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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic CFP: Rust Belt Literature panel for 3-6 Jan. 2019 MLA Conv. in Chicago in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoDear Colleagues,
(1) We hope to have the first Rust Belt Literature panel ever at the MLA at the next national convention in Chicago. We are INTERDISCIPLINARY: For instance Lit. and Sociology, Lit and race, Radical Causus, teaching of Lit., Creative Writing (!), Urban lit. 20th and 21st C. Lit., Lit. in Lang. other than English, Lit. and…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Groucho, Harpo, and Narrative Theory in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis short piece on _Duck Soup_ (1933) and narrative theory is a response to Jim Phelan’s target essay “Authors, Resources, Audiences,” published in the double-issue of _Style_ (52.1 & 52.2).
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A. Lewis deposited The Ancestral Lands of Black Panther and Killmonger Unburied in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis is one of a series of film reviews of Black Panther (2018), directed by Ryan Coogler.
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Laurence Hooper deposited Realisms and idealisms in Italian culture, 1300–2017 in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis special issue of the Italianist collects ten essays that consider the multiple manifestations of realism and idealism in Italy from the Trecento to the present day. Notions of the ‘real Italy’ (and of ‘Italian realism’) remain fundamental for scholars working in various disciplines, while the exploration of the ideal Italies constru…[Read more]
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Octavio Gonzalez deposited Isherwood’s Impersonality: Ascetic Self-Divestiture and Queer Relationality in A Single Man in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoPart of the Introduction in lieu of an abstract:
Christopher Isherwood’s celebrated novel A Single Man portrays a gay man as an ordinary human being. For its time, the novel’s depiction of homosexuality as a legitimate minoritarian identity, rather than individual pathology, was a radical political gesture. Given this context, literary critics…[Read more] -
Octavio Gonzalez deposited The Narrative Mood of Jean Rhys’ Quartet in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoAbstract: This article evaluates the application of dominant institutional discourses, such as psychoanalysis, in the interpretation of literary fiction. I take up the case of Jean Rhys and her 1929 novel _Quartet_. Both author and novel have been analyzed through the concept of masochism, as creating masochistic characters or a masochistic…[Read more]
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Annabel Kim deposited The Riddle of Racial Difference in Anne Garréta’s Sphinx in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis article examines Sphinx, the debut novel of the French novelist Anne Garréta, which was recently published in English translation in 2015. The reception of Sphinx in both French and English has focused primarily on Garréta’s virtuosic removal of gender from a love story, passing over a caricatural and crude rendering of racial difference tha…[Read more]
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Wan-Chuan Kao started the topic IPPS Miami 2019 Call for Session Proposals in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoTHE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL PIERS PLOWMAN CONFERENCE
April 4-7, 2019
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida (Co-sponsored by the University of Miami and Florida International University)
The Programming Committee invites you to submit Session Proposals by May 15, 2018. Please send proposals (150-300 words) to ippsmiami2019@gmail.com
Session…[Read more]
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Geraldine Fiss started the topic CFP: Mapping East Asian Feminisms in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP: Mapping East Asian Feminisms
MLA 2019 LLC East Asian Forum Session Call for Papers
MLA 2019 Convention in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019
Modern and contemporary East Asian women writers, poets and filmmakers contribute in unique and significant ways to cultural change, while both embodying and transcending feminist concerns. Many women…[Read more]
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Geraldine Fiss posted an update in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP: Mapping East Asian Feminisms
MLA 2019 LLC East Asian Forum Session Call for Papers
MLA 2019 Convention in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019Modern and contemporary East Asian women writers, poets and filmmakers contribute in unique and significant ways to cultural change, while both embodying and transcending feminist concerns. Many women…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic ADCPL CFP MLA 2019: “Transacting Comparative Studies” in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoHi all, I’m on the board of the Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature and I’m posting on behalf of the chair, Thomas Beebee, to publicize our CFP for MLA 2019. Here it is, inspired by the Presidential Theme of “Textual Transactions”:
Transacting Comparative Studies with other Disciplines and Units
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic ADCPL CFP MLA 2019: "Transacting Comparative Studies" in the discussion
Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoHi all, I’m on the board of the Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature and I’m posting on behalf of the chair, Thomas Beebee, to publicize our CFP for MLA 2019. Here it is, inspired by the Presidential Theme of “Textual Transactions”:
<h1>Transacting Comparative Studies with other Disciplines and Units</h1>
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Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers! “Environmental Humanities, China and Japan”
CFP: Roundtable at the Modern Language Association convention
Chicago, IL, January 3-6, 2019This roundtable considers recent developments in the intersection of modern Chinese and Japanese studies and the environmental humanities, broadly defined. The roundtable is organized by the…[Read more]
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Molly Des Jardin started the topic CFP: Textual Transference in Modern and Contemporary Japan (MLA 2019) in the discussion
Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoTextual Transference in Modern and Contemporary Japan
How does creative work get reused, translated, or adapted in modern and contemporary Japan? This panel seeks to explore questions of “transference” writ large: cultural memes, tropes, characters, fictional works, and their reinterpretation in media of all kinds. Potential topics might…[Read more]
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Brian Lennon deposited JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis essay attempts a philological, meaning a both technically and socially attentive historical study of an individual computer programming language, JavaScript. From its introduction, JavaScript’s reception by software developers, and its importance in web development as we now understand it, was structured by a continuous negotiation of e…[Read more]
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Annette Damayanti Lienau started the topic CFP: Afro-Asian Cultural Solidarity and Unfinished Projects of Independence in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoGuaranteed panel sponsored by the Modern Language Association’s Committee of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, 20th and 21st century.
This panel takes its cue from Leopold Senghor’s writing on the ambiguities and paradoxes of the Bandung moment: as a call to shared independence that bears the risk of (ethno)-nationalist exploitations i…[Read more]
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Matthew Fraleigh posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoJapanese Editorial Practice and Commentary in East Asian Canons
This panel examines the apparatus of literary circulation and dissemination through the lenses of commentary, introduction,
annotation, and translation to isolate how foreign texts were domesticated and localized.From the rise of commercial book publishing in early modern Japan,…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:
Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia
What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards posted an update in the group
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2019 Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum (please excuse the cross-forum advertising):
Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions
Each year, the Southeast Asian Writers Award (S.E.A. Write) is awarded to an author from each of the member states of ASEAN. The awardees are…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards posted an update in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2019 (Chicago) Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum (please excuse the cross-forum advertising):
Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions
Each year, the Southeast Asian Writers Award (S.E.A. Write) is awarded to an author from each of the member states of ASEAN. The…[Read more]
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