Adriana Martinez-Fernandez
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Vicky Unruh deposited Unpacking the Libraries of Post-Soviet Cuba in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoBeginning with the renowned “Words to Intellectuals” (1961) delivered by Fidel Castro in the José Martí National Library and the creation of a state network of libraries, the library in Cuba was transformed into a cultural sphere saturated with ideological ambiguity. On the one hand, the library embodied the symbolic axis of the literacy campa…[Read more]
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Roland Greene deposited Interamerican Obversals: Haroldo de Campos and Allen Ginsberg Circa 1960 in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis essay compares two mid-twentieth century poets of the Americas, Allen Ginsberg and Haroldo de Campos, in view of how their work circa 1960 intersects despite the differences in their poetics. It introduces the notion of the obversal, or the identity among poems through a common history.
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: Gender and Teaching Jewish American Literature in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoMLA Call For Proposals:
Options for Teaching Jewish American Literature
Essay proposals are invited for a volume in the MLA’s Options for Teaching series entitled Teaching Jewish American Literature, to be edited by Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein. The purposes of this volume are to create important links between the innovative s…[Read more]
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Erin Cowling started the topic Candidate Statement: Women in the Profession in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoI am honored and excited to have been nominated for the special delegate position of “Women in the Profession”. Since entering the job market four years ago I have consistently experienced and witnessed the corporatization of our profession. This is especially concerning for women and other minority groups, as we tend to be in the majority in the…[Read more]
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Marilyn Edelstein started the topic Candidate statement for exec. comm. for this forum on Women's and Gender Studies in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoI am honored to have been nominated for the executive committee for the Forum on Women’s and Gender Studies, given my lifelong commitment to these areas of scholarship and teaching. I’ve published on such feminist theorists as bell hooks and Julia Kristeva, and regularly teach courses on Feminist Literary and Cultural Theory and on Women and Lit…[Read more]
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Majda R. Atieh deposited The Revelation of the Veiled in Toni Morrison's Paradise: The Whirling Dervishes in the Harem of the Convent in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoMuslim women’s perspective on liberatory Islamic orality (or empowerment via the oral traditions within Islam) is vastly accentuated in Fatema Mernissi’s and Leila Ahmed’s examinations of the harem structure. These harem narratives celebrate Sufism, a mystical Islamic theosophy that foregrounds orality and invites a constant search toward divine…[Read more]
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Victor Goldgel-Carballo deposited The Reappropriation of Poverty and the Art of “Making Do” in Contemporary Argentine Cultural Productions in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThrough an analysis of two post-crisis films (Estrellas, Federico León
and Marcos Martínez, 2007; El nexo, Sebastián Antico, 2005) shot in
the largest slum in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this essay sketches the
terms for conceptualizing a cultural dimension of the Global South
marked by the aesthetic reappropriation of poverty. Working ag…[Read more] -
Marissa K. Lopez deposited Chicano Vibrations in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article reads the smuggling of Aztec artifacts described in Lucha Corpi’s novel Black Widow’s Wardrobe in the context of new materialist philosophies of becoming.
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Yolanda M. Martinez-San Miguel started the topic Postdoc in Caribbean Studies at Rutgers in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoPostdoctoral Fellowship in Critical Caribbean Studies 2016-2017
Critical Caribbean Studies at Rutgers, in collaboration with the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, is pleased to announce a one-year competitive postdoctoral fellowship for a humanities or social science scholar pursuing research in Caribbean Studies. Scholars…[Read more]
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Pilar Cuder-Dominguez started the topic ESSE 2016: cfp in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months ago13th ESSE CONFERENCE
National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland), 22-26 August 2016.
CFP: SEMINAR ON “GLOBALIZATION AND VIOLENCE”
Conveners: Pilar Cuder-Domínguez (U of Huelva, Spain, picuder@dfing.uhu.es)
Cinta Ramblado-Minero (U of Limerick, Ireland, cinta.ramblado@ul.ie)
One of the characteristics of postmodernity is the glob…[Read more]
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Gretchen Head started the topic CfP (ACLA): The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoWe welcome submissions for the proposed ACLA seminar below:
The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South
Organizer: Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS College
Co-Organizer: Rania Said, Binghamton University
Contact the Seminar Organizers:
In Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, Mi…[Read more]
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William J. Spurlin started the topic Call for Abstracts: ICLA Conference 2016 in Vienna; Comparative Gender/Queer in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCall for Abstracts
21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association
University of Vienna
21-27 July 2016
(Queer) Relationality: Gender and Queer Comparatists at Work
Sponsored by the ICLA Comparative Gender Studies Committee
Because the comparative examines literary and cultural texts relationally rather than…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: C19 Conference, Penn State, March 2016 in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract to the panel to be proposed for the c19 Conference at Penn State, March 17-20, 2016:
Unsettling the Gendered West
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and untouched. As recent work by Nina Baym and K…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Laura J. Beard started the topic Deadline extended CFP Special Issue of a/b in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCall for papers:
Special Issue of Indigenous Autobiographical Works in the Americas
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies http://www.tandfonline.com/raut
NEW DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
Diana Taylor has referred to a shared hemispheric reality of “tangled systems of expression, representation, and economic and power relat…[Read more]
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Francisco Robles deposited Traveling Borderlands and Travesía Hermeneutics in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo in the group
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoIn this paper, I use Sandra Cisneros’s /Caramelo/ (2002) to examine the “traveling borderlands” in Mexican American migrant narratives. Traveling borderlands names the aesthetic and existential practice of creating contingent home spaces that contest paradigms of fragmentation and essentialism, the former often taken to be a defining feature of ma…[Read more]
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Laura Kiernan replied to the topic Call for essays in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoDear Members of the Women’s Studies in Language and Literature Group,
I write on behalf of Miriam S. Gogol on an extended deadline for the following:
Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women
For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting eight to ten essays by literary, historical, and multicultural critics on wo…[Read more]
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Victor Goldgel-Carballo started the topic CFP: Forms of Informality in the Global South, Madison, WI in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoCFP
Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis and Popular Culture in the Global South
March 11-12, 2016Keynote speakers: Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California, Davis) and Juan Poblete (University of California, Santa Cruz)
We invite scholars working on popular culture in/of the Global South to submit paper proposals that interrogate the…[Read more]
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Chris Zarate deposited Recovery and Reconfigurations of New Mexico's Oral Tradition in Ana Castillo's So Far from God in the group
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoThis paper traces the origins of Chicana-centered figures and tropes found in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God to early 20th century cuentos recorded in the New Mexico Federal Writer’s Project.
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Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Art, Literature and Revolution in Latin America: Telling the Story in the group
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoCourse Description: As German intellectual Walter Benjamin writes in his essay “The Storyteller”, “Experience which is passed on from mouth to mouth is the source from which all storytellers have drawn.” In the process of sharing experiences, more stories are born with authorship that are common while at the same time recognizing the individ…[Read more]
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