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Anna Castillo started the topic Thank you for the nomination! in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoHello to all! Many thanks for the recent nomination for a seat on the Executive Committee of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American Forum. I’m a newcomer to the MLA Commons, so let me introduce myself. I am the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University, where I research and teach contemporary literature and…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic (Oct 28) Decolonizing Diasporas/Afro-Atlantic Lit: A Panel Discussion in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoJoin us Wednesday, October 28 at 7:30 PM Eastern/6:30 PM Central for a virtual panel discussion about Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez’s new book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature.
Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues that the…[Read more]
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Benigno Trigo started the topic Introduction and many thanks! in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoHello, everyone! I’ve been nominated for a seat on the Executive Committee of the LLC Puerto Rican Forum Panel, so I’d like to tell you a little about myself. My research interests include nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American and Caribbean Literature; Women’s Writing; Psychoanalysis and Autobiography. My publications include Malady a…[Read more]
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Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha deposited La experiencia del cine de Lucrecia Martel: Residuos del tiempo y sonidos a orillas de la pileta in the group
Red de Investigación Mujeres en el Cine Latinoamericano on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoEdición argentina del libro “A experiência do cinema de Lucrecia Martel: Resíduos do tempo e sons à beira da piscina”, publicado en 2014 en Brasil. Colección “Imagen e Historia”, dirigida por Natalia Taccetta y Mariano Veliz, de Prometeo Libros. Traducción al español por Daniel Maggi.
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Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha deposited A experiência do cinema de Lucrecia Martel: Resíduos do tempo e sons à beira da piscina in the group
Red de Investigación Mujeres en el Cine Latinoamericano on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoUm estudo sobre a obra da cineasta argentina Lucrecia Martel, focado no som em seus três primeiros longas-metragens “La ciénaga”, “La niña santa” e “La mujer sin cabeza”.
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Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha deposited As veias abertas da América Latina: um ensaio sobre ‘Araya’ in the group
Red de Investigación Mujeres en el Cine Latinoamericano on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoO desejo de revelar as realidades conflitivas de seus países estimulou os cineastas latino-americanos a explorarem o potencial político do cinema e, especialmente, do documentário, a partir de 1950. Em um contexto de aceleradas mudanças, sob a égide do desenvolvimentismo, diversos diretores voltaram seus olhares a territórios marginalizados do co…[Read more]
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Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha deposited Herdeiros do exílio: Memória e subjetividade em três documentários chilenos contemporâneos in the group
Red de Investigación Mujeres en el Cine Latinoamericano on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoA aproximação subjetiva e íntima dos cineastas em documentários políticos é uma tendência muito produtiva no cinema latino-americano contemporâneo. A perspectiva escapa do tom de denúncia e da documentação mais objetiva, retratando um diálogo com o passado pessoal – sem, no entanto, abdicar dos laços com o passado histórico. As diretoras dos d…[Read more]
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Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha deposited ‘La mujer sin cabeza’ (Lucrecia Martel, 2008) y el mecanismo del olvido en el pasado y el presente in the group
Red de Investigación Mujeres en el Cine Latinoamericano on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoPretendemos hacer algunas consideraciones sobre la película “La mujer sin cabeza” (2008), de Lucrecia Martel, explorando la cuestión del olvido intrincada en su trama. A través de la protagonista, Verónica, la directora busca hacer un acercamiento personal a los mecanismos de silenciamiento y desmemoria en los cuales la sociedad (tanto hoy com…[Read more]
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Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha deposited Mulheres em cena in the group
Red de Investigación Mujeres en el Cine Latinoamericano on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoCatalogue of homonymous film festival that took place in Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil – CCBB Rio de Janeiro, from 21st September to 3rd October 2016, and CCBB São Paulo, from 21st September to 10th October 2016.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Translation and activism in the time of the now (Introduction to The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism) in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoIntroduction to The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism
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Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Spectres of Today: The Fractures of History in “Horse Money” (2014) in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoIt took Pedro Costa four feature films to get to “Horse Money” (“Cavalo Dinheiro”, 2014). In Down to Earth (Casa de Lava, 1994), a Portuguese nurse accompanies an immigrant worker in coma from Lisbon to his homeland, the Cape Verdean island of Fogo. “Bones” (“Ossos”, 1997), In “Vanda’s Room” (“No Quarto da Vanda”, 2000), and “Colossal Youth” (“Ju…[Read more]
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Ana León-Távora started the topic Invitation Book Presentation in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoDear colleagues,
I would like to invite you to the presentation of the English translation of Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Pixel Flesh (Carne de Píxel) by my dear colleague and friend Zachary Rockwell Ludington.
