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Mariana Romo-Carmona replied to the topic International Conference on Global Human Rights in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThanks for attaching, Luz Angélica.
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Kevin Sedeño-Guillén deposited La Apologia de los ingenios neogranadinos y la constitucion del canon de la literatura colombiana: Manuel del Socorro Rodriguez (1758-1819) in the group
Colonial Latin America on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoManuel del Socorro Rodriguez is presented here as a foundational figure regarding the formulation of the Colombian literary canon. It is maintained that his essay from 1792: “Satisfacción a un juicio poco exacto sobre la literatura y buen gusto, antiguo y actual, de los naturales de la ciudad de Santafé de Bogotá” [Satisfaction of a not quite…[Read more]
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Erin Cowling posted an update in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA Special Session on Theatre and Adaptation: In keeping with the 2019 MLA Presidential Theme “Textual Transactions”, this special session for the 2019 MLA Annual Convention in Chicago, Jan 3-6, is looking for papers discussing the transactional nature of adaptations, between author, actor, and audience, from the seventeenth century to today.…[Read more]
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Luz Angélica Kirschner started the topic International Conference on Global Human Rights in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
please find attached the CfP for the International Conference on Human Rights that will take place at the South Dakota State University, Oct. 4-6, 2018. We are looking forward to you panel proposals, round tables, and individual presentations.
Many thanks,
Luz Angélica Kirschner
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Juan E. De Castro deposited Alfonso Reyes, Jorge Luis Borges, y Nuestra América in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis article studies the uses made of the phrase “Nuestra América” by both Alfonso Reyes and Jorge Luis Borges. It also traces the influence of the Reyes on Borges.
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Monica Diaz started the topic CFP MLA 2019 African Transactions Within and Beyond Colonial Brazil in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 8 years agoGuaranteed session of the of Colonial Latin American Forum
What can the study of African/Afro-descendent culture in colonial Brazil teach us about its presence elsewhere? Papers on the African presence in Brazil in isolation, connection, or comparison to other areas of colonial Latin America. Send one-page abstract and cv to Lisa Voigt at voigt.25@osu.edu
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Molly Appel deposited The Pedagogical Poetics of Testimony: How in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 8 years agoFeminist resistance has been crucial for Argentina’s recovery from the military dictatorship of 1976-1983. Alicia Partnoy was “disappeared” into one of hundreds of torture centers sardonically called “Little Schools.” After her release and exile to the United States, she published her poetic testimony, The Little School, with Cleis Press in 1986.…[Read more]
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Silvia G. Kurlat-Ares deposited Políticas de lo estético en la ilustración de ciencia ficción. El caso de “Think Blue, Count Two” de Cordwainer Smith in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoDesde el período del Dadá se han ido borrando los límites entre las formas artísticas y sus soportes, entre las estéticas de uso y las estéticas formales, entre los espacios altos y bajos de producción cultural, y también, entre la percepción de centros y periferias que parecen haberse astillado y reproducido a la interioridad de espacios hasta ha…[Read more]
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Call for Articles. Spectral Mexico in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoSpectral Mexico. Ghosts and the Talking Dead in Contemporary Mexican Culture
The persistence of death and its figurative representations is a recognizable commonplace in the visual and narrative discourses of Mexican culture. Underworlds like Mictlan and Xibalba, the Catrina skull, the Santa Muerte, ghosts, dancing skeletons, post-mortem…[Read more]
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Julie Ward posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHi, As I am on the ballot for the Forum Executive Committee, I was invited to introduce myself here in the Commons.
I work on representations of reality in contemporary Latin American cultural production, in particular in Mexican theatre and drama, though I write about South American theatre, including Brazilian, as well.
My goals for the LLC…[Read more]
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Christopher Gascón posted an update in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoDEADLINE EXTENDED!
The AHCT Annual Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium
April 12-14, 2018, Hilton Garden Inn, El Paso, TXThe NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE for receipt of all submissions (abstracts and graduate student papers) is OCTOBER 1, 2017
The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater invites submissions for its 2018 Symposium. The conference…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly posted an update in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoDakin Matthews: 2018 AHCT Symposium Donald T. Dietz Plenary Speaker, Saturday, April 14, 2018. Dakin Matthews has served as Artistic Director of Andak Stage Company, California Actors Theatre, the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, and the Antaeus Company, and is an Emeritus Professor of English from California State University, East Bay. An…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly posted an update in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThird Call for Papers:
The AHCT Annual Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium
April 12–14, 2018, Hilton Garden Inn, El Paso, TX
Submission deadline: September 1, 2017.
The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater invites submissions for its 2018 Symposium. The conference dates coincide with the world’s longest-running Spanish Golden Age the…[Read more] -
Mariela Mendez de Coudriet started the topic CFP Special Dossier on Clarice Lispector in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months ago<h2>CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Edited Volume of Critical Essays on Clarice Lispector</h2>
<h2>Mariela Méndez (University of Richmond) and Anna Katsnelson (Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York) invite proposals for a volume of critical essays on Clarice Lispector’s contributions to the Brazilian press.</h2>
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Yolanda Padilla deposited Felix beyond the Closet: Sexuality, Masculinity, and Relations of Power in Arturo Islas’s The Rain God in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis essay examines the uneasy relationship that Arturo Islas’s The Rain God has had with narratives of identity, focusing on how the representation of Felix’s sexuality makes him a problematic figure for certain strains of Chicana/o and queer studies. In other writings, Islas criticizes Quinto Sol, the chief publishing house of Chicano literature…[Read more]
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José Francisco Robles deposited La crítica ilustrada a la realidad americana: el colonialismo ilustrado del funcionario Alonso Carrió de la Vandera en “El Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes” in the group
LLC 19th-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months ago“El Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes” is one of the most important works of the Peruvian eighteenth century. This article examines the author’s critical perspective ––in his geographical and political journey through the viceroyalty–– in whose ideological position, called here “enlightened colonialism,” colonialist ideas meld with those of the pen…[Read more]
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Claudia Cabello-Hutt started the topic CFP 2018- Working Group Wild Interventions in Latin/o America – XX and XXI Centu in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoAddress the ways in which cultural, literary, and artistic interventions in the socio-political landscape of Latin/o America during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have queered genders and sexualities, practices of sociality, public spaces, the production and consumption of cultural goods, forms of embodiment, developmental rhetorics, and…[Read more]
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Maybel Mesa Morales replied to the topic MLA 2018 CFP in the discussion
Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Cultural Production on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago<p style=”text-align: left;”>EXTENDED DUE DATE FOR CFP
Archival De-Oblivion and Alternative Approaches in Contemporary Cuban Intermedial Production (Film, Theatre, Performance, Literature, etc.)
Special Session
This panel will explore the memory-recovering alternative approaches to non-official archive in current Cuban intermedial practices. 250…[Read more] -
Cristian Roa started the topic CFP 2018 MLA Convention. Sor Juana: Securing Women’s Writing in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP
2018 MLA Convention
Collaborative Session: GEMELA and Colonial Latin American Forum
As is known, misogynist scholarly and ecclesiastical practices challenged women’s cultural
production in seventeenth-century New Spain. Nevertheless, inconsistencies and insecurities
weakened gendered discourses, and women found ways to make their voices h…[Read more]
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Jorge Tellez started the topic MLA 2018 Call For Papers: New Itineraries of the Colonial Picaresque in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThis special session seeks contributions that rethink the picaresque tradition from a colonial and post-colonial perspective. Following the 2018 presidential theme, #States of Insecurity, papers may explore the journey of the precarious and vulnerable figure of the pícaro from Spain to Spanish America, and study how the picaresque is received, a…[Read more]
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