NOVEL OF THE AMERICAS SYMPOSIUM, SEPTEMBER 8-25, 1992
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER
CRITICAL STUDIES OF THE AMERICAS COMMITTEE
WEEK ONE: AMERICAN VOICES
Tuesday, September 8
Official Welcome and Plenary Session 1, 8:30 p.m., Macky Audltorlum*,
Official Welcome: President Judith Albino, University Of Colorado.
Welcome from the Americas: Raul Alfonsin Of Argentina, Oscar Arias of Costa
Rica
Michael Manley Of Jamaica
Opening Remarks: Raymond L Williams, University of Colorado
Toni Morrison, Princeton University, 'Reading from M Jazz'
Wednesday, September 9
Plenary Session 2, 12:00 noon, Glenn Miller Ballroom*
William Styron, United States, 'Nat Turner Revisited'
Plenary Session 3, 2:00 p.m., Old Main Chapel*
Peter Matthiessen, United States, 'A Reading: Fiction vs. Non-Fiction'
Panel Discussion, 3:15 p.m.,
'On Censorship'
Moderator: Ronald Sukenick
Discussants: Leslie Marmon Silko and Gerald Vizenor
Plenary Session 4, 4:30 p.m., Old Main Chapel*
Nelida Pinon, Brazil, 'Memoirs and Dreams : Story of A Novel"
Plenary Session 5, 8:00 p.m., Macky Auditorium*
Leslie Marmon Silko, United States, 'Collective Amnesia and the Politics Of
Linear Time'
Thursday, September 10
Lecture, 10:00 a.m., UMC 235
Eraclio Zepeda, Mexico, 'Las jovenes Literatures indias'
Lecture 12 noon, UMC 235
Gerald vizenor, United States, 'Native American Literature in the United States:
Natural Reason,
Translation, and Metaphors on the Ghost Dance'
Lecture, 2:00 p.m., UMC 235
Diamela Eltit, Chile, 'Oppressions y marginaciones'