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Hania Nashef deposited Disconcerting Images: Arab Female Portrayals on Arab Television in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe changes that have been witnessed by media in the Arab world have redefined media’s initial role as a source of information. With the advent of satellite television new realities, namely the dismantling of communication boundaries, have emerged. At first, such advancements posed a challenge to government bodies, specifically in the Arab region;…[Read more]
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Pauline Kra deposited The Role of China in Montesquieu's "Esprit des lois" in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoMontesquieu’s ideas on China have been the subject of much study and controversy. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that, as discussed in twenty-two books of the Esprit des lois, China serves to illustrate Montesquieu’s fundamental principles and to elucidate his method. References to the empire appear frequently in the concluding chapters…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse replied to the topic Petition for Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoHi Jessie, thanks for your support! Sorry if I wasn’t clear enough, but would you mind voicing your support over at the other thread? I’m afraid your signature won’t be counted otherwise. Here is the link:…[Read more]
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Jessie Casteel replied to the topic Petition for Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoWriting in support of this petition.
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Moradewun Adejunmobi started the topic CPF for MLA 2017 Illegal Diasporas in African Literature and Cinema in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoIllegal Diasporas in African Literature and Cinema
The Afropolitan is an increasingly salient but contested figure in African literary studies. This panel focuses on alternative figures of diaspora for whom an Afropolitan identity appears beyond reach or ill-advised. The panel provides an opportunity to build on the work of Khalid Koser in the…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse started the topic Petition for Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease help with the formation of a new MLA Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum by signing the petition here.
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Serguei Alex Oushakine deposited Postcolonial Estrangements: Claiming a Space between Stalin and Hitler. in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoIn this essay, I follow debates about forms and sites of memorialization in post- Soviet Belarus. Begun during perestroika, the public discussions about Khatyn’ and Kuropaty eventually evolved into persistent attempts to realign the Soviet past along new narrative axes. Most prominently, this discursive reformatting of the socialist experience w…[Read more]
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Serguei Alex Oushakine deposited Postcolonial Estrangements: Claiming a Space between Stalin and Hitler. in the group
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoIn this essay, I follow debates about forms and sites of memorialization in post- Soviet Belarus. Begun during perestroika, the public discussions about Khatyn’ and Kuropaty eventually evolved into persistent attempts to realign the Soviet past along new narrative axes. Most prominently, this discursive reformatting of the socialist experience w…[Read more]
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic MLA Survey and CFP: Teaching Volume on Karen Tei Yamashita in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease tell us about your experience (use this link) teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey. Deadline: June 1, 2016.
Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for an MLA 2017…[Read more]
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Jonathan S. Skolnik started the topic CFP Philadelphia 2017 MLA Heine in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers – MLA 2017 (January 5-8, Philadelphia USA)
“Antisemitism and Orientalism in the Long Nineteenth Century”
Heine’s works include many that are touchstones for discussions of anti-Semitism and Orientalism: Almansor, Der Rabbi von Bacherach, Hebräische Melodien, all evocative of the intersection of Christian, Jewish, and Musl…[Read more]
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Susana Sevilla Aho deposited Things are not what they seem in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoA video essay about title sequences from films by Alfred Hitchcock and David Fincher. An exploration of motion graphic design from analog to digital.
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Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP: Adoption and Culture: Sixth Biennial Conference of ASAC in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoSixth Biennial Conference of the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture
ASAC 2016: Building Communities, Changing Discourses
Crowne Plaza Minneapolis Northstar Downtown Hotel, 27-29 October 2016
Proposal deadline 1 March 2016.
This conference, sponsored by The Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture, looks at stories, histories,…[Read more] -
Juan Meneses started the topic CFP: "Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent" (MLA) in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoCFP: “Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent”
MLA Special Session (Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2017)
This non-guaranteed, MLA special seeks papers that examine how literary and audiovisual works articulate dissent by operating at different national tempos, challenging the global synchronicity that dominates the…[Read more]
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Stefanie Harris started the topic CFP MLA 2017: Mobility/Stasis: Crossing Borders, Media, Disciplines in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 10 years agoMLA Session sponsored by the Forum on 20th- and 21st Century German
Mobility/Stasis: Crossing Borders, Media, Disciplines
Transnational, multimedial, interdisciplinary – although often employed as distinct descriptors, the mobility (and immobility) of peoples, material objects, information, and ideas suggests these concepts might be more p…[Read more]
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Zahi A. Zalloua started the topic CFP Catastrophe: Special issue of The Comparatist in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years agoWe welcome contributions that examine the notion of catastrophe in comparative studies and literary theory. Thinking catastrophe today raises multiple questions. What constitutes a catastrophe? How do we bear witness to a catastrophe? What historical catastrophes serve an exemplary or paradigmatic function? Whose catastrophe is heard and whose…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Culture of Greedy Mind Readers" in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis primer in “cognitive cultural studies” explores the cultural fantasy of perfect access to mind through body. It shows that different genres and media—movies, novels, classic Chinese operas, medieval ribald tales, musicals, paintings, documentaries, stand-up comedy, and photography—have different strategies for making us think that we have ju…[Read more]
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Saskia Ziolkowski started the topic CFP: "Lessing and World Literature" (MLA 2017) in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoAlthough Lessing’s examinations of literature in contrast to the other arts have been an object of considerable scholarly focus, Lessing is rarely mentioned in the many studies of world literature. Lessing’s absence contrasts with Goethe’s, who is well-known as being one of the earliest (often credited as being the earliest) theorist of world li…[Read more]
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Zoe Roth started the topic CFP: Transnational French Modernisms in the discussion
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Call for Papers:
Transnational French Modernisms
7th-8th July 2016, Durham University, UK
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Jonathan Eburne (Penn State)
Professor Susan Harrow (Bristol)
Professor Debarati Sanyal (Berkeley)
The rise of France’s colonial empire in the 19th century shaped French culture as a global arena and fra…[Read more] -
Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German on MLA Commons 10 years agoGerman Studies Association Conference Seminar (September 29 ‐ October , 2016 in San Diego)
THE LITERARY LIFE OF PLANTS: AGENCY, LANGUAGES, AND POETICS OF THE VEGETALCONVENERS
Joela Jacobs, University of Arizona (joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu)
Isabel Kranz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (isabel.kranz@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)SEMINAR DES…[Read more]
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Shazia Rahman deposited Rachna Mara’s Cosmopolitan (Yet Partial) Feminisms in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis article shows how Rachna Mara’s collection of short stories Of Customs and Excise puts forth a cosmopolitan feminism that reveals the losses and gains of diaspora in an arena of partiality and relationality.
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