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Jeronimo Arellano started the topic CfP (MLA 2017): Post/Colonial Affect in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis panel invites papers that rethink the affective turn in the humanities from the vantage of colonial and postcolonial histories. The proposed focus in an exploration of colonial and postcolonial affects, both in general terms as well as in relation to specific cultural practices, visual objects, or written texts. How do we theorize and his…[Read more]
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Giovanna Montenegro started the topic CFP: MLA 2017: Special Session: The Colonial Americas:Ecocritical Perspectives in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis panel seeks papers that address the environment in literature and film of the Early Americas through a Hemispheric perspective (South, Central, North, Caribbean). Papers may address the representation of natural catastrophes and theories on climatology, the representation of endemic vs. invasive species in fiction and travel narratives,…[Read more]
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Angel M. Diaz Miranda started the topic CFP MLA 2017 Unbounded: David Huerta's Incurable at 30 in the discussion
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoUnbounded: David Huerta’s Incurable at 30
Special Session
Incurable (1987) shatters the boundaries of form. Papers on readership, intertextuality, illness, poetic connections, and fragmentation are especially welcomed. 200-word abstract and very short bio. by 10 March 2016; Angel M. Diaz Miranda (diazam@hollins.edu).
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Raúl Coronado started the topic Latina/o studies CFP's in the discussion
Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease consider submitting proposals for the following CFP’s.
1. CFP: Latina/o Materialisms, guaranteed session sponsored by the Latina and Latino Forum
queer, feminist, cultural, new &/or old materialisms; Marxisms; text as material object, comparative Chicana/o, PuertoRican, CubanAm, CentralAm, DominicanAm print cultures & histories of…[Read more]
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Ivonne del Valle started the topic Colonial Latin America Forum/ Proposed panels for MLA 2017—Philadelphia, Jan 5-8 in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years agoColonial Latin America Forum/ Proposed panels for MLA 2017—Philadelphia, Jan 5-8.
Colonial ethnographiesThis panel seeks papers on colonial ethnographic discourse in the context of Spanish imperialism. Numerous colonial texts engage in the description and interpretation of indigenous cultures, dealing with the complexities of transferring i…[Read more]
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Ivonne del Valle started the topic Panels and Happy hour for Colonial Latin American Literatures/MLA 2016 in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear Members,
The Forum for Colonial Latin American Literatures cordially wishes to invite you to the following events at MLA 2016. We hope to see you all very soon!
Best wishes,
Nicolás Wey Gómez
Colonial Texts and Communities of Readers
Friday, 8 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 209, JW Marriott
Happy Hour, Colonial Latin American Lit…[Read more]
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Peter C. Herman deposited review: The Complete Works of John Milton, Volume III: The Shorter Poems in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis article is a review of the Haan-Lewalski OUP edition of Milton’s shorter. The book, I argue, is inexcusably difficult to use, and suggests that perhaps the time has come to replace long, very expensive tomes with digital editions.
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Monica Diaz started the topic Abstracts for the session "Colonial Texts and Communities of Readers" in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago“Circulating Spanish and European Texts in Colonial Latin America,” Angelica Duran, Purdue University.
I seek to nuance our understanding and appreciation the history of textual presence of both Iberian-Spanish canonical literature specifically and also European canonical literature more generally in Colonial Latin America. In the first hal…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited The Dead Albatross: "New Criticism" as a Humanist Fallacy in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis essay was one of the first to challenge the over-stress on close reading as the key to literary appreciation, by advocating a greater stress on literature’s broader context and its achievement in social, political, and religious terms.
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited Personal Identity and Literary Personae: A Study in Historical Psychology in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis comparative study in the evolution of subjectivity in European literature during the Renaissance ascribes it to the impact of the Reformation on the public representation of authorial identity, differing from Stephen Greenblatt’s later application of Foucault to six Tudor authors.
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Natalie Crohn Schmitt deposited Dissimulation in the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoCommedia dell’Arte was the most influential and widespread theatre movement in sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Europe. A considerable part of its popularity can be accounted for by its comic representation of stressful occurrences within everyday life in early modern Europe, including in its representation of the period’s widespread dis…[Read more]
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Victor Goldgel-Carballo deposited Unwilling Impostors, Willing Victims: Passing in Two Nineteenth-Century Cuban Novels in the group
LLC 19th-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoA light-skinned mulata passes for white and begins a romantic relationship that ends tragically, revealing the intransigence of racial barriers; a mother raises her biological daughter as her step-daughter, so that she might adopt a white identity; a multiethnic society is shaken by dreams and anxieties of social mobility: These are some of the…[Read more]
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Victor Goldgel-Carballo deposited 'High-Speed Enlightenment.’ Latin American literature and the new medium of periodicals in the group
LLC 19th-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoDrawing upon studies of media history and print culture, this article analyzes the relationship among early-nineteenth-century Latin American periodicals, literary institutions, and new experiences of time and history. Framing these periodicals as a new medium which boomed during and immediately after the wars of independence, it underscores their…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP: ACLA 2016 Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCFP: ACLA 2016 Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin
Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated Manuscripts
Please consider submitting an abstract to the “ Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated M…[Read more]
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Giovanna Montenegro started the topic ACLA 2016: CFP Hemispheric Approaches to Literature and Cartography in the Americas in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoPlease consider submitting your paper to this seminar proposed for the American Comparative Literature Association Conference from March 17-20, 2016 at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.
Organizer: Giovanna Montenegro, Binghamton University gmontene@binghamton.edu
Co-Organizer: Adriana Méndez Rodenas, University of Iowa
The use and interest…[Read more]
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Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Art, Literature and Revolution in Latin America: Telling the Story in the group
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoCourse Description: As German intellectual Walter Benjamin writes in his essay “The Storyteller”, “Experience which is passed on from mouth to mouth is the source from which all storytellers have drawn.” In the process of sharing experiences, more stories are born with authorship that are common while at the same time recognizing the individ…[Read more]
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Carlos Vargas-Salgado started the topic Congreso Mariano Melgar y la Independencia de las Américas, Arequipa, PERU in the discussion
Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoCONGRESO INTERNACIONAL “MARIANO MELGAR, 200 AÑOS: POESÍA E INDEPENDENCIA” Arequipa, Peru, agosto de 2015
PRIMERA CIRCULAR
(para los interesados en Mariano Melgar, el bicentenario de las independencias y el romanticismo en general)
La Asociación Internacional de Peruanistas (AIP), la Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana (RCLL), el Muni…[Read more]
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Mariana Romo-Carmona replied to the topic CFP: Textos Híbridos. Revista de estudios sobre la crónica latinoamericana in the discussion
Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoExcellent– I posted your announcement in our Commons, the Graduate Center at CUNY.
Mariana
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