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Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo started the topic Special Issue Hispanic Journal "Rebeldes Históricos en el imaginario mexicano" in the discussion
Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoSPECIAL ISSUE OF HISPANIC JOURNAL
“Rebeldes históricos en el imaginario mexicano”
Este número especial de Hispanic Journal propone estudiar la figura del/la rebelde en el imaginario mexicano, un personaje histórico-cultural que ha existido desde tiempos pre-colombinos hasta la actualidad. Una de las premisas fundamentales de los ensayos selecc…[Read more]
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Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo posted an update in the group
LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe editors of Hispanic Journal invite submissions of unpublished studies all year around. Hispanic Journal is published twice annually by the Department of Foreign Languages and the Graduate School of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Its purpose is to publish research and criticism of the highest quality in the areas of Spanish, Spanish…[Read more]
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Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo posted an update in the group
LLC 19th-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe editors of Hispanic Journal invite submissions of unpublished studies all year around. Hispanic Journal is published twice annually by the Department of Foreign Languages and the Graduate School of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Its purpose is to publish research and criticism of the highest quality in the areas of Spanish, Spanish…[Read more]
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Julien Jacques Simon deposited Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology exploring human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It includes the leading voices in the field, along with the main themes and directions that this important area of study has been producing. The book begins with an overview of the…[Read more]
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Aurora Peraza-Rugeley deposited Zoé Jiménez Corretjer. Las Camelias de Amelia. Scott Depot, WV: Obsidiana Press. 2009. 207 pp. ISBN: 9781935400158 in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoLa Camelias de Amelia (written in Spanish) is a 2009 collection of short stories about Puerto Rico and its people. Its author, Zoé Jiménez Corretjer, forms part of the Puerto Rican writers called ‘La Generación de los 80’ (authors writing in Spanish from the island and not in English from US territory.)
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited The U.C. Berkeley Shakespeare Program in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoThis essay describes and illustrates the activities associated with the University of California at Berkeley’s Shakespeare Program, over the last forty years, covering teaching innovations, numerous research publications, multiple productions and videos of Shakespeare’s plays, and creation of websites, Shakespeare’s Staging and Milton Revealed.
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Daniela Goldfine started the topic Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoThe editors of a volume titled Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production invite proposals from potential contributors. The volume is planned for publication with Lexington Books as part of their Latin American Gender and Sexualities series edited by Carolina Rocha.
Essay proposals should explicitly address issues and/or…[Read more]
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Jeronimo Arellano started the topic CfP (MLA 2017): Post/Colonial Affect in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis panel invites papers that rethink the affective turn in the humanities from the vantage of colonial and postcolonial histories. The proposed focus in an exploration of colonial and postcolonial affects, both in general terms as well as in relation to specific cultural practices, visual objects, or written texts. How do we theorize and his…[Read more]
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Giovanna Montenegro started the topic CFP: MLA 2017: Special Session: The Colonial Americas:Ecocritical Perspectives in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis panel seeks papers that address the environment in literature and film of the Early Americas through a Hemispheric perspective (South, Central, North, Caribbean). Papers may address the representation of natural catastrophes and theories on climatology, the representation of endemic vs. invasive species in fiction and travel narratives,…[Read more]
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Angel M. Diaz Miranda started the topic CFP MLA 2017 Unbounded: David Huerta's Incurable at 30 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoSpecial Session
Incurable (1987) shatters the boundaries of form. Papers on readership, intertextuality, illness, poetic connections, and fragmentation are especially welcomed. 200-word abstract and very short bio. by 10 March 2016; Angel M. Diaz Miranda (diazam@hollins.edu). -
Raúl Coronado started the topic Latina/o studies CFP's in the discussion
Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Cultural Production on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoLatina/o Forum CFP’s
1. CFP: Latina/o Materialisms, guaranteed session sponsored by the Latina and Latino Forum
queer, feminist, cultural, new &/or old materialisms; Marxisms; text as material object, comparative Chicana/o, PuertoRican, CubanAm, CentralAm, DominicanAm print cultures & histories of writing. Send CV and 300 word abstract by 15 M…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2017 CFP: US Latino/a Performance in the discussion
Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Cultural Production on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoMLA 2017 Proposed Special Session: “Margins to Mainstream: US Latino/a Performance”
This proposed special session for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia will focus on the genre of US Latino/a performance, which can include performance poetry, drama, performance art, and/or film. Submissions that focus on mainstream productions (Bro…[Read more]
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Ivonne del Valle started the topic Colonial Latin America Forum/ Proposed panels for MLA 2017—Philadelphia, Jan 5-8 in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years agoColonial Latin America Forum/ Proposed panels for MLA 2017—Philadelphia, Jan 5-8.
