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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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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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Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
African Literatures 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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Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context 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 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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Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Philosophical 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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Lisa Propst started the topic CFP: Representing the Singularity of Suffering (NeMLA 2015) in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoCFP: Giving Voice, Appropriating Voices: Representing the Singularity of Suffering (NeMLA 2015)
Efforts to give voice to the silenced are central to postcolonial and feminist thought. Yet scholars in both disciplines, following Gayatri Spivak and Chandra Mohanty, have insisted that recuperating silenced voices always risks re-appropriating those…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef replied to the topic OrwellianLiterary / Rhetorical Analysis Project in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoGloria please do– my email is hnashef@eim.ae . I am based in the UAE.
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Alan Jose replied to the topic OrwellianLiterary / Rhetorical Analysis Project in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoI am in North Carolina (Wake Forest University)…
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic OrwellianLiterary / Rhetorical Analysis Project in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoHello, Alan,
You wrote this below. Are you in Latin America? Yes, very helpful. You know how long lit. reviews can take. You have done important work on the topic. I will stay in touch with you, Hania,and other on the Hybrid Research–I think it is the name–list. THANKS!
Glo
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Alan Jose replied to the topic OrwellianLiterary / Rhetorical Analysis Project in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoHello Gloria,
A large corpus-based rhetorical analysis of photography in war zones is an intimidating project. i would love to read it when you are done. You may know of these sources already, but here they are in case you find one or two useful to your project…
First, there is mass communication theory. Mass-media communication prompted…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic OrwellianLiterary / Rhetorical Analysis Project in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoThanks, Hania. I
It may be something that journalism people have more experience with…?Once again, your reply was most helpful.
Stay in touch here, please.Gloria
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Hania A.M. Nashef replied to the topic OrwellianLiterary / Rhetorical Analysis Project in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoGloria, this is an extremely important topic. I did some analysis of how media chose to portray certain people, namely Arabs, for certain agendas. I based my research on postcolonial theory and the dehumanizing of the other. I looked at TV news reports, photos circulated via media organizations, films, etc…, even the ‘trophy’ photos of Abu G…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic OrwellianLiterary / Rhetorical Analysis Project in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoHi, Everybody!
A Rich Field for Rhetorical Analysis
I know you are all familiar with the Orwell novel 1984, with its permanently at war nations of Oceania,
Eurasia, and Eastasia. The Newsspeak and media coverage were something that Orwell gave some time
and attention to in that novel. Oceania is always right, tells the truth, the other two…[Read more] -
Louise Bethlehem started the topic Postdoctoral Fellowships "Apartheid–The Global Itinerary" in the forum
African Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoApartheid—The Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in Transnational Circulation 1948-1990
Post-Doctoral Fellowships
The European Research Council (ERC) project “Apartheid—The Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in Transnational Circulation 1948-1990” under the direction of Dr. Louise Bethlehem (English & The Progr…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic Reminder: Pls. cast your vote: MLA Resolution 2014-1 in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoDear Colleagues,
Please remember to cast your vote concerning Resolution 2014-1. Regardless of how you intend to cast your vote, please vote.
You can read the MLA Executive Director’s letter, Rosemary G. Feal, here: http://t.e2ma.net/message/mx8ig/yum5sh
Please click on http://t.e2ma.net/click/mx8ig/yum5sh/6c2vcc (you need to log into your…[Read more]
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Madhurima Chakraborty started the topic Nation and Its Discontents: South Asian Review Special Issue 2014 in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoHow do cultural texts address, in our times, the limits and achievements of South Asian nationalisms? The essays invited for South Asian Review’s 2014 Special Issue, “Nation and Its Discontents,” will examine this central question from various perspectives. Despite a long history of the critique of nationalism in and through South Asian cultu…[Read more]
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Madhurima Chakraborty started the topic Nation and Its Discontents: South Asian Review Special Issue in the forum
South Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoHow do cultural texts address, in our times, the limits and achievements of South Asian nationalisms? The essays invited for South Asian Review’s 2014 Special Issue, “Nation and Its Discontents,” will examine this central question from various perspectives. Despite a long history of the critique of nationalism in and through South Asian cultu…[Read more]
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