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James Gifford deposited An Improbably Moveable Mediterranean: translating, Transplanting, & Transforming Global Surrealisms in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe Egyptian Surrealist Art et Liberté group was recuperated in two exhibitions beginning in 2016 and continuing through 2018. The larger exhibition by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath emphasizes the group’s internationalism and the complexity of its engagement with various forms of Surrealism, including André Breton and Leon Trotsky’s 1938 manif…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Others within: Ethics in the age of global Shakespeare.” Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation, ed. Christy Desmet, Sujata Iyengar, and Miriam Jacobson (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 25-36 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis chapter theorizes global Shakespeare through two interrelated concepts: performance as an act of citation and the ethics of citation. Bringing the concept of performance as citation and the ethics of citation together, this chapter argues that acts of appropriation carry with them strong ethical implications. A crucial, ethical component of…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “‘Nothing is Left to Tell’ Beckettian Despair and Hope in the Arab World” in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoIn the Arab world, Beckett’s plays or their adaptations have not only been popular with audiences and directors but have also inspired other literary and media genres. The Beckettian wait itself has become synonymous with the condition of the Arab person. It is a wait that offers an unrealized potential of hope that reverberates with the d…[Read more]
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Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP Edited Collection The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues:
Please consider contributing to the proposed volume The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 and feel free to pass this information to interested contacts.
Call for Proposals
The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830
Edited by:
Pamela Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Hispanic Studies
University of Puerto Rico, Río…[Read more] -
Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP — Edited Collection The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues:
Please consider contributing to the proposed volume The Enlightened
Nightscape 1700-1830 and feel free to pass this information to interested
contacts.Call for Proposals
The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830
Edited by:
Pamela Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Hispanic Studies
University of Puerto Rico, Río PiedrasTraditional…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Performing Commemoration: The Cultural Politics of Locating Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare.” Asian Theatre Journal 36.2 (Fall 2019): 275-280 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoCultural memory is actively constructed through embodied and political performances. Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare, two “national poets” of unequal global stature, have recently become vehicles for British and Chinese cultural diplomacy and exchange during their quatercentenary in 2016. The culture of commemoration is a key factor in Tang’s…[Read more]
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Jonathan Hiller started the topic Statement for candidacy for executive committee, 17th, 18th, and 19th Century in the discussion
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoBuon giorno a tutt*,
Having been nominated to stand for election to the executive committee of the forum LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian, the following is a brief statement of my experience and interests.
I am a mid-career scholar of 19th-century Italian literature, opera, and scientific culture. My dissertation was on the…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “King Lear on the small screen and its pedagogical implications,” in Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear, ed. Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel, and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019). in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoAs a work that survives and appears in more than one form, King Lear has a vexing problem of interpretation and a rich opportunity for the study of textual and cultural variants. The play begins with an aging monarch staging a fantastical, paradoxical final act as a king. It lures us toward a final act of interpretation to nail down the nature of…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty deposited “Violence Has Changed Me” Private Trauma and Identity Crisis in Post-9/11 American Poetry in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThis article seeks to explore into the impact of 9/11 tragedy on the private lives of ordinary people and individuals and into the associated theme of identity crisis, as reflected in four important post-9/11 poems – “Someone Says They Looked Like Cartwheeling Birds” by Lyn Lifshin, “Making Love After September 11, 2001” by Aliki Barnstone…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Day 1: Draft Prep Sheet on the 8 Parts of Speech through the Story of Hidden Figures in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoBecause it is all too easy to (accidentally) make assumptions about what first-year students know about language, in 2019-2020 my lit and comp type courses will begin with a segment on language, before moving on to sentences, paragraphs, and essays.
Our exploration of language will start by jumping into a story, to help us identify the 8 parts…[Read more]
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Bonnie Mak deposited Period, Theme, Event: Locating Information History in History in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoExplores ‘information history’, or the study of information and its practices, as a way to arrange investigations of past and present. An invited contribution for the volume, “Information and Power in History: Towards a Global Approach,” edited by Ida Nijenhuis, Marijke van Faassen, Joris Gijsenbergh, Wim de Jong, and Ronald Sluijter (London:…[Read more]
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Minni Sawhney deposited Friendship and Politics in the works of Cervantes and Lope de Vega in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThe convivencia between the followers of the different religions of the Mediterranean persisted despite the fraught politics of Christianity and Islam. Despite the long arm of the Inquisition the protagonists in the plays of Cervantes and Lope struggle to maintain fraternal ties.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Cervantes’ cosmopolitan El gallardo español during an earlier clash of civilisations. in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoDespite being an army officer Don Fernando is drawn towards the Muslim Princess Arlaxa. He defies army convention to meet her much to the chagrin of fellow Spanish soldiers in the presidio where they are stationed.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Desire and. its Facilitators in Cervantes’ Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThis article discusses “politically correct” desire as opposed to the outlaw desire of witches and non Christians. Though the leading couple is shown most favourably yet the portrayal of the Others raises questions in the mind of the reader which is what Cervantes might have intended.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Excentric Affects in Cristina Rivera Garza’s Nadie me verá llorar in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoIn this article I try to show how the Mexican Revolution was not only national in nature but also helped ordinary individuals break down barriers in their personal lives. The protagonist of Nadie me verá llorar was considered a madwoman in Porfirian society and with the Revolution she comes into her own and finds a space in post revolutionary Mexico D.F.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Jenni Rivera y sus corridos: la historia de un desafío in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoAn analysis of the life and corridos of Jenni Rivera the sole woman narco corridista
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Minni Sawhney deposited Latin American Travelers in Modern India in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThe travels and writings of Octavio Paz and Severo Sarduy in India.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Latin American Travelers in Modern India in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThe travels and writings of Octavio Paz and Severo Sarduy in India.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Stories on the Margins of History : Spanish Immigrants and the Mexican Revolution in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThe lives of Spanish immigrants during the Mexican Revolution, their participation therein.
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