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Kathleen Woodward deposited Reading Affect in Literary Studies in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoDesigned as a short introduction to academic literary studies of affect, Reading Affect in Literary Studies is a one-credit graduate seminar, offered in Spring 2014, that was framed by the question of how we might rethink our practice as scholars of literature to take our scholarship to publics beyond the academy. Readings included work by Rita…[Read more]
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Yomaira Figueroa deposited Faithful Witnessing as Practice: Decolonial Readings of Shadows of Your Black Memory and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers Marıa Lugones’s concept of faithful witnessing as a point of departure to think about the ethics and possibilities of faithful witnessing in literary contexts. For Lugones, faithful witnessing is an act of aligning oneself with oppressed peoples against the grain of power and recognizing their humanity, oppression, and re…[Read more]
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Steven G. Kellman deposited "Alien autographs: how translators make their marks" in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoLike other forms of treachery, translation can be either concealed or exposed. Though most literary translators work in the dark and some embrace invisibility as an ideal, all translations can be situated along the continuum of illusionist-anti-illusionist or domesticating-foreignizing. A variety of paratexts lay bare the devices of translation.…[Read more]
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Marissa K. Lopez deposited Chicano Vibrations in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article reads the smuggling of Aztec artifacts described in Lucha Corpi’s novel Black Widow’s Wardrobe in the context of new materialist philosophies of becoming.
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Amanda Waugh started the topic UMass Achebe Symposium in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoInterdisciplinary Studies Institute
Forty Years After: Chinua Achebe and Africa in the Global Imagination
A Special Symposium, University of Massachusetts 14-15 October
Goodell Building: Wed 14 October, 2 – 6 pm; Thurs 15 October 1.30 – 6 pmOn 18 February 1975, the great African writer Chinua Achebe presented a Chancellor’s Lecture at the U…[Read more]
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Giovanna Montenegro started the topic Due Tomorrow: ACLA 2016: CFP Hemispheric Approaches to Literature & Cartography in the Ameri in the discussion
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Please consider submitting your paper to this seminar…[Read more]
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Raúl Coronado started the topic CFP: Latina/o Studies Association Conference in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoLatina/o Studies Association
Call for Papers
Deliberating Latina/o Studies: Promiscuity, (In)civility, and (Un)Disciplinarity July 7-9, 2016, Westin Pasadena Pasadena, California
Deliberating Latina/o Studies: Promiscuity, (In)civility, and (Un)Disciplinarity builds on the 2014 Chicago conference that asked participants to reflect on the past,…[Read more]
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Pilar Cuder-Dominguez started the topic CFP: Globalization and Violence in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months ago13th ESSE CONFERENCE
National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland), 22-26 August 2016.
CFP: SEMINAR ON “GLOBALIZATION AND VIOLENCE”
Conveners: Pilar Cuder-Domínguez (U of Huelva, Spain, picuder@dfing.uhu.es)
Cinta Ramblado-Minero (U of Limerick, Ireland, cinta.ramblado@ul.ie)
One of the characteristics of postmodernity is the glob…[Read more]
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Sarah P. Casteel started the topic CFP: Caribbean/Jewish Intersections, ACLA 2016 in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCFP: Caribbean/Jewish Intersections in (Post)Colonial Literary and Print Cultures
We are soliciting papers for a seminar that we have proposed for the upcoming American Comparative Literature Association conference (Harvard University, March 17-20, 2016). Paper abstracts can be submitted through the ACLA portal from September 1-23: h…[Read more]
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Janice Ho started the topic Literature and Human Rights (CFP for ACLA 2016) in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoPlease consider submitting a paper to the following ACLA seminar:
Organizer: Sonali Perera, Hunter College, City University of New York (sonali.perera@hunter.cuny.edu)
Co-Organizer: Janice Ho, University of Colorado, Boulder (janice.ho@colorado.edu)
This seminar will explore the historical and ideological conjunctions between literary forms a…[Read more]
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Gretchen Head started the topic CFP (ACLA): The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoWe welcome submissions for our upcoming ACLA seminar:
The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South
Organizer: Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS College
Co-Organizer: Rania Said, Binghamton University
Contact the Seminar Organizers:
In Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, Mikhail…[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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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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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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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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