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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 20th- and 21st-Century American 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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Carmela Mattza deposited VARIEDADES INTERMEDIATE / INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED SPANISH CONVERSATION in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoVARIEDADES is a Spanish conversation book for the student at the intermediate / advanced intermediate level. Through audiovisual activities, the student is expected to put their previous knowledge into practice and continue to develop their ability to understand, write, listen, and speak in Spanish.
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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited The Free Travels of William Grimes from 1814 until 1825 in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis GIF chronicles the movements of a a formerly enslaved man in New England until the publication of his first memoir in 1825. William Grimes was forced to resettle and wander through Connecticut and Rhode Island because of poverty and insecurity. He is most associated with Litchfield, CT and New Haven CT where he spent the most time and which…[Read more]
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Zélia Catarina Pedro Rafael deposited “Wild Nights”: Death and Humor in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoEmily Dickinson’s unique style of poetic composition is marked by ambiguity and open-endedness, leading to the genesis of a privileged space wherein reader and writer are able to meet as co-creators of meaning. As a poet, Dickinson addresses many themes in ways that are subject to countless layers of interpretation. This essay focuses p…[Read more]
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Amin Nash deposited Romantic American Ideals and Disruptive Perceptions: Human and Character Disconnections in Nabokov’s Lolita with Observations from Kubrick’s Film in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoVladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” is known for its seductive writing despite its destructive subject matter. How does this novel accomplish such a juxtaposition? How does the novel keep the reader interested despite Humber blatantly attacking Dolores Haze? This essay explores critically explores the technical method which Nabokov uses in “Lolita.” The…[Read more]
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Pedro Lopes de Almeida started the topic CFP: Leaky Ontologies – ACLA 2021 in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months ago“Stuff leaks through such that the real manifests not just as gaps and inconsistencies in reality.” Tim Morton, Humankind
In an increasingly compartmentalized, consolidated time, leaking incidents keep surfacing from the backdrop of our human reality designed for smooth functioning and come to shape our age. From the leakings of early steam boi…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic (Oct 28) Decolonizing Diasporas/Afro-Atlantic Lit: A Panel Discussion in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoJoin us Wednesday, October 28 at 7:30 PM Eastern/6:30 PM Central for a virtual panel discussion about Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez’s new book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature.
Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues tha…[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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Steven Swarbrick deposited Dancing with Perdita: The Choreography of Lost Time in The Winter’s Tale in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoShakespeare scholarship has long been interested in the temporal dynamics of The Winter’s Tale, and has often turned to melancholic or traumatic time frames to explain the thematic persistence of lost time in Shakespeare’s romance. In this chapter, I argue that dance provides a key interpretive framework for understanding the play’s interest in bo…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies Association in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoPlease see the announcement and call for papers for Diasporic Italy.
Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies AssociationInaugural Volume (2021) – Call for Papers Description:Diasporic Italy is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Italian American / Diaspora studies, focusing on timely a…[Read more]
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Lisa L. Tyler deposited Ernest Hemingway, Global American Modernist in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoA Companion to World Literature. John Wiley and Sons, 2020. Available in Wiley Online Library, https://www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118635193
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Zahid R. Chaudhary deposited The Politics of Exposure: Truth After Post-Facts in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis essay analyzes contemporary politics of truth across overlapping contexts: the predicament of whistleblowers, the proliferation of digital disinformation, the extractive imperatives of data economies, and the impossibility of exposing the truth when exposé becomes itself a game. The essay reads the recent cultural and political interest in…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic What’s the future have in store for the Italian American Studies Association? in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoWhat’s the future have in store for the Italian American Studies Association? Join the Italian American Studies Association on May 22, 2020 at 4:00 PM Eastern Time for a Zoom Q&A regarding the Lucca Symposium, Pittsburgh Conference, and the new IASA journal published by the University of Illinois Press. The participants will provide updates and a…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward started the topic CFP Women and Language in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agohttps://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/african-american/
Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender.…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited The Life Aquatic: Liquid Poetics and the Discourse of Friendship inThe Faerie Queene in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoFrom Michel de Montaigne’s essay “Of Friendship” to Jacques Derrida’s rearticulation of the former in The Politics of Friendship, scholars both early modern and modern have sought ways to address the fluid co-mixture of bodies from which the discourse of friendship can and does emerge. More recently still, new materialist thinkers of ontolog…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited In Anthropocene Air: Deleuze’s Encounter with Shakespeare in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoA reading of Shakespeare and Deleuze on the subject of Anthropocene air. Keywords: endurance, climate change, fossil capitalism, carbon ghosts, Hamlet.
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Under Pressure: Reading Material Textuality in the Recovery of Early African American Print Work in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoFrom 1756 until his death in the early 1790s, Primus Fowle, an enslaved African American, performed typographical and press work involved the in the publication of The New-Hampshire Gazette and other materials printed at the press owned by Daniel Fowle. With the archive of print Primus Fowle created as its object of study, this essay historicizes…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Under Pressure: Reading Material Textuality in the Recovery of Early African American Print Work in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoFrom 1756 until his death in the early 1790s, Primus Fowle, an enslaved African American, performed typographical and press work involved the in the publication of The New-Hampshire Gazette and other materials printed at the press owned by Daniel Fowle. With the archive of print Primus Fowle created as its object of study, this essay historicizes…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: Italian Intellectuals and the African-American Struggle in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoIn the aftermath of the Second World War, Italian intellectuals participated in Italy’s reconstruction
with an ideological commitment inspired by the African-American struggle for equal rights in the
United States. Drawing on the work of many of the leading figures in postwar Italian culture,
including Italo Calvino, Giorgio Caproni, Cesare P…[Read more] - Load More
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