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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of (Walter) Benjamin: A new series of articles on MLA Commons in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoArticle # 2: Udi Greenberg (Dartmouth) about Benjamin Biographies: https://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/node/1
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Joela Jacobs started the topic Oceans and Deserts: CfP for emerging scholars in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers
OCEANS AND DESERTS 2016: CHARTING TRANSDISCIPLINARY CURRENTS IN ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE
The graduate students in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona invite proposals for their third annual interdisciplinary conference in the Environmental Humanities for emerging scholars (graduate students, postdoctoral…[Read more] -
Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of (Walter) Benjamin: A new series of articles on MLA Commons in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoAn Introduction to the series is now online:
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Patrick Herald deposited Knowledge and Mapping in Gurnah's By the Sea in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoAn examination of authenticity in expertise in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea , this presentation will argue that By the Sea depicts an ambivalence about professional experts, creators of maps who are imagined alternately as summarizing colonizers and as authentic keepers of cultural knowledge. It is only by looking beyond state-sanctioned…[Read more]
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Nitzan Lebovic started the topic The Future of (Walter) Benjamin: A new series of articles on MLA Commons in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoJust a teaser for now, the articles will be uploaded every Friday, starting Nov. 7th:
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Gaurav G. Desai deposited Oceans Connect: The Indian Ocean and African Identities. in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoPublished as part of the Theories and Methodologies section on Oceanic Studies.
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Gretchen Head started the topic Last Minute Call for Papers – Vienna in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoDear all,
A last minute call for papers that may be of interest: The International Comparative Literature Association meeting to be held in Vienna in July seeks abstracts for the panel “Cultural Anxiety as Creative Potency of Cosmopolitan Perspective in Comparative Literature.” Abstracts should be send directly to the organizer Choon-Hee Kim at…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Vassanji’s Toronto and Durrell’s Alexandria: The View from Across or the View from Beside? in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThe British and Canadian authors Lawrence Durrell and M. G. Vassanji do not, at first thought, call out for a comparative study. Neither are typically regarded in criticism through their origins or ethnicity. The focus instead goes to their characters and subject matter, their cosmopolitan experiences. Confusions surrounding both authors have…[Read more]
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Majda R. Atieh deposited Post-Traumatic Responses in the War Narratives of Hanan al- in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis chapter extends the focus of wartime trauma scholarship to recognise female
non-combatants’ variants of traumatic victimisation and agency, as presented in the
Middle Eastern and African contexts. The agency of such actors, who suffered
tragically from the traumas of war, was inexplicably overlooked in both Middle
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Tia Black deposited Worldviews in Literature: An Anthology in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoWorldviews in Literature: An Anthology responds to UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova’s 2012 global initiatives for study of world literature for a “New Humanism” along with Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s directive for world literature “to discover what is universal across national literatures.” Worldviews includes fifteen authors fro…[Read more]
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Geraldine Heng deposited The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages I: Race Studies, Modernity, and the Middle Ages in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago“The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages”—a two-part article—questions the widely held belief in critical race theory that “race” is a category without purchase before the modern era. Surveying a variety of cultural documents from the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries—chronicles, hagiography, literature, stories, sculpture, maps, canon l…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Lauren Beukes’s post-apartheid dystopia: inhabiting Moxyland in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article reads South African science-fiction writer Lauren Beukes’s first novel, Moxyland (2008) set in a futuristic Cape Town, from the perspective of Lindsay Bremner’s notion of “citiness”– or how cities produce the modernity of the subjects who inhabit them. The novel is remarkable for its dependence on the social geography of the South A…[Read more]
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Subramanian Shankar deposited Thugs and Bandits: Life and Law in Colonial and Epicolonial India in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoAn examination of crime and criminality in colonial and postcolonial India through life-writing and the examples of Thugs and Phoolan Devi, the Bandit Queen.
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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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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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