Anne Garland Mahler
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Crystal Anne Chemris deposited Flyer for The Spanish Baroque and latin American Literary Modernity: writing in Constellation in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 2 years agoThis contains a table of contents and description for the book, The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity: Writing in Constellation, as a follow up to my paper for the 2024 MLA. Chapter One formed the basis for “Góngora, Inca Garcilaso, and the Meeting of Humanist and Indigenous Modes of Knowledge.”
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Anne Garland Mahler started the topic Soliciting Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 2 years agoHi everyone,I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Wednesday January 16th with your nominations. Thanks!
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Raj Chetty started the topic CLCS Caribbean Forum panel at MLA 2024 (in-person, Philadelphia) in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 2 years agoHey all!
Please join us for this year’s Caribbean forum in-person panel, “Evolutions in Caribbean State Formation” (326), which has been selected by Frieda Ekotto, MLA President, to be included in this year’s Presidential Theme, “Celebration: Joy and Sorrow.”
- Friday, 5 January 2024
- 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
- Loews – Congress B (4th Floor)
The…[Read more]
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Raj Chetty started the topic UPDATE (January 3, 2024): MLA Emergency Motion on Israel-Palestine in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago***JANUARY 3 UPDATE***
We attempted to send the original message (below) via email to all forum members, but the MLA said that wasn’t possible. We only received two replies (both voted “yes”) to the survey we included in that original message and thus ended up taking a different approach (in line with what at least one other forum is doing): we…[Read more]
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Arif Camoglu deposited Provincializing Romanticism: Ottoman Hayaliyyun and Literary Globality in the Nineteenth Century in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis essay considers the shortfalls of globalizing tendencies in nineteenth-century
literary studies with a focus on the Ottoman Turkish articulation of romanticism, i.e.,
hayaliyyun. Retrieving a historically and geographically hybrid genealogy of romanticism
through the Ottoman Turkish context, my discussion situates romantic imaginary…[Read more] -
Arif Camoglu deposited Loving Sovereignty: Political Mysticism, Seyh Galib, and Giorgio Agamben in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoCentering on the poetry of Şeyh Galib (1757–1799), this article considers Ottoman imperial sovereignty in tandem with the discourse of mysticism that underpinned it. A key rhetorical device that enables the abstraction of the politics of empire in this discourse is the metaphor of the beloved sovereign. In the mystical writing of Galib, this me…[Read more]
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Arif Camoglu deposited Inter-imperial Dimensions of Turkish Literary Modernity in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoCalling for a historiographical shift in literary criticism, this essay stresses the expansionist vision of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, approaches its literature as a corpus of representation for imperial subjectivities, and thereby supplements the critique of the narrative of literary modernity identified with the orientalist E. J. W.…[Read more]
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Mike Phillips deposited West by Northeast: The Western in Brazil in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThis chapter examines the relationship between American Westerns and Brazilian Nordesterns, films set in the arid northeastern region known as the sertão. US cultural and economic imperialism, in Brazil and throughout Latin America, is both cause and effect of persistent underdevelopment. The northward flow of natural resources has long been…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Stephanie Rountree started the topic CFP: Record, Document, Archive [edited collection, advance contract LSU Press] in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoRecord, Document, Archive: Constructing the South Out of Region [edited collection]
Under advance contract with Louisiana State University Press
Editors: Stephanie Rountree, Lisa Hinrichsen, and Gina Caison
Proposals (500 words): November 1, 2023
Completed Chapters (7,000 words): March 15, 2024
As the double meaning of our…[Read more]
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Sylvia Fernandez deposited Global North and South Collaborative Efforts towards an Anti-Colonial Digital Humanities in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis presentation will discuss the pilot version of the “Urarina Digital Heritage Project,” a multilingual (English, Spanish and Urarina), Global North (United States) and South (Peru) collaborative effort between scholars and a digital humanities center at an R1 research institution in the United States and the Indigenous Urarina community in the…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited Mobility, Survival, and the Female Body in Laila Lalami᾿s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoAbstract of my book chapter, published in Memory, Voice, and Identity
Muslim Women’s Writing from across the Middle East
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Nathan H. Dize started the topic Conversation w/ Jean Abel Pierre about corruption in Haiti (in French) in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoKwazman Vwa is delighted to welcome author Jean Abel Pierre. Pierre will be with us to discuss his recent book, Sociologie critique de la corruption: Comment Haïti est pris au piège de la pauvreté. Corruption is a subject that concerns us all, and somehow, our preoccupation with limiting its effects and abuses never seem to fully eliminate it ent…[Read more]
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Raj Chetty started the topic MLA 2024 Convention CFP – CLCS Caribbean in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoColegas, colleagues this is our short description for our MLA Forum panel for 2024, and it follows our interest in describing contemporary shifts in states and “nation” formations in the Caribbean. Please send us your abstracts! STILL ACCEPTING ABSTRACTS–just send them our way before March 31
EVOLUTIONS IN CARIBBEAN STATE FORMATION-Caribbean…[Read more]
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Raquel Patricia Chiquillo started the topic CFP: for Journal Humanities – on Twenty-First Century Central American Novel in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoBuenas tardes, colegas: quisiera invitarlos a subir sus artículos sobre la novela centroamericana del siglo XXI para consideración de ser publicadas en la revista académica “Humanities.” La fecha de entrega es el 31 de marzo pero se puede extender. Me han dicho que el APC no se va a cobrar. Se aceptan manuscritos en español y en inglés. Por favo…[Read more]
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Margaret Frohlich deposited Sexual Diversity in Young Cuban Cinema in the group
LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis book explores how young Cuban filmmakers have expanded the range of sexual subjectivities on screen. It analyzes cine joven (films made by young directors) from the late 1980s to the early 2020s, film reviews, articles, and materials from the Cinematheque of Cuba’s archive to illustrate the confluence of sexuality, cinema, and discourses of…[Read more]
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Margaret Frohlich deposited Sexual Diversity in Young Cuban Cinema in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis book explores how young Cuban filmmakers have expanded the range of sexual subjectivities on screen. It analyzes cine joven (films made by young directors) from the late 1980s to the early 2020s, film reviews, articles, and materials from the Cinematheque of Cuba’s archive to illustrate the confluence of sexuality, cinema, and discourses of…[Read more]
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David Tenorio started the topic Forum Sessions Call for papers for MLA 2024 (abstracts due 3/17) in the discussion
LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoBlack Aesthetics and Politics: Fugitivity and Postsocialism in Contemporary Cuba
How do Black aesthetics and politics participate in the context of postsocialism? How does Black fugitivity, or resistance to state capture and incorporation, operate in contemporary Cuba?
Cuba Disassembled: Infrastructures, Consumption, and Material Cultures in…
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic “What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy” in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAn op-ed article I co-wrote with Latinx Studies colleagues David J. Vázquez and Magdalena L. Barrera was just published in Salon. Check it out!
“What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy: Who gets to wield the power of representation might be important to columnist Pamela Paul, but it’s a…[Read more]
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Anne Garland Mahler started the topic Soliciting Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 3 years agoHi everyone,
I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Wednesday January 25th with your nominations. Thanks!
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