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Lena Burgos-Lafuente posted an update in the group
LLC Puerto Rican on MLA Commons 8 years agoWe would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York. The panel will be presided by Judith Sierra Rivera (Penn State U).
Panel # 379 Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton
“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Fer…[Read more]
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Mariana Romo-Carmona posted an update in the group
LLC Puerto Rican on MLA Commons 8 years agoWhat’s the number of your session?
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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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Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic Puerto Rican Forum Panel: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoWe would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York. The panel will be presided by Judith Sierra Rivera (Penn State U).
Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton
“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Ferrari
“Crossing…[Read more] -
Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic Puerto Rican Forum Panel: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoWe would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York. The panel will be presided by Judith Sierra Rivera (Penn State U).
Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton
“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Ferrari
“Crossing…[Read more] -
Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic Puerto Rican Forum Panel: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoWe would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York. The panel will be presided by Judith Sierra Rivera (Penn State U).
Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton
“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Ferrari
“Crossing…[Read more] -
Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic Puerto Rican Forum Panel: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoWe would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York.
Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton
“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Ferrari
“Crossing Imperial Frontiers: Puerto Ricans in the Dominican Republic, Santiago…[Read more] -
Silvia G. Kurlat-Ares deposited Políticas de lo estético en la ilustración de ciencia ficción. El caso de “Think Blue, Count Two” de Cordwainer Smith in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoDesde el período del Dadá se han ido borrando los límites entre las formas artísticas y sus soportes, entre las estéticas de uso y las estéticas formales, entre los espacios altos y bajos de producción cultural, y también, entre la percepción de centros y periferias que parecen haberse astillado y reproducido a la interioridad de espacios hasta ha…[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, 1 month 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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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, 1 month 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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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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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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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Call for Articles. Spectral Mexico in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoSpectral Mexico. Ghosts and the Talking Dead in Contemporary Mexican Culture
The persistence of death and its figurative representations is a recognizable commonplace in the visual and narrative discourses of Mexican culture. Underworlds like Mictlan and Xibalba, the Catrina skull, the Santa Muerte, ghosts, dancing skeletons, post-mortem…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear members of the Psychology,Psychoanalysis, and Literature group, you may be interested in the following call for papers.
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic…[Read more]
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Julie Ward posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHi, As I am on the ballot for the Forum Executive Committee, I was invited to introduce myself here in the Commons.
I work on representations of reality in contemporary Latin American cultural production, in particular in Mexican theatre and drama, though I write about South American theatre, including Brazilian, as well.
My goals for the LLC…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started 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, 3 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] -
Caitlin Duffy started 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, 3 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] -
Adewale Bankole Ajayi deposited Performance and Orality as Cultural and Pragmatic Strategies in the Musical Performance of 9ice in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoColoniality is a complex heritage encapsulating complex cultural challenges confronting the performance artist. Nigerian musical production appears to have been operating in a world without borders since the advent of colonialism. There have been non-indigenous forms brought into the cultural landscape which have challenged the performers. The…[Read more]
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Mariela Mendez de Coudriet started the topic CFP Special Dossier on Clarice Lispector in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months ago<h2>CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Edited Volume of Critical Essays on Clarice Lispector</h2>
<h2>Mariela Méndez (University of Richmond) and Anna Katsnelson (Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York) invite proposals for a volume of critical essays on Clarice Lispector’s contributions to the Brazilian press.</h2>
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Sarah P. Casteel started the topic CFP: Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>CFP – Special Issue of The Journal of Jewish Identities</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Guest Edited by Sarah Phillips Casteel, Anna Guttman and Isabelle Hesse</p>
Similarities between Jewish and colonial subjects i…[Read more] - Load More
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