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Minni Sawhney deposited Cervantes’ cosmopolitan El gallardo español during an earlier clash of civilisations. in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama 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 The Agency of Muslim Women in the Narrative of Cervantes in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoDespite prevailing stereotypes, the Muslim women in Cervantes’ captivity plays are forthright, ambitious and endowed with considerable agency. Though there is no evidence that Cervantes had read Erasmus, yet his portrayal of women shows them as standing their ground during adversity.
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Minni Sawhney deposited “La frontera hispano-musulmana en El Hamete de Toledo y El cordobés valeroso Pedro Carbonero de Lope de Vega” in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoEl reflejo del islam en dos obras de Lope de Vega.
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Minni Sawhney deposited La evolución de la sensibilidad islámica en el teatro de Cervantes in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoPortrayal of Muslims in Cervantes drama
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Minni Sawhney deposited Fantasy and the Honour Code: Lope’s “La viuda valenciana and “El cordobés valeroso Pedro Carbonero in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoPortrayal of Otherness in Lope’s dramas
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Minni Sawhney deposited Distintos enfoques para enseñar el teatro calderoniano en la India. in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoIn this work I show how the writings of Spanish historians such as José Antonio Maravall, Américo Castro y Dominguez Ortiz have been useful in the teaching of Calderon’s drama in India.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Distintos enfoques para enseñar el teatro calderoniano en la India. in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoIn this work I show how the writings of Spanish historians such as José Antonio Maravall, Américo Castro y Dominguez Ortiz have been useful in the teaching of Calderon’s drama in India.
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Noemi Martin Santo deposited “Vive el Sol, / si Dios le debo llamar”. La conversión de un príncipe en Los mártires del Japón de Lope de Vega in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoThis article examines the conversion to Christianity of the prince Tayco in the comedia de santos Los mártires del Japón by Lope de Vega and the creation of the Dominican missionary Alonso de Navarrete as a dramatic character. Lope portraits Tayco as a young prince who has to learn how to become a king, having Navarrete as a role model. Lope c…[Read more]
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Marisa Parham deposited Hughes, Cullen, and the In-sites of Loss in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoThis essay explores how Pierre Nora’s sites of memory work a specific cultural function through what Melvin Dixon refers to as “a memory that ultimately rewrites history.” I look at two of the most well-known poems of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and Countee Cullen’s “Heritage,” one of which reveals a…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic CFP Routledge Literary Handbook (Lit. and Class) in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoWe have passed peer review. Theory will be important in this text. We are looking for essays involving literature viewed through class theory. Let us see what you have!
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Tom White deposited The Future Demands Work: William Morris’s utopian medievalism in an age of precarity, flexibility, and automation in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoIMC paper for panel 374 Medieval Futura 1: Now, sponsored by the Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington and organised by Dr Andrea Whitacre.
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Tom White deposited The Future Demands Work: William Morris’s utopian medievalism in an age of precarity, flexibility, and automation in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoIMC paper for panel 374 Medieval Futura 1: Now, sponsored by the Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington and organised by Dr Andrea Whitacre.
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Marisa Parham deposited Saying “Yes”: Textual Traumas in Octavia Butler’s Kindred in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoThe problem of the “yes,” of affirming an historical identity that is potentially harmful to oneself, troubles some of the imaginative leaps necessary to how readers desire to identify with texts. With that in mind, this article reads Octavia Butler’s 1979 novel Kindred as a story about memory, history, and embodiment as written both on and thr…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Stenographic fictions: Mary Benson’s At the Still Point and the South African political trial in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoFrom the mid-1960s onward, compilations of the speeches and trial addresses of South African opponents of apartheid focused attention on the apartheid regime despite intensified repression in the wake of the Rivonia Trial. Mary Benson’s novel, At the Still Point, transposes the political trial into fiction. Its “stenographic” codes of repre…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Sepharadim/conversos and premodern Global Hispanism in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoSepharadim participated in the Hispanic vernacular culture of the Iberian Peninsula. Even in the time of al-Andalus many spoke Hispano-Romance, and even their Hebrew literature belies a deep familiarity with and love of their native Hispano-Romance languages. However, since the early sixteenth century the vast majority of Sepharadim have never…[Read more]
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Edwige Tamalet Talbayev deposited CFP: Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean International Conference (Toulouse, March 26-27, 2020) in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoWe are inviting proposals for the forthcoming “Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean” International Conference that will be held on March 26-27, 2020 in Toulouse, France (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès).
Abstracts (300 words) are due by September 15, 2019 to yasser elhariry (yasser.elhariry@dartmouth.edu), Isabelle Keller-Privat (isa.…[Read more] -
Edwige Tamalet Talbayev deposited CFP: Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean International Conference (Toulouse, March 26-27, 2020) in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoWe are inviting proposals for the forthcoming “Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean” International Conference that will be held on March 26-27, 2020 in Toulouse, France (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès).
Abstracts (300 words) are due by September 15, 2019 to yasser elhariry (yasser.elhariry@dartmouth.edu), Isabelle Keller-Privat (isa.…[Read more] -
David Wacks started the topic CFP Medieval Academy 2020: Abrahamic Mediterranean retellings of Bible (may 15) in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months ago2020 Medieval Academy, University of California at Berkeley (March 26-28) Call for Abstracts: Session of papers Muslim, Jewish, and Christian Retellings of the Old Testament in the Medieval Mediterranean The Hebrew Bible or Old Testament is a sacred text for both Judaism and Christianity, and Islam reveres biblical figures such as Abraham and Mo…[Read more]
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Noelia Sol Cirnigliaro started the topic 2 additional Panels on Why Theater Matters and Performing Childhood @ Seattle in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoAnd another reminder: there is still time to submit abstracts for these two panel @ Seattle [Send us your 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2019 to Noelia.Cirnigliaro@dartmouth.edu]. Panel on childhood is Co-sponsored by GEMELA.
Why Theater Matters: Then and Now
Theater clearly mattered in early modern times as evidenced by the…[Read more]
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Noelia Sol Cirnigliaro started the topic Panel on Comedia, Disability, Disease @ Seattle in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoJust a reminder: there is still time to submit abstracts for this panel @ Seattle [Send us your 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2019 to Noelia.Cirnigliaro@dartmouth.edu]
Building on work in the history of medicine and disability studies, this panel will engage with the following questions: How was disease construed and negotiated in early…[Read more]
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