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Gerardo Pignatiello started the topic CFP Dossier "Crime/Detective Fiction in Latin America and the Caribbean" in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months ago<div>
<div>CFP Revista Badebec, University of Rosario, Argentina. Dossier “Crime/Detective Fiction in Latin America and the Caribbean (1980-2014)” (literature, film, and TV). First deadline: November 30th, 2014. Contact: badebec@gmail.com
BADEBEC INVITA A PARTICIPAR DE SU PRÓXIMO DOSSIER
“Ficciones policiales en Latinoamérica y el Caribe”…[Read more]
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Patricia Comitini started the topic Call for Papers: Imaginary Relations in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoInviting Submissions to a new ejournal: Imaginary Relations: a Journal for the Ideological Critique of Aesthetic Objects (IR)
http://www.imaginaryrelations.netImaginary Relations is an experimental ejournal dedicated to ideological critique and analysis of aesthetic objects: poetry, fiction, drama, film and television. The journal seeks to examine the…[Read more]
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Madhurima Chakraborty replied to the topic CFP: Proposed Essay Collection: Urban Outcasts in South Asian Literature in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoDear Sreyoshi,
I’m sorry for the delay in the response– I had no idea a question had even been posted.
We are not under contract yet, but prominent publishers are interested. Their final commitment will depend, of course, on the final quality of submissions. Please consider submitting and spreading the…[Read more]
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Madhurima Chakraborty replied to the topic CFP: Proposed Essay Collection: Urban Outcasts in South Asian Literature in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoHi, Sreyoshi,
Sorry for the delay in response. The collection is not yet under contract, though we are in talks with some major publishers who seem genuinely interested at this stage. Their actual commitment will, of course, be completely dependent on the quality of submissions we get. So, please consider submitting and spreading the word! The…[Read more]
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Leigh Anne Duck started the topic CfP journal issue “Global García Márquez” in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoCall for Papers for The Global South, “Global García Márquez”
Salmon Rushdie recently wrote, “Gabo lives. The extraordinary worldwide attention paid to the death of Gabriel García Márquez, and the genuine sorrow felt by readers everywhere at his passing, tell us that his books are still very much alive” (New York Times Book Review, May 18, 2014, p…[Read more] -
Gaurav G. Desai started the topic Amitav Ghosh in a Creative Writing Workshop in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
As some of you may know, John Hawley and I are putting together a volume on Approaches to Teaching the Works of Amitav Ghosh. We have received a number of excellent proposals but are interested in a contribution from someone who teaches Ghosh’s works in a creative writing workshop. If you or anyone you know does so, I would be m…[Read more] -
Hilda Chacón started the topic CFP-2015 NeMLA Conference, Toronto Canada in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months ago<div class=”entry-content”>
Panel: “Digital Humanities and Latin America: New Trends, Challenges, and Developments”
This roundtable explores the impact of the Humanities going digital in Latin America, from both a Latin American and United States perspective. Papers will explore new trends and developments on the subject such as the inclusion of…[Read more] -
Wendy Galgan started the topic CFP NeMLA 2015: Walk Poems: Moving Through America on Foot in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago46th Annual NeMLA Conference
April 30 through May 3, 2015
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaSubmission Deadline: September 30, 2014
This panel seeks papers on the ways in which American poets write about walking and the significant role the walk poem has played in American literature. What is it about the walk poem that suits American poets so well? How…[Read more]
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Betsy Dahms started the topic CFP: 29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoCall for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014
Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]
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Sreyoshi Sarkar replied to the topic CFP: Proposed Essay Collection: Urban Outcasts in South Asian Literature in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear Madhurima,
This sounds like a great and timely collection.Thanks for posting on the forum. Was wondering if the collection is already under contract with any publishing house or will this be an independent publication?
Thanks.
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Madhurima Chakraborty started the topic CFP: Proposed Essay Collection: Urban Outcasts in South Asian Literature in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoCities are sites of profound paradoxes, and this is currently nowhere more apparent than in South Asia where they simultaneously represent both the frontiers of globalization as well as the deeply troubling social and political inequalities of the global south. We argue that South Asian cities operate as what Rashmi Verma in her analysis of…[Read more]
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Matthew Nelson started the topic CFP: Existentialism and Postcolonialism in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear Colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit abstracts to a conference we are organizing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on “Existentialism and Postcolonialism” to be held on October 10-11, 2014.
Postcolonial theory and existentialism have long shared a relationship of reciprocity—perhaps most famously in the case of…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu replied to the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoPlease accept my apologies, Joe Lockard. It was my first time using this forum.
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Joe Lockard replied to the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoPrivate correspondence resulting from a CFP is inconsiderate use of a shared common forum. These messages go to 155 forum participants, not simply to the corresponding parties. Thanks for understanding.
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Laura E. Savu replied to the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear Prof. Whitney,
Thank you for your prompt reply and especially for your interest in this project. Your proposal sounds very promising as no viable notion of the good life can be conceived without taking into account its complicated relationship with economic growth. If I’m not mistaken, The Skidelskys, whom I cite in my brief descri…[Read more]
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Gaurav G. Desai started the topic MLA Volume on Approaches to Teaching the Works of Amitav Ghosh in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear Friends,
If you teach the works of Amitav Ghosh, please consider filling the survey below and proposing a chapter for the MLA volume that is being edited by John Hawley and me.
Regards,
Gaurav Desai
Link to survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/mlasurvey_ghosh
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Gaurav G. Desai started the topic Re-Imagining Theory Conference, Goa, Dec 2014 in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoXVII International Conference
(A Silver Jubilee Event of the Forum on Contemporary Theory)Jointly Organized by
The Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda
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The International Lincoln Centre for American Studies
Louisiana State University, Shreveport, USA
Re-Imagining Theory:
Towards New Horizons in the Humanities and the Social Sciences21-24…[Read more]
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Gaurav G. Desai started the topic Re-Imagining Theory Conference in Goa in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoXVII International Conference
(A Silver Jubilee Event of the Forum on Contemporary Theory)Jointly Organized by
The Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda
&
The International Lincoln Centre for American Studies
Louisiana State University, Shreveport, USARe-Imagining Theory:
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Charles Whitney replied to the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHi Laura,
Thanks for developing this topic. I would be interested in writing on “the good life” as it is addressed by economists and others offering proposals about how to deal with global warming, particularly concerning attitudes toward future economic growth. In my admittedly limited experience, mainstream economists don’t go much beyond t…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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