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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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Helene Meyers deposited The Unmarked Chains of Paper Clips in the group
LLC Jewish American 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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Helene Meyers deposited "Woman in Gold" in the group
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 10 years agoFilm review of Woman in Gold (2015) as a cinematic rendering of the material turn in Holocaust memory.
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Even as MLA 2016 was debating the boycott…. in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years agoon January 11, the Israeli army once again invaded Birzeit:
From the statement by Birzeit University:
More than fifteen military Israeli vehicles raided Birzeit University at 2:50 in the morning breaking through the entrance to the…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Israeli Invasion of Birzeit in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years agohttp://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/01/birzeit-university-rises-israel-arrests-160106083537743.html
From the article:
“Nineteen-year-old Jureen Omar Qadah, who majors in media studies, was arrested on October 28 when Israeli forces raided her home in Shukba. Her sister, Sabrin, recalled the night of the arrest. “They took her at around two…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Saree Makdisi on discrimination in Israeli education in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis Los Angeles Times op ed by Saree Makdisi is a short version of his paper for the debate panel on the academic boycott, Thursday January 7, at MLA 2016.
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Caroline Edwards deposited Unearthing the ‘gold-bearing rubble’: Ernst Bloch’s Literary Criticism in the group
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 10 years agoIn lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the chapter:
Ungleichzeitigkeit and global modernisms
Over the last twenty-five years, the modernist canon has been significantly revised as theoretical and empirical interventions have emphasised its transnational and globalised patterns of connection through a range of disciplinary…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited From Eros to Eschaton: Herbert Marcuse’s Liberation of Time in the group
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis article explores what Gershom Scholem has called Herbert Marcuse’s “unacknowledged ties to [his] Jewish heritage.” At the core of Marcuse’s vision of transformed, non-repressive social relations, I argue, is a struggle over time, which rests upon a distinctly Jewish approach to the twin questions of remembrance and redemption. One example…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited Rethinking the Arcadian Revenge: Metachronous Times in the Fiction of Sam Taylor in the group
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 10 years agoIn lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article: In a recent discussion of modernism, Peter Osborne argues that the terms “modern,” “modernity,” and “modernization” need to be understood through their shared philosophical status as temporal constructions. The emergence of the modern within Western philosophy is predicated on a subjec…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited Microtopias: The Post-apocalyptic Communities of Jim Crace's The Pesthouse in the group
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 10 years agoIn lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article:
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of communism in the former Soviet bloc, the concept of utopia was blighted with the stigma of Stalinist totalitarianism. Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin’s despotism at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party in 195…[Read more]
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic An introduction to "The Future of Benjamin" (Nitzan Lebovic) in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoHoward Eiland (MIT) and Michael Jennings (Princeton)’s response to the Future of Benjamin Project. What a beautiful closure to a list of brilliant articles. Let us know what you think:
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Palestine Related Panels at MLA 2016 in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years agoThese are the panels that include papers relevant to Palestine and the academic boycott resolution at MLA 2016. Please do your utmost to attend the two panels on Thursday afternoon at which the boycott resolution will be debated (Panels 119 and 148):
Thursday
Boycotting Israeli Academic Institutions
Thursday, 7 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Lo…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic On the AAA's Task Force Report on Academic Conditions in Palestine in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis essay discusses the report of a task force established by the American Anthropological Association to investigate conditions for academics and students in Palestine under Israeli Occupation;
Engaged Anthropology: The AAA’s Task Force Report on Israel/Palestine
The report itself can be found…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Facts and Myths about the Boycott in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years agoA document discussing many myths disseminated about the boycott and its consequences can be found on our Documents tab;
Facts and Myths about the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions
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David C. Lloyd started the topic David Palumbo-Liu on "The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel" in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years agoDavid Palumbo-Liu’s “Not so Much anti-Boycott as Pro-Israel” [symploke 23.1-2 (2015)] is comprehensive critique of The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel, edited by Cary Nelson and Gabriel Noah Brahm.
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David C. Lloyd started the topic New Website and Facebook for MLA Boycott in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years agoFor more information and discussion of the resolution to endorse the Palestinian call to boycott Israeli academic institutions, please check our new website, which is open to public viewing and regularly updated with news, links and blog-posts, and our Facebook page. Like us there!
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Anthropology and Women's Studies Associations Move to Endorse the Boycott in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis November, the business meeting of the American Anthropological Association overwhelmingly voted–by a margin of 86%–to send a resolution to endorse the Palestinian Call for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions to the full membership for a…[Read more]
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic Join a dinner discussion group at MLA in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoI’d like to find a small group interested in going to dinner on Friday or Saturday nights. If interested, please write back to Roberta Rosenberg at rrosenb@cnu.edu
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