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Geraldine Heng deposited The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages I: Race Studies, Modernity, and the Middle Ages in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago“The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages”—a two-part article—questions the widely held belief in critical race theory that “race” is a category without purchase before the modern era. Surveying a variety of cultural documents from the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries—chronicles, hagiography, literature, stories, sculpture, maps, canon l…[Read more]
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Majda R. Atieh deposited The Revelation of the Veiled in Toni Morrison's Paradise: The Whirling Dervishes in the Harem of the Convent in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoMuslim women’s perspective on liberatory Islamic orality (or empowerment via the oral traditions within Islam) is vastly accentuated in Fatema Mernissi’s and Leila Ahmed’s examinations of the harem structure. These harem narratives celebrate Sufism, a mystical Islamic theosophy that foregrounds orality and invites a constant search toward divine…[Read more]
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Edwin Lambert Hetfield deposited Chapter 16: Witnessing History According to the Refracted Testimony of Gravity's Rainbow and Reading Autobiographical Interests of both Author and Reader in the Context of the Code-Changing Paradigm of Aesthetic Semiosis in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoA semiotic analysis of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Lauren Beukes’s post-apartheid dystopia: inhabiting Moxyland in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article reads South African science-fiction writer Lauren Beukes’s first novel, Moxyland (2008) set in a futuristic Cape Town, from the perspective of Lindsay Bremner’s notion of “citiness”– or how cities produce the modernity of the subjects who inhabit them. The novel is remarkable for its dependence on the social geography of the South A…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Executive committee candidacy in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoDear all,
I’m running for a position on the executive committee of the Law and Humanities forum and wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself. I’m an Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University, specializing in eighteenth-century British literature and culture, law and literature, and the history of the novel. I’m curre…[Read more]
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Subarno Chattarji deposited ‘‘The New Americans’’ : The Creation of a Typology of Vietnamese-American Identity in Children’s Literature in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThe influx of Vietnamese refugees, ‘‘boat people,’’ and immigrants into the United States after April 1975 has led to the establishment of a significant Vietnamese-American community. There is a body of literature written for children and young adults that creates and delineates this new community within the topography of a welcoming and immigra…[Read more]
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Yomaira Figueroa deposited Faithful Witnessing as Practice: Decolonial Readings of Shadows of Your Black Memory and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers Marıa Lugones’s concept of faithful witnessing as a point of departure to think about the ethics and possibilities of faithful witnessing in literary contexts. For Lugones, faithful witnessing is an act of aligning oneself with oppressed peoples against the grain of power and recognizing their humanity, oppression, and re…[Read more]
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Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic Call for Nominations: GLQ Caucus Awards in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoThe GL/Q Caucus of the MLA invites nominations for each of our three annual awards: the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize, The Crompton Noll Award for Best Essay, The Michael Lynch Service Award, and a NEW award: The Audre Lorde Graduate Student Essay Award. Descriptions and instructions for the prizes are below. All nominations are due November 2,…[Read more]
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Giovanna Montenegro started the topic ACLA 2016: DueTomorrow. CFP Literature and Cartography (Americas) in the discussion
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Tarshia Stanley started the topic Octavia E. Butler: Celebrating Letters, Life, and Legacy – February 26-28, 2016 in the discussion
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoEXTENDED DEADLINE
Octavia E. Butler: Celebrating Letters, Life, and Legacy – February 26-28, 2016 – Spelman College
February 24, 2016 will mark the tenth anniversary of the passing of Octavia E. Butler. To commemorate her contributions to the world of letters, the Octavia E. Butler Society solicits papers for a special conference to be hosted by…[Read more] -
Tarshia Stanley started the topic Octavia E. Butler: Celebrating Letters, Life, and Legacy – February 26-28, 2016 in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoOctavia E. Butler: Celebrating Letters, Life, and Legacy – February 26-28, 2016 – Spelman College
February 24, 2016 will mark the tenth anniversary of the passing of Octavia E. Butler. To commemorate her contributions to the world of letters, the Octavia E. Butler Society solicits papers for a special conference to be hosted by Spelman College Feb…[Read more] -
Penelope M. Kelsey started the topic Ethnic Studies Division Panels, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe following are panels sponsored by the Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature Division at MLA 2016:
113, Social Death and Citizenship, is scheduled to take place at 3:30+4:45 p.m. on 07-JAN-16 in 7, ACC.
