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Susan Slyomovics deposited Visual Ethnography, Stereotypes, and Photographing Algeria in the group
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoVisual Ethnography, Stereotypes, and Photographing Algeria
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Susan Slyomovics deposited Algerian Women’s Būqālah Poetry: Oral Literature, Cultural Politics, and Anti-Colonial Resistance in the group
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoBūqālah refers both to a ceramic pitcher as well as to poems ritually embedded in the traditional, favorite, divinatory pastime associated with women city dwellers of specific Algerian towns such as Blida,Cherchell, Tlemcen, Constantine, and Algiers. This essay considers the shift from orality to a written archive of French and Algerian c…[Read more]
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Alexa Huang deposited “What Country, Friends, Is This?”: Touring Shakespeares, Agency, and Efficacy in Theatre Historiography in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoTouring theatre is a place where theatre studies and globalization come into contact. The year of 2012 was a year of global festivities in which Shakespeare’s works played a major part. Through their exemplary power, the intersections of world cultures and Shakespeare provide a set of important issues for repositioning theatre studies in the w…[Read more]
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Alexa Huang deposited Global Shakespeares as Methodology in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoHaving reached a critical mass of participants, performances and the study of Shakespeare in different cultural contexts are changing how we think about globalization. The idea of global Shakespeares has caught on because of site-specific imaginations involving early modern and modern Globe theatres that aspired to perform the globe. Seeing global…[Read more]
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Karl Steel deposited Food in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoMy chapter on “Food” for the POSTHUMAN GLOSSARY (ed Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova, forthcoming)
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Karl Steel deposited Insensate Oysters and our Nonconsensual Existence in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoA consideration of classical and medieval oyster lore, a study of oysters as the “minimal animal.” Hand-corrected proof for Steve Mentz, ed. OCEANIC NEW YORK (Punctum 2015) – https://punctumbooks.com/titles/oceanic-new-york/
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Karl Steel deposited Mostly Automatic: Humanity at the Edge of Agency and Ethics in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoMy response to “New Materialisms and the End of Critique,” MLA 2015, Session 454. http://newmaterialisms.mla.hcommons-staging.org/2015/01/07/hello-world/
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse started the topic MLA 2017 in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoPlease join us for this special session!
Thursday, 5 January
54. Uncharting Boundaries: Southeast Asia and Its Diasporas
1:45–3:00 p.m., 404, Philadelphia Marriott
A special session
Presiding: Joanne Leow, Univ. of Saskatchewan; Cheryl Narumi Naruse, Univ. of Dayton
Speakers: Arnika Fuhrmann, Cornell Univ.; Tzu-Hui Celina Hung, New York U…[Read more]
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Petar Penda deposited THE BALKAN HIGHER-EDUCATION EXPRESS in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoBalkan universities are in a hurry to beat Oxbridge and Ivy League universities. But, from their dire straits, can Balkan teachers afford the train ticket to compare and contrast? Therefore, in this paper we will talk about the situation in the higher education system in the Former Yugoslav countries which has lost its vigour and rigour with the…[Read more]
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: Global Women's Conference: Understanding and Preventing Violence in the discussion
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoChristopher Newport University
College of Arts and Humanities
Call for Papers
Global Status of Women and Girls:
“Understanding, Defining, and Preventing Violence”
March 24-26, 2017
to be held at Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia
This interdisciplinary conference seeks to foster inquiries into the complex and mul…[Read more]
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: Global Women's Conference: Understanding and Preventing Violence in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoChristopher Newport University
College of Arts and Humanities
Call for Papers
Global Status of Women and Girls:
“Understanding, Defining, and Preventing Violence”
March 24-26, 2017
to be held at Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia
This interdisciplinary conference seeks to foster inquiries into the complex and mul…[Read more]
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Serguei Alex Oushakine deposited Language and Subjectivity: Theories of Formation. in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThe purpose of this graduate course is to examine key texts of the twentieth century that established the fundamental connection between language structures and practices on the one hand, and the formation of selfhood and subjectivity, on the other. In particular, the course will focus on theories that emphasize the role of formal elements in…[Read more]
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Serguei Alex Oushakine deposited Language and Subjectivity: Theories of Formation. in the group
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThe purpose of this graduate course is to examine key texts of the twentieth century that established the fundamental connection between language structures and practices on the one hand, and the formation of selfhood and subjectivity, on the other. In particular, the course will focus on theories that emphasize the role of formal elements in…[Read more]
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Alison Booth deposited Responsible Parties in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoFor an MLA panel, January 2016, this talk recalls the 2014 crisis at the University of Virginia about an alleged fraternity gang rape, discusses the policy on sexual assault that designates “responsible employees,” and proposes measures: change drinking laws; avoid segregating any space by identity; offer responsible parties. Humanities professors…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection; 12/1/16) in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoOf interest to members of the forum on the teaching of literature:
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comic…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection; 12/1/16) in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThe Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechdel, offering new examinations of her entire body…[Read more]
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Anna M. Klobucka started the topic Call for submissions for the Journal of Feminist Scholarship in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThe Journal of Feminist Scholarship is a twice-yearly, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published online and aimed at promoting feminist scholarship across the disciplines, as well as expanding the reach and definitions of feminist research. The journal can be found at http://www.jfsonline.org/.
The editors of JFS invite submissions on a…[Read more]
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Patrick Herald deposited Eng 260/AAS 264 – Introduction to Black Writers: Global Black Fiction in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThis course focuses on developing skills of close reading and literary analysis, both in class discussion and in assignments, through the study of major black writers. This section will be a study of global black literature—novels, drama, and poetry—written in English from the twentieth century to the present. We will consider how major aut…[Read more]
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Aurora Peraza-Rugeley deposited Zoé Jiménez Corretjer. Las Camelias de Amelia. Scott Depot, WV: Obsidiana Press. 2009. 207 pp. ISBN: 9781935400158 in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoLa Camelias de Amelia (written in Spanish) is a 2009 collection of short stories about Puerto Rico and its people. Its author, Zoé Jiménez Corretjer, forms part of the Puerto Rican writers called ‘La Generación de los 80’ (authors writing in Spanish from the island and not in English from US territory.)
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Laila Amine deposited Crossroads of Memory in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoIn the last six years, scholars have engaged with the effects of globalization on the study of collective memory, emphasizing the de-territorialization, de-nationalization of memory cultures. While being attentive to the global circulation and transformation of collective memories, authors in this issue seek to revisit and critique some…[Read more]
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