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Sarah Thomas started the topic MLA 2022 Forum Panels in 20th/21st Century Spanish & Iberian: Circulate & Apply! in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years agoGender and Black Subjectivities in Spain Today
What radical acts of visibility and resistance are being mobilized by the work of Afro-descendants in Spain? What genres, visual and verbal imagery are used to subvert gender and racial categories to redefine Spain today?Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 March 2021
Benita Sampedro…[Read more]
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Sarah Thomas started the topic MLA 2022 Forum Panels in 20th/21st Century Spanish & Iberian: Circulate & Apply! in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years agoGender and Black Subjectivities in Spain Today
What radical acts of visibility and resistance are being mobilized by the work of Afro-descendants in Spain? What genres, visual and verbal imagery are used to subvert gender and racial categories to redefine Spain today?Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 March 2021
Benita Sampedro…[Read more]
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Mary Kate Donovan started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: The Politics and Poetics of Translation in the Global Hispanophone in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe Politics and Poetics of Translation in the Global Hispanophone
Multilingualism within the Global Hispanophone signals the past colonial routes and present migratory flows that complicate the social cohesion national literatures purport to consolidate. Issues of translation, therefore, are steeped in both national and regional tensions,…[Read more]
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Catherine Barbour started the topic CfP MLA2022 Translingual Iberia: Peripheries and Mobilities in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years agoPlease send 250 word abstracts for a proposed panel at MLA2022 on trans- and multilingualism in cultural production of the Iberian Peninsula. Studies of works by migrant cultural producers and/or in non-state languages particularly encouraged.
Deadline for submissions: Monday, March 15, 2021 to Catherine Barbour, University of Surrey…[Read more]
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Lisa Nalbone posted an update in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoAnnouncing the “1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate” Jan. 28-30, 2021. For more information, please visit: https://www.ut.edu/academics/college-of-arts-and-letters/center-for-jos%C3%A9-mart%C3%AD-studies-affiliate/1st-biannual-conference-registration
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Li Guo started the topic Invitation to LLC Ming Qing Chinese Social Event, Session 11077 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoInvitation to MLA 2021 LLC Ming and Qing Chinese Social EventSession 11077: January 7th, TR, 8:45pm-10:00pm EST
Event in the program: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Session/11077
Dear colleagues attending the upcoming MLA,
Please join us for lively conversations and networking with colleagues at MLA.
Forum members:…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CELJ professional development/mentoring opportunity: Chat with an Editor in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoSharing in my role of Secretary of CELJ…please disseminate widely to graduate students and ECRs… ~ Janine Utell
The Council of Editors of Learned Journals is hosting its annual Chat with an Editor program, in an expanded edition and in conjunction with the virtual Modern Language Association Convention. The Chat provides 20-minute time…[Read more]
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Mateus Yuri Passos deposited Stepping out of Divinity: Tom King’s “All-too-human” Batman in the group
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis paper focuses on American superhero comics – i.e. superadventures and their likeness to mythology. Our goal is to understand how subtle changes in the characterization of a superhero may make them more congruent with the present day morality and ideals of the society, even if a given character is willing to directly challenge that morality. T…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Southeast Asia & Southeast Asia diasporic sessions MLA 2021 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoFYI: based on a search of the MLA 2021 online program, here’s a list of the sessions/panels that have content related to Southeast Asia & its diasporas. All dates & times are US Eastern Time (New York).
* Asian American Literature and Empire and Imperialism
Thursday, 7 January 2021
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Against a reading of a sacred landscape: Raja Shehadeh rewrites the Palestinian presence in Palestinian Walks in the group
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoABSTRACT
In his introduction to Palestinian Walks, Raja Shehadeh remarks that in spite of the great number of travelers to Palestine, travel literature, for the most part, willfully ignored the living experience and existence of the land’s inhabitants. Often, Palestine was the imaginary place that was continuously invented to confirm r…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Sourcing “a place of first permission”: Robert Duncan’s ‘mythological mind’ and H.D.’s “Trilogy” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article is a slightly revised version of a plenary panel address presented at the ‘Passages’ Symposium at the Sorbonne, Paris on the 12th of June 2019, in honor of the centenary of the birth of the American poet Robert Duncan. The article traces some of the mutual interest and influence between the poets Robert Duncan and Hilda Doolittle…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited The Poetics of Baseball: An American Domestication of the Mathematically Sublime in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article appeared in the journal American Studies, 32.1 (Spring 1991): 85-100. The article examines a poetics of the mathematically sublime as it relates to the design and play of the American game of baseball. There is some commentary on literature and cultural sudies as well as the history and rules of baseball. There is no DOI for the…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Turning Point ’68: From Tet to Chicago, Paris to D.C., Hesiod to “Works & Days” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis commemorative and retrospective memoir examines events fifty years ago in the interests of tracking and placing the editorial ideals and dynamics of the journal “Works & Days”, founded in 1978 and published through 2019. The author was one of the original co-founders of the journal, as well as a contributor and member of the editorial board…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited ‘Balancing Fire, Dreams and the Signatures of All Things’: Sinead Morrissey’s Poetry and Poetics in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article is a sustained profile and study of prominent Northern Irish poet Sinead Morrissey’s complete run of work from the 1990s through 2018. The article examines closely the developing course of her poetry as well as the developing itinerary of her poetics, especially in the light of her transatlantic poetics as well as local and…[Read more]
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Isabelle Hesse started the topic Family and Conflict in Graphic Narratives, Special Issue for Studies in Comics in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoFamily and Conflict in Graphic Narratives, Special Issue for Studies in Comics
Call for Articles, Interviews, and Comics
Even though family relationships are at the heart of many graphic narratives, particularly relationships between parents and children (one can think of examples like Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Art Spiegelman’s Maus), few s…[Read more]
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Epicteto Díaz-Navarro deposited Espacios de la memoria. Marcel Proust y Juan Benet in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoIn recent years it has been recognized that Proust profoundly influences different Spanish narrators (see H. Craig, also for Latin American literature), and in this work it is shown how in the syntax, the type of narrator, the construction of the scene and other aspects in Juan Benet’s narrative show the Prustian influence.
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Epicteto Díaz-Navarro deposited Kafka en España: unas notas sobre Carmen Martín Gaite y Enrique Vila-Matas in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoFranz Kafka is one of the most influential writers in Spanish narrative since the post-war period, from the beginnings of the work of Carmen Martín Gaite, to Enrique Vila-Matas, one of the most widely translated and well-known current novelists.
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Anna Castillo started the topic Thank you for the nomination! in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHello to all! Many thanks for the recent nomination for a seat on the Executive Committee of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American Forum. I’m a newcomer to the MLA Commons, so let me introduce myself. I am the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University, where I research and teach contemporary literature and…[Read more]
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Benigno Trigo started the topic Introduction and many thanks! in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHello, everyone! I’ve been nominated for a seat on the Executive Committee of the LLC Puerto Rican Forum Panel, so I’d like to tell you a little about myself. My research interests include nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American and Caribbean Literature; Women’s Writing; Psychoanalysis and Autobiography. My publications include Malady a…[Read more]
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Ana León-Távora started the topic Invitation Book Presentation in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoDear colleagues,
I would like to invite you to the presentation of the English translation of Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Pixel Flesh (Carne de Píxel) by my dear colleague and friend Zachary Rockwell Ludington.
The Embassy of Spain will host an online presentation and reading on Friday, October 9 at 3pm EST. Zachary will be joined by Agu…[Read more]
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