As part of the panel “Publishing the Nation: Creolized Language in Caribbean Novels,” Raphael Dalleo presented an excerpt from his new book at the 2017 Caribbean Studies Association conference in Nassau, Bahamas. He presented a section called “The Occupation of Haiti and the U.S. Culture Industry: Caribbean Responses.” Other participants in the panel included Emily Taylor, Cathy Thomas, and Keja Valens.
The panel Professor Dalleo organized for the 2017 Modern Language Association convention, “Caribbean Specters in 1920s Harlem,” has been selected for the conference’s presidential theme. Dalleo will be presenting material about Eric Walrond from my new book, American Imperialism’s Undead: The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism. He will be joined by Vanessa Valdes, Imani Owens, and James Davis, who will present papers on Arturo Schomburg, Eulalie Spence, and Nella Larsen.
The panel takes place on Sunday, January 8, 2017, from noon to 1:15 pm in the Pennsylvania Convention Center, room 112A.
Raphael Dalleo presented material from his book, American Imperialism’s Undead, at the CUNY symposium on C.L.R. James. Dalleo participate in the panel C.L.R. James and American Culture, meeting November 4, 2016, at 11:30 am in the Segal Theater (Room 1218), 365 Fifth Avenue.
At the 2016 West Indian Literature conference in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Raphael Dalleo presented from his new book, American Imperialism’s Undead: The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism.
More information on the conference is available here: http://westlitconference2016.weebly.com/
At the West Indian Literature conference held at the University of Puerto Rico in October 2015, Raphael Dalleo participated in one of two roundtables launching the collection Beyond Windrush: Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature. Volume editors J. Dillon Brown and Leah Rosenberg hosted the roundtables, and participants included Lisa Outar, Evelyn O’Callaghan, Kim Robinson-Walcott, Glyne Griffith, Michelle Stephens, Michael Bucknor, and Donette Francis.
Dalleo’s contribution centered on his research later published in the book American Imperialism’s Undead. He discussed how the representation of Caribbean culture during the West Indian Renaissance of the 1950s and 1960s remains haunted by images of the region created during the U.S. occupation of Haiti from 1915 to 1934. He focused on George Lamming’s Ceremony of Souls in Pleasures of Exile and Season of Adventure as well as the zombies of Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea.
The conference website is available here.