iFEST LITERARY STAGE SCHEDULE
I-fest Sankofa Literary Caravan
"Connecting the past to the present. Black Literature in Retrospect"
Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Julia Ideson Library
Introduction: Asn Ndiaye, University of Texas (English major)
1:00pm Israel McCloud
James Baldwin
1:30 pm P.K. McCary
Phillis Wheatley: A Collection of Poems
Zora Neale Hurston: Every Tongue Got to Confess; Mules and Men
2:00 pm Marcel Murphy
Denis Brutus
2:30 pm Houston Academy for International Studies
* Students will read poetry, and prose of 19th - 21st century writers of the African Diaspora.
3:00 pm Professor Donna Kilgore Kimble, Texas Southern University English Department
A review of The Négritude Writers.
* Négritude is a literary and political movement developed in the 1930s by a group that included the future Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor, Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, and the Guianan Léon Damas.
3:30 pm Gary Reece
Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt) God's World, The Time and the Place
4:00 pm Houston Academy for International Studies
* Students will read poetry, and prose of 19th - 21st century writers of the African Diaspora.
4:30 pm Professor Donna Kilgore Kimble, Texas Southern University English Department
Panel discussion: A historical analysis of Black writers from the 19th - 21st century.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Julia Ideson Library
Introduction: Asn Ndiaye, University of Texas (English major)
1:00pm Israel McCloud
Lorenzo Thomas
1:30pm P.K. McCary
Dorothy West: The Richer, The Poorer (Essays and Short Stories)
Lorraine Hansberry: To Be Young Gifted and Black/An Autobiography; A Raisin in the Sun
2:00 pm Marcel Murphy
June Jordan
2:30 pm Houston Academy for International Studies
* Students will read poetry, and prose of 19th - 21st century writers of the African Diaspora.
3:00 pm Professor Donna Kilgore Kimble, Texas Southern University English Department
A review of The Négritude Writers.
* Négritude is a literary and political movement developed in the 1930s by a group that included the future Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor, Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, and the Guianan Léon Damas.
3:30 pm Gary Reece
Ayi Kwei Armah (Ghana) The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
4:00pm Houston Academy for International Studies
* Students will read poetry, and prose of 19th - 21st century writers of the African Diaspora.
4:30 pm Professor Donna Kilgore Kimble, Texas Southern University English Department
Panel discussion: A historical analysis of Black writers from the 19th - 21st century.
"Connecting the past to the present. Black Literature in Retrospect"
Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Julia Ideson Library
Introduction: Asn Ndiaye, University of Texas (English major)
1:00pm Israel McCloud
James Baldwin
1:30 pm P.K. McCary
Phillis Wheatley: A Collection of Poems
Zora Neale Hurston: Every Tongue Got to Confess; Mules and Men
2:00 pm Marcel Murphy
Denis Brutus
2:30 pm Houston Academy for International Studies
* Students will read poetry, and prose of 19th - 21st century writers of the African Diaspora.
3:00 pm Professor Donna Kilgore Kimble, Texas Southern University English Department
A review of The Négritude Writers.
* Négritude is a literary and political movement developed in the 1930s by a group that included the future Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor, Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, and the Guianan Léon Damas.
3:30 pm Gary Reece
Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt) God's World, The Time and the Place
4:00 pm Houston Academy for International Studies
* Students will read poetry, and prose of 19th - 21st century writers of the African Diaspora.
4:30 pm Professor Donna Kilgore Kimble, Texas Southern University English Department
Panel discussion: A historical analysis of Black writers from the 19th - 21st century.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Julia Ideson Library
Introduction: Asn Ndiaye, University of Texas (English major)
1:00pm Israel McCloud
Lorenzo Thomas
1:30pm P.K. McCary
Dorothy West: The Richer, The Poorer (Essays and Short Stories)
Lorraine Hansberry: To Be Young Gifted and Black/An Autobiography; A Raisin in the Sun
2:00 pm Marcel Murphy
June Jordan
2:30 pm Houston Academy for International Studies
* Students will read poetry, and prose of 19th - 21st century writers of the African Diaspora.
3:00 pm Professor Donna Kilgore Kimble, Texas Southern University English Department
A review of The Négritude Writers.
* Négritude is a literary and political movement developed in the 1930s by a group that included the future Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor, Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, and the Guianan Léon Damas.
3:30 pm Gary Reece
Ayi Kwei Armah (Ghana) The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
4:00pm Houston Academy for International Studies
* Students will read poetry, and prose of 19th - 21st century writers of the African Diaspora.
4:30 pm Professor Donna Kilgore Kimble, Texas Southern University English Department
Panel discussion: A historical analysis of Black writers from the 19th - 21st century.
