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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Under Pressure: Reading Material Textuality in the Recovery of Early African American Print Work in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoFrom 1756 until his death in the early 1790s, Primus Fowle, an enslaved African American, performed typographical and press work involved the in the publication of The New-Hampshire Gazette and other materials printed at the press owned by Daniel Fowle. With the archive of print Primus Fowle created as its object of study, this essay historicizes…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited On the Translation of Literary Terms: Neorealismo and Neue Sachlichkeit in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThis essay examines the cultural practices and prejudices that shaped the Italian reception of German Neue Sachlichkeit in the 1920s and explores their role in the development of Italian Neorealism in the 1940s. I argue that, precisely because Italian critics approached the German critical category – and indeed all critical categorisation – wit…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Weltliteratur as Anti-Fascism: Philology and Politics in Luigi Foscolo Benedetto’s “Letteratura mondiale’” in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThe search for a methodology for reading world literature largely entails the development of new critical paradigms, but it has also occasioned a re-examination and rehabilitation of world literature’s historical formulations. This essay reclaims a forgotten milestone, the 1946 essay “La ‘letteratura mondiale'” by the eminent Italian philologist…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: Italian Intellectuals and the African-American Struggle in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoIn the aftermath of the Second World War, Italian intellectuals participated in Italy’s reconstruction
with an ideological commitment inspired by the African-American struggle for equal rights in the
United States. Drawing on the work of many of the leading figures in postwar Italian culture,
including Italo Calvino, Giorgio Caproni, Cesare P…[Read more] -
Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: Italian Intellectuals and the African-American Struggle in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoIn the aftermath of the Second World War, Italian intellectuals participated in Italy’s reconstruction
with an ideological commitment inspired by the African-American struggle for equal rights in the
United States. Drawing on the work of many of the leading figures in postwar Italian culture,
including Italo Calvino, Giorgio Caproni, Cesare P…[Read more] -
Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Il realismo di un nuovissimo Medio Evo: Boccaccio in the Age of Neorealism in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoIn this essay, I argue that the post-war critical re-interpretation of Boccaccio’s oeuvre was central to the theory and practice of Italian Neorealism. What is more, I maintain that Neorealism significantly influenced Boccaccio studies, shaping critical approaches to Boccaccio for decades after 1945. Reading scholarly and critical studies of…[Read more]
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Ifeoma C. Kiddoe Nwankwo started the topic In Memoriam: African American Literary and Scholarly Greats in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 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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Jessie M. Labov started the topic MLA 2021 Collaborative Session: Academic Autonomy in Illiberal Times in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoWe are looking for one more panelist in this session being proposed for next year’s MLA. It would be a collaboration between the Hungarian and Slavic/EE fora. Titls/short abstracts to Jessie Labov (jlabov@ceu.edu) by April 5th.
Academic Autonomy in Illiberal Times: Although the right to academic freedom faces challenges all over the world, the…[Read more]
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Vanessa Valdés started the topic CFP: Deportation and Affect: Mapping the Hemispheric Americas (MLA 2021 Toronto in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThis panel explores a variety of methodological and disciplinary approaches to the topic of mass deportations and immigrant justice from the perspective of the humanities. Please submit 300-word abstracts and short presenter’s biographies to Laura Torres-Rodriguez, New York U (ljt233@nyu.edu ) Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 2 April 2020. (C…[Read more]
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Vanessa Valdés started the topic CFP: Survival Strategies in the Americas (MLA 2021 Toronto) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoWhat can we learn from indigenous and Black strategies for survival in the Americas, as we face the enduring legacies of capitalist settler colonialism? Please send a 200-word abstract and a brief biographical statement to Vanessa K. Valdés (vvaldes@ccny.cuny.edu) Please share broadly. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 3 April 2020
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Vanessa Valdés started the topic Standing for Election of Executive Committee of CLCS Hemispheric American in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoWe invite you to stand for election to our Executive Committee — come guide our group in upcoming years! Note that you are only allowed to serve on one executive committee at a time. If you are interested, please email Vanessa K. Valdés (vvaldes@ccny.cuny.edu) as soon as possible. Thank you!
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Elena Margarita Past started the topic LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoPlease consider submitting proposals for one of two guaranteed sessions organized by the Forum on 20th and 21st century Italian Literature at the 2021 MLA Convention in Toronto, from January 10-14, 2021.
1. MLA 2021, LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian, Guaranteed Session. Occupied Italy. This panel welcomes papers examining literary texts and…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward replied to the topic MLA LLC African American 2021 Panels – Toronto in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>LLC African American Forum</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers for MLA 2021 in Toronto</p>
Theories of Black Women Intellectualism in the Nineteenth Century
Inviting talks on diverse iterations of intellectual thought amongst C19th Black women thinkers; Intellectual productions beyond the usual…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward started the topic CFPs — MLA LLC African American 2021 Panels – Toronto in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>LLC African American Forum</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers for MLA 2021 in Toronto</p>
Theories of Black Women Intellectualism in the Nineteenth Century
Inviting talks on diverse iterations of intellectual thought amongst C19th Black women thinkers; Intellectual productions beyond the usual…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2021 CFP: Archipelagic Studies in Asian Am & SE Asian Lit in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months ago2) Archipelagic Studies in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature
We invite papers focused on the archipelagic relations between Asian American and South East Asian literary studies, and especially attuned to migration, environment, settler colonialism, and radical friction. Please submit 300-word abstract and 1-page CV.Deadline for…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2020 CFP: Authoritarianism & SE Asia in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCFP: “Authoritarianism and Southeast Asia”
Modern Language Association Annual Convention
January 7–10, 2021, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Presidential Theme: “Persistence”
The recent prominence of a global “New Right” has upended the progressivist teleology that, at the end of the Cold War, located the political and economic regime of the…[Read more]
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Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai started the topic CFP: The Horror of Capitalist Modernity: the Vampire, Zombie, and Cannibal in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe Horror of Capitalist Modernity: the Vampire, Zombie, and Cannibal
Session Proposal (MLA 2021 – Toronto)
Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai
The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina
“Capital,” Marx tells us, “is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks;” for a ce…[Read more]
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Jeehyun Lim started the topic Asian American Forum CFPs for MLA 2021 Convention in the discussion
LLC Asian American via email on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoDear all,
Please see the CFPs below for panels sponsored by the Asian American Forum. If you have any questions, please let us know.
Jeehyun Lim
Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention
Toronto, January 7-10, 2021
1. (Guaranteed Session with Southeast Asian Forum)
We invite papers drawing attention to the archipelagic relation…[Read more] -
James Gifford deposited in our time: The 1924 Text in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis critical edition of Hemingway’s 1924 version of in our time is the second of three volumes for each major state of the text. Few writers have shaped the style of twentieth century prose as did Hemingway, and it all began with the “vignettes” of in our time, which have been largely unavailable for scholars and entirely out of reach for…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited “In Our Time” and “They All Made Peace—What Is Peace?”: The 1923 Text in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis critical edition of the 1923 state of Hemingway’s In Our Time is the first of three volumes for each major state of the text. Few writers have shaped the style of twentieth century prose as did Hemingway, and it all began with the “vignettes” in The Little Review, which have been largely unavailable for scholars and entirely out of reach for…[Read more]
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