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Romance and Colonial Conflicts in Literature by Women II: Global Imperialisms

Session 2 - Saturday 10:00-11:30am
Henry Hall 207
Presiding Officer: 
Lisa M. Thomas
  1. Domestic Visions of Colonial Panama: Lady Mallet's Sketches of Spanish Colonial Life in Panama 1572-1821. Stacey Trujillo, University of California, San Diego

    I examine how Sketches of Spanish Colonial Life in Panama 1572-1821, written by “Lady Mallet,” re-counts the domestic lives of an aristocratic family in Panama, focusing on elements such as fashion and dinner party customs in highly nostalgic and idealized language.

  2. Broken Dreams: Indochina Paradise and Post-War Hell in Floating Clouds of Hayashi Fumiko. Paola Scrolavezza, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

    The wandering of a young japanese woman between Dalat and Tokyo during and after the War. Living in Dalat provide her the chance to break through the constraints of the patriarchal system, but her quest for freedom is vain.

  3. Imperialist Nostalgia in Margaret Laurence's The Tomorrow Tamer. Laura Davis, Red Deer College, Canada

    This paper examines Canadian writer Margaret Laurence’s collection of “African” short stories, The Tomorrow Tamer, in relation to Renato Resaldo’s concept of “Imperialist Nostalgia.” English protagonists in these stories romanticize their innocent childhoods and lost colonial Africa.

Session Type: 
Special Session
Session Status: 
Closed