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Gerard Holmes deposited “‘The Bird / Who Sings the Same, Unheard, / As Unto Crowd —’: Dickinson, Birdsong, and the Business of Improvisation” in the group
TC Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 5 years agoBirds are everywhere in nineteenth-century American literature, including the work of Emily Dickinson. Women poets often referred to their poems in terms of making songs. This essay rethinks the birds in Dickinson’s letters and poems. It suggests that Dickinson’s birds, and their songs, show her awareness of business. They exist within com…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Dean started the topic Textual Scholarship 2021 conference "Reckonings, Recoveries, and Transitions" in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the 2021 conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship, to be hosted virtually by The New School May 19-22, on the theme Reckonings, Recoveries, and Transitions. Proposals are due February 8, for presentations in a variety of formats.
The Society hopes to attract participation in this conference from…[Read more]
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Whit Frazier Peterson deposited A Magnificent Blond Beast: Exploring the Implications of Harlem Renaissance Writer Wallace Thurman as Ghostwriter of a Forgotten Celebrity Gossip Memoir in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years agoIn an early version of his article “Harlem Literati in the Twenties,” first published in the Saturday Evening Review in 1940, Langston Hughes offers the curious suggestion that Wallace Thurman was the ghostwriter of Men, Marriage and Me (erroneously written as Men, Women and Checks in Hughes’ article), the tell-all memoir ostensibly by the origi…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward started the topic MLA Elections Close TODAY!!! in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoDon’t forget that MLA elections close today!
Don’t forget to vote for the new member of the LLC African American Forum Executive Committee and for the MLA Executive Council among other elections.
https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Elections/Nominations-for-2020-MLA-Elections
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Anastasia Salter deposited Crafting is So Hardcore: Masculinized Making in Gaming Representations of Labor in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoIn this paper we examine the representation of crafts in video games, particularly in “crafting systems” – collections of mechanics that are described as crafting within a game’s narrative. Real world crafting practitioners value creativity, expression, and mastery of material, but the act of crafting itself is often viewed by society as repro…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “Giving a Face to the Silenced Victims: Recent Documentaries on Gaza” in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoOften described as an open-air prison, the citizens of the Gaza Strip have long resisted a subaltern existence. Conditions in Gaza, and specifically since the Second Intifada of 2000, have increasingly worsened. With the advent of Hamas in 2006-2007, a complete blockade was imposed on the Strip. A deafening silence by the world has resulted in…[Read more]
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Esha Sil uploaded the file: Call for Papers: SPEAKING AS THE 'OTHER': CALLIOPE International Conference, University of Helsinki: 10-12 May 2021 to
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers: SPEAKING AS THE ‘OTHER’: CALLIOPE International Conference, University of Helsinki: 10-12 May 2021
SPEAKING AS THE ‘OTHER’: Coloniality, Subalternity, and Embodied Political Articulations
(late 18th – early 20th centuries)
10-12 May 2021
Live in Helsinki and online
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Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe influential Tamil writer Pudumaippittan turned to the short story to theorize the relationship between literature and society in the late-colonial era. He used the genre’s brevity to compress his portrayals of well-known female types—such as widows, prostitutes, and goodwives—into singular emotional events. This enabled Pudumaippittan to evoke…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited CFP – Graphic Medicine at PCA 2021 in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoIn conjunction with the Popular Culture Association (PCA) holding their 2021 conference in Boston, contributors and attendees of the New England Graphic Medicine (NEGM) Virtual Summit are proposing a slate of programming that now is welcoming additional participants.
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Doris Hambuch deposited Liberating Bicycles in Niki Caro’s ‘Whale Rider’ and in Haifaa Al Mansour’s ‘Wadjda’ in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoSusan B. Anthony declared in 1896 that the bicycle “has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.” The comparative study of ‘Whale Rider’ (2002) and ‘Wadjda’ (2012) demonstrates that this liberating effect of the basic tool of transportation is being reinforced in the new millennium. The analysis further situates two con…[Read more]
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William Lenz started the topic CFP in Travel & Tourism at Popular Culture Ass 2021 National Conference (Boston) in the discussion
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoCFP: Travel and Tourism Studies
POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION 2021 NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, 110 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02116March 31-April 3, 2021
PROPOSAL DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 2020We are considering proposals for individual papers analyzing any aspect of travel and tourism. Proposals might focus on travel…[Read more]
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Dr Rahul K Gairola deposited Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoLightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today
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John Hansen deposited “Defying Stereotypes: To Assimilate or Not Assimilate?” in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoDoes the shift away from following or portraying the typical Asian male in my own life help Asians as a whole? Yes. Doing so can help Asian-Americans because it might allow others who view or interact with me to then change their perceptions about other Asian males and help them be more open-minded and accepting. This personal essay explores such notions.
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Jervette Ward started the topic CFP Women and Language in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agohttps://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/african-american/
Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender.…[Read more]
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Cesar Dominguez started the topic Reading Group: (Re)Thinking Post-/De-Colonialism in the Hispanophone World in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoI’d like to invite you to join a virtual reading group on key texts to (re)think post-/de-colonialism in the Hispanophone world. A meeting will be held every three weeks for a two-hour session. The aim is to foster collaboration in both teaching and research on these topics, as well as creating synergies for future actions. If you’re interested,…[Read more]
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Ifeoma C. Kiddoe Nwankwo started the topic In Memoriam: African American Literary and Scholarly Greats in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoSubmit 300-word abstracts for an In Memoriam Panel celebrating and critically engaging with the works and legacies of recently departed writers and scholars to jervette@gmail.com by April 6.
LLC African American Forum
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Kerry Manzo started the topic CFP MLA 2021 Trans Persistence in South Asia and Beyond in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoLiterary and cultural engagements with trans* bodies, politics, and assembly in literature of South Asia, its Diaspora, comparative, or transnational framework. 250 word abstract to Kerry.manzo@purchase.edu by March 20.
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 20 March 2020 Kerry Manzo, Purchase C, SU of New York (kerry.manzo@purchase.edu )
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Ahmed Idrissi Alami deposited CFPs: MLA 2021, CLCS Global Arab and Arab American in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoGlobal Indigeneity
Considers theoretical and political questions raised by the model of “trans-indigeneity” paying attention to indigenous mythologies, histories of settler colonialism, and questions of comparison, translation, resistance, language, and appropriation. 300-word abstract and short bio.
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2021 CFP: "Afro-Latinx Stories" and "Latinx Affect" in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoDear MLA members,
Please consider submitting proposals for one of the following CFPs for the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention in Toronto!
MLA 2021 Call For Papers: Afro-Latinx Stories
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Travis M. Foster deposited Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States, Introduction in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years agoIntroduction to Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (Oxford UP, 2019).
If your library doesn’t already own a copy, please consider submitting a purchase request.
Full citation: Travis M. Foster, Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).
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