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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Cultural Production on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Barbara Riess started the topic Lost Voices: MLA International Symposium 2019 Call for Papers: Cuba in the discussion
Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Cultural Production on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoPanel title: Remembering Voices Lost: Visions of the Cuban Revolution
This panel explores voices marginalized from the international literary or cultural landscape due to their particular relationship to the Cuban Revolution. Since before its official political existence in 1959 through its self-preserving transformations at various pivotal…[Read more]
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Tom White deposited Written in Trees in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoSeminar paper for ‘Translating the Nonhuman’, organised by Liam Lewis (University of Warwick) and Haylie Swenson (The George Washington University)
Seminar Abstract — This seminar invites participants to consider the connections created by translations of the nonhuman into human languages. To what extent is language the domain of the human,…[Read more]
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Currently Accepting Submissions: Spectral Mexico in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThe peer reviewed journal iMex. Interdisciplinary Mexico, ISSN 2193-9756 is currently accepting original, unpublished articles on the subjects of haunting and spectrality in contemporary Mexican cultures for its special issue Spectral Mexico. Original call for papers available here:…[Read more]
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Charlotte Rogers started the topic CFP: “Current and Future Ecocriticisms of the Americas” for ASLE 2019 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoWhat is the current state of hemispheric American ecocritical studies? Where is the discipline headed? The newly formed Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment interest group “Ecocriticism of the Americas” offers a jam session to address these questions at the biannual conference in Davis, CA from June 26-29, 2019. Panel…[Read more]
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Charlotte Rogers started the topic CFP: “Current and Future Ecocriticisms of the Americas” for ASLE 2019 in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoWhat is the current state of hemispheric American ecocritical studies? Where is the discipline headed? The newly formed Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment interest group “Ecocriticism of the Americas” offers a jam session to address these questions at the biannual conference in Davis, CA from June 26-29, 2019. Panel…[Read more]
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Charlotte Rogers started the topic CFP: “Current and Future Ecocriticisms of the Americas” for ASLE 2019 in the discussion
Ecocriticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoWhat is the current state of hemispheric American ecocritical studies? Where is the discipline headed? The newly formed Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment interest group “Ecocriticism of the Americas” offers a jam session to address these questions at the biannual conference in Davis, CA from June 26-29, 2019. Panel…[Read more]
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Ben Click started the topic CFP: Mark Twain and the Natural World in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoSPECIAL ISSUE: Mark Twain and the Natural World
The Mark Twain Annual is seeking article-length submissions that examine aspects of Twain’s work that comment on the relation between human beings and the natural world. This broad scope allows for critical examinations of Twain’s writing about the natural world in any number of ways: as nat…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: American Ecogothic, NeMLA 2019 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis panel on the American ecogothic will take place at the 50th annual NeMLA conference (March 21-24, 2019 in Washington, DC).
Leslie Fiedler describes American fiction as “bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction… a literature of darkness and the grotesque in a land of light and affirmation” (Love and Death in the American Novel…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Is a key to culture in the distance from “dirt”? in the group
Ecocriticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThis Blog covers a new approach to culture via literary analysis. The hypothesis is that distance from dirt is a key aspect of culture that cuts across ideologies. To begin this work, we will use Big Data to study (content analysis) themes and characters in US novels from the 19th C. to the 21st C. Theory for this analysis will be Joel Kovel’s…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited The in the group
Ecocriticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThis rhetorical analysis of the phrase “The Rust Belt” asks the question Is The Rust Belt real or mythical? Does Gayatri Spivak’s ‘Subaltern’ caste now inhabit the (so-called) Rust Belt? Why can’t Rust Belt writers be heard?
“The Rust Belt” is not a title anyone living there would have chosen and yet we use it. Why? Also why should we depend…[Read more] -
James S. Finley deposited “Justice in the Land”: Ecological Protest in Henry David Thoreau’s Antislavery Essays in the group
Ecocriticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis essay surveys Thoreau’s antislavery writings from across his career and demonstrates the ecological concerns central to Thoreau’s abolitionist commitment.
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Zane Koss deposited Coastal Flows: Situating Vancouver Poetry in the Americas in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoIn a 1972 poem about Vancouver Island, Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco wonders, “Acaso fue el Aztlán de las mexicas / De allí partieron siete tribus.” Though Pacheco spent several years living in Vancouver during the late 1960s and early 1970s—and was published in a 1971 anthology of poetry “From Canada’s Unofficial Languages”—h…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman started the topic CFP MLA 2019: Peter Abrahams, RIP – Commemorating a Pan-African Life. in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months ago<b>MLA 2019 Special Session. </b>Honoring the centenary of Abrahams’ birth, we re-assess his epoch-making career as author-journalist-Panafricanist from Johannesburg to London to Kingston. Abstracts 100-300 words by 22 March 2018; Jason Frydman (jfrydman@brooklyn.cuny.edu).
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Claudia Cabello-Hutt deposited Redes queer: escritoras, artistas y mecenas en la primera mitad del siglo XX in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoA partir de la lectura del epistolario de Anna Melissa Graves, este trabajo recompone la relación de complicidad entre la escultora chilena Laura Rodig y la, hasta ahora desconocida “mecenas”, Consuelo Lemetayer. De manera específica, esta indagación de archivo analiza las redes queer de cooperación transnacional y transatlántica en las que part…[Read more]
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Mariana Romo-Carmona replied to the topic International Conference on Global Human Rights in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThanks for attaching, Luz Angélica.
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Jennifer M. Wilks posted an update in the group
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP: “Translating the Caribbean” (special session proposed for MLA 2019)
Several decades ago, Édouard Glissant wrote in Le Discours antillais of the “undeniable” reality of a common Caribbean culture that had emerged from the shared history of the plantation, island living, creolization, and social systems. For Glissant, however, this reality…[Read more]
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Luz Angélica Kirschner started the topic International Conference on Global Human Rights in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
please find attached the CfP for the International Conference on Human Rights that will take place at the South Dakota State University, Oct. 4-6, 2018. We are looking forward to you panel proposals, round tables, and individual presentations.
Many thanks,
Luz Angélica Kirschner
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Nathan H. Dize deposited An Explosion in the Archives, Reframing French Archives through Caribbean Digital Praxis in the group
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe digital archive of Saint-Domingue poses major questions relating to power and the production of history, especially since North American institutions possess and have digitized massive collections of French language materials. Once digitized, how will the material be curated, read, and interpreted by the archive’s various users (teachers,…[Read more]
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Juan E. De Castro deposited Alfonso Reyes, Jorge Luis Borges, y Nuestra América in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis article studies the uses made of the phrase “Nuestra América” by both Alfonso Reyes and Jorge Luis Borges. It also traces the influence of the Reyes on Borges.
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