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Stories and Histories: Narratives in Literature and Historiography

Session 2 - Saturday 10:00-11:30am
Henry Hall 210
Presiding Officer: 
Jeremiah Axelrod
  1. Speaking through the Wound: Scarred Memories and Fragmented Identities. Jimia Boutouba, Santa Clara University

    How does fiction critically reformulate historical discourses? How does it bring postcolonial memory to bear on national history? How does it consecrate a site of memory to moments and experiences that public history has suppressed?

  2. Mo‘olelo and Local Stories: The Forms and Politics of History in Contemporary Hawai‘i. John Rosa, University of Hawai'i, Manoa

    This paper investigates the fuzzy boundaries of “mo‘olelo” (history/histories) versus “local stories” in recent literary and historiographic discussions. It also relates this “academic discourse” to larger public discussions in the past three decades about Hawai‘i, its literature traditions, and multiple histories.

  3. Narratives of the Domestic: Locating Feminine Identity Formations in Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy. Christen McGaughey, California State University, Fullerton

    In a text centered around stories of men's escape from home in search of identity, how is female identity formed? Are these women allowed their own stories of identity or is this exploration only a male privilege? In this paper, I will explore the women throughout Auster's text and their role in shaping the male centered identity narrative.

Session Type: 
Special Session
Session Status: 
Closed