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Nicole Seymour started the topic Masculinity and Environment in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoDear All:
I’m co-organizing a February 2016 workshop titled “Men and Nature: Gender, Power, and Environmental Change” at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, Germany. Our CfP deadline is tomorrow, but if you have interest and need more time, please contact me at nseymour@fullerton.edu. See our CfP at:…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic History, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference, McMaster U in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoHistory, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference
John Douglas Taylor Conference, April 29-30, 2016
Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton
Organizers: Chandrima Chakraborty, Nisha Eswaran, Sharifa Patel and Sarah Wahab
329 people, mostly Indo-Canadians, died in the June 23rd 1985 bombing of…[Read more]
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Gayle B. Rogers started the topic CFP: Society for Novel Studies (deadline: 9/7) in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoPlease consider submitting by Sept. 7:
http://novel.trinity.duke.edu/news/2015/07/08/sns-2016-call-for-papers
Thank you,
Gayle Rogers
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Penelope M. Kelsey started the topic 568. Archival Legibility and Invisibility Selected for Presidential Theme in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature Division Panel 568 on Archival Legibility and Invisibility has been selected for inclusion in this year’s Presidential theme, Literature and Its Publics: Past, Present, and Future.”
Saturday, 9 January, 2016
568. Archival Legibility and Invisibility
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m.
Program arranged by the Fo…[Read more]
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Penelope M. Kelsey started the topic MLA 2016: 113. Social Death and Citizenship in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThursday, 7 January 2016
113. Social Death and Citizenship
3:30–4:45 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
Presiding: Stephen P. Knadler, Spelman Coll.; Amritjit Singh, Ohio Univ., Athens
1. “Declaration of Independence: Origin of American Social Death in Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Sally Hemings,” Michael Lackey, Uni…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: Unsettling the Gendered West, C19 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCFP: Unsettling the Gendered West
<div>C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists</div>
<div>March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University</div>
<div>http://c19conference.org
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and u…[Read more] -
Hannah Swamidoss deposited “When I Cannot Still the Longing of My Heart”; Third-Culture Displacement and the Image of the Child in Allen Say’s Tree of Cranes and Grandfather’s Journey in the group
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThis article examines Allen Say’s use of cultural displacement in his books Tree of Cranes and Grandfather’s Journey. Allen Say is an award-winning, Japanese-American, picture book author and illustrator.
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Matthew H. Brown started the topic Extended, CFP Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis & Pop Culture, Global South in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoSymposium
Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis and Popular Culture in the Global South
March 11-12, 2016Keynote speakers: Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California, Davis) and
Juan Poblete (University of California, Santa Cruz)We invite scholars working on popular culture in/of the Global South to submit paper proposals that…[Read more]
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William J. Spurlin started the topic CFP: ICLA Congress in Vienna: Comparative Gender/Queer Studies in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCall for Abstracts
21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association
University of Vienna
21-27 July 2016
(Queer) Relationality: Gender and Queer Comparatists at Work
5-Day Seminar Sponsored by the ICLA Comparative Gender Studies Committee
Because the comparative examines literary and cultural texts…[Read more]
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Reid Gómez replied to the topic N. Scott Momaday RE: Story in the discussion
American Indian Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoahéhee!
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Robert Dale Parker replied to the topic N. Scott Momaday RE: Story in the discussion
American Indian Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoIt’s from his essay “The Man Made of Words.”
Best wishes,
Bob Parker
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Reid Gómez started the topic N. Scott Momaday RE: Story in the discussion
American Indian Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoYá’át’ééh-
I am looking for a quote from N. Scott Momaday. I recall him saying “writers have one story to tell; they just keep telling it.”
But I have no recollection where I read/hear this. If anyone can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.
Ahéhee’.
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Janice Ho started the topic CFP: Special issue of ELN on In/Security in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoCFP: In/Security
Special issue of English Language Notes, Fall/Winter 2016 (Vol. 54, No. 2)
This issue of ELN takes for its focus the topic of security and its necessary correlate, insecurity. As Itty Abraham notes, the term “security” is a “traveling signifier” that has “attached itself to every scale of human activity, from the individua…[Read more]
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Gayle B. Rogers started the topic CFP: The Novel in or against World Literature (SNS 2016) in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoThe Society for Novel Studies (SNS) invites proposals for fifteen-minute papers to be given at its biennial conference held at the University of Pittsburgh, May 13-14, 2016. For more information, visit http://novel.trinity.duke.edu/news/2015/07/08/sns-2016-call-for-papers.
Proposals should not exceed 200 words and are due by September 7, 2015.
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Susan M. Kalter replied to the topic Literature about business in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoI would recommend Through the Arc of the Rain Forest by Karen Tei Yamashita.
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Jesse A. Rhines, PhD replied to the topic Literature about business in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoI read Player Piano about 1972 and really only remembered the outlines of it and that American citizen translated as slave when I reread it last week. Now I’ve just published a book that traces colored people in Western Utopian literature from the Civil War to 2000, BLUE SKY FOR BLACK AMERICA, I realize that I did not see Player Piano as a…[Read more]
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Christopher Michaelson replied to the topic Literature about business in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoI want to thank everyone who has replied (by email and post) to my query so far — and to say please keep the recommendations coming! I have received many interesting ideas. At some point, probably several months into the future, I plan to share a master list with you that results from this query and related research. – Christopher Michaelson
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Richard J. Douglass-Chin replied to the topic Literature about business in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoOne novel that comes to mind is Aravind Adiga’s White Tiger, a Kafkaesque and extremely nihilistic novel about present-day India, globalization, and some of the corruption in Indian business and politics. Some criticize the book as succumbing to a kind of neo-Orientalism, while others laud it as exposing some of the serious problems facing In…[Read more]
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Kristin E. Pitt replied to the topic Literature about business in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoA couple of accessible short story suggestions from the environmentally-focused series on Oil and Water that The Guardian published in the past few years: “The Swimming Pool” by Jekwu Anyaegbuna, http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/16/jekwu-anyaegbuna-swimming-pool-short-story , and “Barthelme” by Joanna Kavenna, http://www.theguardian.com/bo…[Read more]
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Michael Barclay replied to the topic Literature about business in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoFor a majorly dystopian view of the corporate world written in the 1950s, I recommend Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano. Granted, it is set in the U.S., but its view of corporations as embodying their own cultural existence was way ahead of its time. It shows a vision of what happens when mechanization has displaced human labor.
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