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James Kyung-Jin Lee started the topic CFP: Transpacific Transactions in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoPapers that analyze transpacific exchanges in literature from a critical perspective informed by scholarship on transnationalism, diaspora, and the Pacific. 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March 2018; Jeehyun Lim (jeehyunl@buffalo.edu).
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James Kyung-Jin Lee started the topic New Approaches to Asian American Non-Fiction in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoPapers that consider both recent and historical Asian American non-fiction with particular critical attention to the contemporary memoir boom. 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March 2018; James Kyung-Jin Lee (jkl@uci.edu).
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Jonathan Abel posted an update in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoCFP:
Social Media, Literary Transaction, and Nationalism in East Asian LiteratureA Forum Session at the next MLA convention in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019
How have Asian digital networks (e.g. Line, Weibo, and KakaoTalk) impacted the circulation of poetry and prose? And do these new literary transactions correlate with heightened…[Read more]
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Kelly Y. Jeong started the topic CFP: Literature and Film in Neoliberal East Asia in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoCFP: Literature and Film in Neoliberal East Asia
A Forum Session at the next MLA convention in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019
In recent decades East Asian societies have felt the reach of neoliberalism as a culture, a set of economic policies, and political agenda, which has informed people’s lives in various ways. This guaranteed panel for Mod…[Read more]
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A. Lewis deposited A Talk about Religion in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 8 years agoAnd interview between Julian Darius and A. David Lewis in LAZARUS, THE FOREVER MAN #0 (Martian Lit).
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Shakespeare Criticism beyond the Nation State.” Chapter 25 of The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance, ed. James C. Bulman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 423-440 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 8 years agoTo move global Shakespeare studies beyond the more limiting scope of nation-state and cultural profiling, I would like to propose we consider a number of critical concepts as methodology. These concepts critique the limitations of cartographic imagination, and connect the performance site to spaces of knowledge production: (1) the site of…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 8 years agoMLA 2019 Update — CFP for Special Session:
Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions
How does one teach/research/compare Southeast Asian texts (literature, cinema, etc.) from different linguistic/national/cultural contexts in translation? 300-word abstracts and short bios due to Brian Bernards (bernards@usc.edu) March 15.
CFP now…[Read more]
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Sheela Jane Menon posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 8 years agoIncluded in the Griffith Review 59 issue linked below, is this important piece on the Batang Kali Massacre by Bernice Chauly. https://griffithreview.com/articles/truth-still-denied-batang-kali-massacre/
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Sheela Jane Menon posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 8 years agoGriffith Review 59: Commonwealth Now, co-edited by Julianne Schultz and Jane Camens, features writers from around the world who explore the contemporary experience of Commonwealth citizens – confronting new challenges, reconciling the past, creating a sustainable and equitable future, settling scores and opening new exchanges. Some great S…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited “’Think What You’re Doing, Or You’ll Only Make an Ugly Reputation for Yourself’: Chin P’ing Mei (金瓶梅), Lying, and Literary History” in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 8 years agoHow does our daily mindreading—that is, our attribution and misattribution of mental states (such as thoughts, feelings, and intentions) to ourselves and others—differ from the mindreading we engage in when we read fiction? I have argued elsewhere (e.g., “Secret Life of Fiction,” PMLA, 2015) that drama, novels, and narrative poetry play and exp…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited “’Think What You’re Doing, Or You’ll Only Make an Ugly Reputation for Yourself’: Chin P’ing Mei (金瓶梅), Lying, and Literary History” in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 8 years agoHow does our daily mindreading—that is, our attribution and misattribution of mental states (such as thoughts, feelings, and intentions) to ourselves and others—differ from the mindreading we engage in when we read fiction? I have argued elsewhere (e.g., “Secret Life of Fiction,” PMLA, 2015) that drama, novels, and narrative poetry play and exp…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited “From the “From the Social to the Literary: Approaching Cao Xueqin’s The Story of the Stone (Honglou meng 紅樓夢) from a Cognitive Perspective” in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay draws on cognitive literary theory to offer new ways of reading Cao Xueqin’s classic novel Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢) aka The Story of the Stone.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited “From the “From the Social to the Literary: Approaching Cao Xueqin’s The Story of the Stone (Honglou meng 紅樓夢) from a Cognitive Perspective” in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay draws on cognitive literary theory to offer new ways of reading Cao Xueqin’s classic novel Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢) aka The Story of the Stone.
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Weihsin Gui deposited Contemporary Literature from Singapore in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 8 years agoLiterature in Singapore is written in the country’s four official languages: Chinese, English, Malay, and Tamil. Since 1999, with the state’s implementation of the Renaissance City Plan to revitalize arts and culture in Singapore, there have been various initiatives to increase the visibility of contemporary Singaporean writing both within the cou…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui deposited Contemporary Literature from Singapore in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 8 years agoLiterature in Singapore is written in the country’s four official languages: Chinese, English, Malay, and Tamil. Since 1999, with the state’s implementation of the Renaissance City Plan to revitalize arts and culture in Singapore, there have been various initiatives to increase the visibility of contemporary Singaporean writing both within the cou…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited „Ça va de soi“. Die visuelle Repräsentation von Gewalt im Holocaust-Dokumentarfilm in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years agoBrian Winston greift die Debatte um die Nicht-Darstellbarkeit der Gewalt des Holocausts auf und weist darauf hin, dass vor jeder moralischen Überlegung zunächst einmal die fast vollständige Abwesenheit von audiovisuellen Zeugnissen konstatiert werden muss. Wie kann der Dokumentarfilm dennoch ein Bild des Grauens zeigen? In Referenz auf den Ve…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited Transmediales Erzählen im narrativen Universum von “Game of Thrones” in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years agoEnglish title: “Transmedia Storytelling in the narrative universe of ‘Game of Thrones'” — This essay’s aim is to briefly introduce the concept of Transmedia Storytelling and to provide a showcase analysis and review of the serial TV narrative of GAME OF THRONES in order to show how a television series’ narrative universe, driven by both producers…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited Review: Jonas Nesselhauf / Markus Schleich (Hrsg.) (2014): Quality-TV. Die narrative Spielwiese des 21. Jahrhunderts?! Münster: LIT in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoReview of German edited collection on Quality TV (see title)
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Tobias Steiner deposited Review: Jonas Nesselhauf / Markus Schleich (Hrsg.) (2014): Quality-TV. Die narrative Spielwiese des 21. Jahrhunderts?! Münster: LIT in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoReview of German edited collection on Quality TV (see title)
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Tobias Steiner deposited TV or not TV? Historical Development of US American Serial Television from the 1950s up to today // Historische Entwicklung US-amerikanischer Fernsehserien von 1950 bis heute in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoSyllabus of BA seminar “Historische Entwicklung US-amerikanischer Fernsehserien von 1950 bis heute” aka. “TV or not TV? Historical Development of US American Serial Television from the 1950s up to today” held during Winter semester 2013/14 at Universität Hamburg, Germany.
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