alas (Universidad de Zaragoza): Surpassing Pain through Queer Performance: Towards a New Topography of Feeling in Black American Identities Ana I. Zamorano Rueda (UNED): The Limits of Self-knowledge: Transparent Shadows in Alison Bechdels Fun Home (2006) 1300: Plenary Session 3: Tom Ferraro (Duke U., Durham NC, USA)

1630: Parallel Session 10: Panels 5, 7(2) & Book Presentations (1)
5) White Indians and Other Trans-Identities: Comparative Readings of the Experience of Adopted Captives Panel Chair: M ngeles Toda Iglesia Institution: Universidad de Sevilla E-mail: mtoda@us.es Anita Hemmil (University of Jyvskyl, Finland): An Application of Intertextual Analysis to Historical Sources of Native North American Gender-Crossing and Mixing Males Elena M Ortells Montn (Universitat Jaume I, Castell): Voices from the Past? Hybridity and Authenticity in the Narratives of Transculturated Women

 M ngeles Toda Iglesia (Universidad de Sevilla): Brought up by the Natives: Hybridity and Self- Perception in J. F. Coopers Hawkeye and Rudyard Kiplings Kim 7) Transnationalism and Masculinities: U.S. Literary and Filmic Representations Panel Chair: Josep M. Armengol Institution: Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha E-mail: JoseMaria.Armengol@uclm.es SESSION 2- Chair: ngels Carab, Universitat de Barcelona Peter Ferry (Queens University, Belfast) A world citizen with a New York pair of balls: The Global Hegemonic Manhattan Male in Don DeLillos Cosmopolis Alex M. Saragoza (University of California, Berkeley) Hombres, Machos, and Maricones: Transnationalism, Masculinity and Film Aishih Wehbe-Herrera (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) Heroes, Losers or Geeks All the Same? Masculinity Politics in Junot Dazs The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao

1800: Coffee Break & Book Presentations (2) 1830: SAAS Meeting 2000: Closing Words SATURDAY 23 MARCH 1000-1800 (approx.): Visit to Las Caadas del Teide National Park