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Helene Meyers deposited The Unmarked Chains of Paper Clips in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoArgues that the documentary Paper Clips exemplifies the ways in which Holocaust education can unwittingly foster competing victimization narratives between blacks and Jews, sanitize both European and U.S. history, and serve subtle
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Zoe Roth started the topic CFP: Transnational French Modernisms in the discussion
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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] -
Shazia Rahman deposited Rachna Mara’s Cosmopolitan (Yet Partial) Feminisms in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis article shows how Rachna Mara’s collection of short stories Of Customs and Excise puts forth a cosmopolitan feminism that reveals the losses and gains of diaspora in an arena of partiality and relationality.
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Serguei Alex Oushakine started the topic CFP: "Imperial Reverb: Exploring the Postcolonies of Communism, May 13-15, 2016 in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Princeton Conjunction – 2016
https://imperialreverb.princeton.edu/
IMPERIAL REVERB:
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May 13-15, 2016
Princeton University
In a 2001 issue of the journal PMLA, David Chioni Moore asked: “Is the Post- in Postcolonial the Post- in Post-Soviet?” Answers to this importa…[Read more] -
Tsitsi Jaji started the topic CFP: The Performance of Pan-Africanism (Conference on Cultural Festivals) in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Performance of Pan-Africanism:
from Colonial Exhibitions to Black and African Cultural Festivals
International Conference
20-22 October, 2016
Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University
Keynote speakers: Andrew Apter (UCLA), Cheryl Finley (Cornell University), Souleymane B…[Read more]
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Julia V. Douthwaite deposited How Revolutionary is our Scholarship Today? in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis is a longer version of my conference paper, in which I provide some ideas on how to merge scholarship on 18th-c France, especially the revolutionary period, with the kinds of advocacy promoted by the MLA. I foreground exciting new work done by colleagues in the US, UK, and Italy, and provide a “sneak peek” at materials to be included in the…[Read more]
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Hoda El Shakry started the topic MLA Graphic Interventions Arabic Panel Meeting Today at 1:45pm – Please Join! in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoJust a quick note that the Arabic division panel #77. Graphic Interventions: Visual Cultures of the Arab World will be meeting as scheduled today from 1:45–3:00 p.m. in room 402 of the JW Marriott.
We hope to see you there!!
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Shazia Sadaf deposited Daniyal Mueenuddin’s Dying Men in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDaniyal Mueenuddin’s In Other Rooms, Other Wonders is reflection of Pakistani masculinity in a metamorphosed state. A disturbingly masculine vocabulary frames the appearance and actions of the female characters. In contrast, the speech and thought of the male characters is minified in words of loss and regret. Their material ambitions and the r…[Read more]
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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic Panels organized by the Global Arab and Arab American Forum in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoHello Everyone,
We thought you’d be interested in attending one or all of the sessions that we have organized for the Global Arab and Arab American Literature forum. This is our first official presence at the MLA, so we would welcome your support! Below are the panels we have organized. Hope to see you there!
Politics of Solidarities and…[Read more]
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Maria DiFrancesco started the topic Summer Fellowship Opportunity: NeMLA in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThe NeMLA Summer Fellowship Program Summer fellowships up to $1,500 are intended to defray the cost of traveling incurred by researchers in pursuing their work-in-progress over the summer. Fellowships primarily support untenured junior faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars. All applicants will be notified before the convention.…[Read more]
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic REIM CFP in the discussion
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The Journal of International Mediterranean Studies (REIM) invites authors to submit articles for its 2016 special issue on“Local Politics in Contemporary Middle Eastern and North African Countries: Spaces of Political Continuity or Change?”.This special issue aims to explore the MENA countries and…[Read more]
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Christopher Looby started the topic 817. Is the Short Story Queer? in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoAbstracts, and the short stories that will be discussed, at Special Session (roundtable) 817, “Is the Short Story Queer,” have been posted to an MLA Commons site:
https://session817.mla.hcommons-staging.org/
Please join us on Sunday, Jan. 10, 1:45-3:00 p.m., in 9B, Austin Convention Center.
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Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic St. John's University-New York: MLA: English in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agohttps://apply.interfolio.com/32882
We invite applications for an advanced to senior professor of English with research specialization in any area of writing, rhetoric, or pedagogy studies. Applications with junior academic standing will also be considered. The position combines joining the faculty of our dynamic MA- and PhD- granting graduate…[Read more]
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Juan E. De Castro deposited ¿En qué idioma escribe usted?: Spanish, Tagalog and Identity in José Rizal's Noli me tangere in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago“¿En qué idioma escribe Ud.?” (142) “In which language are you writing?” This question, that Juan Crisóstomo Ibarra, the protagonist of José Rizal’s novel Noli me tangere (1887), addresses to the old scholar Don Anastasio, better known as Tasio, is more than just an expression of curiosity when he sees the latter writing, of all things, hiero…[Read more]
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Jorge Calderón started the topic CFP: (Non)Futurité(s) queer(s) in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago(Non)Futurité(s) queer(s)
De la thèse de l’antisocialité aux perspectives utopistes dans la théorie queer
Colloque international
84e Congrès de l’Association francophone pour le savoir
Université du Québec à Montréal
11, 12, 13 mai 2016
En 1988, en pleine crise du sida, Douglas Crimp édite un collectif intitulé AIDS : Cultural Analysis…[Read more]
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Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic Open Rank English Job at St. John's University in the discussion
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James Gifford deposited Introduction to Pied Piper of Lovers in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoEditor’s Introduction to Pied Piper of Lovers. Durrell’s first novel, Pied Piper of Lovers, was published in 1935, shortly after he left England to live abroad until his death in 1990. As an autobiographical Künstlerroman, it traces Walsh Clifton’s Anglo-Indian childhood and his struggles to negotiate a life between “mother” India and “father”…[Read more]
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Patrick Herald deposited Knowledge and Mapping in Gurnah's By the Sea in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoAn examination of authenticity in expertise in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea , this presentation will argue that By the Sea depicts an ambivalence about professional experts, creators of maps who are imagined alternately as summarizing colonizers and as authentic keepers of cultural knowledge. It is only by looking beyond state-sanctioned…[Read more]
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Luz Angélica Kirschner started the topic CfP "Human Rights in the Americas," October 4-6, 2016, UCSB in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoDear Friends, Colleagues, Inter-Americanists, Theorists, Arab, Asian, Chicana/o, Decolonial, Ethnic, Hemispheric, Jewish, Latin American, Latina/o studies devotees and supporters I invite you to participate in the conference “Human Rights in the Americas” that will take place October 4 – 6, 2016, at the University of California, Santa Barba…[Read more]
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Gaurav G. Desai deposited Oceans Connect: The Indian Ocean and African Identities. in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoPublished as part of the Theories and Methodologies section on Oceanic Studies.
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