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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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LaRose T. Parris started the topic CFP: 2017 NeMLA Convention in the discussion
Literary Criticism 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
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoa bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies
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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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Nancy Caronia started the topic NeMLA Panel seeking abstracts; Deadline September 30 in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoFor NeMLA: 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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Darwin Tsen started the topic CFP Postsocialist Literature and Culture Under Comparative Lenses in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoProposed Seminar for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative
Literature Association (ACLA) in Utrecht, The Netherlands (July 6-9, 2017)Organizer:
Darwin H. Tsen, The Pennsylvania State University
A few nations still claim the socialist mantle today, but their practices paint a different picture. How do we, then, in an age where…[Read more]
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Adam Toth started the topic CFP Race Theory and Literature in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoProposed Seminar for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative
Literature Association (ACLA) in Utrecht, The Netherlands (July 6-9, 2017)Organizers:
Pauline Moret-Jankus, Friedrich-Schiller Universitaet, Jena
Adam J. Toth, The Pennsylvania State UniversityRace Theory and Literature Emerging out of the practices of…[Read more]
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Jorge Calderón started the topic Appel de communications Feeling Queer / Queer Feeling Colloque international in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAppel de communications
Feeling Queer / Queer Feeling
Colloque international
Université de Toronto, Canada
24–26 mai 2017
L’affect est avant tout, dans l’ordre du corps, un phénomène physique et psychique, à la fois en-deçà et au-delà de la représentation, qui mobilise l’expérience concrète de soi, celle de l’autre et celle du monde. En…[Read more]
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Anne Garland Mahler started the topic ACLA Panel on the Global South and the Question of Method in the discussion
Global South on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agohttp://www.acla.org/global-south-and-question-method
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Co-Organizer: Anne Garland Mahler
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at the Commons in the discussion
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Rust Belt Literature
Public Group active 5 hours, 52 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group. NOTE: we have a call out for hosts for a panel on Rust belt Literature at the next national MLA convention.
This group will host discussions of all types of lite…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Commotion of Souls" in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAn essay written for “Neuroscience and Fiction,” a special issue of SubStance guest-edited by Pierre Casso-Nogues
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Commotion of Souls" in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAn essay written for “Neuroscience and Fiction,” a special issue of SubStance guest-edited by Pierre Casso-Nogues
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Esther Sánchez-Pardo started the topic CFP: Crossing the Anglo-Hispanic Divide Seminar at ACLA 2017, Utrecht, July 2017 in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCrossing the Anglo-Hispanic Divide: Modernist Women Writers and Artists beyond Frontiers
A Seminar at ACLA 2017 (6th-9th July, Utrecht)
Organizers: Esther Sánchez-Pardo (esanchez_pardo@filol.ucm.es) & Renée Silverman (silvermr@fiu.edu)
Proposals due Sept. 23, 2016
Apply online: http://www.acla.org/crossing-anglo-hispanic-divide-mode…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Rust Belt Post-Colonial Stories in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoRust Belt Literature
Public Group active 5 hours, 52 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust Belt, defined here as industrial communities in the United States. Those ho have been affected by the rust…[Read more]
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Doug Steward deposited Anti-Oedipalizing Great Expectations: Masochism, Subjectivity, Capitalism in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoDickens, in his infatuation with the orphan, anticipates Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, which argues against interpreting everyone’s life experience in terms of the Oedipal conflict’s family drama.
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Rust Belt Post-Colonial Stories in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHi again @gloriamla,
I just wanted to pass on a message from @okala35shimobi that ended up in the Commons inbox:
Dear Gloria Lee McMillan,
Could you tell me how to get a copy of the stories? Though neither a resident nor specialist on the Rust Belt, I’m nonetheless interested in reading a story that uses post-colonialism to represent the e…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Rust Belt Post-Colonial Stories in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoApologies to DANE for saying Diane!
I have uploaded my story to CORE and thank you, Nicky.
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic File deposit: Whiting Rich and Strange in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoI am notifying the Race and Ethnicity group that I have deposited a short story titled Whiting Rich and Strange. I have written six stories so far set in the Rust belt, a site of post-colonial activity. In my hometown of East Chicago. one census recorded 82 nationalities. Our part of Indiana is not known to the rest of the US, except as high cr…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Whiting Rich and Strange in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoTitle of short story: WHITING RICH AND STRANGE
A story of ethnic people in an oil refinery town in NW Indiana.
Comments are most welcome. This is part of a series of stories based in the industrial part of Chicago’s Indiana suburbs.I am also placing the story in the Shakespeare group because–after all–it is a Romeo and Juliet story.…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Whiting Rich and Strange in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoTitle of short story: WHITING RICH AND STRANGE
A story of ethnic people in an oil refinery town in NW Indiana.
Comments are most welcome. This is part of a series of stories based in the industrial part of Chicago’s Indiana suburbs.I am also placing the story in the Shakespeare group because–after all–it is a Romeo and Juliet story.…[Read more]
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