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Kristin E. Pitt replied to the topic CFPs in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoHaiti: Beyond Commemorations & Boundaries (University of Chicago, May 12-14, 2016; Deadline: August 14, 2015)
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Corine Tachtiris started the topic CFPs in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoStarting a new thread for CFPs. Here’s one for the Caribbeanists, co-organized by our colleague here Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo:
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Patti Marxsen replied to the topic Is this forum still active? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoBy way of introducing myself… I am an independent writer/scholar whose work relates to the Francophone world. I live in German-speaking Switzerland but use French quite a lot and read French all the time. (Am a former French teacher, among other things.) Just finished Kamel Daoud’s spectacular “Meursault, contre-enquete”… working on an article…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Is this forum still active? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoIt has been a year since Claire Oberon García asked members of this forum to introduce themselves, a year in which the forum’s membership has doubled. I would like to invite you all once again to introduce yourselves to the group, and to use this forum to share calls for papers, works in progress or completed papers (see the articles on Aimé C…[Read more]
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Matthew H. Brown started the topic CFP: Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis & Pop Culture in the Global South in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoKeynote speakers: Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California, Davis) and Juan Poblete (University of California, Santa Cruz)
We invite scholars working on popular culture in/of the Global South to submit paper proposals that interrogate the possibilities and limitations of combining formal textual analysis with the question of informal…[Read more]
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Patrick Walsh replied to the topic CFP: Urban Drama, Urban Theater (NEASECS Conference Panel, Oct. 8-10, 2015) in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoPlease note: The deadline for submissions to this panel has been extended to June 29, 2015.
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Jennifer Buckley started the topic CFP: Shaw in New York (October 2015) in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoShaw in New York (October 16-19, 2015)
Sponsored by Fordham University at Lincoln Center, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, and The International Shaw Society
Paper proposal deadline: July 1
The conference organizers invite papers focused on any aspect of Bernard Shaw’s relationship to New York: productions…[Read more]
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Alexander Gil deposited Bridging the Middle Passage: The textual (r)evolution of Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal in the group
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThe paper represents an up-to-date, comprehensive and accurate account of the history of The Cahier d’ un retour au pays natal in English today. I use the early productions and reproductions of the poem to argue that Césaire’s early work is meant for an American (in the broad sense of the word) audience. Using textual evidence and archival…[Read more]
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Alexander Gil deposited Découverte de l'Ur-texte de Et les chiens se taisaient in the group
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThis brief piece tells the story of my discovery of the Saint-Dié Typescript of Et les chiens se taisaient. The text also provides a preliminary description of the typescript, a summary of the plot of the historical drama, as well as a brief comparison with the published version of 1946.
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Patrick Walsh started the topic CFP: Urban Drama, Urban Theater (NEASECS Conference Panel, Oct. 8-10, 2015) in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoCall for Papers
Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (NEASECS)
Annual Conference 2015 “Texts and the City”
Hosted by Trinity College
Hartford, CT, USA, October 8-10, 2015Panel: Urban Drama, Urban Theater
In the thought and literature of the eighteenth century, the theater often features as a distinctly urban space, one…[Read more]
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Doug Steward deposited Saint's Progeny: Assotto Saint, Gay Black Poets, and Poetic Agency in the Field of the Queer Symbolic in the group
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoGay black representations of the phallus subvert recognizable images of the gay/black phallus, and they draw on a tradition, however brief, of writers who have also possessed and spoken from the gay/black phallus. In thus circumventing symbolic castration,
Saint’s progeny effectively engage in a tentative yet decidedly agentive elaboration of gay…[Read more] -
Doug Steward deposited THE ILLUSIONS OF PHALLIC AGENCY Invisible Man, Totem and Taboo, and the Santa Claus Surprise in the group
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoFor the narrator of Invisible Man, the abjection of women and homosexuals operates at first as a discursive strategy for making the black male’s position more subjectively endurable, but the narrator must eventually confront this discursive strategy as an illusion of hetero-phallic agency, since he continually fails to acquire the sorts of i…[Read more]
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Sheila Smith McKoy started the topic CFP: Elizabeth Keckley Reader in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoProposals are invited for A Determined Life: The Elizabeth Keckley Reader edited by Sheila Smith McKoy. The reader seeks to present a comprehensive view of Keckley’s remarkable life. Much like Keckley herself, the reader will be multi-faceted in its approach, examining her life through a variety of lenses. We are seeking essays, drama, fi…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Rhines, PhD started the topic 2016 MLA, Austin, TX: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoPlease attend my special session at the 2016 MLA, Austin, TX: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures and consider my new book, BLUE SKY FOR BLACK AMERICA, for your classes. Help your students connect with the political system by codifying their own images of the future.
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Siendou Konaté started the topic CFP AFRICAN POPULAR MUSIC: THE TRUE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE? in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoCahiers Ivoiriens d’Etudes Comparees (CIEC) / Ivorian Journal of Comparative Studies (IJCS) VOLUME 2 NUMERO 2
LA MUSIQUE POPULAIRE AFRICAINE : LES VÉRITABLES VOIX DU PEUPLE ?
ARGUMENTAIRE
Peut-être pour des raisons d’un élitisme intellectuel ou peut-être du fait de l’absence d’un outil adéquat pour leur analyse, les arts populaires afr…[Read more]
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Erin Lamb started the topic Seeking educators of undergrads who address aging in the classroom in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoGreetings colleagues,
I am writing to ask for your help in completing a brief survey about teaching age studies. I am looking to find respondents who both:
teach undergraduates (baccalaureate or associate level) in the American higher education system, and
address the topics of aging, old age, and/or ageism in those undergraduate c…[Read more] -
Allison Hobgood started the topic cfp: Disability and Interdependence, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDisability and Interdependence
What are alternatives to the binary of independence/dependence in disability discourse? How might rhetorics of care illuminate and intervene in disability’s perception/representation? 250 word abstract and 1 page CV by 15 March 2015; Elizabeth Bearden (ebearden@wisc.edu).
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Martha G. Satz started the topic Book on Toni Morrison and Motherhood in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoToni Morrison CFP
We are seeking and welcome perspectives from a variety of disciplines, historical, comparative, and cross-cultural, for a collection of essays entitled Toni Morrison and Mothering/Motherhood. In her vast body of work, fiction and non-fiction, Toni Morrison explores and critiques American/African American culture. While…[Read more]
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Jennifer Buckley replied to the topic CFP for MLA16: Bernard Shaw and New Media, 1879-2015 in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoRe: “Shaw and New Media” CFP:
Paper proposals are due by March 15 to jennifer-buckley@uiowa.edu.
(Apologies for multiple posts — a result of MLA Commons site time-outs.)
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Andres Perez-Simon started the topic CFP: “The modernist 'mysterium'" (MSA, Nov 19-22 2015, Boston) in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago<div>CFP: “The modernist ‘mysterium’, between allegorical drama and revolutionary politics”</div>
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Modernist Studies Association Conference
November 19-22, 2015
Boston, MA
In The Death of Character (1996), Elinor Fuchs conceptualizes the “mysterium” as a modernist theatrical practice with a strong didactic orientation that adapts the exposit…[Read more] - Load More