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Charles Gleek deposited Adventures in Zoochosis in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoPostcolonial theory has a people problem. By this, I am unabashedly suggesting that postcolonial theoreticians’ overemphasis on people as the site of analysis lies at the heart of the limitations of the field’s key terms, epistemological boundaries, and approach to understanding phenomena as a whole. Indeed, if postcolonial theory and its rel…[Read more]
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Charles Gleek deposited Adventures in Zoochosis in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoPostcolonial theory has a people problem. By this, I am unabashedly suggesting that postcolonial theoreticians’ overemphasis on people as the site of analysis lies at the heart of the limitations of the field’s key terms, epistemological boundaries, and approach to understanding phenomena as a whole. Indeed, if postcolonial theory and its rel…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Stage 1: Theory Palette Revision in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoA clean copy of the Theory Palette http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6581T, this (almost) blank canvas is open to artistic and textual interventions, variations, and compositions with the intersecting concerns of author, history, culture, psyche, text, reader, literature, language, and embodiment/perception as blendable paint colors.
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Heekyoung Cho posted an update in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoYou are cordially invited to Korean Forum Reception at the MLA Convention!
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Korean Forum Reception
Sponsored by the Center for Korean Research, Columbia UniversityDate: Saturday, 6 January
Time: 8:45-10:00 p.m.
Place: Murray Hill East, Hilton, New York, NY
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Laurie Ringer deposited Draft: Theory Palette in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoEvoking the creative messiness of an artist’s palette, this Theory Palette depicts nine theoretical concerns as intersecting, blendable paint colors: author, history, culture, psyche, text, reader, literature, language, and embodiment/perception. Just as painters in the same school, theorists blend colors to create their own compositions, s…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThe deadline is approaching!
To participate in this year’s annual Stony Brook University English Graduate conference, please submit all abstracts to stonybrookenglishgradcon@gmail.com by December 18th, 2017.
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Hania Nashef deposited HOMO SACER DWELLS IN SARAMAGO’S LAND OF EXCEPTION in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoGiorgio Agamben defines the sacred man or Homo Sacer as one who is not worthy of sacrifice. Having lost all rights, the person is reduced to the non-human. In modern times, banishment or banning by the law occurs when a state of exception is sanctioned by a totalitarian supremacy that suspends judicial power. The state of exception does not lie…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic CFP Panel for Chicago MLA Con in 2019 in the discussion
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoCFP: Chicago MLA Convention Panel
There has never before been a Rust Belt Discussion Group at the MLA, Not all of the Midwest is de-industrialized. Arcelor-Mittal Steel is producing as much steel in East Chicago as in peak years, but now is owned by an Indian firm.
This call for participation reaches a number of groups and why your group. Using…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate posted an update in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoIf you’d like to know more about MLA Commons/Humanities Commons and how to make the most of them, consider attending our workshop in NYC: Friday, January 05, 2018, 03:30 PM – 04:45 PM, Hilton – Hudson (session 362)
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James Elkins deposited The Logic of Sensation and Logique de la sensation as Models for Experimental Writing on Images in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoVery short essay on the way Deleuze uses images in his book on Bacon. In the original French edition, the images are in a separate volume; he does that in order to mime, or enact, the theory of sensation in his text. It seems to me this is an unusual and promising strategy for art history (disposing images so their sequence and arrangement…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty posted an update in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoWhat is the significance of post-9/11 American poetry sixteen years after the attack? It would be great if this topic is introduced in 2018 Covention under the forum head 20th and 21st century American. Interested MLA members are requested to talk to me on this point.
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Madhumita Lahiri deposited An Idiom for India: Hindustani and the Limits of the Language Concept in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis essay explores the cultural legacy of Hindustani, which names the intimate overlap between two South Asian languages, Hindi and Urdu. Hindi and Urdu have distinct religious identities, national associations and scripts, yet they are nearly identical in syntax, diverging to some extent in their vocabulary. Hindi and Urdu speakers,…[Read more]
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Madhumita Lahiri deposited An Idiom for India: Hindustani and the Limits of the Language Concept in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis essay explores the cultural legacy of Hindustani, which names the intimate overlap between two South Asian languages, Hindi and Urdu. Hindi and Urdu have distinct religious identities, national associations and scripts, yet they are nearly identical in syntax, diverging to some extent in their vocabulary. Hindi and Urdu speakers,…[Read more]
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Charles Gleek deposited Looking Anywhere But At You: The Gaze in Kara Walker’s Silhouettes in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThe silhouetted cutouts in Kara Walker’s Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b’tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart are fine with being seen but care little for the actual presence of the viewer. They’re kissing and sucking, fucking and birthing, playing and pillorying all without shame or service to the…[Read more]
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George Prokhorov deposited A MIXTURE OF PERFORMANCE AND NARRATIVITY, OR TRAVELOGUE AS A GENRE in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoIn the article, we trace some aspects of development of eventivity and narrativity in Medieval and early Modern Era travel literature. Dissecting episodes of Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia (1605), A Travel of Anonimous Citizen of Suzdal to The Council of Florence (15th century), Russian Primary Chronicle (12th century), and…[Read more]
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Hanan Elsayed posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoWe would like to send a letter of concern to the Editor of The French Review about a recent article in The French Review, “L’islamisme à la conquête de la République française” by S. Pascale Vergereau-Dewey. The letter explains how the article is a sub-scholarly exercise in Islamophobic discourse that has no place in an academic journal of any kin…[Read more]
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Kanika Batra deposited Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme’s The Reign of Wazobia in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoNigerian authors have consistently and effectively critiqued insidious connections between
masculinity, political power, religious fundamentalism, and capitalist interests. The unstable
political structures in Nigeria since the 1970s have led to such critiques. This essay deploys the
idea of polygamy in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the S…[Read more] -
Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – University of Miami – MLL Graduate Student Conference 2018 in the discussion
Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoGood afternoon,
I would like to invite graduate students to submit papers for the upcoming Modern Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Conference, at the University of Miami. The theme of our conference is: Lands of Freedom? Oppressions, Subversions, and Pursuits of Justice in a Changing World. The presentations will be held on February…[Read more]
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited Fleur Pillager, Midewewinini: Food as the Source of Female Power in Louise Erdrich’s Novel Tracks in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoFrom the original paper presentation: In this paper I discuss the figurative language used in Louise Erdrich’s novel Tracks with a particular focus on the figures and symbols associated with food and food practices. This paper performs a textual analysis of figurative language and symbols and the themes of food and food practices to reveal the…[Read more]
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