Grace King of New Orleans, 2014
International Conference
Université de Lorraine
UFR Arts, Lettres et Langues, Ile du Saulcy, Metz
9-11 October 2014
Grace King of New Orleans:
Beyond Local Color Fiction
Programme
Thursday 9 October
Room B 12 (building B, ground floor)
| 3:00 – 3:45 pm | Keynote address: Melissa Walker Heidari, “‘The continual voyage I made’: Grace King’s Liminal Spaces” |
| 4:00 – 4:15 pm | Coffee break |
| 4:15 – 6:00 pm | Workshop on “The Little Convent Girl”, with the participation of Third-Year and Master students |
Friday 10 October
Morning: Room A 208 (building A, second floor)
Afternoon: Room A 210 (building A, second floor)
| 9:30 | Ralph Poole, “Grace King as Southern Humorist” |
| 10:15 | Sirpa Salenius, “‘Il m’aime passionnément’: The Marriage Question in Grace King and Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s Fiction” |
| 11:00 | Daniela Daniele, “The only convent in the town of many countries: ‘The Little Convent Girl’ and King’s historical narratives of New Orleans” |
| 12:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:15 | Claire Conilleau, “E-Motion: ‘The Little Convent Girl’ and the Modernist Poetics of Displacement” |
| 15:00 | Khristeena M. Lute, “Between Grace and Grit: Modernity and Liminality in Grace King’s Fiction” |
| 15:45 | Ineke Bockting, “Liminality and Linguistics: a stylistic analysis of Grace King’s Balcony Stories” |
Saturday 11 October
Room A 208 (building A, second floor)
| 9:30 | Françoise Buisson, “The Theatricality of Writing in Grace King’s Short Stories: Invisible Women on the Balcony” |
| 10:15 | Stéphanie Durrans, “Grace King’s Apocalyptic Fiction: Lifting the Veil over ‘The Story of a Day’” |
| 11:00 | Kathie Birat, “Voicing race in Grace King’s Monsieur Motte” |
