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Stefania Licata replied to the topic Session Proposal:Production and circulation of Afro-Hispanophone/ Lusophone arts in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear colleagues,
the session is for the 2019 ALA (African Literature Association) Conference, which will take place at Renaissance Columbus Downtown Hotel, from May 15 to May 18, 2019.
Thank you very much
Stefania
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Mahan Ellison started the topic Call for Papers: Lusophone/Hispanophone Caucus of the African Literature Assoc. in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers: Lusophone/Hispanophone Caucus of the African Literature Association (LHCALA) Subsequent to the ALA general call for papers for the 45th Annual Conference to be held in Columbus Ohio, May 15-May 18, 2019, the LusoHispanophone Caucus (LHCALA) extends an invitation to its members and friends to propose papers, panels, and r…[Read more]
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Mariela Mendez deposited “De crepusculares y garotas modernas: Las columnas travestidas de Alfonsina Storni y Clarice Lispector” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American 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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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi deposited Durendal, translated: Islamic object genealogies in the chansons de geste in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe transfer of Saracen arms into Frankish ownership is a leitmotif of
many chansons de geste, but one whose significance for translatio imperii has yet to be
elucidated. In this essay, I focus on the Chanson d’Aspremont, a twelfth-century epic
set in Calabria that narrates the pre-history of Durendal, Roland’s sword of Song of
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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi deposited The Look of Medieval Ethnography: William of Rubruck’s Mission to Mongolia in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoReads William of Rubruck’s mission to Asia as an instance of premodern ethnographic representation and the shape of the precolonial European ethnographic gaze upon Asia.
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Jeremiah Mercurio deposited Faithful Infidelity: Charles Ricketts’s Illustrations for Two of Oscar Wilde’s Poems in Prose in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe artist, collector, and critic Charles Ricketts (1866–1931) has often been characterised as a reactionary voice in early-twentieth-century debates about modern art. Although he responded conservatively to modern-art developments such as those embodied by the term ‘Post-Impressionism’, his work in book design and illustration exemplifies p…[Read more]
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Jesús R. Velasco deposited Boundless Troubadours in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis paper deals with the complicated sociopolitical space defined by the use and transformation of what we call Occitan language. Literary and cultural production in Occitan language during the late 12th and early 13th centuries light up the boundary conditions, the boundary values of what we call courtly culture making them visible in all their…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Currently Accepting Submissions: Spectral Mexico in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThe peer reviewed journal iMex. Interdisciplinary Mexico, ISSN 2193-9756 is currently accepting original, unpublished articles on the subjects of haunting and spectrality in contemporary Mexican cultures for its special issue Spectral Mexico. Original call for papers available here:…[Read more]
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Eric Calderwood started the topic New journal of interest to Global Hispanophone scholars in the discussion
Global Hispanophone via email on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoDear Global Hispanophone colleagues,
I hope that you’re all having a great summer! I’m writing to let you know
about a new journal that might be of interest to the members of this list.The Argentine writer Santiago De Luca is currently serving as Argentina’s
cultural attaché to Morocco. In that role, he has founded a new journa…[Read more] -
Charlotte Rogers started the topic CFP: “Current and Future Ecocriticisms of the Americas” for ASLE 2019 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoWhat is the current state of hemispheric American ecocritical studies? Where is the discipline headed? The newly formed Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment interest group “Ecocriticism of the Americas” offers a jam session to address these questions at the biannual conference in Davis, CA from June 26-29, 2019. Panel…[Read more]
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Zachary Ludington started the topic CFP: "Hispanic Poetry and World War I" (NeMLA 2019) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m chairing a panel on Hispanic Poetry and World War I at NeMLA 2019 in Washington, DC. The dates are March 21-24. Please take a look at the CFP here [https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html] and pass the information along to any colleagues who might be interested. If my panel isn’t up your alley, consider submitting to…[Read more]
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Mary Ann Newman replied to the topic Call for Papers, 17th Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature via email on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoHola, Mario,
Només una nota per dir-te que jo ja no sóc sòcia de la MLA i per tant no puc accedir al MLA Commons. No hi ha cap manera més directa de comunicar el cfp? Perdona’m si he passat per alt algun missatge però per ara, aquest és l’únic del que sóc conscient.
Una abraçada,
Mary Ann
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Mario Santana started the topic Call for Papers, 17th Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoAttached please find the call for papers for the 17th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (University of Chicago, April 25-27, 2019).
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Aires de colònia in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoPanorama of Catalan Poetry 2017
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Tobias Steiner deposited Subversion of Nostalgia as a Strategy of Engagement in Alternate History TV: 11.22.63 and The Man in the High Castle in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoBeginning with television’s popularization and mass availability in the 1950s, TV has extensively been employed to transport and mediate history. From the early televisual experiments of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek to more recent examples such as Quantum Leap, The X-Files and Continuum, Science Fiction television and its subgenre of A…[Read more]
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Zane Koss deposited Coastal Flows: Situating Vancouver Poetry in the Americas in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoIn a 1972 poem about Vancouver Island, Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco wonders, “Acaso fue el Aztlán de las mexicas / De allí partieron siete tribus.” Though Pacheco spent several years living in Vancouver during the late 1960s and early 1970s—and was published in a 1971 anthology of poetry “From Canada’s Unofficial Languages”—h…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Groucho, Harpo, and Narrative Theory in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis short piece on _Duck Soup_ (1933) and narrative theory is a response to Jim Phelan’s target essay “Authors, Resources, Audiences,” published in the double-issue of _Style_ (52.1 & 52.2).
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Benita Sampedro replied to the topic New book about Spanish colonialism in Morocco in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCongratulations, Eric Calderwood, for such groundbreaking contribution to Global Hispanophone Studies!
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