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Ruth Yvonne Hsu deposited “Mapping Los Angeles: Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange, GIS, and Cartographic Pedagogy” in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 9 years agoDigital technology in teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu deposited “Memory as Lucid Dreams: Experimenting with Yamashita’s I Hotel in Shanghai, China” in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 9 years agoOn the teaching of Karen Tei Yamashita’s I Hotel in the People’s Republic of China
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu deposited “The Multiple Racial Subjects of Japanese Immigrants: Brazil-Maru and Diversity Training in Japan” in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 9 years agoOn the teaching of Karen Tei Yamahita’s Brazil-Maru
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Crystal Parikh started the topic The MLA and the boycott of Israeli academic institutions in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago<div>In April, 2013, the Association for Asian American Studies became the first academic organization within the US to pass a resolution calling for the academic boycott of Israel for its systematic and wholesale violation of the rights of Palestinians in all areas of life, including education. In December 2013, the American Studies Association…[Read more]
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Subramanian Shankar started the topic Report on Academic Freedom and Higher Education in Palestine in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoLA members, and in particular members of this forum who will be attending this year’s MLA 2017 assembly meeting in Philadelphia may already know that there are a number of resolutions to be considered that address the question of boycotting Israeli academic institutions. The Resolution to endorse the Palestinian call for the boycott of Israeli in…[Read more]
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Subramanian Shankar started the topic Report on Academic Freedom and Higher Education in Palestine in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoMLA members, and in particular members of this forum who will be attending this year’s MLA 2017 assembly meeting in Philadelphia may already know that there are a number of resolutions to be considered that address the question of boycotting Israeli academic institutions. The Resolution to endorse the Palestinian call for the boycott of Is…[Read more]
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Rajender Kaur started the topic Panels organized at the MLA 2017 in the discussion
South Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoDear All,
The South Asian and South Asian Diasporic Literatures and Cultures Forum has organized three panels are the panels at the upcoming MLA Convention in Philadelphia. In addition, I am very pleased to report that the collaborative panel organized by Kanika Batra with the group LLC African to 1990: “Queer and Here: Crossing Gendered an…[Read more]
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David Palumbo-Liu deposited Open Letter to MLA Members: Why Think About Palestine Now? in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoAn argument for more, not less, attention to issues of Palestine, and beyond.
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Isabelle Hesse started the topic CFP – Palestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017 in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPalestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017
24<sup>th</sup> February 2017
John Woolley Common Room, Level 4, John Woolley Building
The University of Sydney, Australia
Organised by
Dr Isabelle Hesse, The Department of English, The University of Sydney
Dr Ben Etherington, The Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney…[Read more]
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Subarno Chattarji deposited 'Culture(s) of Corruption': Media Representations and Anxieties in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe article analyzes media representations of the anti-corruption movement in India led by Anna Hazare in 2011
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Isabel Carrera Suárez uploaded the file: cfp Performing the Urban to
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for EACLALS triennial conference in Oviedo, Spain. April 2017
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThis forum will need to elect a new Delegate Assembly representative in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. The executive committee is responsible for making nominations, but it is required to nominate at l…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited “Genres of Identification: Holocaust Testimony and Postcolonial Witness,” in _Marking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age_, edited by Amos Goldberg and Haim Hazan, 171 – 192. Berghahn Books: New York and Oxford. in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis chapter explores the strange intimacies of dis/avowal that obtain between Holocaust studies and postcolonial theory, with particular reference to writing by Aimé Césaire and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. For all that the Jewish body remains, by and large, unmourned in the canonical texts of postcolonial theory, the Holocaust has, I seek to a…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of "a land without a people": Mahmoud Darwishs Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced […] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land witho…[Read more]
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