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Kanika Batra deposited Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme’s The Reign of Wazobia in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoNigerian authors have consistently and effectively critiqued insidious connections between
masculinity, political power, religious fundamentalism, and capitalist interests. The unstable
political structures in Nigeria since the 1970s have led to such critiques. This essay deploys the
idea of polygamy in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the S…[Read more] -
Judy Bertonazzi deposited Caridad’s Choice for Transformation: Jumping off a Mesa Cliff in Ana Castillo’s Novel So Far from God in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAs part of my research, I argue that one important way the definition of a feminist borderland develops in these narratives is from a female character’s knowledge of and interpretation of her physical presence within the borderlands. By applying Linda Martín Alcoff’s theories of gender “positionality” and “self-embodiment” from her text Visible…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear members of the Women’s and Gender Studies, for your consideration:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning…[Read more] -
Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the Life Writing Group:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning Dreiser
Panel Two: “New” The…[Read more] -
Megan Peiser posted an update in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHello, All,
I wanted to introduce myself, as you’ll see my name on your ballot for our forum’s executive committee elections this Fall. I encourage you to wander over to my profile and check out more details there, or follow me on Twitter at @MeganPeiser.I am a digital bibliographer and book historian focused on eighteenth-century literature,…[Read more]
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Murat Öğütcü deposited Early Modern English Historiography: Providentialism versus New History. in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoEarly Modern English historiography had a multi-layered bipolar constitution. Providentialism, which had dominated Medieval English thought, maintained that historical events processed according to God’s divine plan. However, with the revival and reinterpretation of Classical texts, a new and quite opposite way of thinking emerged, which was d…[Read more]
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Murat Öğütcü deposited The ‘Gothic’ in Hamlet: The Role of the Macabre in Creating Cathartic Horror. in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoBuilding on Elizabethan dramatic conventions and religious debates about ghosts, Hamlet employs linguistic and dramatic means to chill its audience. Audio-visual means, along with the manner of entrances and exits, are used in order to horrify the audience. These create a fluctuation between belief and disbelief towards the macabre elements in the…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bakhtin, Theory of Mind, and Pedagogy: Cognitive Construction of Social Class in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis essay brings together cognitive literary theory and Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of dialogic imagination to illuminate the construction of social class in the eighteenth-century novel. It offers a close reading of selected passages from Frances Burney’s Evelina (1778), made possible by combining Bakhtinian and cognitive poetics. It also dis…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Romeo and Juliet, Allegory, and the Ethnic Vocabularies of History.” Shakespeare Studies 46 (2008): 6-19 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoReadings of literary texts are always shaped by a reader’s particular location and knowledge, but those locations are themselves defined by their histories. Romeo and Juliet has inspired new sets of allegorical vocabularies of history in locations without confrontations with the English heritage in colonial contexts. Why is the reading of a c…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation (New York: Palgrave, 2014), ed. Alexa Huang and Elizabeth Rivlin. in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoAt a time when Shakespeare is becoming increasingly globalized and diversified it is urgent more than ever to ask how this appropriated ‘Shakespeare’ constructs ethical value across cultural and other fault lines. Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation is the first book to address the intersection of ethics, aesthetics, authority, and authenticity.
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Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSpecial Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945: Call for Essays
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945 (essays examining the topic from the perspective of gender and sexuality would be most welcome)deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
Please submit full essays of 6,000-7,500 wor…[Read more] -
Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSpecial Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945: Call for Essays (potentially of interest to those working in theatre)
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
Please submit full essays of 6,000-7,500 words in Times New Roman 12 pt. font, with MLA…[Read more] -
Carla Sassi posted an update in the group
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoCFP: CREATIVE ARCHIPELAGOS
Explorations of Islands in Scottish Literature and Culture
29 June–1 July 2018, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Isle of SkyeThis conference will investigate the many portrayals, both historical and contemporary, of the rich, distinctive cultures of the Scottish islands or islands with Scottish connections through poetry and so…[Read more]
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Heike Bauer deposited The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThe book examines little known and forgotten writings by Magnus Hirschfeld, the influential sexologist who is best known today for his homosexual activism, transgender work and founding of the world’s first Institute of Sexual Science in 1919. Arguing that negative experiences, as much as affirmative subculture formation, shaped a collective sense…[Read more]
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André Carrington deposited Mike Brown’s Body: New Materialism and Black Form in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoA contribution to the Editors’ Forum on Queer Form, edited by Kadji Amin, Roy Pérez, and Amber Musser, for ASAP/Journal.
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Ricia Anne Chansky posted an update in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoCFP: POSTHUMAN LIVES
Deadline: October 15, 2017
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies seeks original articles for a special issue on “Engaging Donna Haraway: Lives in the Natureculture Web” to be published as volume 34.3, Autumn 2019. A major theorist in such diverse areas as feminisms, Marxism, new materialism, science studies, posthumanism, animal stu…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky posted an update in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoCall for Papers
Secret Lives: Hiding, Revealing, Belonging
The International Auto/Biography Association
Biennial World Conference: July 11-14, 2018
Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, São João del-Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Co-conveners: Suely Quintana, Alberto Ferreira da Rocha, Junior, and Sergio da Silva Barcellos
The co-…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky posted an update in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoCall for Papers: a/b: Auto/Biography Studies Special Issue on Trans Narratives
“Trans” has taken on a number of important theoretical and critical meanings inside and outside the academy. A prefix with the sense in the OED of ‘across, through, over, to or on the other side of, beyond, outside of, from one place, person, thing, or state to anoth…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky posted an update in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoA little spoiler to get everyone excited for MLA 2018 in NYC:
The GS Forum in Life Writing panels are as follows:
Eminent Victorians at One Hundred; Thu Jan 4; 1:45-3:00 pm
Catfished: Lies Online; Fri Jan 5; 1:45-3:00 pm
New York Transit; Sat Jan 6; 12:00-1:15 pmAnd, an additional auto/biography studies panel:
#wethepeople; Thu Jan 4;…[Read more]
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Diane Jakacki deposited REED London: Humanistic Roots, Humanistic Futures in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoUsing REED London as a case study of how we, as pre-modern performance and theatre historians, are using digital methods to aggregate its materials, access and analyze a remarkably broad array of archival documents, and amplify their importance to a broader spectrum of humanities scholars and potential collaborators than we cannot have been able…[Read more]
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