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Amanda Licastro started the topic Proposal in the discussion
DLS Anthology on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoAndrew Stauffer, Annie Swafford, and I are working on a piece that details the pedagogical applications and implications of the “Book Traces” project. Essentially, Book Traces is an initiative that asks librarians and researchers to search library general collections for pre-1923 books containing marginalia, inscriptions, and insertions left by…[Read more]
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Patrick Herald deposited Knowledge and Mapping in Gurnah's By the Sea in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoAn examination of authenticity in expertise in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea , this presentation will argue that By the Sea depicts an ambivalence about professional experts, creators of maps who are imagined alternately as summarizing colonizers and as authentic keepers of cultural knowledge. It is only by looking beyond state-sanctioned…[Read more]
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Gaurav G. Desai deposited Oceans Connect: The Indian Ocean and African Identities. in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoPublished as part of the Theories and Methodologies section on Oceanic Studies.
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Gretchen Head started the topic Last Minute Call for Papers – Vienna in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoDear all,
A last minute call for papers that may be of interest: The International Comparative Literature Association meeting to be held in Vienna in July seeks abstracts for the panel “Cultural Anxiety as Creative Potency of Cosmopolitan Perspective in Comparative Literature.” Abstracts should be send directly to the organizer Choon-Hee Kim at…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Vassanji’s Toronto and Durrell’s Alexandria: The View from Across or the View from Beside? in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThe British and Canadian authors Lawrence Durrell and M. G. Vassanji do not, at first thought, call out for a comparative study. Neither are typically regarded in criticism through their origins or ethnicity. The focus instead goes to their characters and subject matter, their cosmopolitan experiences. Confusions surrounding both authors have…[Read more]
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Wen Jin started the topic Wen Jin, CLCS 18th-Century Forum Exec Committee candidate introduction in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoDear all,
My name is Wen Jin and I am currently running for the executive committee of CLCS 18th-Century. I would like to provide a brief introduction to my academic work and my plans for the next few years. I’m happy to have this opportunity and look forward to meeting more members of this forum!
I taught in the English Department at Columbia U…[Read more]
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Majda R. Atieh deposited Post-Traumatic Responses in the War Narratives of Hanan al- in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis chapter extends the focus of wartime trauma scholarship to recognise female
non-combatants’ variants of traumatic victimisation and agency, as presented in the
Middle Eastern and African contexts. The agency of such actors, who suffered
tragically from the traumas of war, was inexplicably overlooked in both Middle
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Geraldine Heng deposited The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages I: Race Studies, Modernity, and the Middle Ages in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago“The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages”—a two-part article—questions the widely held belief in critical race theory that “race” is a category without purchase before the modern era. Surveying a variety of cultural documents from the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries—chronicles, hagiography, literature, stories, sculpture, maps, canon l…[Read more]
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Dene M. Grigar started the topic Announcing CFPs in the discussion
DLS Anthology on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoRay Siemens, Liz Lorang, Kenneth Price and I are excited to announce the Call for Papers for Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology, the MLA’s first born-digital, publicly available anthology.
Essays on all topics in digital literary studies are welcome, particularly those not yet represented in the volume, including but not…[Read more]
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Natalie Crohn Schmitt deposited Dissimulation in the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala in the group
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoCommedia dell’Arte was the most influential and widespread theatre movement in sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Europe. A considerable part of its popularity can be accounted for by its comic representation of stressful occurrences within everyday life in early modern Europe, including in its representation of the period’s widespread dis…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Lauren Beukes’s post-apartheid dystopia: inhabiting Moxyland in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article reads South African science-fiction writer Lauren Beukes’s first novel, Moxyland (2008) set in a futuristic Cape Town, from the perspective of Lindsay Bremner’s notion of “citiness”– or how cities produce the modernity of the subjects who inhabit them. The novel is remarkable for its dependence on the social geography of the South A…[Read more]
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Subramanian Shankar deposited Thugs and Bandits: Life and Law in Colonial and Epicolonial India in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoAn examination of crime and criminality in colonial and postcolonial India through life-writing and the examples of Thugs and Phoolan Devi, the Bandit Queen.
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Yomaira Figueroa deposited Faithful Witnessing as Practice: Decolonial Readings of Shadows of Your Black Memory and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers Marıa Lugones’s concept of faithful witnessing as a point of departure to think about the ethics and possibilities of faithful witnessing in literary contexts. For Lugones, faithful witnessing is an act of aligning oneself with oppressed peoples against the grain of power and recognizing their humanity, oppression, and re…[Read more]
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Amanda Waugh started the topic UMass Achebe Symposium in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoInterdisciplinary Studies Institute
Forty Years After: Chinua Achebe and Africa in the Global Imagination
A Special Symposium, University of Massachusetts 14-15 October
Goodell Building: Wed 14 October, 2 – 6 pm; Thurs 15 October 1.30 – 6 pmOn 18 February 1975, the great African writer Chinua Achebe presented a Chancellor’s Lecture at the U…[Read more]
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Giovanna Montenegro started the topic Due Tomorrow: ACLA 2016: CFP Hemispheric Approaches to Literature & Cartography in the Ameri in the discussion
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Please consider submitting your paper to this seminar…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Swanstrom started the topic CFP "Small Screen Fictions" in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoParadoxa, Issue in Preparation
Volume 29, “Small Screen Fictions”
Anticipated publication date: December, 2017
Editors:
Astrid Ensslin (Bangor University, Bangor, Wales)
Paweł Frelik (Maria Curie-Sklodowska, Lublin, Poland)
Lisa Swanstrom (Florida-Atlantic, Boca Raton, Florida, USA)In the last few decades, digital technologies have dram…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for 2016 ACLA: Exotic Europe (deadline 09/23) in the discussion
European Literary Relations on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoProposal submissions at: http://www.acla.org/seminar/exotic-europe
This seminar will discuss and compare a variety of cultures of Europe beyond the “usual suspects” of Central and Western Europe that have shaped its dominant discourse and carried off most of the international literary prizes.
Culturally, the quilt of Europe is vast and exo…[Read more]
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Raúl Coronado started the topic CFP: Latina/o Studies Association Conference in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoLatina/o Studies Association
Call for Papers
Deliberating Latina/o Studies: Promiscuity, (In)civility, and (Un)Disciplinarity July 7-9, 2016, Westin Pasadena Pasadena, California
Deliberating Latina/o Studies: Promiscuity, (In)civility, and (Un)Disciplinarity builds on the 2014 Chicago conference that asked participants to reflect on the past,…[Read more]
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Pilar Cuder-Dominguez started the topic CFP: Globalization and Violence in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months ago13th ESSE CONFERENCE
National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland), 22-26 August 2016.
CFP: SEMINAR ON “GLOBALIZATION AND VIOLENCE”
Conveners: Pilar Cuder-Domínguez (U of Huelva, Spain, picuder@dfing.uhu.es)
Cinta Ramblado-Minero (U of Limerick, Ireland, cinta.ramblado@ul.ie)
One of the characteristics of postmodernity is the glob…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic CFP: Between the Public and its Privates (MLA Subconference) in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe Public and its Privates
Submission deadline: October 16, 2015
Submit to: mlasubconference@gmail.comBetween the Public and Its Privates
Third Annual MLA Subconference
in partnership with Punctum Books
January 6-7, 2016
Location: Studium Art Space
638 Tillery St., Austin, TX 78702Today it seems almost impossible to point to the public…[Read more]
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