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Elena Valdez started the topic CFP LASA 2015 in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Looking for participants for this LASA panel (MUST BE a current LASA member).
Session Title: From Beauty Pageants to Audiovisual Art: The portrayal of Precarious Bodies in Literature and Performance in the Dominican Republic
This panel examines how artistic and audiovisual representations of gendered and sexed bodies are…[Read more]
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David Del Principe started the topic EcoGothic Studies in the forum
Ecocriticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoEcoGothic Studies is a new critical field merging the ecocritical and the Gothic.
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Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic CFP NeMLA Roundtable, Disability Studies in LA in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoRoundtable fostering a dialogue about and with Latin American perspectives on disability studies in the humanities. Participants will give brief presentations on disability studies theory and criticism produced in Latin America in response to local and regional lived realities and cultural productions. Speakers may also highlight literature, film…[Read more]
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Lori Angela Lammert replied to the topic Memory in the Latin American Novel of the Dictatorship in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoSend me an abstract. I met her in 2007. She is really nice. Saludos, Lori
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Erica M. Frouman-Smith replied to the topic Memory in the Latin American Novel of the Dictatorship in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoHi Lori:
I recently have done work on Liliana Heker’s El fin de la historia, which is about her recollection of the dictatorship. I just had a paper on it accepted by Hispanofila. I might be interested in presenting a paper on this. What do you think?
Saludos,
Erica
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Lori Angela Lammert started the topic Memory in the Latin American Novel of the Dictatorship in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCall for papers for Special Session. What is the importance of memory in the Latin American Novel of the Dictatorship? 250 word abstract and CV. by 14 March 2014; Lori Angela Lammert (llammert@yahoo.com).
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Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic CFP, MLA Roundtable on E. Poniatowska Criticism in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoMLA 2015: ROUNDTABLE
Of interest to members of the 20th-C Lat Am Lit Division
Elena Poniatowska: Five Decades of Critical Inquiry
Elena Poniatowska’s corpus has inspired three generations of scholars to engage in highly diverse approaches to literary theory and criticism, including approaches to testimonio, journalism, the specificity of w…[Read more]
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Jeronimo Arellano started the topic Call for papers, MLA 2015: Comparative Media Studies in Latin America in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoWe’re looking for papers for a panel on comparative media studies in Latin America to be held at the 2015 MLA convention. While most often comparative media studies is practiced in relation to new narrative forms and emergent literacies in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries, this panel welcomes proposals focusing on other historical periods…[Read more]
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Leigh Anne Duck started the topic CfP: MLA 2015/journal special issue in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoWe’re seeking proposals for a panel at MLA 2015 (Vancouver, Jan. 8-11) and for a special issue of the journal The Global South (Indiana UP, available via JSTOR and Project Muse) on the topic “Narrating Global South Cities.” Even though the “global South” has emerged as a “new and powerful ordering system for academic disciplines,” its promise…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen edited the doc Prismatic Ecology (#mla14) Abstracts in the group
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María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Movimientos sociales in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE
Translating Social Movements
Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014
The relationship between intellectual discourse and grassroots social movements has long been a contentious and conflictive one, but it is also one that has been shaped by mutual interaction. Just as…[Read more]
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James Pangborn, PhD started the topic Hello World! in the forum
Ecocriticism on MLA Commons 12 years, 11 months agoGreetings, everyone: thanks for showing up! I’d like to get an idea of what members consider to be worthwhile topics for discussion, so please post freely. I think the settings allow anyone to initiate topics, […]
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James Pangborn, PhD created the group
Ecocriticism on MLA Commons 12 years, 11 months ago
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