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Arnika Fuhrmann replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoI volunteer for the executive committee.
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Brian Bernards replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn addition to reiterating my support for the creation of this forum, I am also happy to volunteer for the executive committee.
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Louise Bethlehem deposited “Genres of Identification: Holocaust Testimony and Postcolonial Witness,” in _Marking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age_, edited by Amos Goldberg and Haim Hazan, 171 – 192. Berghahn Books: New York and Oxford. in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis chapter explores the strange intimacies of dis/avowal that obtain between Holocaust studies and postcolonial theory, with particular reference to writing by Aimé Césaire and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. For all that the Jewish body remains, by and large, unmourned in the canonical texts of postcolonial theory, the Holocaust has, I seek to a…[Read more]
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Debra Ann Castillo deposited The bad boy antihero and contemporary politics: Scarface and Gunday in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn this short piece I look at media creations of the contemporary political landscape by way of popular history as accessed through films. I suggest that one of the ways figures like Donald Trump or Narendra Modi access a certain violent masculinity is through a shared understanding of this repertoire of images.
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Debra Ann Castillo deposited The bad boy antihero and contemporary politics: Scarface and Gunday in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn this short piece I look at media creations of the contemporary political landscape by way of popular history as accessed through films. I suggest that one of the ways figures like Donald Trump or Narendra Modi access a certain violent masculinity is through a shared understanding of this repertoire of images.
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Cheow Thia Chan replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoI support the creation of a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic.
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited The Future History of the Book: Time, Attention, Convention in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoAnxieties abound regarding the ostensible obsolescence of the book. Exploring whether the book is in fact becoming obsolete — and what it might mean if it were — requires thinking distinctly about the specific material form of the book (the codex) and about the content that it has long carried. If the form were to change — becoming digital, for i…[Read more]
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Heidi Kathleen Kim started the topic Heidi Kim candidate statement for Executive Committee, AAL Forum in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoAs a member of the executive committee of the Asian American Literature Forum, my hope would be to use the wide audience of MLA as a showcase and an educational opportunity about advancements in the field. Asian American studies’ numerous directions, which have caused a lot of self-examinations within the field, offer us a unique opportunity to…[Read more]
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Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an: Practice, Realization and Teaching in the thought of Chang Chiu-ch'eng in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoAn overview of Zhang Jiucheng’s 張九成 (1092-1159) thought on mind-cultivation and Zhu Xi’s 朱熹 critique of Zhang and other Buddho-Confucians of the early Southern Song dynasty (1126-1279).
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Donna Kornhaber started the topic CFP: The Films of Wes Anderson in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe Films of Wes Anderson
A special issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL)
Wes Anderson is among the most recognized and recognizable writer-directors working today: the recipient of six Academy Award nominations, the subject of countless magazine profiles, the topic of several recent books, and the object of an ever-growing…[Read more]
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Margaret C. Flinn started the topic New M.A. Program in Film Studies in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe Ohio State University Master of Arts in Film Studies
The Ohio State University announces a new Master of Arts degree in Film Studies. Film Studies at Ohio State (https://film-studies.osu.edu) is a multicultural, international, and interdisciplinary program, which approaches cinema as both art and as international social practice. The M.A.…[Read more]
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Robert Troyer replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoI support the creation of a Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum
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Candace Barrington deposited Medievalism and Gwendolyn Brooks' The Anniad in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoIn this brief paper, I first introduce Gwendolyn Brook’s “The Anniad,” a 43-stanza ballad at the center of her 1949 Pulitzer-prize winning collection, Annie Allen. Next, I make a case that “The Anniad” is informed by a medievalism combining Brooks’ girlhood reading and the physical environment of Bronzeville, her Chicago neighborhood. Finally, I…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Talks about SEAsian writing at PAMLA and MSA 2016 in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoHello all! Hope you don’t mind me doing a bit of self-promotion here. I’ll be giving two talks about Southeast Asian / Southeast Asian diasporic writing in November 2016 at the PAMLA and MSA conferences in Pasadena, California. Both conferences will be held at the Westin hotel, Pasadena. If you happen to be attending these conferences, do consider…[Read more]
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Donna Kornhaber started the topic CFP: The Films of Wes Anderson in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe Films of Wes Anderson
A special issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL)
Wes Anderson is among the most recognized and recognizable writer-directors working today: the recipient of six Academy Award nominations, the subject of countless magazine profiles, the topic of several recent books, and the object of an…[Read more]
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Ruby Tapia posted an update in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago2017 MLA Panels Sponsored by the Forum on Race and Ethnicity Studies
Session 28. 05-JAN-17. Writing (against) the Prison, 12:00 noon – 1:15 p.m. Franklin 13, Philadelphia Marriott.
Presiding: Ruby Tapia, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1. “The Life of Paper: Imprisoned,” Sharon Luk, Univ. of Oregon
2. “You (Shall) Have the Body: Ghostly…[Read more]
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LaRose T. Parris started the topic CFP: 2017 NeMLA Convention in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago“Philosophical Ruptures: The Counterhegemonic Mission of Africana Literature”
The literary productions of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African diasporic thinkers are widely acknowledged as the discursive corrective to African enslavement and colonization under Western hegemonic domination. Olaudah Equiano’s, David Walke…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoa bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies
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Gregory Fenton started the topic CFP: ACLA 2017 – Deadline Today, Sept 23 in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoI’m co-organizing a seminar on Asian American and Asian Canadian topics for next year’s ACLA meeting in Utrecht. I’m sure that the conversations we are envisioning would be of interest to members of this forum! My apologies for a last minute posting, but if you have an abstract ready to submit, the ACLA website will accept proposals to our seminar…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic NeMLA Panel seeking abstracts, deadline 9/30 in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoNeMLA Panel: The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed
The goal of “The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed” panel is to explore the Rocky franchise’s place in illuminating Italian Americans’ anxiety about whiteness in a post-Civil Rights era and black millennials’ continual struggle for autonomy in the post-9/11 twenty-…[Read more]
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