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Alexa Joubin deposited “Shakespeare on Film in Asia.” Chapter 12 of The Shakespearean World, ed. Jill L. Levenson and Robert Ormsby (London: Routledge, 2017), pp. 225-240 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoShakespearean tragedies and comedies have been adapted to the silver screen in India, Malaysia, Tibet, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, and Japan. How do Shakespeare and modern directors talk to each other across cultural and historical divides? Why are particular strategies used or themes emphasized? How are pre-linguistic structures of spectacle and…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited How to Make Love to a Negro: But What if I get Tired? Transculturation and its (Partial) Negation In and Through Translation in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoDany Laferrière’s first novel, Comment faire l’amour avec un Nègre was a literary sensation when it was first released in Quebec in the mid-80s. The author/narrator plays with reader’s expectations, presenting both a stereotypical image of the black man (sex-obsessed, white-hating) and one that contradicts and upsets their expectations. Influen…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited “Any differences between our versions and Scott’s…”: Collaboration, Anxiety of Influence, and a Translation of Anne Hébert’s “Le Tombeau des rois” in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoAn analysis of the collaboration between Peter Miller and Louis Dudek in the translation of Anne Hébert’s poem, The Tomb of Kings.
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Re-Evaluating Suvin: Brown Girl in the Ring as Effective Magical Dystopia in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis paper will begin by looking at the historical theoretical relationship between science fiction and dystopia. It will then proceed to demonstrate how recent theorists have failed to adequately incorporate the practical changes authors have introduced to the genre, which includes the incorporation of aspects of magical realism. Brown Girl in…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Dany Laferrière, Japanses Writer? Borderless Texts, Borderless Trauma in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoAuthor Dany Laferrière, after a seven year hiatus from writing, produced the book Je suis un écrivain japonais (2008) [I am a Japanese Writer]. The title recalls statements he has frequently made in interviews about how much he hates being pigeon-holed by national or racial labels. The book itself is an examination of what (or who) defines s…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Becoming a Gwo Nèg in 1970s Haiti: Dany Laferrière’s Coming-of-Age Film Le Goût des Jeunes Filled (On the Verge of Fever) in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoWhen all men are either dead, exiled, thugs or zombies in a world ruled through violence and terror by a President-for-Life and his son, how is a young boy expected to come of age and forge his own identity? Le Goût des Jeunes Filles (On the Verge of Fever), a 2004 film about Fanfan, a 15-year-old boy, set in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on the same…[Read more]
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Hatem Akil started the topic Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities – MLA 2018 CFP in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoDear Friends,
Time is closing on submissions to the MLA 2018 convention panels organized by the Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature (GAAM). Please review and circulate as may be necessary.
Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities
Areas to consider for this panel might include: contexts and environmental flashpoints:…[Read more]
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Alexa Huang deposited The Paradox of Female Agency: Ophelia and East Asian Sensibilities in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThere are three main East Asian approaches to interpreting Ophelia. The first is informed by the fascination with and reaction against the Victorian pictorialization of Ophelia, especially John Everett Millais’s famous Ophelia (1851), that emphasized, as Kimberly Rhodes describes, her “pathos, innocence, and beauty rather than the unseemly det…[Read more]
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Kaitlin Mondello started the topic CFP MLA 2018: "Dark Ecology" in 19th-century British Literature in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>In </span><i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The Ecological Thought</span></i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>, Timothy Morton defines his eponymous title as “the thinking of interconnectedness” (1,7), with the recognition that this interconnection also “has a dark side” (EWN 184). This idea of “dark ecology”…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Cohen started the topic MLA 2018, NYC–Call for Working Group Participants in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPosted on behalf of Sophia Dawn Christman-Lavin.
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Our working group seeks participants whose scholarship reflects on the notion of ecological citizenship.
The goals of the group include (1) contemplating the diverse ways in which ecological citizenship is revealed in literary works (any period), as well as through its various modes of pu…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: "Visualizing Justice" (Literature & Law Conference; Oct. 27-28, 2017) in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP: Fifth Biennial Literature and Law Conference – Visualizing Justice
Conference Organizer and Contact Person: Dale Barleben – dbarleben@jjay.cuny.edu
When: Friday, October 27 – Saturday, October 28, 2017
Where: John Jay College (CUNY) – (located on the upper-west side of Manhattan, near Lincoln Center in Manhattan)This conference brings…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: Law and the Humanities Forum Panels at MLA 2018 in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoDear all,
The Law and the Humanities Forum will be sponsoring two panels at next year’s MLA convention in New York City (January 4-7, 2018). We hope that you will consider submitting proposals for the following panels:
Law, Literature, and Emotion
How do imaginative texts explore intersections between law and emotion? Crimes of passion,…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited NOTES The Handmaid’s Tale in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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Jeffrey Cohen started the topic CFPs for THREE ecological panels for MLA 18 NYC in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPlease follow this link to access all three, or see below.
<b>SITE SPECIFICS</b>
How does place <i>matter</i> and <i>insist</i>, even at a hotel-centric MLA conference? The main focus of this roundtable is upon its NYC environs (at any point in time, and widely constructed: the Hudson, urban parks and ecosystems, tectonics, superstorm impacts,…[Read more] -
Julie Ward started the topic CFP: SCMLA 2017 “Moving Words: Migrations, Translations, and Transformations" in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoMODERN DRAMA This session welcomes abstracts on any topic related to modern drama, but is especially interested in those related to the conference theme: “Moving Words: Migrations, Translations, and Transformations”
The South Central Modern Languages Association has chosen Tulsa, Oklahoma for the site of its 2017 annual convention. Tulsa is bot…[Read more]
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Julie Ward started the topic CFP: SCMLA 2017 “Moving Words: Migrations, Translations, and Transformations" in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoMODERN DRAMA This session welcomes abstracts on any topic related to modern drama, but is especially interested in those related to the conference theme: “Moving Words: Migrations, Translations, and Transformations”
The South Central Modern Languages Association has chosen Tulsa, Oklahoma for the site of its 2017 annual convention. Tulsa is bot…[Read more]
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Matthew Davis deposited “As Above, So Below: Staging the Digby Mary Magdalene in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 9 years agoWith thirty-seven named locations, the Digby Mary Magdalene is rightfully considered to require the most elaborate staging of the Middle English dramatic corpus. In this article, I re-examine the manuscript to find evidence of how the various locations in the play can be grouped into what I term staging complexes. Beginning with the division of…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Cohen started the topic CFP for MLA 2018 in NYC: SITE SPECIFICS in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years agoSITE SPECIFICS (a roundtable)
How place matters and insists, even at a hotel-centric MLA conference. Focus upon NYC environs (widely constructed: the Hudson, urban parks and ecosystems, tectonics, superstorm impacts, environmental justice) or “climate controlled” spaces especially welcome.
150 word abstracts by march 1 2018 to jjcohen@gwu.edu
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Jeffrey Cohen started the topic CFP: Legal Ecologies (MLA 2018) in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years agoFor this roundtable session on “Legal Ecologies,” a collaboration between the MLA Law and Humanities forum and Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities forum, proposals are invited for short, 8-10 minute papers. Participants may consider a wide range questions, including, but not limited to, the following: how does the notion of <i cla…[Read more]
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