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Laila Amine deposited The Paris Paradox: Colorblindness and Colonialism in African American Expatriate Fiction in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThis essay maps out a six-year literary transformation of Paris noir from 1957 to 1963 that overlaps with the Algerian war for independence from France (1954–1962). In this journey that transits from Parisian utopianism to postcolonial criticism, from Richard Wright and James Baldwin’s love songs to racially liberal Paris to William Gardner S…[Read more]
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Anna Ciamparella replied to the topic Self-translation of literary works into English in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoCara Arianna,
forse vuole consultare i testi di Antonio d’Alfonso autore del Quebec. Ha tradotto di suo pugno (dal francese all’inglese) non solo raccolte di poesie sue, ma anche uno dei sui romanzi.
Buona lettura!
Anna
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Eleonora Rao replied to the topic Self-translation of literary works into English in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoCiao Arianna,
Nancy Huston: Canadian (Calgary) transpanted to Paris a while ago – she married Todorov – has self translated a few of her novels – I haven’t read them – I know her essay on displacement: Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exile (Toronto, 2012).
eleonora
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Arianna Dagnino started the topic Self-translation of literary works into English in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoI am looking for contemporary published writers who have been self-translating their work from major romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese) into English.
<div class=””>If you know of any living authors active in self-translation in these language combinations, please let me know.</div>
<div class=””>Kind regards,</div>
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Greg Forter deposited Atlantic and Other Worlds: Critique and Utopia in Postcolonial Historical Fiction in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoThis essay explores the meanings and effects of postcolonial authors’ recent refashioning of classical historical fiction. That refashioning has two aims: a materialist cartography that counters the nationalist vocation of classical historical fiction by revealing the supra-national, global aspirations of colonial capitalism as a system; and an e…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited 'Some Reckonings with the Not-Old and with Surprise': Postmodern Ballads of Urban Crisis in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis paper offers a brief consideration of the literary ballad as a register of what by the mid-’60s economists had diagnosed as “urban crisis” and in 1970 John Ashbery called “urban chaos.” I’m particularly interested in how poets used the ballad to see and see into the failures of the “spatio-temporal fix” of urban renewal. My general idea is…[Read more]
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Michelle R. Warren deposited Ar-ar-archive in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoA reflection on the state of the archive in the state of post-theory.
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic MLA Session CFP – Af. Am. Interrogations of American National Narratives in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoAfrican American Interrogations of American National Narratives: how do African American texts (e.g. Morrison’s Playing in the Dark, Paradise, or A Mercy) question the stability of American mythologies? 250-word abstracts, 2page cv to thabiti@wsu.edu by March 25.
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic MLA Session CFP – Nat Turner: From Confessions to Film in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoNat Turner: From Confessions to Film: How do various media re-imagine black rebellion/revolt as related to the 1831 “Confessions,” Styron’s 1967 novel, and/or Nate Parker’s film “Birth of a Nation”? 250-word abstracts, CV to miriam-thaggert@uiowa.edu by March 25.
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic MLA Session CFP – Contemporary African American Theatre in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoContemporary African American Theatre: what critical conversations and new directions must emerge to sustain the vitality of African American theatre and performance and our understanding of its role in society? 250-word abstracts, 2page cv to d_williams@howard.edu by March 25.
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Nancy Caronia started the topic REMINDER: CFPs for MLA Session-The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agohttps://www.cfplist.com/CFP.aspx?CID=6828
The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017. Taking a cue from the presidential conference theme “Boundary Conditions,” this panel seeks submissions that explore the boundaries of racism and eth…[Read more]
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic Announcing the American Literature Society in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoAnnouncing the American Literature Society
On behalf of the Advisory Board, I am pleased to announce the American Literature Society, a professional organization of scholars devoted to the preservation, study and recognition of American literature and culture. Formerly known as the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association…[Read more]
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Serguei Alex Oushakine deposited Postcolonial Estrangements: Claiming a Space between Stalin and Hitler. in the group
LLC Slavic and East European on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoIn this essay, I follow debates about forms and sites of memorialization in post- Soviet Belarus. Begun during perestroika, the public discussions about Khatyn’ and Kuropaty eventually evolved into persistent attempts to realign the Soviet past along new narrative axes. Most prominently, this discursive reformatting of the socialist experience w…[Read more]
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic MELUS CFP – 21st Century Perspectives on US Ethnic Literatures in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoMELUS Call for Papers
Special Issue: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on US Ethnic Literatures(A commemorative special issue in honor of MELUS Emeritus Editor Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr.)
Guest Editors: A Yęmisi Jimoh and Angelo Robinson
Deadline for submission: 31 August 2016
Anticipated publication: 2018
With more than a decade and a half…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic CFPs: Italian American Lit Forum MLA 2017 in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoSee below for two CFPs from the Italian American Literature Forum for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia:
The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed.
The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017.Taking a cue from the presidential co…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg started the topic Transl. the esoteric – Soul in Metamorphosis. in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years agoAnyone who is interested in digging DEEP into Kafka’s esoteric dimension and connecting his works of t r a n s f o r m a t i o n — to Plato, John the Evangelist and other romantics is encouraged to join the KAFKA group >> the proof, of course >> is in the pudding!
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Peter J. Kalliney deposited Modernism in a Global Context (introduction) in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 10 years agoExploring the transnational dimension of literary modernism and its increasing centrality to our understanding of 20th-century literary culture, Modernism in a Global Context surveys the key issues and debates central to the ‘global turn’ in contemporary Modernist Studies.
Topics covered include:
– Transnational literary exchange
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LLC African American on MLA Commons 10 years agoAttendees at the LLC African American Cash Bar
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LLC African American on MLA Commons 10 years agoRiche Richardson, Lisa B. Thompson, and Angela Ards
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