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Yolanda Padilla deposited Felix beyond the Closet: Sexuality, Masculinity, and Relations of Power in Arturo Islas’s The Rain God in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis essay examines the uneasy relationship that Arturo Islas’s The Rain God has had with narratives of identity, focusing on how the representation of Felix’s sexuality makes him a problematic figure for certain strains of Chicana/o and queer studies. In other writings, Islas criticizes Quinto Sol, the chief publishing house of Chicano literature…[Read more]
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Carol DeGrasse deposited Creating a Strong Thesis Statement in the group
MLAgrads on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis handout explains in clear and simple terms what a strong thesis statement should–and should not be. Examples of the four main types of ‘weak’ thesis statements are given, along with four corresponding ‘strong’ thesis statements. I have successfully used this handout in workshopping students’ thesis ideas.
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Yolanda Padilla deposited “Chicana/o Narratives: Then and Now” in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoIntroduction to the edited volume Bridges, Borders, and Breaks: History, Narrative, and Nation in Twenty-First-Century Chicana/o Literary Criticism.
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Claudia Cabello-Hutt started the topic CFP 2018- Working Group Wild Interventions in Latin/o America – XX and XXI Centu in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoAddress the ways in which cultural, literary, and artistic interventions in the socio-political landscape of Latin/o America during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have queered genders and sexualities, practices of sociality, public spaces, the production and consumption of cultural goods, forms of embodiment, developmental rhetorics, and…[Read more]
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Alexa Huang deposited The Paradox of Female Agency: Ophelia and East Asian Sensibilities in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThere are three main East Asian approaches to interpreting Ophelia. The first is informed by the fascination with and reaction against the Victorian pictorialization of Ophelia, especially John Everett Millais’s famous Ophelia (1851), that emphasized, as Kimberly Rhodes describes, her “pathos, innocence, and beauty rather than the unseemly det…[Read more]
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Carol DeGrasse deposited Creating a Strong Thesis Statement in the group
MLAgrads on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThis handout explains in clear and simple terms what a strong thesis statement should–and should not be. Examples of the four main types of ‘weak’ thesis statements are given, along with four corresponding ‘strong’ thesis statements. I have successfully used this handout in workshopping students’ thesis ideas.
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Laura Halperin started the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED! Chicana and Chicano Literature Forum: MLA 2018 Call for Papers in the discussion
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago21st Century Chicanx Performance
We invite papers on 21st century Chicanx performance/ performance of Chicanidad on stage/film/street, etc.; 200-300 word abstract; 1-page cv. 200-300 word abstract; 1-page cv by 20 March 2017; José Navarro (jnavar17@calpoly.edu).
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We invite analyses of the president’s/executive cabinet’s anti…[Read more]
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Maia Gil'Adi started the topic CFP MLA 2018: Latina/o New York in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPapers examining the history and/or contemporary state of Latina/o literature and cultural production in New York. 200-300 word abstract, 1-page cv by March 10, 2017 to John Alba Cutler (john-cutler@northwestern.edu).
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Maia Gil'Adi started the topic Extended Deadline. CFP (MLA 2018): The "X" Factor in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2018; co-sponsored by LLC Latina and Latino and LLC Chicana and Chicano
Papers exploring the historical, gendered, and linguistic aspects of the shift from Chicana/o, Latina/o, and Chican@/Latin@ to Chicanx/Latinx. 200-300 word abstract; 1-page cv. 200-300 word abstract; 1-page cv by March 20, 2017; Richard T. Rodriguez…[Read more]
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Samara Hayley Steele deposited The Reality Code: Interpreting Aggregate Larp Rules as Code that Runs on Humans in the group
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoAggregate larp rules are a type of code that runs on humans. Code can be thought of as a linguistic form that is both declarative and imperative; it is both truth and command (Buswell 2009). In aggregate larp, elements of the game’s
diegesis are rendered codic, or playable, allowing players a degree of autonomy from game staff. Through the m…[Read more] -
Lisa Zunshine deposited Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoFantastic tales of rebellious robots and animated artifacts are a permanent fixture in popular culture. What kind of behavior do we expect from such conceptual hybrids in science fiction, nonsense poetry, and surrealist art?
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoFantastic tales of rebellious robots and animated artifacts are a permanent fixture in popular culture. What kind of behavior do we expect from such conceptual hybrids in science fiction, nonsense poetry, and surrealist art?
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Julie Ward started the topic CFP: SCMLA 2017 “Moving Words: Migrations, Translations, and Transformations" in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoMODERN DRAMA This session welcomes abstracts on any topic related to modern drama, but is especially interested in those related to the conference theme: “Moving Words: Migrations, Translations, and Transformations”
The South Central Modern Languages Association has chosen Tulsa, Oklahoma for the site of its 2017 annual convention. Tulsa is bot…[Read more]
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Julie Ward started the topic CFP: SCMLA 2017 “Moving Words: Migrations, Translations, and Transformations" in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoMODERN DRAMA This session welcomes abstracts on any topic related to modern drama, but is especially interested in those related to the conference theme: “Moving Words: Migrations, Translations, and Transformations”
The South Central Modern Languages Association has chosen Tulsa, Oklahoma for the site of its 2017 annual convention. Tulsa is bot…[Read more]
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Judith Sierra-Rivera started the topic CFP (MLA 2018) Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoCFP (MLA 2018) Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
LLC Puerto RicanImperial frontier/zone; militarism/militarization of space; soldiers, veterans, military migrations, encounters with unforeseen “others”; censorship, persecution, political prisoners; pacifism, civil disobedience. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2017; Judith Sierra-Rivera (jus55@psu.edu).
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