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Anton Pujol started the topic CFP–MLA 2018 NYC in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago“Catalan Forms of Survival in the State of Insecurity”
Cultural, economic, social, political Catalan forms of subsistence, or insistence, in the midst of states of permanent insecurity. Abstracts by 15 March 2017; Edgar Illas (eillas@indiana.edu).
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Anton Pujol started the topic CFP–MLA 2018 NYC in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoSession Title: Engendering Different Catalan Enunciations
Session Organizer: Anton PujolIn a recent article (1/13/17), Paul B. Preciado argues that screens are the new skin of the world. They constitute the membrane of a new collective entity radically decentered and in the process of subjectivization. Like Gutenberg’s contemporaries, we ar…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Native Sons; Or, How “Bigger” Was Born Again in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThis article reconsiders Richard Wright’s Native Son by comparing divergences between the published novel and an earlier typeset manuscript. It argues that such revisions render protagonist Bigger Thomas an icon of global class conflict rather than a national figure of racial tension. By revealing the continuities among critical essays that…[Read more]
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Judith Sierra-Rivera started the topic CFP (MLA 2018) Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP (MLA 2018) Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
LLC Puerto RicanImperial frontier/zone; militarism/militarization of space; soldiers, veterans, military migrations, encounters with unforeseen “others”; censorship, persecution, political prisoners; pacifism, civil disobedience. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2017; Judith Sierra-Rivera (jus55@psu.edu).
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David A. Wacks posted an update in the group
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 9 years agoGregory Kaplan just published ‘Arguments against the Christian Religion in Amsterdam, by Saul Levi Morteira, Spinoza’s Rabbi’
http://en.aup.nl/books/9789462980105-arguments-against-the-christian-religion-in-amsterdam-by-saul-levi-morteira-spinoza-s-rabbi.html?mc_cid=d31a4051a6&mc_eid=76b4013318#.WIs-B1SnyK0.facebook -
Obdulia E. Castro posted an update in the group
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 9 years agoDear colleagues,
The Executive Committee of the Forum on LLC Galician is seeking proposals for the session
Can Language Shift be Reversed? Insights from and for Galician (MLA Convention, New York City, 4-7 January, 2018)
Papers assessing the process of language planning undertaken in contemporary Galicia in the last 35 years. 250-word abstracts…[Read more] -
Gayle Rogers deposited Introduction to *Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature* in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 9 years agoAn approach to understanding modernism in literary history through the lens of translation by tracing the work of key figures such as Pound, Dos Passos, Jiménez, and Unamuno to translate US and Spanish literatures after the Spanish-American War of 1898.
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2018, CFP: “Language Change: Global (Im-)gration and Linguistic Insecurity” in the discussion
Sephardic Studies on MLA Commons 9 years agoDear colleagues,
The Executive Committee of the Forum on Language Change is seeking proposals for the session “Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity”. See short and long CFP below.
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Papers exploring how global and local migrations affect language practices and patterns (e.g. linguistic in…[Read more]
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Danny Barreto started the topic CFP: Galicia-New York, MLA 2018 in the discussion
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 9 years agoCall For Papers: Sempre en Nova Iorque: Galician Cultures in and from New York City (MLA Convention, New York City, 4-7 January, 2018)
From the second book of Castelao’s Sempre en Galiza (1940), Eugenio Granell’s work between 1958 and 1985, and Gonsar’s Cara a Time Square(1980) to more recent works such as López Silva’s New York, New Yo…[Read more]
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Benigno Trigo deposited From Necrotic to Apoptotic Debt in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 9 years agoAnalysis of debt of the unincorporated territory of Puerto Rico from a psychoanalytic perspective using recent work by Eduardo Lalo as a point of departure for the analysis.
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Edgar Illas created the doc 2017 MLA – Abstract in the group
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Edgar Illas created the doc 2017 MLA – Abstract in the group
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Joan Maragall secondo Giuseppe Grilli in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoGrilli’s interpretation of Joan Maragall – the poet who has been purported to be a symbol of Catalan Modernism – is a kaleidoscopic study of literature, art and music. Nonetheless, it maintains an internal coherence over the course of the Grilli’s critical reading and thinking. His maragallian analysis are organized in three point…[Read more]
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David Wacks deposited Translation in Diaspora: Sephardic Spanish-Hebrew translations in the sixteenth century in the group
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoIn this essay, I discuss three Hebrew translations made by Sephardic Jews writing in from a position of a double diaspora (from ‘Zion’ and from Sepharad, or Spain): Joseph Tsarfati’s Celestina by Fernando de Rojas, Jacob Algaba’s Amadís de Gaula by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, and Joseph Hakohen’s Historia general de las Indias by Francisco L…[Read more]
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Francesco Masala started the topic Call for Submission: Constructing and Representing Ecuadorian Identity in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″><b>“YOU Think Therefore I Am”: Constructing and (Re)presenting Identity In and Outside </b></span><span class=”s1″><b>Ecuador</b></span></p>
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>This Call for Papers seeks scholarly contributions for an edited volume focusing upon the Ecuadorian’s individual experience while abroad. In par…[Read more] -
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