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Tia Black deposited Worldviews in Literature: An Anthology in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoWorldviews in Literature: An Anthology responds to UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova’s 2012 global initiatives for study of world literature for a “New Humanism” along with Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s directive for world literature “to discover what is universal across national literatures.” Worldviews includes fifteen authors fro…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Becomings in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and José Saramago's Blindness in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago“Becoming-animal” is a term used by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their work, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia which at times can designate a movement towards denigration. With a “becoming,” a threshold is, invariably, crossed and the boundaries that have existed between the animal and the human become blurred. Moreover…[Read more]
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Edwin Lambert Hetfield deposited Chapter 16: Witnessing History According to the Refracted Testimony of Gravity's Rainbow and Reading Autobiographical Interests of both Author and Reader in the Context of the Code-Changing Paradigm of Aesthetic Semiosis in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoA semiotic analysis of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow
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Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi deposited Eponymous Écriture and the Poetics of Reading a Transnational Epic in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThe article enacts the essay as the mainstay of scholarly discourse in a knowledgeable community. It deals with (con)textualized readings of poetry (or literature) mainly through the medium of translation as an important intercultural phenomenon involving poetics, episteme, borders.
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Petar Penda deposited Cultural and Textual (Dis)Unity: Poetics of Nothingness in The Waste Land in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agon his theoretical writings, as well as in the subtext of The Waste Land, Eliot expresses the idea of the organic nature of culture and its unity despite its regional diversity. This unity is represented by some formal features of The Waste Land, such as its rhythm and structure. However, cultural unity, at times also represented by the textual, is…[Read more]
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Victor Goldgel-Carballo deposited Unwilling Impostors, Willing Victims: Passing in Two Nineteenth-Century Cuban Novels in the group
LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoA light-skinned mulata passes for white and begins a romantic relationship that ends tragically, revealing the intransigence of racial barriers; a mother raises her biological daughter as her step-daughter, so that she might adopt a white identity; a multiethnic society is shaken by dreams and anxieties of social mobility: These are some of the…[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
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Steven G. Kellman deposited "Alien autographs: how translators make their marks" in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoLike other forms of treachery, translation can be either concealed or exposed. Though most literary translators work in the dark and some embrace invisibility as an ideal, all translations can be situated along the continuum of illusionist-anti-illusionist or domesticating-foreignizing. A variety of paratexts lay bare the devices of translation.…[Read more]
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Marissa K. Lopez deposited Chicano Vibrations in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American 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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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for 2016 ACLA: Exotic Europe (deadline 09/23) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoProposal submissions at: http://www.acla.org/seminar/exotic-europe
This seminar will discuss and compare a variety of cultures of Europe beyond the “usual suspects” of Central and Western Europe that have shaped its dominant discourse and carried off most of the international literary prizes.
Culturally, the quilt of Europe is vast and exo…[Read more]
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Patti Marxsen replied to the topic Marie Vieux-Chauvet in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoHi Adam, That’s amazing that MVC will be the focus of Yale French Studies… my how times change. Sorry I don’t have time to engage with your thesis, but wish you well. And perhaps my article-length review of the English version of ACF that appeared in 2009 will be of use to you. There’s a link to it on the last page of my website,…[Read more]
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Yomaira Figueroa started the topic CFP: (ACLA 2016) Love as Theory, Desire, and Performance in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoWe welcome submissions for the 2016 ACLA proposed seminar:
What’s Love Got To Do With It? Love as Theory, Desire, and Performance
http://www.acla.org/seminar/what%E2%80%99s-love-got-do-it-theory-desire-and-performance<div class=”info”>
Organizer: Yomaira Figueroa, Michigan State University
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Alan Lopez deposited "Kindred Spirits: Fanon's Postcolonialism" in the group
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThis essay concerns the significance of phenomenology in Frantz Fanon’s thought and its influence on the autobiographic and ethnographic contours of his study, Black Skin, White Masks. Of note is Fanon’s movement between metaphor and phenomenology, especially as concerns figures of the hand and the body, and how his narratological treatment of…[Read more]
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Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo started the topic Caribbean Studies Association 41st annual conference in Haiti in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCARIBBEAN GLOBAL MOVEMENTS: PEOPLE, IDEAS, CULTURE, ARTS and ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY
Hotel Karibe, Pétionville, Haïti, June 5-11, 2016
The Caribbean has always been the site of global interactions and transactions. Movements from one place to the other across diverse geographic locations and spaces (from island to island, the circum-Caribbean a…[Read more]
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Adam Dexter started the topic Marie Vieux-Chauvet in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoI recently discovered that Yale French Studies is devoting an entire issue to the brilliance of Marie Vieux-Chauvet. I’m currently writing my MA thesis on Amour, Colere et Folie. If anyone is interested in reading it/making comments/suggesting sources, I would greatly appreciate it.
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Adam Dexter started the topic CFP (NeMLA 2016) Queer Theory in French DUE 09/30 in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoNeMLA 2016 — Comment dit-on “queer” en français? Queer Theory in French
contact email: adexter@tulane.edu
47th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Hartford, Connecticut, USA
17 March – 20 March 2016SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sept. 30, 2015
Although French-language theorists such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, a…[Read more] -
Giovanna Montenegro started the topic ACLA 2016: CFP Hemispheric Approaches to Literature and Cartography in the Ameri in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoPlease consider submitting your paper to this seminar proposed for the American Comparative Literature Association Conference from March 17-20, 2016 at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.
Organizer: Giovanna Montenegro, Binghamton University gmontene@binghamton.edu
Co-Organizer: Adriana Méndez Rodenas, University of Iowa
The use and interest…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Member News? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoHi All,
In September, the Commons Wire, your monthly guide to how your fellow members are using the platform, will return from its summer hiatus with a new section, Member Report. If you have recently published a book or an article, won a fellowship or award, or received a promotion, please let me know by e-mail or by private message (to @terrains…[Read more]
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Patti Marxsen replied to the topic Is this forum still active? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoBonjour Corinne et al.
As a former board member of the Haitian Studies Association (based at UMASS Boston) I can highly recommend the upcoming conference in Montreal. Too late to submit a paper, but surely not too late to register. Sorry not to make it this year myself as I have to be at another conference where I’ll be promoting my new…[Read more]
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