Amanda M. Smith
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Galen Brokaw started the topic Call for proposals 2020 MLA panel on Colonial Translation in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe Latin American Colonial Forum invites proposals for a panel on colonial translation for the 2020 MLA convention. This panel seeks to explore the effects of translation in the relationship between Europeans and indigenous Americans. Beyond the issue of mere accuracy in translation, what kind of effects does translation produce? For example, to…[Read more]
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Galen Brokaw started the topic Call for proposals 2020 MLA panel on Colonial Translation in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe Latin American Colonial Forum invites proposals for a panel on colonial translation. This panel seeks to explore the ways in which translation shaped the relationship between Europeans and indigenous Americans. Beyond the issue of mere accuracy in translation, what kind of effects does translation produce? For example, to what extent does…[Read more]
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Thomas Robert Ward deposited Decolonizing Indigeneity: New Approaches to Latin American Literature in the group
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoWhile there are differences between cultures in different places and times, colonial representations of indigenous peoples generally suggest they are not capable of literature nor are they worthy of being represented as nations. Colonial representations of indigenous people continue on into the independence era and can still be detected in our…[Read more]
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Thomas Robert Ward deposited Decolonizing Indigeneity: New Approaches to Latin American Literature in the group
LLC 19th-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoWhile there are differences between cultures in different places and times, colonial representations of indigenous peoples generally suggest they are not capable of literature nor are they worthy of being represented as nations. Colonial representations of indigenous people continue on into the independence era and can still be detected in our…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited The Nature of Metallic Matter: Materials-Based Methods in the Study of Mining in the group
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years agoIn 1526, royal refiner and natural historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) praised the singular quality of the “muchos tesoros de oro labrado / en poder delos indios q̄ se hā cōquistado” (lxv, v). By 1535, however, he had to define what, exactly, he meant by gold: “No hablo aquí en el oro que se ha habido por rescates, o en la guerra, ni…[Read more]
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Lena Burgos-Lafuente replied to the topic Latinx Forum Sessions at MLA 2019 in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 7 years agoSATURDAY, 5 JANUARY 8:30 AM-9:45 AM
Forum: LLC Puerto Rican409. Puerto Rico in the Greater Caribbean: A Digital Perspective
SATURDAY, 5 JANUARY 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, MISSISSIPPI (SHERATON GRAND)1. The Aesthetics of Toxicity: Vieques, Alejandra Bronfman (U at Albany, State U of New York)2. Better Nasty than Fishy: Media Responses to Hurricane Ma…[Read more]
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Elvira L. Vilches started the topic Colonial Latin American History Panels/ AHA 2019 in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years agoDear colleagues,
Here is the list of the AHA 2019 Colonial Latin American History panels, you may find interesting
- Religion and Society in the Early Modern Portuguese Atlantic World
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PMSalon 1 (Palmer House Hilton, Third Floor)Chair: Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, University of WinnipegPapers:Becoming “…[Read more]
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Stefania Licata started the topic Session Proposal:Production and circulation of Afro-Hispanophone/ Lusophone arts in the discussion
LLC Luso-Brazilian on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear colleagues,
Please consider submitting an abstract to the following session for the 2019 ALA (African Literature Association) Conference, which will take place at Renaissance Columbus Downtown Hotel, from May 15 to May 18, 2019.
