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David C. Lloyd started the topic Jeff Sacks responds to Anthony Appiah in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis open letter by Jeff Sacks, in response to Anthony Apia’s recent blog on the Commons, appeared in the online journal Jadaliyya: http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/25811/an-open-letter-to-kwame-anthony-appiah-president-o
Sacks writes:
With all of the talk about academic freedom, what is this “freedom” that we are talking about, if it i…[Read more]
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Evie Shockley started the topic CSWP Panels at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years agoGreetings, Colleagues!
On behalf of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession, I’d like to invite you to the two linked panels we’ve organized for this year’s convention, which we hope will be of interest to many of you:
Friday, 6 January
<b>283. Embattled Rhetorics: Claiming Otherness, Recasting Privilege</b>
<i>12:00 noon–1:15 p…[Read more]
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic LLC Af Am Events at MLA in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years agoDear Colleagues,
Please join the LLC African American Forum for the following panels and cash bar at this year’s MLA in Philadelphia:
41A. Imagining New Literary Histories: Mapping Aesthetics and Poetics in the Black Arts Movement
Thursday, 5 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Presiding: Dana A. Wil…[Read more]
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic LLC Af Am Events at MLA in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years agoDear Colleagues,
Please join the LLC African American Forum for the following panels and cash bar at this year’s MLA in Philadelphia:
41A. Imagining New Literary Histories: Mapping Aesthetics and Poetics in the Black Arts Movement
Thursday, 5 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Presiding: Dana A. Williams, How…[Read more]
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Raphael Dalleo started the topic MLA 2017 Panel: Caribbean Specters in 1920s Harlem in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis panel, about the Caribbean presence (both demographic and discursive) in 1920s Harlem, takes place on Sunday, January 8th at noon in the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 112A.
Vanessa K. Valdés, Imani Owens James C. Davis, and Raphael Dalleo will be part of the panel, presenting on Arturo Schomburg, Eulalie Spence, Nella Larsen, and…[Read more]
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Raphael Dalleo started the topic MLA 2017 Panel: Caribbean Specters in 1920s Harlem in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis panel, about the presence of the Caribbean presence (both demographic and discursive) in 1920s Harlem, takes place on Sunday, January 8th at noon in the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 112A.
Vanessa K. Valdés, Imani Owens James C. Davis, and Raphael Dalleo will be part of the panel, presenting on Arturo Schomburg, Eulalie Spence, Nella…[Read more]
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Raphael Dalleo started the topic MLA 2017 Panel: Caribbean Specters in 1920s Harlem in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis panel, about the presence of the Caribbean in the Harlem Renaissance, takes place on Sunday, January 8th at noon in the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 112A.
Vanessa K. Valdés, Imani Owens James C. Davis, and Raphael Dalleo will be part of the panel, presenting on Arturo Schomburg, Eulalie Spence, Nella Larsen, and Eric Walrond.
More…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited “I Talk More of The French”: Creole Folklore and the Federal Writers’ Project in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis essay tackles a question that has preoccupied Francophone postcolonial studies for several decades—namely, what is believed almost unanimously to be the absence of a Francophone equivalent to the slave narrative in English. My article challenges this assumption by reconciling the legacies of slavery in both the Anglophone and Francophone “…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited The Man That Was a Thing: Reconsidering Human Commodification in Slavery in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis essay examines a longstanding normative assumption in the historiography of slavery in the Atlantic world: that enslaved Africans and their American-born descendants were bought and sold as “commodities,” thereby “dehumanizing” them and treating them as things rather than as persons. Such claims have, indeed, helped historians concept…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde deposited Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2016 in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoIntroduction – excerpt from book published by Columbia University Press.
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James Gifford deposited Hellenism/Modernism: Negotiating Modernisms and the Philhellene in Greece in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoPhilhellenism in modernist literature is familiar. I examine Lawrence Durrell’s works, locating him between Eliot’s Classicism (perhaps the hegemonic Modernism) and the Greek authors who responded to Eliot. Through his ties to Greek Modernists and Parisian Surrealists, Durrell contributed to the Anglo-American tradition in a mode that reflects the…[Read more]
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CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for EACLALS triennial conference in Oviedo, Spain. 3-7 April 2017.
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A. E. B. Coldiron started the topic MLA 2017–Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture (on translation and Edmund Spenser) in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoHi, all; at the risk of self promotion, I forward this:
[The following comes to us from Dr Jane Grogan.]
Please join us at MLA 2017 for the International Spenser Society’s Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture, to be given by Prof. Anne Coldiron (Florida State University), on ‘Spenser and the Resources of Translation’. The lecture takes place during…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Forum Delegate Election: Call for Membership Suggestions in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoWhen this forum’s executive committee meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia, it will take up the matter of nominations for the next forum delegate election, to be held in the fall of 2017. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who has been s…[Read more]
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Patrick Herald deposited "The Black", space, and sexuality: Examining resistance in Selvon's The Lonely Londoners (forthcoming in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature) in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThis article argues that theoretical notions of resistance and agency prove inadequate for considering the complexities of the treatment of Sam Selvon’s Trinidadian characters. Indeed, to proceed from a binary logic of resistance and oppression carries the danger of universalizing those seen as oppressed, and smoothing over important c…[Read more]
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Carmen Lopez deposited Water and Liminality in Praisesong for the Widow and Daughters of the Dust in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis essay examines the influence and effects of water in post-colonial African American women of the Gullah and Gee-Chee cultures from the sea islands of Georgia and south Carolina, reviewing the ecological theory of phenotypes establishing the eco-boundaries of the resulting pure-selves through the examination of one film and a novel: Julie…[Read more]
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Eloy Eduardo Merino started the topic Call for papers in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago“Aula lírica. Revista sobre poesía ibérica e iberoamericana” invites submissions for its issue number 9 (2017).
“Aula lírica” is an electronic peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of Iberian and Ibero-American poetry. It publishes essays, notes, and reviews, in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, on all periods, movements, and app…[Read more] -
Aleksondra Hultquist deposited Adapting Desires in Aphra Behn's The History of the Nun in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoBetween 1694 and 1757, there were at least five adaptations of Behn’s “The History of the Nun; or The Fair Vow Breaker”. Modern critics have focused on Thomas Southerne’s play, “The Fatal Marriage: or, the Innocent Adultery” (1694), David Garrick’s 1757 revision of Southerne’s play into the tragedy, “Isabella: or, the Fatal Marriage,” and Jane…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic NeMLA Panel seeking abstracts; Deadline September 30 in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoFor NeMLA: The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed
The goal of “The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed” panel is to explore the Rocky franchise’s place in illuminating Italian Americans’ anxiety about whiteness in a post-Civil Rights era and black millennials’ continual struggle for autonomy in the post-9/11 twenty-…[Read more]
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Doug Steward deposited The Status of African American Faculty Members in English in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe article addresses a topic of pressing but long-standing concern to many in the higher education community: the disproportionately low number of African American faculty members in English, assessing the facts of the situation and how they might be addressed effectively.
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