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Susan Larson deposited Trash as Aesthetic and Theme in Elvira Navarro’s La trabajadora in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis essay focuses on one example of a collective desire to articulate new ways of thinking about and inhabiting urban space: Elvira Navarro’s 2014 _La trabajadora_, a novel that directly confronts the human cost of austerity measures in Spain by addressing the indignation experienced by those whose life plans have been altered by economic i…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited Trash as Aesthetic and Theme in Elvira Navarro’s La trabajadora in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis essay focuses on one example of a collective desire to articulate new ways of thinking about and inhabiting urban space: Elvira Navarro’s 2014 _La trabajadora_, a novel that directly confronts the human cost of austerity measures in Spain by addressing the indignation experienced by those whose life plans have been altered by economic i…[Read more]
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Thomas Robert Ward started the topic Roque Moreno, novela histórica peruana de Teresa González de Fanning (nueva ed.) in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThomas Ward, Spanish Professor at Loyola University Maryland has published a critical edition of Roque Moreno, a historical novel Teresa González de Fanning (1836-1913), Peruvian educator and novelist, published in 1905. The novel portrays the chaos that characterized Peru in the years immediately after Independence. The plot revolves around two…[Read more]
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Thomas Robert Ward uploaded the file: COLONIALITY AND THE RISE OF LIBERATION THINKING DURING THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY (Book flyer) to
Colonial Latin America on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoPublished by Arc-Humanities Press, COLONIALITY AND THE RISE OF LIBERATION THINKING DURING THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY first explores the types of subordination in the New World, chattel slavery, the encomienda, peonage, and the disrespect for Christ’s axiom about separating Caesar and God. It then explores anti-hegemonic thought from Northern Europe,…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Suppressed Nakba Memories in Palestinian female narratives Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Radwa Ashour’s The Woman from Tantoura in the group
Postcolonial Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoIsraeli officials have long denied that rape was used as an instrument of war against Palestinians. Most of the files relating to the expulsion of Palestinians during the Nakba in 1948 and its aftermath remain sealed in Israeli archives and have been reclassified as top secret. Palestinian oral narratives have long been considered a poor…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Suppressed Nakba Memories in Palestinian female narratives Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Radwa Ashour’s The Woman from Tantoura in the group
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoIsraeli officials have long denied that rape was used as an instrument of war against Palestinians. Most of the files relating to the expulsion of Palestinians during the Nakba in 1948 and its aftermath remain sealed in Israeli archives and have been reclassified as top secret. Palestinian oral narratives have long been considered a poor…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Gestí, Joaquim (ed.) (2004). «Dino Buzzati Seixanta contes» in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoReview of Catalan translation of Dino Buzzati
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Levi, Primo (2005). «A una hora incierta» in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoReveiw of Spanish translation of Primo Levi, “Ad ora incerta”
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Campana, Dino (1998). «Cantos órficos y otros poemas» in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoReview of Spanish translation of Canti Orfici by Dino Campana
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Vita Nuova XIX. Intorno a una traduzione di Joan Maragall in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThe rediscovery of the manuscript containing a translation by Maragall of Vita Nuova XIX sheds new light on Maragall’s Danteism and helps in clarifying certain obscure points in a
version published by the journal Lletra, which never formed part of the Obres Completes. The current study places Maragall’s version within the environment of the Cat…[Read more] -
Susan Larson deposited Los modos literarios flexibles de ‘Vísceras de la ciudad’ (1935) de Rosa Arciniega in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis is a two-part publication that contains a facsimile of the original story “Vísceras de la ciudad” by Rosa Arciniega (including an introduction) and a 7,500-word academic critical analysis of the story. Of interest to specialists in urban literature, women’s literature, social literature, and popular culture.
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Susan Larson deposited Los modos literarios flexibles de ‘Vísceras de la ciudad’ (1935) de Rosa Arciniega in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis is a two-part publication that contains a facsimile of the original story “Vísceras de la ciudad” by Rosa Arciniega (including an introduction) and a 7,500-word academic critical analysis of the story. Of interest to specialists in urban literature, women’s literature, social literature, and popular culture.
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Susan Larson deposited Los modos literarios flexibles de ‘Vísceras de la ciudad’ (1935) de Rosa Arciniega in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis is a two-part publication that contains a facsimile of the original story “Vísceras de la ciudad” by Rosa Arciniega (including an introduction) and a 7,500-word academic critical analysis of the story. Of interest to specialists in urban literature, women’s literature, social literature, and popular culture.
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James Mulholland deposited Translocal Anglo-India and the Multilingual Reading Public in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis article proposes a new literary history of British Asia that examines its earliest communities and cultural institutions in translocal and regional registers. Combining translocalism and regionalism redefines Anglo‐Indian writing as constituted by multisited forces, only one of which is the reciprocal exchange between Britain and its c…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited Intermedialidad e intertextualidad en _Cinematógrafo_ (1936) de Andrés Carranque de Ríos in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoEn la década de 1990, el concepto ‘intermedialidad’ puso en contacto distintas disciplinas académicas (estudios literarios, estudios mediáticos, sociología, estudios cinematográficos e historia del arte) desde la intención por encarar y mejor comprender el ambiente cultural visual/escrito/auditivo que caracterizó los comienzos del siglo XX. Conect…[Read more]
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Thomas Robert Ward deposited Coloniality and the Rise of Liberation Thinking during the Sixteenth Century in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis book delves into the inadequately explored, liberative side of Humanism during the late Renaissance. While some long-sixteenth-century thinking anticipates twentieth-century Liberation Theology, a broader description is simply “liberation thinking,” which embraces its diverse, timeless, and sometimes nontheological aspects.
Two moments fra…[Read more]
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Thomas Robert Ward deposited Coloniality and the Rise of Liberation Thinking during the Sixteenth Century in the group
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis book delves into the inadequately explored, liberative side of Humanism during the late Renaissance. While some long-sixteenth-century thinking anticipates twentieth-century Liberation Theology, a broader description is simply “liberation thinking,” which embraces its diverse, timeless, and sometimes nontheological aspects.
Two moments fra…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman deposited Peter Abrahams of South Africa: Learning to Read (in) the Global 1930s in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoBorn poor, the material and ideological networks that propelled Peter Abrahams to literacy in 1930s South Africa lay bare how white liberalism, Pan-Africanism, and Marxism all overlapped as well as contradicted one another in the global 1930s. The confluences and contradictions of these currents of thought, artistic production, and political…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman deposited Peter Abrahams of South Africa: Learning to Read (in) the Global 1930s in the group
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoBorn poor, the material and ideological networks that propelled Peter Abrahams to literacy in 1930s South Africa lay bare how white liberalism, Pan-Africanism, and Marxism all overlapped as well as contradicted one another in the global 1930s. The confluences and contradictions of these currents of thought, artistic production, and political…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman deposited Death in the Arena: A Brief History of Dancehall, Time, and the Cold War in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis essay decodes how Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings uses the history of Jamaican music, culminating in the conflict between roots reggae and dancehall, to chart the Cold War’s conflicts over time, temporality, and futurity. A Brief History of Seven Killings points readers to a jaded, subaltern temporality encoded in a dan…[Read more]
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