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Yolanda Padilla deposited “Chicana/o Narratives: Then and Now” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoIntroduction to the edited volume Bridges, Borders, and Breaks: History, Narrative, and Nation in Twenty-First-Century Chicana/o Literary Criticism.
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Annette Kolodny deposited Schooling the Nation’s Newspaper of Record: The New York Times and Indian Genocide in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoIn late 1991, an editor at the Sunday New York Times Book Review asked me to write a feature article about that uniquely American genre, the Indian captivity narrative. When the editor called, I was dean of the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. I accepted the Times assignment in hopes that writing this article might prove a…[Read more]
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Hatem Akil replied to the topic Reminder re. Global Arab and Arab American Forum MLA 2018 CFPs in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agocorrection to the above post.
The CFPs are for the following panels:
Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities
Teaching Global Arab Comics in the U.S.Teaching Global Arab Comics in the U.S.
This panel seeks papers that address graphic narratives by/about Arabs, and how they are taught or not taught today in the US. Some of…[Read more]
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Hatem Akil started the topic Reminder re. Global Arab and Arab American Forum MLA 2018 CFPs in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoDear Friends,
Time is closing on submissions to the MLA 2018 convention panels organized by the Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature (GAAM). Please review and circulate as may be necessary.
Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities
Beyond Bounds: The Refugee in Global Arab/Arab American StudiesBelow are the…[Read more]
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John Charles Hawley uploaded the file: CFP: Queer Theory in African Film and Fiction to
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHow are African literatures and cultures mediating globalizing frameworks for gender and sexuality and shifting understandings of “queer”? From Woubi Cheri and Dakan, to Stories of Our Lives, African film has begun this conversation. From K. Sello Duiker, to Chinelo Okparanta and Diriye Osman, new voices have invited national debates on these top…[Read more]
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Lucinda Newns started the topic Deadline Tomorrow: Postcolonial Studies Association Convention on Globalisation in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPostcolonial Studies Association Convention
School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London
18–20 September 2017Special Topic: Globalisation
Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Prof. Aamir Mufti (University of California, LA), Prof. Nandini Gooptu (University of Oxford), Dr. Sharae Deckard (University College Dublin)
A reminder that t…[Read more]
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Samara Hayley Steele deposited The Reality Code: Interpreting Aggregate Larp Rules as Code that Runs on Humans in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoAggregate larp rules are a type of code that runs on humans. Code can be thought of as a linguistic form that is both declarative and imperative; it is both truth and command (Buswell 2009). In aggregate larp, elements of the game’s
diegesis are rendered codic, or playable, allowing players a degree of autonomy from game staff. Through the m…[Read more] -
Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic CFP: MLA 2018 Special Session– Partition and/in South Asian Diasporas in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPartition and/in South Asian Diasporas
Seeking papers for a special session on how the 1947 Partition of British India appears in, erupts, underwrites or disrupts diasporic cultural productions (film, fiction, poetry, painting, play). Please send 250-word abstracts by 20 March 2017; Chandrima Chakraborty (chandri@mcmaster.ca).
Thanks!
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John Young deposited How to Revise a True War Story: Tim O’Brien’s Processes of Textual Production in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHow to Revise a True War Story is the first book-length study of O’Brien’s archival papers at the University of Texas’s Harry Ransom Center. Drawing on extensive study of drafts and other prepublication materials, as well as the multiple published versions of O’Brien’s works, John K. Young tells the untold stories behind the production of such k…[Read more]
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Christopher Michaelson posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoWith thanks to many MLA contributors for their suggestions, please check out (and continue to send ideas for) my living list of business stories, a.k.a. Capitalism Reading List! http://ethicalsystems.org/content/reading-succeed
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Christopher Michaelson posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoWith thanks to many MLA contributors for their suggestions, please check out (and continue to send ideas for) my living list of business stories, a.k.a. Capitalism Reading List! http://ethicalsystems.org/content/reading-succeed
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Lucinda Newns started the topic CFP UPDATE: PSA Convention 2017 on GLOBALISATION – NEW KEYNOTES (Deadline: 2/28) in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPostcolonial Studies Association Convention
School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London (UK), 18–20 September 2017
We are pleased to announce that the 2017 PSA Convention will be held at the School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London, from 18th to 20th September 2017. Paper and panel proposals are invited fr…[Read more]
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Sean Kennedy started the topic MLA 2018 CFP: "The MLA and Anti-Oppression" in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThe DA votes against academic boycott were a reckoning for many. What are the prospects (if any) for continuing to advance the Palestinian call—and anti-oppression overall? 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2017; Sean M. Kennedy (skennedy@gradcenter.cuny.edu).
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Sean Kennedy started the topic MLA 2018 CFP: "African-Asian Imaginaries and New/Old Imperialisms" in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoGiven increasing Chinese investment across Africa in addition to longstanding South Asian-African connections, how does expressive culture from the south track or analyze these exchanges? 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2017; Neelofer Qadir (nqadir@english.umass.edu) and Sean M. Kennedy (skennedy@gradcenter.cuny.edu).
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Sean Kennedy started the topic MLA 2018 CFP: "African-Asian Imaginaries and New/Old Imperialisms" in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoGiven increasing Chinese investment across Africa in addition to longstanding South Asian-African connections, how does expressive culture from the south track or analyze these exchanges? 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2017; Neelofer Qadir (nqadir@english.umass.edu) and Sean M. Kennedy (skennedy@gradcenter.cuny.edu).
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Sean Kennedy started the topic MLA 2018 CFP: "African-Asian Imaginaries and New/Old Imperialisms" in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago<b></b>Given increasing Chinese investment across Africa in addition to longstanding South Asian-African connections, how does expressive culture from the south track or analyze these exchanges? 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2017; Neelofer Qadir (nqadir@english.umass.edu) and Sean M. Kennedy…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Native Sons; Or, How “Bigger” Was Born Again in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThis article reconsiders Richard Wright’s Native Son by comparing divergences between the published novel and an earlier typeset manuscript. It argues that such revisions render protagonist Bigger Thomas an icon of global class conflict rather than a national figure of racial tension. By revealing the continuities among critical essays that…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Native Sons; Or, How “Bigger” Was Born Again in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThis article reconsiders Richard Wright’s Native Son by comparing divergences between the published novel and an earlier typeset manuscript. It argues that such revisions render protagonist Bigger Thomas an icon of global class conflict rather than a national figure of racial tension. By revealing the continuities among critical essays that…[Read more]
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Prentiss Clark started the topic Update – Emerson society awards announcement in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoA reminder of the April 1st deadline for the Ralph Waldo Emerson society’s three awards. Information is pasted below. Thanks for your assistance in circulating this announcement.
<p class=”xmsonormal” align=”center”>The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.</p>
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Richard Menke deposited Telegraphic Realism: Henry James’s In the Cage in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn setting his 1898 tale In the Cage in a telegraph office, Henry James was adapting and investigating a metaphor that earlier novelists had used for the workings of fiction. As invoked by writers such as Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens, the idealized image of the electric telegraph hints at some of the formal and ideological properties of…[Read more]
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