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Moradewun Adejunmobi started the topic CPF for MLA 2017 Illegal Diasporas in African Literature and Cinema in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoIllegal Diasporas in African Literature and Cinema
The Afropolitan is an increasingly salient but contested figure in African literary studies. This panel focuses on alternative figures of diaspora for whom an Afropolitan identity appears beyond reach or ill-advised. The panel provides an opportunity to build on the work of Khalid Koser in the…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse started the topic Petition for Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease help with the formation of a new MLA Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum by signing the petition here.
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Serguei Alex Oushakine deposited Postcolonial Estrangements: Claiming a Space between Stalin and Hitler. in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoIn this essay, I follow debates about forms and sites of memorialization in post- Soviet Belarus. Begun during perestroika, the public discussions about Khatyn’ and Kuropaty eventually evolved into persistent attempts to realign the Soviet past along new narrative axes. Most prominently, this discursive reformatting of the socialist experience w…[Read more]
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic MLA Survey and CFP: Teaching Volume on Karen Tei Yamashita in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease tell us about your experience (use this link) teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey. Deadline: June 1, 2016.
Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for an MLA 2017…[Read more]
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic MLA Survey and CFP: Teaching Volume on Karen Tei Yamashita in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease tell us about your experience teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey (use link above). Deadline: June 1, 2016.
Please note that this Survey and CFP is in addition to the…[Read more]
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Anna Maria Nogar started the topic Final CFP for 2017 MLA: Collaborative in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThe Intimacies of Four Continents: Crossing Boundaries, Disciplines, Archives
Engagements with Lisa Lowe’s The Intimacies of Four Continents. Assessments, critiques, possibilities for new approaches, archives, connections. 250 word abstract and one-page CV by 15 March 2016.
Jeehyun Lim (limj@denison.edu) and Martin Joseph Ponce (ponce.8@osu.edu)
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Angel M. Diaz Miranda started the topic CFP MLA 2017 Unbounded: David Huerta's Incurable at 30 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoSpecial Session
Incurable (1987) shatters the boundaries of form. Papers on readership, intertextuality, illness, poetic connections, and fragmentation are especially welcomed. 200-word abstract and very short bio. by 10 March 2016; Angel M. Diaz Miranda (diazam@hollins.edu). -
Anna Maria Nogar started the topic REVISION: CFP's for 2017 MLA in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoBlack Pacific
Intersections of African, Asian, indigenous diasporas across the Pacific. Literary/cultural mappings and imaginings of cross-racial interaction, settler colonialism, labor migration, militarism, gender and sexuality. Abstract and CV by March 11.
Ira Dworkin (idworkin@tamu.edu) and Martin Joseph Ponce (ponce.8@osu.edu)
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Anna Maria Nogar started the topic Forum CFP's for 2017 MLA Convention in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoLatina/o Indigenous Pacific
Intersections of Latina/o and Indigenous production and identity within, around and through the Pacific Rim. Conversations, re-imaginings and re-formations across shared and divergent spaces and histories. Abstract and CV by March 11.
Anna Nogar (anogar@unm.edu) and Ruby Tapia (rtapia@umich.edu)
Writing (…[Read more]
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Olivia Jones Choplin started the topic CFP: American Council of Quebec Studies Biennial Conference 4/15/16 deadline in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCONVERSATIONS-COMMERCE-COMMUNAUTÉS–CONVERSATIONS-COMMERCE-COMMUNITIES
Le 20e colloque bisannuel de l’ACQS / The 20th biennial conference of the ACQS:
du 3 au 6 novembre, 2016, au Westin Harborview Hotel, Portland, ME
L’American Council for Québec Studies sollicite des propositions de communication pour notre prochain congrès en 2016. Si le thèm…[Read more] -
Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP: Adoption and Culture: Sixth Biennial Conference of ASAC in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoSixth Biennial Conference of the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture
ASAC 2016: Building Communities, Changing Discourses
Crowne Plaza Minneapolis Northstar Downtown Hotel, 27-29 October 2016
Proposal deadline 1 March 2016.
This conference, sponsored by The Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture, looks at stories, histories,…[Read more] -
Juan Meneses started the topic CFP: "Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent" (MLA) in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCFP: “Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent”
MLA Special Session (Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2017)
This non-guaranteed, MLA special seeks papers that examine how literary and audiovisual works articulate dissent by operating at different national tempos, challenging the global synchronicity that dominates the…[Read more]
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Cesar Braga-Pinto started the topic CFP: Graphic Narratives (MLA 2017) in the discussion
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoTitle of session: Graphic Narratives
Deadline for submissions: 14 March 2016
Description: This panel explores different forms of graphic narrative from the Luso-Brazilian world, including, but not limited to political cartoons, graphic novels, comic strips and graffiti.
Submission requirements:
250 word abstractsContact person information
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Ewa Lukaszyk deposited Nós, Portugal, o poder ser. Um universalismo virtual como resultado dum processo de auto-mitificação da cultura in the group
LLC Luso-Brazilian on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoWe, Portugal, the possibility of being. Virtual universalism as the result of the process of cultural self- mythification.
The article is divided in four parts. The first one contains the working hypothesis, associating Mensagem by Fernando Pessoa, the culminating formulation of the Portuguese self-mythification, with the trauma of Atlantic…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic LLA Italian American CFPs for MLA 2017 in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoPlease see below for two CFPs from the Italian American Literature Forum for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia:
DigITALamericana: New Archives of an Invisible People
The Italian American Literature Forum is seeking panelists to present transmedia perspectives and projects (oral histories, photos, artifacts, home movies etc.) on the Italian…[Read more] -
Binod Paudyal deposited Breaking the Boundary: Reading Lahiri’s The Lowland as a Neo-cosmopolitan Fiction in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis essay offers a critical reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland as a “neo-cosmopolitan fiction,” one which is invested in imagining a transnational and global community, in order to initiate a new analytical framework for South Asian diasporic literature. I argue that this critical framework not only challenges the notion of literary canon…[Read more]
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Zahi A. Zalloua started the topic CFP Catastrophe: Special issue of The Comparatist in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years agoWe welcome contributions that examine the notion of catastrophe in comparative studies and literary theory. Thinking catastrophe today raises multiple questions. What constitutes a catastrophe? How do we bear witness to a catastrophe? What historical catastrophes serve an exemplary or paradigmatic function? Whose catastrophe is heard and whose…[Read more]
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Annette Kolodny deposited New World Encounters: Where Do We Go from Here? in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoEarly American studies scholar and feminist literary critic, Annette Kolodny, offers three projects that she would take on if she were not now retiring from the profession. These three projects include a feminist analysis of women’s interactions on the earliest contact and frontier landscapes; the development of a cross- and inter-disciplinary…[Read more]
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Helene Meyers deposited The Unmarked Chains of Paper Clips in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoArgues that the documentary Paper Clips exemplifies the ways in which Holocaust education can unwittingly foster competing victimization narratives between blacks and Jews, sanitize both European and U.S. history, and serve subtle
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Zoe Roth started the topic CFP: Transnational French Modernisms – Modernismes et francophonie in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Call for Papers:
Transnational French Modernisms
7th-8th July 2016, Durham University, UK
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Jonathan Eburne (Penn State)
Professor Susan Harrow (Bristol)
Professor Debarati Sanyal (Berkeley)
The rise of France’s colonial empire in the 19th century shaped French culture as a global arena and fra…[Read more] - Load More
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