568, Archival Legibility and Invisibility, is scheduled to take place at 12:00 noon+1:15 p.m. on 09-JAN-16 in 311, JW Marriott.
618,…[Read more]
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Tarshia Stanley posted an update in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoOCTAVIA E. BUTLER: CELEBRATING LETTERS, LIFE, and LEGACY
February 26-28, 2016
Spelman College
Atlanta GA
February 24, 2016 will mark the tenth anniversary of the passing of Octavia E. Butler. To commemorate her contributions to the world of letters, the Octavia E. Butler Society solicits papers for a special conference to be hosted by Spelman…[Read more] -
Tarshia Stanley posted an update in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoOCTAVIA E. BUTLER: CELEBRATING LETTERS, LIFE, and LEGACY
February 26-28, 2016
Spelman College
Atlanta GAFebruary 24, 2016 will mark the tenth anniversary of the passing of Octavia E. Butler. To commemorate her contributions to the world of letters, the Octavia E. Butler Society solicits papers for a special conference to be hosted by Spelman…[Read more]
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Alan Lopez deposited "Kindred Spirits: Fanon's Postcolonialism" in the group
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThis essay concerns the significance of phenomenology in Frantz Fanon’s thought and its influence on the autobiographic and ethnographic contours of his study, Black Skin, White Masks. Of note is Fanon’s movement between metaphor and phenomenology, especially as concerns figures of the hand and the body, and how his narratological treatment of…[Read more]
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Giovanna Montenegro started the topic ACLA 2016: CFP Hemispheric Approaches to Literature and Cartography in the Ameri in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoPlease consider submitting your paper to this seminar proposed for the American Comparative Literature Association Conference from March 17-20, 2016 at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.
Organizer: Giovanna Montenegro, Binghamton University gmontene@binghamton.edu
Co-Organizer: Adriana Méndez Rodenas, University of Iowa
The use and interest…[Read more]
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Penelope M. Kelsey started the topic 568. Archival Legibility and Invisibility Selected for Presidential Theme in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature Division Panel 568 on Archival Legibility and Invisibility has been selected for inclusion in this year’s Presidential theme, Literature and Its Publics: Past, Present, and Future.”
Saturday, 9 January, 2016
568. Archival Legibility and Invisibility
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m.
Program arranged by the Fo…[Read more]
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Penelope M. Kelsey started the topic MLA 2016: 113. Social Death and Citizenship in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThursday, 7 January 2016
113. Social Death and Citizenship
3:30–4:45 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
Presiding: Stephen P. Knadler, Spelman Coll.; Amritjit Singh, Ohio Univ., Athens
1. “Declaration of Independence: Origin of American Social Death in Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Sally Hemings,” Michael Lackey, Uni…[Read more]
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Sören Fröhlich started the topic CFP C19, "Unsettling Medicine." in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months ago“Unsettling Medicine: Politics, Society, and Economy in Nineteenth-Century American Medical Practice.”
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University
Chair: Sari Altschuler
Deadline: August 16, 2015.
This panel is looking for papers that expand the political, social, and economic con…[Read more]
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Hannah Swamidoss deposited “When I Cannot Still the Longing of My Heart”; Third-Culture Displacement and the Image of the Child in Allen Say’s Tree of Cranes and Grandfather’s Journey in the group
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThis article examines Allen Say’s use of cultural displacement in his books Tree of Cranes and Grandfather’s Journey. Allen Say is an award-winning, Japanese-American, picture book author and illustrator.
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