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Jason Frydman deposited Death in the Arena: A Brief History of Dancehall, Time, and the Cold War in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis essay decodes how Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings uses the history of Jamaican music, culminating in the conflict between roots reggae and dancehall, to chart the Cold War’s conflicts over time, temporality, and futurity. A Brief History of Seven Killings points readers to a jaded, subaltern temporality encoded in a dan…[Read more]
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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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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Sign petition to Save CENTRO (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis is a petition shared by Aldo Lauria Santiago of Rutgers University.
Please consider reading and signing the “Save Centro (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)” petition, which you can access here: https://forms.gle/pDfE56LPkopPZHwb8
Thanks,
Elena Machado Sáez
Chair of the LLC Latina and Latino Forum
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Julia Elsky started the topic CFP (MLA): Making Waves: Two Decades of Experimental Romanian Cinema in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers: MLA 2022 (6-9 January, Washington, D.C.)
Romanian Forum’s Guaranteed Panel
Making Waves: Two Decades of Experimental Romanian Cinema
2021 marks two decades since the symbolic launch of Romanian New Wave cinema, a movement that has received important recognition at international film festivals. The Romanian Forum of th…[Read more]
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Janice Ho started the topic CFP: Infrastructures of Care MLA 2022 in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis panel explores intersections between infrastructure studies, labor, and care in global anglophone literature: in what ways are care work and the realms of reproductive and affective labor infrastructural to our lifeworlds? What kinds of infrastructures facilitate or impede domestic labor and the work of caring? How is the ongoing labor of…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoCall for papers: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature (MLA 2022)
We invite papers for a proposed session on “Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature” for the 2022 Modern Language Association conference (6-9 January). The session is co-sponsored by the MLA’s Asian American Liter…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited Contemporary Latinx Literatures & Cultures in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the last two decades. We will concentrate our attention on how contemporary art works represent and participate in the upheavals of the twenty-first century—9/11, global economic and ecological crisis, mass migration and mass deportation, political and social mobilization, s…[Read more]
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Tobias Warner started the topic MLA 22 CFP – Francophone Studies in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 5 years agoDear Colleagues,
Please see below for several calls for papers in Francophone Studies for MLA 2022 in Washington, D.C. These sessions are sponsored by the LLC Francophone Forum Executive Committee. You may submit any queries and paper proposals directly to the session organizers.
Thank you,
Tobias Warner
Global Anti-Racist Movements: The…[Read more]
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Christopher M. Lupke started the topic CFP Ritual and Representation in East Asian Literature in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoRitual and Representation in East Asian Literature We are inviting proposals for papers featuring ritual as a theme or structuring device in East Asian (including diasporic) literature in relation to belief, kinship, and/or community. This will be a collaborative session between the TC Anthropology and Literature and TC Religion and Literature…[Read more]
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yasser elhariry started the topic The Black Mediterranean / CFP / MLA 2022 Guaranteed Session in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 5 years agoCall for Papers
MLA Annual Convention
6–9 January 2022
Washington DC
Guaranteed Forum Session
Sponsored by CLCS Mediterranean
The Black Mediterranean
Michelle Murray (Vanderbilt University), presiding
The subordinations of racial disparity, conflict, and death are persistent traits of the Mediterranean and its d…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Tonight at 7:15pm: Join us for joyful conversation and community! in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 5 years agoDear Colleagues,
Join us this evening for our much-anticipated multi-forum reception, held via Zoom from 7:15-8:30 p.m!
548 Social Event Arranged by the Forums LLC Latina and Latino, Chicana and Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban and Cuban Diasporic, Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English, African American, Caribbean,…[Read more]
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Lisa Nalbone posted an update in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoAnnouncing the “1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate” Jan. 28-30, 2021. For more information, please visit: https://www.ut.edu/academics/college-of-arts-and-letters/center-for-jos%C3%A9-mart%C3%AD-studies-affiliate/1st-biannual-conference-registration
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Today at MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 5 years agoDear MLA members,
Join us today at the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!
“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)
- Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
- Presider: Joshua Guzmán, U of California, Los Angeles
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Li Guo started the topic Invitation to LLC Ming Qing Chinese Social Event, Session 11077 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoInvitation to MLA 2021 LLC Ming and Qing Chinese Social EventSession 11077: January 7th, TR, 8:45pm-10:00pm EST
Event in the program: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Session/11077
Dear colleagues attending the upcoming MLA,
Please join us for lively conversations and networking with colleagues at MLA.
Forum members:…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza deposited VARIEDADES INTERMEDIATE / INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED SPANISH CONVERSATION in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoVARIEDADES is a Spanish conversation book for the student at the intermediate / advanced intermediate level. Through audiovisual activities, the student is expected to put their previous knowledge into practice and continue to develop their ability to understand, write, listen, and speak in Spanish.
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Southeast Asia & Southeast Asia diasporic sessions MLA 2021 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoFYI: based on a search of the MLA 2021 online program, here’s a list of the sessions/panels that have content related to Southeast Asia & its diasporas. All dates & times are US Eastern Time (New York).
* Asian American Literature and Empire and Imperialism
Thursday, 7 January 2021
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Against a reading of a sacred landscape: Raja Shehadeh rewrites the Palestinian presence in Palestinian Walks in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoABSTRACT
In his introduction to Palestinian Walks, Raja Shehadeh remarks that in spite of the great number of travelers to Palestine, travel literature, for the most part, willfully ignored the living experience and existence of the land’s inhabitants. Often, Palestine was the imaginary place that was continuously invented to confirm r…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Sourcing “a place of first permission”: Robert Duncan’s ‘mythological mind’ and H.D.’s “Trilogy” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article is a slightly revised version of a plenary panel address presented at the ‘Passages’ Symposium at the Sorbonne, Paris on the 12th of June 2019, in honor of the centenary of the birth of the American poet Robert Duncan. The article traces some of the mutual interest and influence between the poets Robert Duncan and Hilda Doolittle…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “Giving a Face to the Silenced Victims: Recent Documentaries on Gaza” in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoOften described as an open-air prison, the citizens of the Gaza Strip have long resisted a subaltern existence. Conditions in Gaza, and specifically since the Second Intifada of 2000, have increasingly worsened. With the advent of Hamas in 2006-2007, a complete blockade was imposed on the Strip. A deafening silence by the world has resulted in…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited The Poetics of Baseball: An American Domestication of the Mathematically Sublime in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article appeared in the journal American Studies, 32.1 (Spring 1991): 85-100. The article examines a poetics of the mathematically sublime as it relates to the design and play of the American game of baseball. There is some commentary on literature and cultural sudies as well as the history and rules of baseball. There is no DOI for the…[Read more]
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