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Ricia Anne Chansky posted an update in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoCall for Papers: a/b: Auto/Biography Studies Special Issue on Trans Narratives
“Trans” has taken on a number of important theoretical and critical meanings inside and outside the academy. A prefix with the sense in the OED of ‘across, through, over, to or on the other side of, beyond, outside of, from one place, person, thing, or state to anoth…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky posted an update in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoA little spoiler to get everyone excited for MLA 2018 in NYC:
The GS Forum in Life Writing panels are as follows:
Eminent Victorians at One Hundred; Thu Jan 4; 1:45-3:00 pm
Catfished: Lies Online; Fri Jan 5; 1:45-3:00 pm
New York Transit; Sat Jan 6; 12:00-1:15 pmAnd, an additional auto/biography studies panel:
#wethepeople; Thu Jan 4;…[Read more]
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Sarah P. Casteel started the topic CFP: Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory in the discussion
Jewish Cultural Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>CFP – Special Issue of The Journal of Jewish Identities</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Guest Edited by Sarah Phillips Casteel, Anna Guttman and Isabelle Hesse</p>
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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
GS Life Writing 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 Dany Laferrière, Japanses Writer? Borderless Texts, Borderless Trauma in the group
GS Life Writing 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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John Charles Hawley uploaded the file: CFP: Queer Theory in African Film and Fiction to
LLC African since 1990 on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHow are African literatures and cultures mediating globalizing frameworks for gender and sexuality and shifting understandings of “queer”? From Woubi Cheri and Dakan, to Stories of Our Lives, African film has begun this conversation. From K. Sello Duiker, to Chinelo Okparanta and Diriye Osman, new voices have invited national debates on these top…[Read more]
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Lauren Coats started the topic GS Travel Writing: CFP MLA 2018, "Papers, Please" in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the Travel Writing forum’s guaranteed session at MLA 2018. Details below.
<h1>“Papers, please”: Travel Documents and Travel Writing</h1>
<div> Forum: GS Travel Writing</div>
Critical approaches to how travel documents (of lack of) shape travel writing and mobility in a globalized world. 250 word abstr…[Read more] -
Moradewun Adejunmobi started the topic CFP MLA 2018 Questioning Precarity in the discussion
LLC African since 1990 on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThe Africa since 1990 forum of the MLA invites submission of abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel titled “Questioning Precarity” at the 2018 Annual Convention. As a concept, precarity has been associated with a retrenchment of the state, erosion of Fordist production and casualization of labor, among others, especially in the Global North. Pre…[Read more]
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Howard Horwitz started the topic CFP-MLA Session 2018 in the discussion
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoReligion in American Public Discourse
Competitive session co-sponsored by the Religion and Literature Forum and the Forum on Nonfiction Prose. Religion has long figured in the public discourse of the United States. During election season in particular, religious issues figure in campaign and more generally political discourse. President Do…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic CFPs for 2018 MLA GS Forum in Life Writing in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years agoCatfished: Lies Online
How do platforms that facilitate sharing life narratives open doors to fake lives? This panel explores social media and other online spaces as means for constructing counterfeit lives: romantic, political, and otherwise.250 word abstracts and brief bios by March 15.
Contact: Ricia Anne Chansky (ricia.chansky@upr.edu) and…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic CFP: MLA 2018 Special Session Proposal in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years ago<div id=”js_1kj” class=”_5pbx userContent” data-ft=”{"tn":"K"}”>
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This panel examines auto/biographical narratives that challenge the myth of a homogeneous United States. What complex and nuanced aspects of American national identities are revealed…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky created the doc CFP: MLA 2018 Special Session Proposal in the group
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2018, CFP: “Language Change: Global (Im-)gration and Linguistic Insecurity” in the discussion
Travel Literature 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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Stephanie Butler deposited The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Locked-In Syndrome and the (Un)Ethics of Narrative as Personhood in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis is a slightly revised version of the paper I gave for the Out of Narrative Bounds panel organized by the forums TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies and TC Age Studies. This panel was chosen as representative of the presidential theme, Boundary Conditions. In this paper I use Jean-Dominque Bauby’s memoir, The Diving-Bell and the…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic MLA GS Life Writing 2017 Social in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoSaturday, January 7, 2017 6 pm to 7:30 pm
Take some time out to enjoy the annual MLA GS Life Writing Forum social. To be held at the Marriott Philadelphia Courtyard Downtown, 21 North Juniper Street. Check back on Jan 5 for suite number. Hope to see you there!
Sponsored by a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic MLA GS Life Writing 2017 Social in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoSaturday, January 7, 2017 6 pm to 7:30 pm
<span class=”_4n-j _3cht fsl”>Take some time out to enjoy the annual MLA GS Life Writing Forum social. To be held at the Marriott Philadelphia Courtyard Downtown, 21 North Juniper Street. Check back on Jan 5 for suite number. Hope to see you there!</span>
Sponsored by a/b: Auto/Biography…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited “I Talk More of The French”: Creole Folklore and the Federal Writers’ Project in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis essay tackles a question that has preoccupied Francophone postcolonial studies for several decades—namely, what is believed almost unanimously to be the absence of a Francophone equivalent to the slave narrative in English. My article challenges this assumption by reconciling the legacies of slavery in both the Anglophone and Francophone “…[Read more]
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Subarno Chattarji deposited 'The Chameleon War': Passing Time and the Remembrance of the Vietnam War in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe article offers an analysis of W.D. Ehrhart’s memoir Passing Time.
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John Charles Hawley started the topic Queer Theory in African Film and Fiction, for Yale ALA, proposed panel in the discussion
LLC African since 1990 on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCFP for proposed panel on Queer Theory in African Film and Fiction, for Yale African Literature Association conference (June 14-17, 2017). How are African literatures and cultures mediating globalizing frameworks for gender and sexuality and shifting understandings of “queer”? From Woubi Cheri and Dakan to Stories of Our Lives, African film…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic REMINDER: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (12/1/16) in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThis is a reminder that the deadline for abstracts for The Comics of Alison Bechdel approaches! 12/1/16
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will conta…[Read more]
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