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Matthew Omelsky deposited After the End Times: Postcrisis African Science Fiction in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWe live in a moment of “apocalyptic time,” the “time of the end of time.” Ours is a moment of global ecological crisis, of the ever-impending collapse of capital. That we live on the brink is too clear. What is not, however, is our ability to imagine the moment after this dual crisis. In recent years, African artists have begun to articul…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic CFP Routledge Literary Handbook (Lit. and Class) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWe are creating an invited proposal based upon my performance as a reviewer of another text.
Essays are to be about 8,000 words each.I have a model and this text will be an scholarly companion to literature using the tools of rhetorical or
cultural studies analysis (possibly other types of analysis). The Companion to Victorian Literature
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Nathan Faries started the topic WELCOME! EAST ASIA SOCIAL EVENT: THURSDAY, JANUARY 3–8:45 p.m.-10:00 p.m. in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoHope to see everyone there! Please share this with all your colleagues!
First 60 people get a free drink ticket, and everyone has a chance at the door-prize raffle for new books.
177: Social Hour for East Asianists, Hosted by LLC East Asian, LLC Japanese since 1900, LLC Ming and Qing Chinese, LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese, LLC…[Read more]
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic European Beat Studies Network 2019 Conf – Oct 9-12, 2019 in Nicosia, Cyprus in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoFrom the EBSN: The European Beat Studies Network is a vibrant association of scholars that holds annual conferences in Europe. Past conferences have been held in Tangier, Brussels, Paris, and Vienna, among other cities. The 2019 conference will be in Cyprus, October 9-12, 2019.
The call for papers for the 2019 conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, has…[Read more]
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic Transnational Beat Panel at NeMLA Mar 2019 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoTransnational Beat Panel at NeMLA Mar 2019 — stop by if you are around!
Saturday 23 March 8:30 am – 10:00 am
Transnational Beat Generation
Chair: Amy L. Friedman, Temple University
Location: Woodrow Wilson Ballroom A (Media Equipped)
American & Cultural Studies and Media Studies
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Julie Beth Napolin started the topic Candidate Statement – Executive Committee – last day to vote (December 10) in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
Though a new member of the Sound forum, I am writing to ask for your support for my nomination to the forum’s Executive Committee. For 20 years, I have been producing scholarship in the field of sound. Since 2001, I have presented on the topic of sound at MLA, beginning with “The Negative Dialectics of Phonographic Sound” (2001,…[Read more]
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Daniel Alan Fried started the topic Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature abstract deadline extended in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoDear Colleagues,
I would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the 2019 conference of the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature, to be held from July 17-19, 2019, on the campus of Hunan Normal University in Changsha, China. The deadline for receipt of abstracts has been extended to January 7. The ACCL welcomes papers on a…[Read more]
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018.
It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies. -
Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018.
It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies. -
Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic Postgrowth Imaginaries (Liverppol University Press, 2018) Available Open Access in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis book demonstrates that a postgrowth imaginary is emerging on the Iberian Peninsula today and offers several ways of reading its cultural implications from a degrowth-inspired environmental humanities perspective. The complex interrelations among cultural practices, economic paradigms, and ecological processes are vastly under-theorized. I…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Palestinian Culture and the Nakba: Bearing Witness in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe Nakba not only resulted in the loss of the homeland, but also caused the dispersal and ruin of entire Palestinian communities. Even though the term Nakba refers to a singular historic event, the consequence of 1948 has symptomatically become part of Palestinian identity, and the element that demarcates who the Palestinian is. Palestinian exile…[Read more]
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Ben Streeter deposited Karl Ove Knausgaard Literary Celebrity in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoTo make sense of Knausgaard’s meteoric rise, we need to see that his prestige preceded his consecration in the Anglophone literary press.
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Ben Streeter deposited Karl Ove Knausgaard Literary Celebrity in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoTo make sense of Knausgaard’s meteoric rise, we need to see that his prestige preceded his consecration in the Anglophone literary press.
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Mariela Mendez deposited “De crepusculares y garotas modernas: Las columnas travestidas de Alfonsina Storni y Clarice Lispector” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHinging on the concept of transvestism, this article traces a trajectory that goes from Alfonsina Storni’s re-appropriation of the women’s page in the guise of a male persona, through Alejo Carpentier’s contributions to a fashion column disguised as Jacqueline, to Clarice Lispector’s unsettling use of the page addressed specifically to women i…[Read more]
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Susan M. Nakley deposited On the Unruly Power of Pain in Middle English Drama in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoLate medieval culture tends to value pain highly and positively. Accordingly, much medievalist scholarship links pain with fear and emphasizes their usefulness in the period’s philosophy, literature, visual art, and drama. Yet, key moments in The York Play of the Crucifixion, The Second Shepherds’ Play, and The Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge tro…[Read more]
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Marzia Milazzo deposited Reconciling Racial Revelations in Post-Apartheid South African Literature in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoOffering a reading of Mongane Wally Serote’s Revelations (2010) alongside other recent novels by black South African writers, this essay answers calls for more careful analyses of the roles that race plays within post-apartheid literature and culture. As it questions the shift away from a concern with institutional racism and white supremacy t…[Read more]
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Katherine Hallemeier deposited Sympathy and Cosmopolitanism: Affective Limits in Cosmopolitan Reading in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis paper argues that contemporary understandings of cosmopolitan literature are significantly limited by their dependence on sympathetic attachments as constitutive of cosmopolitan practice. I trace a genealogy of the connection between sympathy, cosmopolitanism, and the novel that extends from Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant to Martha Nussbaum and…[Read more]
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