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Yolanda Padilla deposited Felix beyond the Closet: Sexuality, Masculinity, and Relations of Power in Arturo Islas’s The Rain God in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis essay examines the uneasy relationship that Arturo Islas’s The Rain God has had with narratives of identity, focusing on how the representation of Felix’s sexuality makes him a problematic figure for certain strains of Chicana/o and queer studies. In other writings, Islas criticizes Quinto Sol, the chief publishing house of Chicano literature…[Read more]
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Yolanda Padilla deposited “Chicana/o Narratives: Then and Now” in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoIntroduction to the edited volume Bridges, Borders, and Breaks: History, Narrative, and Nation in Twenty-First-Century Chicana/o Literary Criticism.
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Laura Halperin started the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED! Chicana and Chicano Literature Forum: MLA 2018 Call for Papers in the discussion
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago21st Century Chicanx Performance
We invite papers on 21st century Chicanx performance/ performance of Chicanidad on stage/film/street, etc.; 200-300 word abstract; 1-page cv. 200-300 word abstract; 1-page cv by 20 March 2017; José Navarro (jnavar17@calpoly.edu).
Trump Terror
We invite analyses of the president’s/executive cabinet’s anti…[Read more]
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Maia Gil'Adi started the topic CFP MLA 2018: Latina/o New York in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPapers examining the history and/or contemporary state of Latina/o literature and cultural production in New York. 200-300 word abstract, 1-page cv by March 10, 2017 to John Alba Cutler (john-cutler@northwestern.edu).
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James Gifford deposited NOTES 1984 in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on George Orwell’s Nineteen Eigthy-Four. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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Maia Gil'Adi started the topic Extended Deadline. CFP (MLA 2018): The "X" Factor in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2018; co-sponsored by LLC Latina and Latino and LLC Chicana and Chicano
Papers exploring the historical, gendered, and linguistic aspects of the shift from Chicana/o, Latina/o, and Chican@/Latin@ to Chicanx/Latinx. 200-300 word abstract; 1-page cv. 200-300 word abstract; 1-page cv by March 20, 2017; Richard T. Rodriguez…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Story in NW Times of Children of Steel unity in diversity lit. project in the discussion
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoHello, and happy new year all!
Our writers have diverse roots. For instance, one such industrial community, East Chicago, Indiana (host to Arcelor-Mittal’s current flagship and largest US full process steel mill) was listed on censuses in the 1940s and 1960s as having 82 nationalities. As times have changed people have moved to suburbs s…[Read more]
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André Carrington deposited Blackness & Utopia in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoPilot for a modular course in-person, hybrid, or online format. Texts and other materials available in digital and streaming formats.
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Raúl Coronado posted an update in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoDear Members of the MLA Latina and Latino Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Forum:
Below is the list of our forum’s activities to be held at the MLA convention in Philadelphia January 5-8, 2017. Please note that this year we are inaugurating a new event. We are co-sponsoring a cash bar reception with the following forums: Chicana and C…[Read more]
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Richard T. Rodríguez started the topic Report on Academic Freedom and Higher Education in Palestine in the discussion
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoMLA members, and in particular members of this forum who will be attending this year’s MLA 2017 assembly meeting in Philadelphia, may already know that there are a number of resolutions to be considered that address the question of boycotting Israeli academic institutions. The Resolution to endorse the Palestinian call for the boycott of Israeli i…[Read more]
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Karl Steel deposited Logsex in Hell: What a Body Can't Do in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoMy paper concerns two radically distinct portrayals of genital injury. The first examples, drawn from legal and doctrinal narrative, describe the cultural norm of meaningful castration. The other, which provides my paper with its title, is from Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations. This set of one is an analogous injury that may mean nothing: n…[Read more]
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Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo started the topic Special Topic Hispanic Journal "Rebeldes Históricos en el imaginario mexicano\" in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoSPECIAL CALL FOR PAPERS FROM HISPANIC JOURNAL
“Rebeldes históricos en el imaginario mexicano”
Este número especial de Hispanic Journal se propone estudiar la figura del/la rebelde en el imaginario mexicano, un personaje histórico-cultural que ha existido desde tiempos pre-colombinos hasta la actualidad. Una de las premisas fundamentales de los…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Ugly Bodies, Pretty Bodies Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies and the Inhumanity of Culture in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoScott Westerfeld’s Uglies imagines a society where the body is under total control and the universal beauty of the body after dramatic reconstructive surgery at sixteen guarantees that everyone will be “equal.” To the young adult readership, such a world holds understandable appeal: the idea of avoiding the pains of coming to age in one’s own bod…[Read more]
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Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo posted an update in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe editors of Hispanic Journal invite submissions of unpublished studies all year around. Hispanic Journal is published twice annually by the Department of Foreign Languages and the Graduate School of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Its purpose is to publish research and criticism of the highest quality in the areas of Spanish, Spanish…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Rust Belt Literature in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoRust Belt Literature
Public Group active 5 hours, 52 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust Belt, defined here as industrial communities in the United States. Those who have been affected by the…[Read more]
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Julian Grajewski deposited the coming heath death of the science fiction universe – against heteronomy in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agodiscussion of the may 2004 issue of pmla that treated science fiction as a scholarly genre. my question was, instead of writing strung-out, dystopian lit, why not ask what will be the level of consciousness of an individual human biped in a galactic economy of quadrilions and quintillions of people, each utilizing near- infinity numbers of…[Read more]
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Raúl Coronado started the topic Latina/o studies CFP's in the discussion
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease consider submitting proposals for the following CFP’s.
1. CFP: Latina/o Materialisms, guaranteed session sponsored by the Latina and Latino Forum
queer, feminist, cultural, new &/or old materialisms; Marxisms; text as material object, comparative Chicana/o, PuertoRican, CubanAm, CentralAm, DominicanAm print cultures & histories of…[Read more]
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Yolanda Padilla started the topic CFP (MLA 2017): “25 Years of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage” in the discussion
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago“25 Years of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage”
Special session proposed by the 19thc American LLC and the Chicana and Chicano LLC
Papers considering past contributions, archival silences, and future prospects of the Hispanic Recovery Project with interest on dissensus or dialogue with other currents in the long American 19th c…[Read more]
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Yolanda Padilla started the topic Chicana/o Literature Division CFP (MLA 2017): "Teaching Borderlands at 30" in the discussion
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago“Teaching Borderlands at 30”
As we commemorate the thirty-year anniversary of Anzaldúa’s Borderlands we invite papers that address how we teach this genre-blurring text. 200-300-word abstract; 1-page cv by 15 March 2016; Laura Halperin (lhalperi@email.unc.edu)
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Yolanda Padilla started the topic Chicana/o Literature Division CFP (MLA 2017): “La Raza y Gaza” in the discussion
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago“La Raza y Gaza”
Papers engaging the political resonances of Palestine for Chican@s. Intersections in various texts, teaching, or other topics. 200-300-word abstract; 1-page cv by 15 March 2016; José Navarro (jnavar17@calpoly.edu)
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