PANEL: US STUDIES

1º Sesión

- Dulce Mª Rodríguez González (ULL), "From a Politics of Greediness to a Logic of Generosity: The Journey of Maternal Attachment in Alicia Ostriker's Poem 'Listen'".

- Paula Martín Salván (UCO), "An Ascetic Book: Don DeLillo's The Body Artist".

- Sonia Baelo Allué (UNIZAR), "Youth culture in Bret Easton Ellis's Less Than Zero : moral decadence in the world of conspicuous consumerism".

2º Sesión

- Ernesto Suárez Toste (UCLM), "Metaphor and creativity In Nancy Willard's Poetry".

- Antonia Domínguez Miguela (UHU), "Barrio Dreams: re-appropriations of 'Home' in Urban Puerto Rican Narratives".

- M. Aishih Wehbe Herrera (ULL), "Novela epistolar o Bildungsroman ?: The Mixquiahuala Letters y el mestizaje formal".

3º Sesión

- Olga Gonzalez Calvo (UAH), "Caroline Kirkland´s Guide to West Living: A New Home -- Who'll Follow? Or, Glimpses of Western Life".

- Heinz Tschachler (Universidad de Klagenfurt), "The Louisiana Dix Note, the Territorialization of American Paper Money, and the Mythification of the South as 'Dixieland'"

- Mario Millanes Vaquero (UCM), "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountains: Langston Hughes responde a George Schuyler".

4º Sesión

- Cristina Garrigós (UniLeón): "Neither Fish nor Bird, but Frid and Bish: Richard Power's The Time of Our Singing "

- Javier Valiente Núñez (UDC), "Native American testimonio and the theorization of a postcolonial project: towards a Native American liberation theology and philosophy in the battle of the hundred slain episode of Black Elk Speaks"

5º Sesión

Mesa Redonda: "Magical Realism in Ethnic American Literatures: Subversión or containment?"

Moderador: Jesús Benito Sánchez (UVA)

Participantes: Begoña Simal, (UDC), Carmen Flys (UAH)