Displacements, diasporas, imaginary withdrawals: inventory of travel literature in the Caribbean (Orléans)

Program of the eighth CARACOL Meetings, first part

University of Orleans (April 9) and University of Tours (April 10)

Displacements, diasporas, imaginary withdrawals: state of play on “travel” literature in the Caribbean

Free entry and without registration

Connection link available on request (at cecile.chapon@univ-tours.fr) to attend the days remotely

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9 avril, Hôtel Dupanloup (1, rue Dupanloup, Orléans Centre)

10 a.m.: welcome of participants

10h20-11h : Introductory remarks organizers (Kerry-Jane Wallart and Cécile Chapon)

11h00-12h30 

Round table around the translations of Kamau Brathwaite by Sika Fakambi (moderation and animation Guillaume Cingal and Cécile Chapon, University of Tours) – Readings, discussion

12:30 Lunch

13h45-15h15 

Round table around the translation of Omeros Derek Walcott by Franck Collin (University of the West Indies)

 (moderation and animation Corentin Jégou, University of Nantes, and Christine Raguet, University of Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle) – Readings, discussion

15h15-15h30 : pause

15h30-17h15 : Panel 1 – Mappings (Moderation Carlos Tous, University of Tours)

3.30pm-4pm: Faezeh Barghi Oliaee (Université Catholique de Lille)

Against tourism’s map : Impeded mobility and counter-cartographies in Walcott’s Omeros and Kincaid’s A Small Place

4pm-4.30pm: Abdel Aziz Mountapmbeme (Universit̩ de Douala РVisioconf̩rence)

Impeded journeys and imagined geographies in Passages by Émile Ollivier: writing movement from immobility

16h30-17h00 : Civil Jude (Université d’Ottawa)

Migration journey: spatial reconfiguration and dynamics of Haitian mobility from Brazil to Canada

17h-17h15 : discussion

 

April 10, University of Tours, Tanneurs site, 5th BU (3, rue des Tanneurs, Tours Centre)

9h-10h15 : Panel 2 – Folies (Modération Kerry-Jane Wallart, Université d’Orléans)

9h-9h30 : Carlos Tous (Université de Tours)

A crazy journey from the Caribbean to the Andes (To hell with the damn springby Alonso Sánchez Baute)

9h30-10h : Wafa Triki Raouafi (Université de Tunis)

Liminal and poetic madness in Caribbean literature and arts

10h-10h15 : discussion

10h15-10h30 : pause café

10h30-12h30

General Assembly of CARACOL – Observatory of Caribbean Literatures

12:30-2:00 p.m.: lunch

14h00-15h45 : Panel 3: Traces and memory (Modération Franck Collin , Université des Antilles) 

2 p.m.-2:30 p.m.: Yasser El Aissaoui (Paris Sorbonne Nord)

Home Thoughts Abroad : Imaginary Return in Claude McKay’s Poetry

2.30pm-3.00pm: Mattia Bonasia (Sapienza Universita, Rome / Sorbonne Université)

“Writing is saying: the world”, Travel, trace and relationship in Sartorius et Ormerod d’Édouard Glissant 

15h00-15h30 : Max Robenson Vilaire Dortilus (Université d’Ottawa – Visioconférence)

Mental journey: ancestrality as a matrix of Afro-descendant artistic practices between Haiti, Brazil and Canada

15h30-15h45 : discussion

15h45-16h : pause

16h-16h30 : Research news (Modération Charline Dossat, Université d’Orléans)

Presentation by Pauline Amy de la Bretèque (Nîmes Université) of his monograph, Towards a feminine poetics of creolization between the Caribbean and the diaspora (Jean Rhys, Paule Marshall, Michelle Cliff, Olivier Senior, Jamaica Kincaid)Pointe-à -Pître: Presses Universitaires des Antilles, 2025.

4:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.: conclusion and closing of the days

 

Organization: Cécile Chapon (University of Tours, ICD) and Kerry-Jane Wallart (University of Orleans, REMELICE). With the support of the CARACOL association – Observatory of Caribbean Literatures and the Society of Postcolonial Studies