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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited Popol Wujs: Culture, Complexity, and the Encoding of Maya Cosmovision in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe Popol Wuj is one of the most important, commonly studied, and widely circulated Indigenous literary works from colonial Mesoamerica. By some accounts, there are 1,200 editions of the work published in thirty world languages, all of which trace back to a single manuscript—itself a copy of an earlier Mayan work. To protect their work from b…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic AATI/IASA @ LUCCA Conference CfP in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS AATI/IASA JOINT CONFERENCELucca, IT 2022 The first joint international conference of the American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) and the Italian American Studies Association (IASA) will take place from May 25-29, 2022 at La Fondazione Campus in Lucca, Italy. In keeping with the missions of the AATI/IASA, th…[Read more]
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Elisa Kriza started the topic CfP: New peer-reviewed book series "Crossovers: New Perspectives on CompLit" in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoCall for Proposals
(Version française ci-joint.)The European Society of Comparative Literature/Société Européenne de Littérature Comparée is calling for monograph proposals for its new peer-reviewed book series Crossovers: New Perspectives on CompLit to be published by ibidem Press (Germany).
Aims and Scope
The series welcomes the submi…[Read more]
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Nicholas T Rinehart deposited Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoCanon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave…[Read more]
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Eric Prieto started the topic Cities Under Stress: Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, Resistance, and Ren in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>Cities Under Stress: Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, Resistance, and Renewal </p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>The Third International Conference of the Association for Literary Urban Studies (ALUS)</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>University of California, Santa Barbara on 17–19 February 2022. </p>
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Spencer Hawkins started the topic CFP: “The (Self)translation of Knowledge: Scholarship in Migration.” in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoHello colleagues,
I am writing to announce our call for papers for the special issue 36 of the journal Target: International Journal of Translation Studies. The title of the special issue, edited by Lavinia Heller and Spencer Hawkins, is “The (Self)translation of Knowledge: Scholarship in Migration.” Please see the following link for details:
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Marisa Verna deposited Proust à l’écoute de Senancour. Du silence des montagnes au silence de la musique. Questions de style in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThe tunefulness of Proust and Senancour. From the silence of mountains to the silence of music
For Proust, great books are the “children of silence” (CSB, p. 309), and his novel endeavors to express what could not, in principle, be formulated: nature, sensations, in brief the physical and psychic existence as a whole. In his vision, lan…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Suppressed Nakba Memories in Palestinian female narratives Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Radwa Ashour’s The Woman from Tantoura in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoIsraeli officials have long denied that rape was used as an instrument of war against Palestinians. Most of the files relating to the expulsion of Palestinians during the Nakba in 1948 and its aftermath remain sealed in Israeli archives and have been reclassified as top secret. Palestinian oral narratives have long been considered a poor…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Gestí, Joaquim (ed.) (2004). «Dino Buzzati Seixanta contes» in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoReview of Catalan translation of Dino Buzzati
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Levi, Primo (2005). «A una hora incierta» in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoReveiw of Spanish translation of Primo Levi, “Ad ora incerta”
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Alcuni appunti sul condizionale in italiano in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThe aim of this article is that of clarifying those issues of the analysis of the conditional structures in Italian which are more difficult to pin down. Once their «double nature»
(temporal and modal) is established, attention is switched to the most conflicting aspects shown by the conditional structures («mixed» hypothetical periods, rep…[Read more] -
Francesco Ardolino deposited Campana, Dino (1998). «Cantos órficos y otros poemas» in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoReview of Spanish translation of Canti Orfici by Dino Campana
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Helga Schneider: la ferita aperta della scrittura in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoIn this interview, granted by Helga Schneider in November 2002, the ideas that predominante in all her novels are present, from the impossibility of forgiveness to the refusal of
hatred. Schneider shows the horrors of Nazism from within and interprets Evil from the viewpoint of its trivial daily expressions, illuminating the shady areas hidden by…[Read more] -
Francesco Ardolino deposited Alemany, Josep (ed.) (2013). Luigi Pirandello «L’humorisme» in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoReview of the Catalan translation of “L’umorismo”
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Pamela Lim-McAlister started the topic March 25 deadline for CFPs–Please join us! in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoPlease read the three CFPs below and send in an abstract by March 25 to be a part of the following sessions at MLA 2022. We would appreciate your forwarding the CFPs to colleagues as well. Much appreciation for your time and help.
Building Bridges and Breaking Down Walls: The Teaching of World Literature in English
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Multilingual Diasporic Italy: Language(s) in Context in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoMultilingual Diasporic Italy: Language(s) in Context
MLA Call: This session explores the use of language–Italian, Italian dialects, regionalism, Italiese, or even foreign languages–within the context of Italian American e/o Italian diasporic studies. We welcome interdisciplinary submissions from literary to visual and performative…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Challenging the (Italian) American Canon: Past to Present in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoWhat makes a canon? More importantly, what is the confines, political and literary, faced by installing a canon? By destroying the canon as scholars, do we end up doing more good than bad? What is the future of ethnic writers when considering the canon?
Italian American studies scholar Mary Jo Bona claims that “many factors contributed to the e…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic MLA Working Group in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoMLA Working Group
Transgenerational Trauma in Italian-American Literary, Visual, and Performative Texts
From the shellshock victims of the First World War to adopting the term posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), trauma studies cover a wide-ranging area, from psychiatry to transgenerational trauma. In The Traumatic Imagination, Eugene Arva…[Read more] -
Carla Sassi deposited Humanities Special Issue “Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoSpecial issue of Humanities exploring expressions and registrations of environmental culture and the eco-critical imagination in 21st century Scottish literature and culture. Open access.
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