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T. Craig Christy started the topic Language Change and Boundaries in the U.S. in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Forum on Language Change is accepting proposals on “Language Change and Boundaries in the U.S.” for the 2017 MLA in Philadelphia. We seek papers that examine how language change in the United States casts new light on the conventional boundaries between native and foreign language, first and second language, standard and non-standard langu…[Read more]
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Juan E. De Castro deposited ¿En qué idioma escribe usted?: Spanish, Tagalog and Identity in José Rizal's Noli me tangere in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago“¿En qué idioma escribe Ud.?” (142) “In which language are you writing?” This question, that Juan Crisóstomo Ibarra, the protagonist of José Rizal’s novel Noli me tangere (1887), addresses to the old scholar Don Anastasio, better known as Tasio, is more than just an expression of curiosity when he sees the latter writing, of all things, hiero…[Read more]
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Daniel Escandell Montiel started the topic Journal Caracteres: new issue. Cybertheatres and Performativity (monograph) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoMessage both in English & Spanish; Mensaje en español e inglés]
Estimados colega:
El nuevo número de la revista Caracteres, vol.4 n. 2, ya está disponible tanto a través de la web como mediante descarga (en PDF): http://revistacaracteres.net/revista/vol4n2noviembre2015/ Este número incluye un monográfico coordinado por María Ángeles Grande t…[Read more]
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Vicky Unruh deposited Unpacking the Libraries of Post-Soviet Cuba in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoBeginning with the renowned “Words to Intellectuals” (1961) delivered by Fidel Castro in the José Martí National Library and the creation of a state network of libraries, the library in Cuba was transformed into a cultural sphere saturated with ideological ambiguity. On the one hand, the library embodied the symbolic axis of the literacy campa…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited The Dead Albatross: "New Criticism" as a Humanist Fallacy in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis essay was one of the first to challenge the over-stress on close reading as the key to literary appreciation, by advocating a greater stress on literature’s broader context and its achievement in social, political, and religious terms.
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Yomaira Figueroa deposited Faithful Witnessing as Practice: Decolonial Readings of Shadows of Your Black Memory and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers Marıa Lugones’s concept of faithful witnessing as a point of departure to think about the ethics and possibilities of faithful witnessing in literary contexts. For Lugones, faithful witnessing is an act of aligning oneself with oppressed peoples against the grain of power and recognizing their humanity, oppression, and re…[Read more]
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic CFP–Iberian, Latin American, and Lusophone African Transatlantic Ecocriticism in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoCFP Ecozon@. European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment
http://www.ecozona.eu/index.php/journal/announcement/view/29
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic MLA Volume on Unamuno in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months ago<div class=”activity-inner”>
Dear colleagues,
The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno is now in development in the MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. Instructors who have taught Unamuno’s works (from any academic or theoretical perspective) are encouraged to contribute to the volume by completing a s…[Read more]
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Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Farmacia literaria: Cortázar y compañía in the group
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoLiteratura (búsqueda) + Fármaco (remedio y veneno) = literatura fantástica. Posibles reacciones: lectura obsesionada y sin parar, entrada a otras dimensiones de la realidad, nuevas maneras de entender la relación entre sujeto y objeto. Este curso se centra en la farmacia literaria del escritor argentino Julio Cortázar, además de aquéllos que in…[Read more]
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Debra J. Ochoa started the topic CFP: New Readings of Carmen Laforet's Work Deadline Extension. in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months ago2015 marks seventy years since the publication of Laforet’s Nada. This panel proposes to offer new readings of the author’s ground-breaking work and/or to revisit her lesser-known works (i.e., Insolación, La mujer nueva, Un matrimonio, etc.). Please send abstracts (250 words) and a brief biography todochoa@trinity.edu by 3/20/15. You can find this…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro replied to the topic CFP, MLA 2016: Unamuno's Literary Legacy in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
Regarding the MLA 2016 CFP “Miguel de Unamuno’s Literary Legacy,” please note that the updated deadline for submissions is 15 march 2015.
Thanks.
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Cornelius Collins replied to the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Language and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThis call is for the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX.
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Cornelius Collins started the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Language and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoSeeking papers that explore the distinct approaches, perspectives, and discourses of women writers as intellectuals writing for modern reading publics. Possible subjects include Woolf, Lessing, Beauvoir, Arendt, McCarthy, Hansberry, Sontag, Morrison, Atwood, Francine Prose, Zadie Smith, Melissa Harris-Perry, and others. 300-word abstracts and…[Read more]
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Tara Williams started the topic Rethinking the "L" in MLA in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThe MLA Forum on Language Change invites proposals for a panel on “Rethinking the ‘L’ in MLA.” Papers might address questions like: What counts as a modern language? What value do linguistic issues and less-commonly taught languages have in the MLA? How can they inform literary studies?
Please send 300-word abstracts to Tara Williams ([Read more]
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Tara Williams started the topic Language Change, Shifting Borders, and Identity Construction in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThe Forum on Language Change is accepting proposals on “Language Change, Shifting Borders, and Identity Construction” for the 2016 MLA in Austin. We seek papers that examine how language change relates to linguistic identity construction and crossing borderlands (geographical, political, ethnic, social, perceptual, historical, religious). Papers t…[Read more]
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Debra J. Ochoa started the topic CFP: Gender and Sexuality in Spanish Urban Spaces in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoLandscape architecture and urban planning join aesthetics of design with the hard science of engineering. These areas foreground the complex influence of history and culture in the mapping and planning of social space. Since men have traditionally served as both prime architects and builders of metropolitan areas–designing plans and constructing…[Read more]
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