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Hatem Akil started the topic Please Join us for GAAM’s Sessions at MLA 2018 in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoDear Colleague,
Please join the Global Arab and Arab American forum at the following sessions during MLA 2018. This is a very crucial time for those engaged in Arab and Islamic topics at the MLA – and our solidarity is more essential than ever.
44A: Global Arab Precarity and the Contemporary US Academy: Race, Religion, Profession: …[Read more]
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Hatem Akil started the topic Please Join us for GAAM's Sessions at MLA 2018 in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoDear Colleague,
Please join the Global Arab and Arab American forum at the following sessions during MLA 2018. This is a very crucial time for those engaged in Arab and Islamic topics at the MLA – and our solidarity is more essential than ever.
44A: Global Arab Precarity and the Contemporary US Academy: Race, Religion, Profession: Thursday,…[Read more]
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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
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months 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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Hania Nashef deposited HOMO SACER DWELLS IN SARAMAGO’S LAND OF EXCEPTION in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoGiorgio Agamben defines the sacred man or Homo Sacer as one who is not worthy of sacrifice. Having lost all rights, the person is reduced to the non-human. In modern times, banishment or banning by the law occurs when a state of exception is sanctioned by a totalitarian supremacy that suspends judicial power. The state of exception does not lie…[Read more]
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Madhumita Lahiri deposited An Idiom for India: Hindustani and the Limits of the Language Concept in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months 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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Kanika Batra deposited Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme’s The Reign of Wazobia in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoNigerian authors have consistently and effectively critiqued insidious connections between
masculinity, political power, religious fundamentalism, and capitalist interests. The unstable
political structures in Nigeria since the 1970s have led to such critiques. This essay deploys the
idea of polygamy in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the S…[Read more] -
Kanika Batra deposited Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme’s The Reign of Wazobia in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoNigerian authors have consistently and effectively critiqued insidious connections between
masculinity, political power, religious fundamentalism, and capitalist interests. The unstable
political structures in Nigeria since the 1970s have led to such critiques. This essay deploys the
idea of polygamy in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the S…[Read more] -
Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi deposited Do we live in postmodern times? in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe discussion of postmodernism involving modernity and its ramifications requires contemporary and cross-cultural perspectives.
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Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi deposited Do we live in postmodern times? in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe discussion of postmodernism involving modernity and its ramifications requires contemporary and cross-cultural perspectives.
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Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi deposited Do we live in postmodern times? in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe discussion of postmodernism involving modernity and its ramifications requires contemporary and cross-cultural perspectives.
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Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi deposited Do we live in postmodern times? in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe discussion of postmodernism involving modernity and its ramifications requires contemporary and cross-cultural perspectives.
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Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi deposited Do we live in postmodern times? in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe discussion of postmodernism involving modernity and its ramifications requires contemporary and cross-cultural perspectives.
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Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi deposited Do we live in postmodern times? in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe discussion of postmodernism involving modernity and its ramifications requires contemporary and cross-cultural perspectives.
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Annabel Kim posted an update in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHello everyone,
I’m honored to have been nominated to stand for election for the CLCS Forum Executive Committee this year. I am Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, where I teach 20th- and 21st-century French fiction.
My first book, Unbecoming Language: Anti-Identitarian French Feminist Fictions (…[Read more]
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Colleen M. Ryan posted an update in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHello everyone!
My name is Colleen Ryan and I’ve been nominated to run for the CLCS Forum Executive Committee this year. I am really honored and wish to tell you just a bit about myself and ask you to consider me for your ballot.
Currently, I am Professor of Italian at Indiana University, where I teach courses on Italian and I…[Read more]
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Steven Ridgely deposited Terayama’s “China Doll” (in Japanese) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis is an analysis of Terayama Shūji’s 1981 film “Shanhai ijin shōkan,” a French co-production which was marketed in the Anglosphere as “China Doll” and in France as “Les Fruits de la passion,” invoking both Ōshima Nagisa’s 1978 “L’Empire de la passion” (the sequel to his notorious “Empire of the Senses” / “L’Empire des sens,” 1976) as well as Ro…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic A new group: in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoHello everyone,
Here is the link to a new MLA group on “Global Postmodern Literature and Culture”: https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/global-postmodern-literature-and-culture/
Feel free to join it, post your announcements, discuss your research, or share your queries.
Regards,
Suha Kudsieh
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Jennifer R. Ballengee posted an update in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCFP: ACLA 2018. Dangerous Passages (Benjamin 1940/2018).
As is well known, Walter Benjamin undertook a dangerous passage over the Pyrenees, a route taken by many refugees hoping to flee Nazi-occupied France. In the spirit of Walter Benjamin — his work and/or his life — this panel examines dangerous passages of all sorts. Papers might consider…[Read more] -
Francesco Ardolino deposited “Dinner Party”: una “tragedia discreta” di P. V. Tondelli in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoAnalisi dell’unica opera teatrale di P. V. Tondelli come punto d’inflessione nel suo percorso ideologico e narrativo.
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Jennifer Cazenave started the topic CFP ACLA 2018 – Los Angeles as Sanctuary City in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoCFP for The American Comparative Literature Association’s 2018 Annual Meeting – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) – March 29th to April 1st, 2018.
“Los Angeles as Sanctuary City”
Organizers: Jennifer Cazenave (jcazenave@usf.edu) and Kevin Vennemann (KVennema@scrippscollege.edu)
No other city has driven Hollywood’s desire for d…[Read more]
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