The Embassy of Spain will host an online presentation and reading on Friday, October 9 at 3pm EST. Zachary will be joined by Agu…[Read more]
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Victor Sierra Matute started the topic Eventos de interés in the discussion
Society for Renaissance and Baroque Spanish Poetry on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoSeminario abierto en Zoom: “Radical Presentisms: Putting the Early Modern to Work”, primera sesión de “Contemporary Pasts”, con Nick Jones (Bucknell U), Chad Leahy (U of Denver) y Rachel Stein (Tulane U), moderada por Karina López (Yale U), del seminario Iberian Connections: Medieval and Early Modern Studies and Contemporary Critical Thought, o…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe influential Tamil writer Pudumaippittan turned to the short story to theorize the relationship between literature and society in the late-colonial era. He used the genre’s brevity to compress his portrayals of well-known female types—such as widows, prostitutes, and goodwives—into singular emotional events. This enabled Pudumaippittan to evoke…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe influential Tamil writer Pudumaippittan turned to the short story to theorize the relationship between literature and society in the late-colonial era. He used the genre’s brevity to compress his portrayals of well-known female types—such as widows, prostitutes, and goodwives—into singular emotional events. This enabled Pudumaippittan to evoke…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe influential Tamil writer Pudumaippittan turned to the short story to theorize the relationship between literature and society in the late-colonial era. He used the genre’s brevity to compress his portrayals of well-known female types—such as widows, prostitutes, and goodwives—into singular emotional events. This enabled Pudumaippittan to evoke…[Read more]
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Ana León-Távora started the topic CFP ACLA 2021 (online) in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoDear colleagues:
I’d like to invite you to submit a proposal for the seminar at ACLA that I am organizing together with Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego.
Title: The Shaping of Afro-Spaniard Identities: From the Colonial View to Counternarratives of Blackness within Spanish Culture (1920-2020)
Description: The numerous protests against systemic racism…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited CFP – Graphic Medicine at PCA 2021 in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoIn conjunction with the Popular Culture Association (PCA) holding their 2021 conference in Boston, contributors and attendees of the New England Graphic Medicine (NEGM) Virtual Summit are proposing a slate of programming that now is welcoming additional participants.
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Romana Radlwimmer started the topic CfP: Entornos coloniales y de colonialidad (conferencia semi-virtual) in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoCfP: Entornos coloniales y de colonialidad: rentabilidad, distanciamiento, medición (Sección 4 del XXIII. Congreso de la Asociación Alemana de Hispanistas, 24-27 de febrero 2021, semi-virtual)
Desde la temprana Edad Moderna, lo colonial ha sido una de las categorías que han marcado el mundo decisivamente. A través de la medición, la renta…[Read more]
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Erin K. Hogan started the topic CFP due Oct 31st for ACLA online April 8-11, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoColegas, I would like to invite you to submit to an ACLA seminar that I’m proposing. The conference will be held virtually between April 8-11. I include the CFP below. I hope that you will consider submitting! Salud y saludos, Erin
Spanish Society Must Be Defended?: Revisiting Foucault, Biopolitics, and Sovereignty Today This proposed seminar rev…[Read more]
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