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Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThis interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses how he came to be associated with the New Americanists, his project…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThis interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses how he came to be associated with the New Americanists, his project…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited “Then Out of the Rubble”: The Apocalypse in David Foster Wallace’s Early Fiction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoExcerpt from first paragraph: In the emerging field of David Foster Wallace studies, nothing has been more widely cited in terms of understanding Wallace’s literary project than two texts that appeared in the 1993 issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction. “E Unibus Pluram: Television and US Fiction” and a lengthy interview with Larry McCaf…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited The Inverted Nuke in the Garden: Archival Emergence and Anti-Eschatology in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThis essay historically situates David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest as a transitional text between the first and second nuclear ages. Written in the immediate wake of the Cold War, Infinite Jest complexly develops the nuclear trope’s fabulously textual persistence despite the relative disappearance of the discourse of Mutually Assured Des…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited “The past goes to sleep, and wakes up inside you”: Identity Crisis in Hassan Blasimʼs “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes” in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis article examines “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes,” the last of the fourteen stories that comprise Iraqi writer Hassan Blasimʼs collection The Corpse Exhibition. In “The Nightmares” Blasim is not concerned at all about depicting the reception of refugees in Europe. As evident in the title itself, what is central to the story is the psycholo…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited Homeland as a Site of Trauma in Selected Short Stories by Edwidge Danticat in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe main objective of this article is to examine the representation of ʻhomelandʼ in three short stories by Caribbean-American writer Edwidge Danticat: “The Book of the Dead,” “Night Talkers,” and “The Gift.” All three stories represent Haitian migrants in the multi-cultural setting of the United States. A central theme that connects these stories…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited Homeland as a Site of Trauma in Selected Short Stories by Edwidge Danticat in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe main objective of this article is to examine the representation of ʻhomelandʼ in three short stories by Caribbean-American writer Edwidge Danticat: “The Book of the Dead,” “Night Talkers,” and “The Gift.” All three stories represent Haitian migrants in the multi-cultural setting of the United States. A central theme that connects these stories…[Read more]
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Graham Jensen started the topic Last chance! Send us your MLA 2024 proposals on CanLit and TV/film! in the discussion
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoNOTE: There are just two days left before the March 15 deadline!
Please consider submitting a proposal for the following guaranteed session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum:
This panel invites proposals on the popularity of recent adaptations of Canadian literary texts for screen/TV/film. Issues may include: access, cachet, canonicity,…[Read more]
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Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024–Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]
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Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024–Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]
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Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024–Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]
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Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024–Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic CFP: MLA 2024–Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis (Guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on queer theory and psychoanalysis. We particularly welcome theoretical and archival scholarship that centers LGBTQI+ theorists, artists, intellectuals, and writers. Queer theory embraces p…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited What Does a Nascent Film Movement of Popular Genres Reveal About Emirati Culture? in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDespite a lack of a traditional cinema culture, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has recently witnessed an increase in film production. This rise can be attributed to a number of factors, not least of which, is the opening of movie theaters, the establishment of international film festivals and the arrival of film companies. These ventures have…[Read more]
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Matthew Calihman started the topic MLA Proposed Session: Political Oratory and African Am Lit (abstracts by 3/13) in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoI am proposing a special session at MLA 2024 on “Political Oratory and African American Literature.” Papers will examine speeches by elected officials as contributions to African American literary discourse. Please email 300-word abstracts to matthewcalihman@missouristate.edu by March 13.
Matthew Calihman, Professor of English, Missouri S…[Read more]
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Graham Jensen started the topic CFP: CanLit Adapts/Adapting Canadian Literature in the discussion
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the following guaranteed session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum:
This panel invites proposals on the popularity of recent adaptations of Canadian literary texts for screen/TV/film. Issues may include: access, cachet, canonicity, “Canadianness,” pedagogy, and production from critics and…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic “What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy” in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAn op-ed article I co-wrote with Latinx Studies colleagues David J. Vázquez and Magdalena L. Barrera was just published in Salon. Check it out!
“What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy: Who gets to wield the power of representation might be important to columnist Pamela Paul, but it’s a…[Read more]
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic Nominations and Self-Nominations For Assembly Delegate in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 12 months agoThe TC Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature solicits nominations and self-nominations for Delegate to the MLA Delegate Assembly. Running for Delegate is a good way to become more involved in Forum activities and to make connections with colleagues who share your scholarly interests. To forward your own or a colleague’s name, or to…[Read more]
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Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoLanguages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc. Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more]
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Eleanor R. Ty started the topic Nominate yourself to the Canadian Literature committee in the discussion
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 3 years agoWe are currently seeking one new member for the Canadian Forum. Executive committees serve for five years and help choose the topics for the conference. Please send your nominations to Graham Jensen ghjensen@uvic.ca by Friday, Jan 20, 2023 at noon. Thank you.
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