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Nicholas T Rinehart deposited Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoCanon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited From barbarism to decadence without the intervening civilization: or, living in the aftermath of anticipated futures in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoABSTRACT
The styles, moods, performances, and practices of decadence have been simultaneous with modernization, not least in the process of nation-building. This article considers the dialectics of decadence and modernization with particular attention to the roles and responses of women in the twentieth to twenty-first centuries.…[Read more] -
Spencer Hawkins started the topic CFP: “The (Self)translation of Knowledge: Scholarship in Migration.” in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoHello colleagues,
I am writing to announce our call for papers for the special issue 36 of the journal Target: International Journal of Translation Studies. The title of the special issue, edited by Lavinia Heller and Spencer Hawkins, is “The (Self)translation of Knowledge: Scholarship in Migration.” Please see the following link for details:
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Pamela Lim-McAlister started the topic March 25 deadline for CFPs–Please join us! in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoPlease read the three CFPs below and send in an abstract by March 25 to be a part of the following sessions at MLA 2022. We would appreciate your forwarding the CFPs to colleagues as well. Much appreciation for your time and help.
Building Bridges and Breaking Down Walls: The Teaching of World Literature in English
Studying world languages and…[Read more] -
Elizabeth Evans started the topic CFP: Modernist Studies in the Age of Black Lives Matter (MSA2021 Chicago) in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers (MSA 2021 Chicago): Modernist Studies in the Age of Black Lives Matter
Call for papers for a proposed session for the Modernist Studies Association Conference to be held in Chicago, November 4-7, 2021.
This proposed session considers how modernists are responding to Black Lives Matter in their scholarship. It asks, how has the…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman deposited Peter Abrahams of South Africa: Learning to Read (in) the Global 1930s in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoBorn poor, the material and ideological networks that propelled Peter Abrahams to literacy in 1930s South Africa lay bare how white liberalism, Pan-Africanism, and Marxism all overlapped as well as contradicted one another in the global 1930s. The confluences and contradictions of these currents of thought, artistic production, and political…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman deposited Death in the Arena: A Brief History of Dancehall, Time, and the Cold War in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis essay decodes how Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings uses the history of Jamaican music, culminating in the conflict between roots reggae and dancehall, to chart the Cold War’s conflicts over time, temporality, and futurity. A Brief History of Seven Killings points readers to a jaded, subaltern temporality encoded in a dan…[Read more]
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Jessie M. Labov started the topic LLC Hungarian Forum CFP for abstracts: MLA 2022 (Washington DC, Jan 6-9) in the discussion
LLC Slavic and East European on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoHungarian gastronomy and terroir as a source of national identity
300 word abstract (and bio) on the culinary traditions of the nation; the effects of immigration, transnationalism, tourism, globalization, capital on Hungarian gastronomy; emerging gastro-revolution and haute cuisine; Hungary’s place in the world of wine Deadline for s…[Read more] -
Kristin Moriah deposited On the Record: Sissieretta Jones and Black Feminist Recording Praxes in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoIn this article, I examine how Sissieretta Jones (frequently described as America’s first Black superstar, among other superlatives) strategically leveraged her European performance reviews in order to increase her listenership and wages in the United States. Jones toured Europe for the first (and only) time from February until November in 1895. A…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Sign petition to Save CENTRO (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis is a petition shared by Aldo Lauria Santiago of Rutgers University.
Please consider reading and signing the “Save Centro (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)” petition, which you can access here: https://forms.gle/pDfE56LPkopPZHwb8
Thanks,
Elena Machado Sáez
Chair of the LLC Latina and Latino Forum
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Janice Ho started the topic CFP: Infrastructures of Care MLA 2022 in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis panel explores intersections between infrastructure studies, labor, and care in global anglophone literature: in what ways are care work and the realms of reproductive and affective labor infrastructural to our lifeworlds? What kinds of infrastructures facilitate or impede domestic labor and the work of caring? How is the ongoing labor of…[Read more]
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Whit Frazier Peterson deposited A Magnificent Blond Beast: Exploring the Implications of Harlem Renaissance Writer Wallace Thurman as Ghostwriter of a Forgotten Celebrity Gossip Memoir in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 5 years agoIn an early version of his article “Harlem Literati in the Twenties,” first published in the Saturday Evening Review in 1940, Langston Hughes offers the curious suggestion that Wallace Thurman was the ghostwriter of Men, Marriage and Me (erroneously written as Men, Women and Checks in Hughes’ article), the tell-all memoir ostensibly by the origi…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Tonight at 7:15pm: Join us for joyful conversation and community! in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 5 years agoDear Colleagues,
Join us this evening for our much-anticipated multi-forum reception, held via Zoom from 7:15-8:30 p.m!
548 Social Event Arranged by the Forums LLC Latina and Latino, Chicana and Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban and Cuban Diasporic, Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English, African American, Caribbean,…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Today at MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 5 years agoDear MLA members,
Join us today at the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!
“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)
- Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
- Presider: Joshua Guzmán, U of California, Los Angeles
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Jervette Ward started the topic 2021 MLA LLC African American Forum-Linked Virtual Panels in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe attached documents provide a list with links to the 2021 MLA LLC African American Forum-Linked Virtual Panels.
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Kate Pond deposited “Sapience” The (Attempted) Making of a Modern Myth: Storybuilding as a Component of Social Justice in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis autoethnographic exploration, describes and reflects upon my attempt to crowdsource a modern myth on the origins of racism in America. It draws on my work in narrative studies with a special focus on stories and their role in human development. Part one is analysis of the ‘functions’ of story as both plot variables and sociological act…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward started the topic MLA Elections Close TODAY!!! in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoDon’t forget that MLA elections close today!
Don’t forget to vote for the new member of the LLC African American Forum Executive Committee and for the MLA Executive Council among other elections.
https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Elections/Nominations-for-2020-MLA-Elections
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Esha Sil uploaded the file: Call for Papers: SPEAKING AS THE 'OTHER': CALLIOPE International Conference, University of Helsinki: 10-12 May 2021 to
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers: SPEAKING AS THE ‘OTHER’: CALLIOPE International Conference, University of Helsinki: 10-12 May 2021
“SPEAKING AS THE ‘OTHER’: Coloniality, Subalternity, and Embodied Political Articulations”
(late 18th – early 20th centuries)
10-12 May 2021
Live in Helsinki and online
This multidisciplinary conference seeks to examine perfo…[Read more] -
Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group
TC Translation 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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Kate Pond started the topic seeking participants for my thesis project in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoI’m attempting to collect a number of micro-stories in order to deconstruct them by their morphological functions and rebuild one story from the crowd-sourced content. I am hopeful for a diverse representation, but looking for more voices. I would really appreciate if you have 30 minutes or so, that you help contribute to my…[Read more]
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