Session Title: Production and circulation of Afro-Hispanophone/ Lusophone performing and vis…[Read more]
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John Alba Cutler started the topic Latinx Forum Sessions at MLA 2019 in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoHi, everyone,
Please mark your calendars for the following Latinx Forum sessions at MLA in January:
- 466: Chicanx-Riqueñx Chicago Date: Saturday, Jan 5, 2019 Time: 10:15 AM–11:30 AM Location: Hyatt Regency – Michigan 2
- 537: Latinx Chicago: Contemporary Latinx Authors Write on and from Chicago Date: Saturday, Jan 5, 2019 Time: 1:45 PM–3:00 PM
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Mariela Mendez deposited “De crepusculares y garotas modernas: Las columnas travestidas de Alfonsina Storni y Clarice Lispector” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHinging on the concept of transvestism, this article traces a trajectory that goes from Alfonsina Storni’s re-appropriation of the women’s page in the guise of a male persona, through Alejo Carpentier’s contributions to a fashion column disguised as Jacqueline, to Clarice Lispector’s unsettling use of the page addressed specifically to women i…[Read more]
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Giovanna Gobbi Alves Araujo started the topic CFP: OPINIÃES N. 14 – Dossiê "A tragédia e o trágico na literatura brasileira" in the discussion
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoCall For Papers / Chamada de trabalhos — Opiniães nº 14
Dossiê: A tragédia e o trágico na literatura brasileira
A Revista Opiniães (Qualis B5) tratará do tema da tragédia e do trágico na literatura
brasileira em seu dossiê temático para a edição de número 14, a ser publicada no
primeiro semestre de 2019.A Opiniães – Revista dos alunos de lite…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Currently Accepting Submissions: Spectral Mexico in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThe peer reviewed journal iMex. Interdisciplinary Mexico, ISSN 2193-9756 is currently accepting original, unpublished articles on the subjects of haunting and spectrality in contemporary Mexican cultures for its special issue Spectral Mexico. Original call for papers available here:…[Read more]
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Charlotte Rogers started the topic CFP: “Current and Future Ecocriticisms of the Americas” for ASLE 2019 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoWhat is the current state of hemispheric American ecocritical studies? Where is the discipline headed? The newly formed Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment interest group “Ecocriticism of the Americas” offers a jam session to address these questions at the biannual conference in Davis, CA from June 26-29, 2019. Panel…[Read more]
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Eliseo Jacob started the topic CFP: V SIMPÓSIO INTERNACIONAL DE LITERATURA NEGRA IBERO-AMERICANA in the discussion
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agohttps://simposioliteraturanegraiberoamericana.wordpress.com/
COORDENADOR: PROF. DR. RODRIGO VASCONCELOS MACHADO/UFPR,
EMENTA DO EVENTO: Este simpósio tem como objetivo pensar a problemática da mestiçagem desde a ótica Negra, Indígena, Branca e Mestiça, bem como refletir sobre as causas da sua presença em quase todos os âmbitos da cultura e da su…[Read more]
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Marissa K. López deposited The Political Economy of Early Chicano Historiography: The Case of Hubert H. Bancroft and Mariano G. Vallejo in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis article compares the historiographic methods of two 19th century, California historians.. Mariano Vallejo, former Mexican military commander of Alta California, wrote his Recuerdos at the request of San Francisco-based, Anglo-American historian Hubert H. Bancroft. In his own memoir, Literary Industries (1915), Bancroft describes his…[Read more]
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Giovanna Gobbi Alves Araujo started the topic CFP: OPINIÃES Nº 13 – Dossiê: Circulação da Literatura Brasileira no Exterior in the discussion
Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoCHAMADA EM ABERTO — OPINIÃES Nº 13
Dossiê: Circulação da Literatura Brasileira no ExteriorA Revista Opiniães (Qualis B5) tratará da circulação da literatura brasileira no exterior em seu dossiê temático para a edição de número 13, a ser publicada no fim do segundo semestre de 2018.
O aumento de pesquisas, eventos, concessões de bolsas de estu…[Read more]
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Giovanna Gobbi Alves Araujo started the topic CFP: OPINIÃES Nº 13 – Dossiê: Circulação da Literatura Brasileira no Exterior in the discussion
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoCHAMADA DE TRABALHOS EM ABERTO — OPINIÃES Nº 13
Dossiê: Circulação da Literatura Brasileira no ExteriorA Revista Opiniães (Qualis B5) tratará da circulação da literatura brasileira no exterior em seu dossiê temático para a edição de número 13, a ser publicada no fim do segundo semestre de 2018.
O aumento de pesquisas, eventos, concess…[Read more]
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Giovanna Gobbi Alves Araujo started the topic CFP: OPINIÃES Nº 13 – Dossiê: Circulação da Literatura Brasileira no Exterior in the discussion
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoCHAMADA DE TRABALHOS EM ABERTO — OPINIÃES Nº 13
Dossiê: Circulação da Literatura Brasileira no ExteriorA Revista Opiniães (Qualis B5) tratará da circulação da literatura brasileira no exterior em seu dossiê temático para a edição de número 13, a ser publicada no fim do segundo semestre de 2018.
O aumento de pesquisas, eventos, concess…[Read more]
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Giovanna Gobbi Alves Araujo started the topic CFP: OPINIÃES Nº 13 – Dossiê: Circulação da Literatura Brasileira no Exterior in the discussion
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoCHAMADA DE TRABALHOS EM ABERTO — OPINIÃES Nº 13
Dossiê: Circulação da Literatura Brasileira no ExteriorA Revista Opiniães (Qualis B5) tratará da circulação da literatura brasileira no exterior em seu dossiê temático para a edição de número 13, a ser publicada no fim do segundo semestre de 2018.
O aumento de pesquisas, eventos, concess…[Read more]
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