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Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Rhythm, Speed, Path: Spatiotemporal Experiences in Narrative, Poetry, and Drama in the discussion
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
we’ve extended the deadline for submitting to ENN7, the European Narratology Network conference.
The new deadline is: 10th March 2023 (timezone: anywhere in the world).
This year’s conference is co-located with IGEL 2023, the conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, and the common theme i…[Read more]
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Sana Asif deposited Tangible Heritage and Intangible Memory: (Coping) Precarity in the Select Partition Writings by Muslim Women in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe partition of British India into two sovereign independent nations of India and Pakistan in 1947 was one of the most defining moments of the socio-political course of the sub-continent. The fight for independence from colonial rule and the rise of nationalism rooted in the religious discourse of two prominent religious communities- Hindus and…[Read more]
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Doris Hambuch deposited Bridges within the Arts: Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoTracing the collaboration between Dylan and Scorsese from the 1960s on to the Netflix original ‘The Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese’ (2019), this article argues that the mutual respect of the two artists rests on a shared contestation of borders between fact and fiction. In the spirit of romanticism, both Dylan and…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited What Does a Nascent Film Movement of Popular Genres Reveal About Emirati Culture? in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDespite a lack of a traditional cinema culture, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has recently witnessed an increase in film production. This rise can be attributed to a number of factors, not least of which, is the opening of movie theaters, the establishment of international film festivals and the arrival of film companies. These ventures have…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited What Does a Nascent Film Movement of Popular Genres Reveal About Emirati Culture? in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDespite a lack of a traditional cinema culture, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has recently witnessed an increase in film production. This rise can be attributed to a number of factors, not least of which, is the opening of movie theaters, the establishment of international film festivals and the arrival of film companies. These ventures have…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Suppressed Narrator, Silenced Victim in Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAlthough the systematic eviction of Palestinians from their homeland has been recorded at length since the establishment of the state of Israel in 948, the documentation has namely concerned itself with urban centers or villages. Expulsion and removal of marginalized communities, namely the Bedouins’, from their ancestral encampments or homes h…[Read more]
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Priya Wadhera started the topic CFP: Afrofuturisme/Afropessimisme in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis panel seeks to examine contemporary Francophone cultural productions (broadly defined from comics to novels and films) which provide a rich ground for imagining Blackness in the future. Is there a future after anti-Blackness? How do these cultural productions imagine collective liberation? Papers are invited to discuss joy and sorrow in…[Read more]
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Priya Wadhera started the topic CFP: Disgust in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis roundtable explores the rhetoric of disgust—along with its conceptual cousins (spleen, nausea, informe, abjection, etc.)—as generative forces for 20th- and 21st-century French/Francophone thought. Speakers will examine dégoût as a complex, historically situated feeling that connects and binds even as it repels, drawing attention to margins,…[Read more]
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Priya Wadhera started the topic CFP: Surrealism dans tous ses états in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago2024 marks the centennial of the Surrealist Manifesto. Roundtable participants will examine the conceptual, verbal, and formal tools and strategies at stake in this preeminent artistic and critical stance in 20th-century French studies. They will explore the evolving ways in which surrealism still manifests in today’s cultural and literary imagina…[Read more]
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Atia Sattar started the topic NWSA CFP: Decolonizing Feminist and Queer Pedagogies in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe CFP below is for a pedagogy workshop to be conducted at the National Women’s Studies Association annual meeting in Baltimore, October 26–29, 2023.
“This workshop highlights pedagogical practices that seek to transform Feminist and Queer Studies classrooms into radical and liberatory spaces for decolonial thought and practice. Even as we emp…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic “What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy” in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAn op-ed article I co-wrote with Latinx Studies colleagues David J. Vázquez and Magdalena L. Barrera was just published in Salon. Check it out!
“What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy: Who gets to wield the power of representation might be important to columnist Pamela Paul, but it’s a…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum CFPs for MLA 2024 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoFor the 2024 Modern Language Association in Philadelphia (January 4 to 7), the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum is organizing or co-organizing four sessions / panels. Please click on the links below to see the full CFPs and submission deadlines.
1) Postcolonial Southeast Asia?: Limits and…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly deposited Intersectional Silencing in the Archive: Salaria Kea and The Spanish Civil War in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoSalaria Kea was the only African American woman to serve with the American Medical Unit during the Spanish Civil War. Her experience has been silenced and edited within the archive by traditionally more authoritative voices. Reconsidering the impact of intersectionality on personal experience can lead to a better understanding of Black U.S.…[Read more]
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Sean Mark started the topic new book on Pound and Pasolini in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDear group members,
I’m pleased to announce that my book on Ezra Pound and Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pound and Pasolini: Poetics of Crisis, has been published by Palgrave Macmillan: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-91948-1
The Introduction and a translation of the Pasolini-Pound interview of 1967 are available for free download in th…[Read more]
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Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic Call for book proposals: Translatio (see flyer, attached) in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoSee attached flyer on the TRANSLATIO book series and the call for book proposals. Please forward to all interested potential authors, co-authors, translators, and editors.
“Key words, concepts, and texts all gather new force – and encounter new obstacles – as they move between languages, cultures, and societies. Translatio explores tra…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Aljamiado retellings of the Hebrew Bible in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoStories from the Hebrew Bible were popular among the Iberian Peninsula’s Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Beginning in the 14th century, Muslims and Moriscos retold these stories in Aljamiado texts in Spanish or Aragonese written in Arabic characters. These fictionalized retellings drew on vernacular language and literary forms common to C…[Read more]
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Darren J. Borg started the topic CFP: Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoWhat is a life worth living?Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life Despite numerous post-apocalyptic storylines, many science fiction texts are a celebration of life and seek ways of prolonging it, whether artificially or by providing warnings against our current behavior in order to preserve the life that already exists. The fact that death and…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic The Many Manifestations of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Series in the discussion
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe Many Manifestations of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather SeriesTaormina, SicilyJuly 10-12, 2023 Sponsored by the University of Arkansas and Società cooperativa Taormina immagine Celebrating over 50 years of fandom, join us and commemorate Francis Ford Coppola’s series- The Godfather (March 15, 1972), The Godfather Part II (December 20, 19…[Read more]
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic Nominations and Self-Nominations For Assembly Delegate in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 12 months agoThe TC Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature solicits nominations and self-nominations for Delegate to the MLA Delegate Assembly. Running for Delegate is a good way to become more involved in Forum activities and to make connections with colleagues who share your scholarly interests. To forward your own or a colleague’s name, or to…[Read more]
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Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 12 months agoLanguages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc. Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more]
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