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Daniel Williams deposited Life among the Vermin: Nineveh and Ecological Relocation in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoHenrietta Rose-Innes’s novel Nineveh (2011) catalogs the activities of a humane pest expert as she discovers, on an estate under construction outside Cape Town, how human and insect actors undermine the spatial expectations of post-apartheid South Africa. Rose-Innes advances a vision of interspecies connection by recasting controversial themes…[Read more]
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Adrian Versteegh replied to the topic Delegate Assembly Nominees Sought! in the discussion
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoHi Jeffrey—I’d be happy to volunteer. I’m a member and I attend every year. Just let me know what you need.
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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock started the topic Delegate Assembly Nominees Sought! in the discussion
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoHi Folks–want to get more involved in the MLA Gothic Studies forum? We need to submit to MLA a short list of nominees (2 or 3 people) to attend the delegate assembly meeting at the annual convention. So the person needs to be a member of MLA (or willing to become one!) who plans to attend the convention at least twice in the next 3 years. Please…[Read more]
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Will Fenton started the topic Library Company 2020 First Book Award: Nominations due July 1 in the discussion
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoThe Library Company of Philadelphia invites submissions for the 2020 First Book Award. This prize was established in 2018 to recognize an extraordinary contribution to early American studies using Library Company collections. This year, we have opted to recognize a significant first book published by an early-career scholar within the past two yea…[Read more]
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John Hansen deposited “Defying Stereotypes: To Assimilate or Not Assimilate?” in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoDoes the shift away from following or portraying the typical Asian male in my own life help Asians as a whole? Yes. Doing so can help Asian-Americans because it might allow others who view or interact with me to then change their perceptions about other Asian males and help them be more open-minded and accepting. This personal essay explores such notions.
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John Hansen deposited “Defying Stereotypes: To Assimilate or Not Assimilate?” in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoDoes the shift away from following or portraying the typical Asian male in my own life help Asians as a whole? Yes. Doing so can help Asian-Americans because it might allow others who view or interact with me to then change their perceptions about other Asian males and help them be more open-minded and accepting. This personal essay explores such notions.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited May 2020 Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoa bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies
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John Hansen deposited The New American Scholar in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months ago“The New American Scholar” by John Hansen
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Eva-Lynn Jagoe deposited Take Her, She’s Yours in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoWe say, you belong to me, or I belong to you. But is it possible to be possessed by others? And can we ever possess ourselves? In this raw and intimate account, Eva-Lynn Jagoe merges memoir with critical theory as she recounts the unraveling of everything she thought she knew about selfhood, relationships, and desire. Through the story of an…[Read more]
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Sukari B. Salone deposited Unreality, Reality, and Themes in Kezilahabi’s Rosa Mistika and Mahfouz’s Midaq Alley in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoThis work provides a close linguistic and thematic analysis of the dialogues in the two novels Midaq Alley by N. Mahfouz and Rosa Mistika by E. Kezilahabi, as they reflect fundamental assumptions about gender, tradition, and modernity. Certain complex clauses that have been traditionally recognized in Logic and Philosophy to be used in argument…[Read more]
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Natalie Berkman deposited Italo Calvino’s Oulipian Clinamen in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoThe Oulipo has claimed that foreign member, Italo Calvino, was a key proponent of the clinamen, a purposeful deviation from the strict constraints in which the group specializes. However, upon closer inspection, Calvino’s Oulipian production during his Paris period does not seem to advance a formalized definition of this tool of constrained w…[Read more]
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Natalie Berkman deposited Italo Calvino’s Oulipian Clinamen in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoThe Oulipo has claimed that foreign member, Italo Calvino, was a key proponent of the clinamen, a purposeful deviation from the strict constraints in which the group specializes. However, upon closer inspection, Calvino’s Oulipian production during his Paris period does not seem to advance a formalized definition of this tool of constrained w…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Probing the limits of Crocean historicism in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoThis article reconsiders the post-war reaction against Benedetto Croce, focusing on the critical reappraisal of Crocean historicism that followed the defeat of Italian Fascism. Motivated by a growing sense of historical uncertainty, Italians increasingly dissented from Croce, but they remained more wedded to Crocean thought – and in particular t…[Read more]
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Isabelle Hesse started the topic CFP: Family and Conflict in Graphic Narratives in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoFamily and Conflict in Graphic Narratives, Special Issue for Studies in Comics
Call for Articles, Interviews, and Comics
Even though family relationships are at the heart of many graphic narratives, particularly relationships between parents and children (one can think of examples like Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Art Spiegelman’s Maus), few s…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Mindreading and Social Status in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoWould you like to get better at mindreading (i.e., at inferring people’s beliefs, desires, and intentions, based on their behavior)? As it turns out, all you would have to do is lower your relative social status. Studies have shown that people in weaker social positions engage in more active and perceptive mindreading than do people in stronger s…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward started the topic CFP Women and Language in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agohttps://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/african-american/
Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender.…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward started the topic CFP Women and Language in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agohttps://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/african-american/
Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender.…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Under Pressure: Reading Material Textuality in the Recovery of Early African American Print Work in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoFrom 1756 until his death in the early 1790s, Primus Fowle, an enslaved African American, performed typographical and press work involved the in the publication of The New-Hampshire Gazette and other materials printed at the press owned by Daniel Fowle. With the archive of print Primus Fowle created as its object of study, this essay historicizes…[Read more]
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