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Sarah Thomas started the topic MLA 2022 Forum Panels in 20th/21st Century Spanish & Iberian: Circulate & Apply! in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoGender and Black Subjectivities in Spain Today
What radical acts of visibility and resistance are being mobilized by the work of Afro-descendants in Spain? What genres, visual and verbal imagery are used to subvert gender and racial categories to redefine Spain today?Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 March 2021
Benita Sampedro…[Read more]
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Mary Kate Donovan started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: The Politics and Poetics of Translation in the Global Hispanophone in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe Politics and Poetics of Translation in the Global Hispanophone
Multilingualism within the Global Hispanophone signals the past colonial routes and present migratory flows that complicate the social cohesion national literatures purport to consolidate. Issues of translation, therefore, are steeped in both national and regional tensions,…[Read more]
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yasser elhariry started the topic The Black Mediterranean / CFP / MLA 2022 Guaranteed Session in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 5 years agoCall for Papers
MLA Annual Convention
6–9 January 2022
Washington DC
Guaranteed Forum Session
Sponsored by CLCS Mediterranean
The Black Mediterranean
Michelle Murray (Vanderbilt University), presiding
The subordinations of racial disparity, conflict, and death are persistent traits of the Mediterranean and its d…[Read more]
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Catherine Barbour started the topic CfP MLA2022 Translingual Iberia: Peripheries and Mobilities in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years agoPlease send 250 word abstracts for a proposed panel at MLA2022 on trans- and multilingualism in cultural production of the Iberian Peninsula. Studies of works by migrant cultural producers and/or in non-state languages particularly encouraged.
Deadline for submissions: Monday, March 15, 2021 to Catherine Barbour, University of Surrey…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi deposited Muriel Spark’s Italian palimpsests in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 5 years agoItaly was Muriel Spark’s elective country of residence for 40 years, the first decade of which, from 1967, when she settled in Rome, till the end of the 70s, represented one of the most contradictory and yet intellectually fertile periods of Italian modern history. Notwithstanding such long-lasting and meaningful bond, explicitly represented in a…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Sourcing “a place of first permission”: Robert Duncan’s ‘mythological mind’ and H.D.’s “Trilogy” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article is a slightly revised version of a plenary panel address presented at the ‘Passages’ Symposium at the Sorbonne, Paris on the 12th of June 2019, in honor of the centenary of the birth of the American poet Robert Duncan. The article traces some of the mutual interest and influence between the poets Robert Duncan and Hilda Doolittle…[Read more]
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Epicteto Díaz-Navarro deposited Espacios de la memoria. Marcel Proust y Juan Benet in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoIn recent years it has been recognized that Proust profoundly influences different Spanish narrators (see H. Craig, also for Latin American literature), and in this work it is shown how in the syntax, the type of narrator, the construction of the scene and other aspects in Juan Benet’s narrative show the Prustian influence.
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Epicteto Díaz-Navarro deposited Kafka en España: unas notas sobre Carmen Martín Gaite y Enrique Vila-Matas in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoFranz Kafka is one of the most influential writers in Spanish narrative since the post-war period, from the beginnings of the work of Carmen Martín Gaite, to Enrique Vila-Matas, one of the most widely translated and well-known current novelists.
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Liam Lanigan started the topic Executive Committee Election: Liam Lanigan in the discussion
LLC Irish on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoA chairde,
I’m very pleased and honoured to have been nominated for election to the Irish forum executive committee. This Fall I was appointed Assistant Professor of British and European Literature at Governors State University in Chicago, having spent the last two years as a VAP at Texas Woman’s University. Previously I was the NEH Keough…[Read more]
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Ellen Scheible started the topic Executive Committee Election: Ellen Scheible in the discussion
LLC Irish on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoDear Members,
I am grateful and honored to have been nominated for the executive committee and would love the opportunity to represent four-year regional state universities as well as undergraduate Irish Studies programs at the regional level. I am an associate professor of English at Bridgewater State University where I teach modern and…[Read more]
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Ana León-Távora started the topic Invitation Book Presentation in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues,
I would like to invite you to the presentation of the English translation of Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Pixel Flesh (Carne de Píxel) by my dear colleague and friend Zachary Rockwell Ludington.
The Embassy of Spain will host an online presentation and reading on Friday, October 9 at 3pm EST. Zachary will be joined by Agu…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe influential Tamil writer Pudumaippittan turned to the short story to theorize the relationship between literature and society in the late-colonial era. He used the genre’s brevity to compress his portrayals of well-known female types—such as widows, prostitutes, and goodwives—into singular emotional events. This enabled Pudumaippittan to evoke…[Read more]
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Ana León-Távora started the topic CFP ACLA 2021 (online) in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoDear colleagues:
I’d like to invite you to submit a proposal for the seminar at ACLA that I am organizing together with Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego.
Title: The Shaping of Afro-Spaniard Identities: From the Colonial View to Counternarratives of Blackness within Spanish Culture (1920-2020)
Description: The numerous protests against systemic racism…[Read more]
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Erin K. Hogan started the topic CFP due Oct 31st for ACLA online April 8-11, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoColegas, I would like to invite you to submit to an ACLA seminar that I’m proposing. The conference will be held virtually between April 8-11. I include the CFP below. I hope that you will consider submitting! Salud y saludos, Erin
Spanish Society Must Be Defended?: Revisiting Foucault, Biopolitics, and Sovereignty Today This proposed seminar rev…[Read more]
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Carmen Moreno-Diaz started the topic CFP ACLA 2021 (online) in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoDear colleagues,
Please find attached the CFP for the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference that this year will take place online.
We look forward to your participation!
Saludos a todxs, y buen comienzo de semestre!
Carmen.
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Dr Rahul K Gairola deposited Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoLightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today
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Daniel Williams deposited Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel, by David Kurnick in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoReview of Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel, by David Kurnick
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Daniel Williams deposited Coetzee’s Stones: Dusklands and the Nonhuman Witness in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoBringing together theoretical writing on objects, testimony, and trauma to develop the category of the “nonhuman witness,” this essay considers the narrative, ethical, and ecological work performed by peripheral objects in J. M. Coetzee’s Dusklands (1974). Coetzee’s insistent object catalogues acquire narrative agency and provide material for a c…[Read more]
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Daniel Williams deposited Coetzee’s Stones: Dusklands and the Nonhuman Witness in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoBringing together theoretical writing on objects, testimony, and trauma to develop the category of the “nonhuman witness,” this essay considers the narrative, ethical, and ecological work performed by peripheral objects in J. M. Coetzee’s Dusklands (1974). Coetzee’s insistent object catalogues acquire narrative agency and provide material for a c…[Read more]
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