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Anna Maria Nogar started the topic REVISION: CFP's for 2017 MLA in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoBlack Pacific
Intersections of African, Asian, indigenous diasporas across the Pacific. Literary/cultural mappings and imaginings of cross-racial interaction, settler colonialism, labor migration, militarism, gender and sexuality. Abstract and CV by March 11.
Ira Dworkin (idworkin@tamu.edu) and Martin Joseph Ponce (ponce.8@osu.edu)
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Anna Maria Nogar started the topic Forum CFP's for 2017 MLA Convention in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoLatina/o Indigenous Pacific
Intersections of Latina/o and Indigenous production and identity within, around and through the Pacific Rim. Conversations, re-imaginings and re-formations across shared and divergent spaces and histories. Abstract and CV by March 11.
Anna Nogar (anogar@unm.edu) and Ruby Tapia (rtapia@umich.edu)
Writing (…[Read more]
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Crystal Parikh started the topic CFPs for the 2017 MLA: LLC Asian American Forum in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThe Forum in Asian American Literature has posted four CFPs for the 2017 MLA. Please consider whether you might have a paper that fits one!
1. Boundary Conditions and Complexities in Teaching the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita
Forum: LLC Asian American
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Review of Books on BDS in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoIn this review, Conor McCarthy reviews four recent books discussing the pros and cons of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. As he concludes, “these four books contain a wealth of ideas and information and a range of opinion that will enlighten anyone with even a passing interest in the matters of academic freedom and the politics of…[Read more]
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Saul Noam Zaritt started the topic Second Annual Call for Submissions: In geveb, A Journal of Yiddish Studies in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoIn geveb is pleased to announce its Second Annual Call for Submissions for our Fall 2016 publishing cycle.
In geveb is an open-access digital forum for the publication of peer-reviewed academic articles, the translation and annotation of Yiddish texts, the exchange of pedagogical materials, and a blog of Yiddish cultural life.
In geveb began…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Walter Benjamin in Palestine in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis past December, a conference was held in Ramallah, entitled: “Walter Benjamin in Palestine: On the Place and Non-Place of Radical Thought”. David Lloyd reports here on that conference, which was organized to honor the Palestinian call to boycott Israeli academic institutions and as an alternative to a Benjamin conference being held in the same…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic LLA Italian American CFPs for MLA 2017 in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoPlease see below for two CFPs from the Italian American Literature Forum for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia:
DigITALamericana: New Archives of an Invisible People
The Italian American Literature Forum is seeking panelists to present transmedia perspectives and projects (oral histories, photos, artifacts, home movies etc.) on the Italian…[Read more] -
Binod Paudyal deposited Breaking the Boundary: Reading Lahiri’s The Lowland as a Neo-cosmopolitan Fiction in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoThis essay offers a critical reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland as a “neo-cosmopolitan fiction,” one which is invested in imagining a transnational and global community, in order to initiate a new analytical framework for South Asian diasporic literature. I argue that this critical framework not only challenges the notion of literary canon…[Read more]
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Binod Paudyal deposited Breaking the Boundary: Reading Lahiri’s The Lowland as a Neo-cosmopolitan Fiction in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoThis essay offers a critical reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland as a “neo-cosmopolitan fiction,” one which is invested in imagining a transnational and global community, in order to initiate a new analytical framework for South Asian diasporic literature. I argue that this critical framework not only challenges the notion of literary canon…[Read more]
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: Deadline February 15th: MLA Teaching Options in Jewish American Literature in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoMLA Call For Proposals:
Options for Teaching Jewish American Literature
Essay proposals are invited for a volume in the MLA’s Options for Teaching series entitled Teaching Jewish American Literature, to be edited by Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein. The purposes of this volume are to create important links between the innovative s…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic W.J.T. Mitchell's "Palestine at the 2016 MLA" in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years agoW.J.T. Mitchell writes on the Critical Inquiry blog of the 2016 convention’s discussion of the boycott resolution and the question of Palestine: “It seemed clear to me that the discussion has now moved beyond a simple “for or against” rhetoric into a more nuanced debate over the internal struggles of BDS to refine its tactics and reach out to form…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: Legal History Graduate Student Conference, Brown University (2/29/2016) in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Legal History Graduate Student Conference
Hosted by the Law and Humanities Graduate Study Group at Brown UniversitySaturday April 23rd, 2016
at Brown University, Providence, Rhode IslandDeadline for submission: February 29th, 2016
Acceptance notification: March 7th, 2016The Law and Humanities Graduate Study Group at Brown…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Spiegelman Studies Part 2 of 2: Breakdowns, No Towers and the Rest of the Canon in the group
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 10 years agoArt Spiegelman is one of the most-discussed creators in Comic Book Studies. His Pulitzer-winning work Maus (1980 and 1991) was, alongside The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Watchmen (1987), the catalyst to a sea change in the commercial and critical fortunes of the alternative comic book during the mid-1980s. It has been a landmark text in…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Spiegelman Studies Part 1 of 2: Maus in the group
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 10 years agoArt Spiegelman is one of the most-discussed creators in Comic Book Studies. His Pulitzer-winning work Maus (1980 and 1991) was, alongside The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Watchmen (1987), the catalyst to a sea change in the commercial and critical fortunes of the alternative comic book during the mid-1980s. It has been a landmark text in…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Re-visioning Romantic-Era Gothicism: An Introduction to Key Works and Themes in the Study of H.P. Lovecraft in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years agoHoward Phillips Lovecraft was an author, letter writer and poet who lived between 1890 and 1937. His works blend science fiction with Gothic themes. Lovecraft was, by the majority of accounts (including his own), a bad writer. He was also an outspoken racist for the majority of his life to a degree which makes much of his work, to a modern reader,…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Postmodern Chinoiserie in Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis paper offers a synthesis and critique of the existing academic literature on Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese and an overview of Asian American alternative comics. It examines the range of literary and linguistic sources which Yang draws upon in his collage of Chinoiserie and Japonism. It presents the argument that existing criticism h…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Wiz Kids, nuclear bombs, and Marvel’s Hazmat in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 10 years agoIn my paper ‘Postmodern Chinoiserie in Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese’ (2014, Literature Compass 11 (1): 1–14), I propose that existing scholarship on the portrayal of Asians and Asian Americans in American comics has largely focused upon racist newspaper cartoons from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and modern Asian-A…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Petiton against French government censorship if BDS in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis account of the French government’s criminalization of BDS, by French scholars publicly opposing it, comes with an appeal to academics internationally to protest this startling restriction of freedom of speech in the land that claims to have invented rights of free speech. Once again, the Israeli exception seems to hold sway with the usual…[Read more]
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Annette Kolodny deposited New World Encounters: Where Do We Go from Here? in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoEarly American studies scholar and feminist literary critic, Annette Kolodny, offers three projects that she would take on if she were not now retiring from the profession. These three projects include a feminist analysis of women’s interactions on the earliest contact and frontier landscapes; the development of a cross- and inter-disciplinary…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic On MLA 2016's boycott debates in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years agoDavid Lloyd’s response to the debates at MLA 2016, from Jadaliyya:
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/23598/racism-in-the-defense-of-a-racist-state_some-refle
“The vast majority of Palestinians have, through their organizations, voiced their call to us to side with them and to rectify the vast imbalance of power between them and the Israeli…[Read more]
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