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Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY AUGUST 31, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoI am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.
Although American expatriate literature in Paris is typified by the Lost Generation or the Jazz Age of the 1920s, Americans show a distinct…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly deposited En busca de la juventud perdida, reconciliación y desagravio en Carta al padre de Jesús Aguado in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoJesús Aguado’s recent book, Carta al padre (2016), deals openly with both physical and emotional trauma suffered at the hands of toxic masculinity. The poetic voice vindicates his younger self, abused by the father, through the written word that transfers power to the weak and disenfranchised. Lacanian naming and patriarchal structures (family,…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly deposited Destabilizing Gender and Genre: Queering the Body in Libertarias and Land and Freedom in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoLibertarias (1996) and Land and Freedom (1995) explore the complex situation
of women militia during the Spanish Civil War. A queer reading of the female
body in these films highlights wartime female masculinity (Halberstam) and
female solidarity. In renegotiating worn expectations of sexuality and gender,
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Thomas Mazanec deposited Of Admonition and Address: Right-Hand Inscriptions (Zuoyouming) from Cui Yuan to Guanxiu in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis essay traces the development of the right-hand inscription (zuoyouming 座右銘) from its birth in the second century CE through its culmination as a complex literary subgenre in the tenth. Over the course of these eight centuries, right-hand inscriptions were used by some of the most prominent poets of their respective eras, including Cui Yuan…[Read more]
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Rosi Song uploaded the file: CFP – Extended deadline for "En la mesa con Manolo: La gastronomía como acto cultural y político" to
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoExtended deadline (July 31, 2021) for proposals (~300 words) for a special number on Spanish writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and gastronomy for Cuadernos de Estudios Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Essays (in Spanish) due December 1, 2021. Proposals and queries to: José Colmeiro, j.colmeiro@auckland.ac.nz and/or H. Rosi Song, rosi.song@durham.ac.uk.
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James Mulholland deposited The Past and Future of Historical Poetics: Poetry and Empire in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis essay suggests that with the increasing prominence of “historical poetics” as a set of social collectives, methodologies, and debates (especially about literary analysis), now seems to be an ideal time to assess its history and consider its future. The first part of the essay offers a genealogy of historical poetics, accounting for some of…[Read more]
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Noemi Martin Santo deposited La curiositas asiática en Conquista de las Islas Malucas de Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoEste ensayo propone una lectura de Conquista de las islas Malucas (1609) del poeta, historiador y eclesiástico Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola (1562-1631) como un gabinete de curiosidades textual lleno de narraciones y objetos maravillosos. El autor emplea sus propias ideas sobre la escritura de la historia para crear una crónica de conquista co…[Read more]
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Ed Finn started the topic Announcing Everything Change, Vol. III in the discussion
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoDear Colleagues,
I’m writing to share that today, in honor of Earth Day, Arizona State University’s Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative has published a new book: Everything Change, Volume III, an anthology of short fiction collecting the winners of our global contest in 2020. The anthology is free to download in a variety of digital forma…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited Trash as Aesthetic and Theme in Elvira Navarro’s La trabajadora in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis essay focuses on one example of a collective desire to articulate new ways of thinking about and inhabiting urban space: Elvira Navarro’s 2014 _La trabajadora_, a novel that directly confronts the human cost of austerity measures in Spain by addressing the indignation experienced by those whose life plans have been altered by economic i…[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 Levi, Primo (2005). «A una hora incierta» in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoReveiw of Spanish translation of Primo Levi, “Ad ora incerta”
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Campana, Dino (1998). «Cantos órficos y otros poemas» in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoReview of Spanish translation of Canti Orfici by Dino Campana
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Bonnie Mak deposited In Wood and Word, or, A Gloss on Documents and Documentation in the Humanities in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoAttention in the humanities has lately turned to the re-thinking of traditional modes of publishing. But is the academy prepared to assess work that deviates from the recognised forms and formats associated with ‘digging down and standing back’ (Felski 2015, p. 52)? This chapter investigates whether humanistic research, usually expressed in wor…[Read more]
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Bonnie Mak deposited In Wood and Word, or, A Gloss on Documents and Documentation in the Humanities in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoAttention in the humanities has lately turned to the re-thinking of traditional modes of publishing. But is the academy prepared to assess work that deviates from the recognised forms and formats associated with ‘digging down and standing back’ (Felski 2015, p. 52)? This chapter investigates whether humanistic research, usually expressed in wor…[Read more]
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aecklund started the topic New recorded presentation from the Charleston Library Conference, November 2020 in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoMLA staff member and University of Scranton instructor Dan Connor shares his recent experience teaching with the MLA International Bibliography in this recorded presentation from the November 2020 Charleston Library Conference.
View the recording on Vimeo here: Searching to Engage: Teaching with the MLA International Bibliography
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Susan Larson deposited Los modos literarios flexibles de ‘Vísceras de la ciudad’ (1935) de Rosa Arciniega in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis is a two-part publication that contains a facsimile of the original story “Vísceras de la ciudad” by Rosa Arciniega (including an introduction) and a 7,500-word academic critical analysis of the story. Of interest to specialists in urban literature, women’s literature, social literature, and popular culture.
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Kim Adams started the topic "Eugenics and the Body" MLA 2022 CFP in the discussion
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoI’m writing to share a CFP for a special session at MLA 2022, that may be of interest to scholars in of literature and science. Please note that the abstract deadline is this Friday, March 26th.
“Eugenics and the Body” MLA 2022
How has eugenics—a discourse of bodily perfection that centers reproduction—influenced perceptions of (non-)human…[Read more] -
Pamela Lim-McAlister started the topic March 25 Deadline for HEP CFPs–Come join us! in the discussion
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoExtended CFP deadlines: March 25! We want YOU to be a part of one of our sessions at MLA 2022 in D.C. Please submit an abstract or share these with your colleagues. Much appreciation for your interest and assistance.
Building Bridges and Breaking Down Walls: The Teaching of World Literature in English
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Susan Larson deposited La gramática de la ‘Hispanidad’: Retórica de imperio y arquitectura historicista en los discursos públicos de J.C. Nichols in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThe purpose of this essay is to better understand the motives of the real estate mogul and construction magnate -J.C.Nichols- responsible for the construction of the first non-centrally located shopping mall in the United States in Kansas City in the 1920s. Specifically, this study focuses on why and how Nichols resorted to a pastiche of…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited Intermedialidad e intertextualidad en _Cinematógrafo_ (1936) de Andrés Carranque de Ríos in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoEn la década de 1990, el concepto ‘intermedialidad’ puso en contacto distintas disciplinas académicas (estudios literarios, estudios mediáticos, sociología, estudios cinematográficos e historia del arte) desde la intención por encarar y mejor comprender el ambiente cultural visual/escrito/auditivo que caracterizó los comienzos del siglo XX. Conect…[Read more]
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