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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic CFP for 2017 AASA Conference: Waypoints and Watersheds in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoWaypoints and Watersheds: Arab American Activism and Memories
A Conference Marking the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 War
Arab American Studies Association 2017 Conference
March 24-26, 2017
Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
Several important Arab and Arab American institutions and associations were established in the immediate aftermath…[Read more] -
Kendra Leonard deposited Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoShakespeare’s three political tragedies―Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear―have numerously been presented or adapted on film. These three plays all involve the recurring trope of madness, which, as constructed by Shakespeare, provided a wider canvas on which to detail those materials that could not be otherwise expressed: sexual desire and exp…[Read more]
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Laura Green deposited Hall of Mirrors: Radclyffe Hall's *The Well of Loneliness* and Modernist Fictions of Identity in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoVirginia Woolf’s well known distaste for the generic and aesthetic instability of Radclyffe Hall’s novel The Well of Loneliness (1928) finds echoes in more recent responses, even as the novel remains an anchor of a lesbian literary canon. I demonstrate that Hall’s novel does indeed exhibit generic and psychological instability, as a Victo…[Read more]
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Annabel Kim deposited Marie Darrieussecq’s Clèves: A Wittigian Rewriting of Adolescence in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoMarie Darrieussecq’s Clèves (2011) shocked readers with the vulgarity of its language and spurred controversy over its status as a literary text. In this article, I show how the novel’s “bad” language is a foil for Darrieussecq’s larger project of rewriting the adolescent female body, removing it from the sexualized and objectified optic through…[Read more]
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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic Please vote on MLA Resolutions in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoHello everyone,
As per, MLA member communications by Carol Zuses, the MLA “at its meeting during the 2016 convention in Austin, the Delegate Assembly approved six constitutional amendments and one resolution.” One of those has to do with speaking out against Islamophobia. As Carol Zuses’s email points out, “the assembly’s actions are not fi…[Read more]
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Daniela Goldfine started the topic Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoThe editors of a volume titled “Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production” invite proposals from potential contributors. The volume is planned for publication with Lexington Books as part of their Latin American Gender and Sexualities series edited by Carolina Rocha.
Essay proposals should explicitly address issues and…[Read more]
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Daniela Goldfine started the topic Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production in the discussion
Jewish Cultural Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoThe editors of a volume titled “Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production” invite proposals from potential contributors. The volume is planned for publication with Lexington Books as part of their Latin American Gender and Sexualities series edited by Carolina Rocha.
Essay proposals should explicitly address issues and…[Read more]
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Sean Guynes deposited Fatal Attractions: AIDS and American Superhero Comics, 1988-1994 in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoBetween 1988 and 1994 American comic books engaged the politics, problematics, and crises of the AIDS epidemic by injecting the virus and its social, cultural, and epidemiological effects on gay men into the four-color fantasies of the superhero genre. As the comic-book industry was undergoing major internal changes that allowed for more mature,…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited “Not to Get Lost in the Loss”: Narrating the Story in Mourid Barghouti’s I Was Born There, I Was Born Here and in Deborah Rohan’s The Olive Grove – A Palestinian Story." in the group
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoIn his introduction to Mourid Barghouti novel, I saw Ramallah, Edward Said refers to the Palestinians as a displaced and a misplaced people. Regardless of the nationalities they carry or countries they live in, they carry with them the trauma of events that led to the loss of their homeland, and the grief of this loss and endless displacement.…[Read more]
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Daniela Goldfine started the topic CFP Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoCall for Proposals
Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production
The editors of a volume titled “Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production” invite proposals from potential contributors. The volume is planned for publication with Lexington Books as part of their Latin American Gender and Sexu…[Read more] -
Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months ago(Apologies for cross-posting)
CFP – Studies in the NovelSpecial Issue: “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West”
Deadline for submissions: 9/1/2016
Studies in the Novel is currently seeking submissions for a special issue on “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West,” guest edited by Sigrid Anderson Cord…[Read more] -
Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic 2 CFPs for 2016 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference/Midwest American in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers 1:
AMERICAN REPRESENTATIONS OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
2016 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference/Midwest American Culture Association
Thursday-Sunday, October 6-9, 2016
Chicago, IL
Hilton Rosemont Chicago
Deadline: April 30, 2016
Submissions.mpcaaca.org
Topics can include–but are certainly not limited…[Read more]
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Roy Pérez started the topic CFP for MLA: Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoMLA 2017 Session Sponsored by the GLQ Caucus:
Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern
Given recent debates on the nature and centrality of the Stonewall rebellion of 1969, we seek papers that examine cultural production that reaches forward or backward across this historic flashpoint for conjuring queer aesthetic and political imaginaries, from modernist…[Read more]
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Roy Pérez started the topic CFP for MLA: Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoMLA 2017 Session Sponsored by the GLQ Caucus:
Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern
Given recent debates on the nature and centrality of the Stonewall rebellion of 1969, we seek papers that examine cultural production that reaches forward or backward across this historic flashpoint for conjuring queer aesthetic and political imaginaries, from modernist…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic MLA Sessions through Italian American LLC in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months ago<h2 class=”title”>The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed
The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017. Taking a cue from the presidential conference theme “Boundary Conditions,” this panel seeks submissions that explore the boundaries of rac…[Read more] -
Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP: Adoption and Culture: Sixth Biennial Conference of ASAC in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCall for Proposals: Sixth Biennial Conference for the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture ASAC 2016: Building Communities, Changing Discourses Crowne Plaza
Minneapolis Northstar Downtown Hotel, 27-29 October 2016
Proposal deadline 15 March 2016
Keynote speakers: Lorraine Dusky, Margaret Jacobs, and Deann Borshay Liem, introducing her…[Read more]
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Pauline Homsi Vinson replied to the topic MLA 2017 CFP: Writing Migrant Selves in Transnational Arab Contexts in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThank you, Ahmed. I hope you will considering submitting an abstract!
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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic MLA 2017 GAAM 2nd CFP: Beyond Bounds: The Refugee in Global Arab/Arab American S in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoHello everyone,
Please spread the word and consider submitting an abstract to the following panel idea for MLA 2017:
Beyond Bounds: The Refugee in Global Arab/Arab American Studies
Interrogating concepts of cosmopolitanism, exile, globally through the figure of the Arab refugee across historical/epistemic/disciplinary/geographical boundaries.…[Read more]
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Carol N. Fadda-Conrey started the topic SU Press Critical Arab American Studies Book Series in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCritical Arab American Studies Series
CALL FOR PROPOSALS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Syracuse University Press invites proposals for book-length works for its newly launched series in Arab American Studies. Expanding the Press’s historical concentration in Arab American Writing and Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East, the new series will f…[Read more] -
Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic Two CFPs for JMEWS on Borders, Margins, and Sexuality in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers: The Gender and Sexuality of Borders and Margins
JMEWS invites feminist scholars working in any discipline or interdisciplinary area in the interpretive social sciences and humanities to submit area-specific manuscripts on any topic related to the theme of The Gender and Sexuality of Borders and Margins. Manuscripts may address…[Read more]
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