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Marissa K. Lopez deposited Chicano Vibrations in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article reads the smuggling of Aztec artifacts described in Lucha Corpi’s novel Black Widow’s Wardrobe in the context of new materialist philosophies of becoming.
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Tarshia Stanley started the topic Octavia E. Butler: Celebrating Letters, Life, and Legacy – February 26-28, 2016 in the discussion
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoEXTENDED DEADLINE
Octavia E. Butler: Celebrating Letters, Life, and Legacy – February 26-28, 2016 – Spelman College
February 24, 2016 will mark the tenth anniversary of the passing of Octavia E. Butler. To commemorate her contributions to the world of letters, the Octavia E. Butler Society solicits papers for a special conference to be hosted by…[Read more] -
Tarshia Stanley posted an update in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoOCTAVIA E. BUTLER: CELEBRATING LETTERS, LIFE, and LEGACY
February 26-28, 2016
Spelman College
Atlanta GAFebruary 24, 2016 will mark the tenth anniversary of the passing of Octavia E. Butler. To commemorate her contributions to the world of letters, the Octavia E. Butler Society solicits papers for a special conference to be hosted by Spelman…[Read more]
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Francisco Robles deposited Traveling Borderlands and Travesía Hermeneutics in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo in the group
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoIn this paper, I use Sandra Cisneros’s /Caramelo/ (2002) to examine the “traveling borderlands” in Mexican American migrant narratives. Traveling borderlands names the aesthetic and existential practice of creating contingent home spaces that contest paradigms of fragmentation and essentialism, the former often taken to be a defining feature of ma…[Read more]
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Chris Zarate deposited Recovery and Reconfigurations of New Mexico's Oral Tradition in Ana Castillo's So Far from God in the group
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoThis paper traces the origins of Chicana-centered figures and tropes found in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God to early 20th century cuentos recorded in the New Mexico Federal Writer’s Project.
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Brian Croxall deposited Annihilated Time, Smooth Surfaces, and Rough Edges in Steampunk and Schivelbusch’s _The Railway Journey_: A Departure Point in the group
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThis paper questions how Wolfgang’s Schivelbusch’s seminal study of railway networks in 19th-century should lead us to think differently about trains and transportation within steampunk. The paper considers how both the railway and steampunk annihilate space and time; act as transportation networks; and foreground reading practices, or the lack…[Read more]
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Liam Corley started the topic CFP: Envisioning Religion in Science Fiction (MLA 2016) in the discussion
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoHeavens Above: Envisioning Religion in Science Fiction (MLA 2016 in Austin, TX, 7-10 January)
Alien religions, post-secular numinous experience, evolutionary religious developments, neo-religious epiphanies–science fiction rarely leaves religion behind as it leaps to the stars. Papers addressing teleologies of transcendence, apocalyptic religious…[Read more] -
Elena Machado Sáez started the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED (FEB 15): Call for Nominations — Latina/o Studies Association in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 11 years agoDear Colleagues,
On behalf of the Latina/o Studies Association organizing committee, the members of the election committee invite nominations for the Founding Executive Council of LSA.
The Founding Executive Council will establish the structures necessary for the incorporation of the Latina/o Studies Association as a national org…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa uploaded the file: CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life to
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoCFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life
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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock started the topic JFA Books Received in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThe print titles listed below are now available for review in The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. If you are interested in one (or more), drop me a line at <Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu>. We ask for reviews of between 1200 and 1500 words within approximately three months of receipt of the book.
Since it is often the case that I get…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock started the topic JFA Books Received in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThe print titles listed below are now available for review in The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. If you are interested in one (or more), drop me a line at <Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu>. We ask for reviews of between 1200 and 1500 words within approximately three months of receipt of the book.
Since it is often the case that I get multiple…[Read more]
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Alexandra Berlina started the topic A fantastic play? in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoDear all,
could you perhaps suggest a play that could be seen as fantastic in Todorov’s sense? (Yes, I know he didn’t want to include anyting but prose, but even Hamlet has its moments — the ghost is too clearly present on stage to be truly “fantastic” in the sense of ambiguous, though…)
Thank you!
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Linda Salem started the topic CFP Children's Literature Society at American Literature Association 2015 in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Children’s Literature Society
American Literature Association
26th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2015
The Westin Copley Place
10 Huntington Avenue
Boston MA 02116-5798The Politics and Morality of Children’s Literature: From Left to Right
Authors use children’s literature to communicate their political and moral viewp…[Read more]
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David Del Principe replied to the topic CFP SF/F Area at the 2013 Mid-Atlantic P/ACA Confernce in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoA new critical field merging the Ecocritical and the Gothic
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Shayani Bhattacharya started the topic CFP NeMLA: Writings about the Evolution of the Metropolis in the 20th Century in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoPanel: The (Ir)real City: Writing About the Changing Metropolis in the 20th Century
(Session ID: 15391)
Submission Link: https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html#cfp15391
Deadline: September 30, 2014
Panel Chair: Shayani Bhattacharya (for questions: shayanib@buffalo.edu)
Conference Dates: April 30-May 03, 2015 (Toronto, Ontario)
For…[Read more]
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Sandra K. Soto started the topic MLA Chicana/o Literature Division’s Panels (2015) in the forum
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoPlease Circulate Widely!
Friday, 9 January
351. Chicano Narrative at Twenty-Five
3:30–4:45 p.m., West 202, VCC West
Program arranged by the Division on Chicana and Chicano Literature
Presiding: Yolanda Padilla, Univ. of Washington, Bothell
1. “The Diachronics of Difference: Chicano Narrative Then, Now, and before Chicanidad,” Jesse Alemán, Un…[Read more] -
Leigha McReynolds started the topic Call for Papers: Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association Conference in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoCall for Papers MAPACA 2014
SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY AREAThe Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA) invites academics, graduate and undergraduate students, independent scholars, and artists to submit papers for the annual conference, to be held in Baltimore, November 6-8, 2014. Those interested in presenting at the…[Read more]
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Annabelle Dolidon replied to the topic French science-fiction in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoI will. Grace is in our group, of course, and she brings good students to our discussion. I will pass on your greetings :).
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic French science-fiction in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months ago“At Portland State University,…”
OMG, Grace Dillon, one of the essayists in our collection Orbiting Ray Bradbury’s Mars, teaches at your school.
You get old enough (let’s just say a couple years beyond 60) and you start to *know everybody*! Tell Grace I said “Hi” and “Milli gwetch”–that “thanks” in Anishinaabe. -Glo
==================Bio o…[Read more]
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Joshua Begley replied to the topic Science Fiction Readers Demographics in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoI don’t know as much about Latin American fantastic literature as I’d like, so I’m very interested in what you had to say, Silvia. In general, it always strikes me as odd how conservative academics can be. And in a broader sense, the whole concept of “legitimate” is troublesome because of the power issues underlying who decides what is and is not,…[Read more]
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