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Minni Sawhney deposited Jenni Rivera y sus corridos: la historia de un desafío in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoAn analysis of the life and corridos of Jenni Rivera the sole woman narco corridista
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Minni Sawhney deposited Latin American Travelers in Modern India in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThe travels and writings of Octavio Paz and Severo Sarduy in India.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Stories on the Margins of History : Spanish Immigrants and the Mexican Revolution in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThe lives of Spanish immigrants during the Mexican Revolution, their participation therein.
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Minni Sawhney deposited La ciudad como protagonista: México D.F. y la literatura mexicana in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoEl retrato de la Ciudad de México en la literatura.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Religion and Colonialism: Jesuits at Akbar’s Mughal Court in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThe reception of Jesuit priests at the the court of Akbar the Mughal emperor of India
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Minni Sawhney deposited The Unreachable Other: The myth of the mestizo in the novels of Carlos Fuentes in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoIn this article I investigate the portrayal role of the Aztecs, indigeneous peoples and movements in the writings of Carlos Fuentes.
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Minni Sawhney deposited The Unreachable Other: The myth of the mestizo in the novels of Carlos Fuentes in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoIn this article I investigate the portrayal role of the Aztecs, indigeneous peoples and movements in the writings of Carlos Fuentes.
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Caroline Edwards deposited MLA 2020 Roundtable Proposal (accepted) – Reading Utopia in Dark Times in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoWithin the context of an increasingly dystopian sense of global crisis, how can the idea of Utopia help us galvanise political literary readings? This special session will present a roundtable discussion in which panelists consider how we can use utopian methods to understand different kinds of literary texts, reflecting upon the importance of the…[Read more]
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Edwige Tamalet Talbayev deposited CFP: Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean International Conference (Toulouse, March 26-27, 2020) in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoWe are inviting proposals for the forthcoming “Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean” International Conference that will be held on March 26-27, 2020 in Toulouse, France (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès).
Abstracts (300 words) are due by September 15, 2019 to yasser elhariry (yasser.elhariry@dartmouth.edu), Isabelle Keller-Privat (isa.…[Read more] -
Lauren Rule Maxwell deposited Graphic Atwood in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoAbstracts for the panel “Graphic Atwood” proposed by the Margaret Atwood Society for the 2020 MLA Convention.
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Alice Rachel Ridout started the topic Proposal Deadline Extended to April 1: Contemporary Women's Writing Conference in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoLocations and Dislocations: Places and Spaces in Contemporary Women’s Writing
International Contemporary Women’s Writing Association Conference
3-5 July 2019, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
Call for Papers
The Contemporary Women’s Writing Association invites submissions for 20-minute presentations that examine how conte…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited A Reader’s Guide to the Two Towers in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis essay serves as a guardian, as a true friend of the reader, encouraging them to recognize that if they identify with the hobbits in this book, to be wary of the text trains the reader to become someone who would mistake their actual proud moments of self-decision, self-realization… of bravery, of the genuine kind, for something evil or bad,…[Read more]
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Danny Barreto started the topic New Special Issue – Abriu: Estudos de Textualidade do Brasil, Galicia e Portugal in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDear colleagues,
The latest special issue of Abriu, “Glocal Galicia: Redefining Galician Culture in the Global Age,” edited by José Colmeiro, is now available online.
The issue’s contents are listed here, but full-text versions of the articles can be found at the journal’s website: http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Abriu/issue/view/2109
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Alice Rachel Ridout replied to the topic Contemporary Women’s Writing Association International Conference CFP in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThank you for posting! My MLA membership renewal had not processed in time for me to post. Expressions of interest with late proposal to follow will be considered.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Good Fight! in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoGeorge Walker’s “The Good Fight” as arguing for means towards self-growth which aren’t merely acting out; which aren’t simply signs of perversity, of mental illness. Argues that rather than delineating the key differences between the downtrodden — those stepped on — and the rich — those (gleefully) doing the stomping down — it is truly more…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited How Insensitive! in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoExploring several key scholarly explorations on the culture of sensibility in the British 18th-century, this article draws attention to what the current manner of accessing the people who invoked and participated in it are deemed to have been like, and to how this has exposed them to being invested in protecting people of, ostensibly actually,…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Grabbing Hold for Departure’s Sake in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoExplores how Max Vigne, from Andrea Barrett’s “Servants of the Map,” makes use of the dangerous Himalayan mountain environment as almost as Winnicottian “play space,” in which to recover from being requited to a life of obligation, rather than real-self discovery, after his mother’s death.
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Krilka Stavreva started the topic CFP International Contemporary Women’s Writing Association Conference in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoLocations and Dislocations: Places and Spaces in Contemporary Women’s Writing
International Contemporary Women’s Writing Association Conference
3-5 July 2019, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
Call for PapersThe 2019 Contemporary Women’s Writing Association International Conference theme is inspired by its location at Algom…[Read more]
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Pamela K. Gilbert deposited Introduction to _Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History_. in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis is the Introduction to my new book, _Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History_.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Quitting Home in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoSinclair Ross’s “As For Me and My House” as a (nefarious) safe-space whereby readers can subsume themselves within a locale that promises the sense of being taken care of, that they experienced within the maternal home but on one condition: ready willingness to defer; acquiesce to “mother’s” leadership. Written just before a culture pivoted from…[Read more]
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