Colonial ethnographiesThis panel seeks papers on colonial ethnographic discourse in the context of Spanish imperialism. Numerous colonial texts engage in the description and interpretation of indigenous cultures, dealing with the complexities of transferring i…[Read more]
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Ivonne del Valle started the topic Panels and Happy hour for Colonial Latin American Literatures/MLA 2016 in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear Members,
The Forum for Colonial Latin American Literatures cordially wishes to invite you to the following events at MLA 2016. We hope to see you all very soon!
Best wishes,
Nicolás Wey Gómez
Colonial Texts and Communities of Readers
Friday, 8 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 209, JW Marriott
Happy Hour, Colonial Latin American Lit…[Read more]
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Daniel Escandell Montiel started the topic Journal Caracteres: new issue. Cybertheatres and Performativity (monograph) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoMessage both in English & Spanish; Mensaje en español e inglés]
Estimados colegas:
El nuevo número de la revista Caracteres, vol.4 n. 2, ya está disponible tanto a través de la web como mediante descarga (en PDF): http://revistacaracteres.net/revista/vol4n2noviembre2015/ Este número incluye un monográfico coordinado por María Ángeles Grande t…[Read more]
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Monica Diaz started the topic Abstracts for the session "Colonial Texts and Communities of Readers" in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago“Circulating Spanish and European Texts in Colonial Latin America,” Angelica Duran, Purdue University.
I seek to nuance our understanding and appreciation the history of textual presence of both Iberian-Spanish canonical literature specifically and also European canonical literature more generally in Colonial Latin America. In the first hal…[Read more]
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Vicky Unruh deposited Unpacking the Libraries of Post-Soviet Cuba in the group
LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoBeginning with the renowned “Words to Intellectuals” (1961) delivered by Fidel Castro in the José Martí National Library and the creation of a state network of libraries, the library in Cuba was transformed into a cultural sphere saturated with ideological ambiguity. On the one hand, the library embodied the symbolic axis of the literacy campa…[Read more]
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Vicky Unruh deposited Unpacking the Libraries of Post-Soviet Cuba in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoBeginning with the renowned “Words to Intellectuals” (1961) delivered by Fidel Castro in the José Martí National Library and the creation of a state network of libraries, the library in Cuba was transformed into a cultural sphere saturated with ideological ambiguity. On the one hand, the library embodied the symbolic axis of the literacy campa…[Read more]
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Roland Greene deposited Interamerican Obversals: Haroldo de Campos and Allen Ginsberg Circa 1960 in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis essay compares two mid-twentieth century poets of the Americas, Allen Ginsberg and Haroldo de Campos, in view of how their work circa 1960 intersects despite the differences in their poetics. It introduces the notion of the obversal, or the identity among poems through a common history.
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Victor Goldgel-Carballo deposited Unwilling Impostors, Willing Victims: Passing in Two Nineteenth-Century Cuban Novels in the group
LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoA light-skinned mulata passes for white and begins a romantic relationship that ends tragically, revealing the intransigence of racial barriers; a mother raises her biological daughter as her step-daughter, so that she might adopt a white identity; a multiethnic society is shaken by dreams and anxieties of social mobility: These are some of the…[Read more]
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