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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic MLA Survey and CFP: Teaching Volume on Karen Tei Yamashita in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease tell us about your experience (use this link) teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey. Deadline: June 1, 2016.
Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for an MLA 2017…[Read more]
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic MLA Survey and CFP: Teaching Volume on Karen Tei Yamashita in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease tell us about your experience teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey (use link above). Deadline: June 1, 2016.
Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for an MLA 2017…[Read more]
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Josef Raab started the topic New Deadline: Inter-American Studies Conference "Human Rights in the Americas" in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThe International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS) will hold its Fourth Biennial Conference at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) October 4 through 6, 2016. The conference topic is “Human Rights in the Americas.” Keynote addresses will be given by Professor Lisa Hajjar (UCSB), Professor David Palumbo-Liu (Stanford Uni…[Read more]
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Olivia Jones Choplin started the topic CFP: American Council of Quebec Studies Biennial Conference 4/15/16 deadline in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCONVERSATIONS-COMMERCE-COMMUNAUTÉS–CONVERSATIONS-COMMERCE-COMMUNITIES
Le 20e colloque bisannuel de l’ACQS / The 20th biennial conference of the ACQS:
du 3 au 6 novembre, 2016, au Westin Harborview Hotel, Portland, ME
L’American Council for Québec Studies sollicite des propositions de communication pour notre prochain congrès en 2016. Si le thèm…[Read more] -
Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP: Adoption and Culture: Sixth Biennial Conference of ASAC in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoSixth Biennial Conference of the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture
ASAC 2016: Building Communities, Changing Discourses
Crowne Plaza Minneapolis Northstar Downtown Hotel, 27-29 October 2016
Proposal deadline 1 March 2016.
This conference, sponsored by The Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture, looks at stories, histories,…[Read more] -
Annette Damayanti Lienau started the topic CFP: Vernacular Comparisons beyond the Europhone in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis panel seeks papers that engage with questions, concepts, and histories of the “vernacular” or “vernacularization” beyond Europhone languages and contexts.
Submissions that address one or more of the following questions are encouraged. How might we explore (and move beyond) the insufficiencies of Europhone terms —such as the “vernacula…[Read more]
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Juan Meneses started the topic CFP: "Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent" (MLA) in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years agoCFP: “Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent”
MLA Special Session (Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2017)
This non-guaranteed, MLA special seeks papers that examine how literary and audiovisual works articulate dissent by operating at different national tempos, challenging the global synchronicity that dominates the…[Read more]
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Juan Meneses started the topic CFP: "Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent" (MLA) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoCFP: “Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent”
MLA Special Session (Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2017)
This non-guaranteed, MLA special seeks papers that examine how literary and audiovisual works articulate dissent by operating at different national tempos, challenging the global synchronicity that dominates the contemporary…[Read more]
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Juan Meneses started the topic CFP: "Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent" (MLA) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoCFP: “Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent”
MLA Special Session (Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2017)
This non-guaranteed, MLA special seeks papers that examine how literary and audiovisual works articulate dissent by operating at different national tempos, challenging the global synchronicity that dominates the…[Read more]
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Ewa Lukaszyk deposited Is there Tunisian literature? Emergent writing and fractal proliferation of minor voices in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years agoIs There Tunisian Literature? Emergent Writing and Fractal Proliferation of Minor Voices.
The article presents the Tunisian literature from the non-local perspective of the global literary market and the circulation of translated literature. The minor status of the studied phenomenon becomes obvious even when the Tunisian literature is compared…[Read more] -
Ewa Lukaszyk deposited Travelling away from the “artsy post-modern lefty-pinko university”. Noor's transcultural experience and the duties of the intellectual in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years agoTravelling away from the “artsy post-modern lefty-pinko university”.
Noor’s transcultural experience and the duties of the intellectual.The volume Qur’an and cricket consists of several travelogues produced by a Malay intellectual, Farish A. Noor, during his trips to the most problematic places of the world, marked by the contemporary “ba…[Read more]
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Ewa Lukaszyk deposited Nós, Portugal, o poder ser. Um universalismo virtual como resultado dum processo de auto-mitificação da cultura in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years agoWe, Portugal, the possibility of being. Virtual universalism as the result of the process of cultural self- mythification.
The article is divided in four parts. The first one contains the working hypothesis, associating Mensagem by Fernando Pessoa, the culminating formulation of the Portuguese self-mythification, with the trauma of Atlantic…[Read more]
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Peter J. Kalliney deposited Modernism in a Global Context (introduction) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years agoExploring the transnational dimension of literary modernism and its increasing centrality to our understanding of 20th-century literary culture, Modernism in a Global Context surveys the key issues and debates central to the ‘global turn’ in contemporary Modernist Studies.
Topics covered include:
– Transnational literary exchange
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Zahi A. Zalloua started the topic CFP Catastrophe: Special issue of The Comparatist in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years agoWe welcome contributions that examine the notion of catastrophe in comparative studies and literary theory. Thinking catastrophe today raises multiple questions. What constitutes a catastrophe? How do we bear witness to a catastrophe? What historical catastrophes serve an exemplary or paradigmatic function? Whose catastrophe is heard and whose…[Read more]
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Ivy Schweitzer deposited “Bursting the Bubble: Making the Study of American Poetry Experiential” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years agoMy talk at the round table on Service Learning in Literary Studies about the necessity of failure in experiential learning.
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Philip Smith deposited Spiegelman Studies Part 2 of 2: Breakdowns, No Towers and the Rest of the Canon in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years agoArt Spiegelman is one of the most-discussed creators in Comic Book Studies. His Pulitzer-winning work Maus (1980 and 1991) was, alongside The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Watchmen (1987), the catalyst to a sea change in the commercial and critical fortunes of the alternative comic book during the mid-1980s. It has been a landmark text in…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Spiegelman Studies Part 1 of 2: Maus in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years agoArt Spiegelman is one of the most-discussed creators in Comic Book Studies. His Pulitzer-winning work Maus (1980 and 1991) was, alongside The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Watchmen (1987), the catalyst to a sea change in the commercial and critical fortunes of the alternative comic book during the mid-1980s. It has been a landmark text in…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Holocaust literature and historiography in Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis paper examines Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces (2007) in the context of Holocaust literature and historiography. It begins with an introduction to the genre of Holocaust literature and the problematic nature of ‘survivor’ testimony. Michaels’ work is then contextualized within this body of literature. The essay goes on to examine the means t…[Read more]
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Zoe Roth started the topic CFP: Transnational French Modernisms – Modernismes et francophonie in the discussion
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Call for Papers:
Transnational French Modernisms
7th-8th July 2016, Durham University, UK
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Jonathan Eburne (Penn State)
Professor Susan Harrow (Bristol)
Professor Debarati Sanyal (Berkeley)
The rise of France’s colonial empire in the 19th century shaped French culture as a global are…[Read more]
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Zoe Roth started the topic CFP: Transnational French Modernisms – Modernismes et francophonie in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Call for Papers:
Transnational French Modernisms
7th-8th July 2016, Durham University, UK
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Jonathan Eburne (Penn State)
Professor Susan Harrow (Bristol)
Professor Debarati Sanyal (Berkeley)
The rise of France’s colonial empire in the 19th century shaped French culture as a global arena and fra…[Read more] - Load More
