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Kendra Leonard deposited Song of Myself: Autobiography in Pop Music in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAn essay on autobiography in pop songs by women: http://www.theavidlistener.com/2014/12/singing-about-yourself-autobiography-in-pop-music.html
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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThe deadline is approaching!
To participate in this year’s annual Stony Brook University English Graduate conference, please submit all abstracts to stonybrookenglishgradcon@gmail.com by December 18th, 2017.
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Amanda M. Smith started the topic Chiricú Journal – Latinx Literature & Politics Issue – Extended Deadline: Dec 15 in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoChiricú Journal announces a deadline extension for submissions for our upcoming issue on Latinx literature and politics. <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Submissions by December 15 to chiricu.indiana.edu</span> For questions, contact chiricu@indiana.edu
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>Chiricú Journal</span><span class=”s2″> is a new, cut…[Read more] -
Kendra Leonard deposited The Past is a Foreign Country: World Musics Signifying History in/and Elizabethan Drama in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoResearch on global Shakespeare has focused on the ways in which the plays have been adapted for indigenous languages and customs. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which non-British directors have treated the Elizabethan drama. Yet there are a number of works that create direct musical dialogues between Elizabethan drama, history, and…[Read more]
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Kanika Batra deposited Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme’s The Reign of Wazobia in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoNigerian authors have consistently and effectively critiqued insidious connections between
masculinity, political power, religious fundamentalism, and capitalist interests. The unstable
political structures in Nigeria since the 1970s have led to such critiques. This essay deploys the
idea of polygamy in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the S…[Read more] -
Kanika Batra deposited Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme’s The Reign of Wazobia in the group
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoNigerian authors have consistently and effectively critiqued insidious connections between
masculinity, political power, religious fundamentalism, and capitalist interests. The unstable
political structures in Nigeria since the 1970s have led to such critiques. This essay deploys the
idea of polygamy in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the S…[Read more] -
Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Call for Articles. Spectral Mexico in the discussion
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoSpectral Mexico. Ghosts and the Talking Dead in Contemporary Mexican Culture
The persistence of death and its figurative representations is a recognizable commonplace in the visual and narrative discourses of Mexican culture. Underworlds like Mictlan and Xibalba, the Catrina skull, the Santa Muerte, ghosts, dancing skeletons, post-mortem…[Read more]
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited Caridad’s Choice for Transformation: Jumping off a Mesa Cliff in Ana Castillo’s Novel So Far from God in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAs part of my research, I argue that one important way the definition of a feminist borderland develops in these narratives is from a female character’s knowledge of and interpretation of her physical presence within the borderlands. By applying Linda Martín Alcoff’s theories of gender “positionality” and “self-embodiment” from her text Visible…[Read more]
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited Caridad’s Choice for Transformation: Jumping off a Mesa Cliff in Ana Castillo’s Novel So Far from God in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAs part of my research, I argue that one important way the definition of a feminist borderland develops in these narratives is from a female character’s knowledge of and interpretation of her physical presence within the borderlands. By applying Linda Martín Alcoff’s theories of gender “positionality” and “self-embodiment” from her text Visible…[Read more]
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Amanda M. Smith posted an update in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoReminder that the deadline for submissions to the Latinx literature edition of Chiricú Journal is a little over two weeks away. Please submit your critical articles, artwork, photography, creative writing, and interviews to chiricu.indiana.edu by December 1. If interested in reviewing a book, contact chiricu@indiana.edu. More information at our…[Read more]
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Octavio Gonzalez posted an update in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoHi Everyone, I’m Octavio (Tavi) Gonzalez, and I’m running for the Sexuality Studies Executive Committee election. I am assistant professor at Wellesley College, and have been a member of MLA since I was a graduate student. Last year, I presented on a panel on “Rethinking AIDS in the Age of Archival Publics,” where I presented on the Archives of…[Read more]
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited The Subaltern and Familial Ghosts: Impossible Representations in The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Beloved in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis paper discusses the relationships made between ghost figures and their living relatives within Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Toni Morrison’s Beloved. In this paper I argue that a specific female identity and agency is represented in these texts through figurative language and symbolization of…[Read more]
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Call for Articles. Spectral Mexico in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoSpectral Mexico. Ghosts and the Talking Dead in Contemporary Mexican Culture
The persistence of death and its figurative representations is a recognizable commonplace in the visual and narrative discourses of Mexican culture. Underworlds like Mictlan and Xibalba, the Catrina skull, the Santa Muerte, ghosts, dancing skeletons, post-mortem…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear members of the Sexuality Studies group, for your consideration:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
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Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear members of the Women’s and Gender Studies, for your consideration:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
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Maia Gil'Adi started the topic MLA Forum Elections in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoGood afternoon everyone,
This is just a quick reminder to please vote in the MLA elections! The LLC Latina and Latino forum is electing a new member of the executive committee and we want your input. Voting opened October 26 and closes December 10. You should have received an email with instructions from MLA last week.
Stay tuned for MLA 2018…[Read more]
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Helene Meyers deposited Got Jewish Milk? Screening Epstein and Van Sant for Intersectional Film History in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoA B ST R A C T
Rob Epstein’s The Times of Harvey Milk (USA, 1984) and Gus Van Sant’s Milk (USA,
2008), the two major films that narrate the life and tragically dramatic death of gay
politician and activist Harvey Milk (1930–1978), are widely recognized as part of
the queer cinematic canon but are less often categorized as Jewish films. While…[Read more] -
Merrill Cole posted an update in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHi everyone,
My name is Merrill Cole and I am running for a seat on the executive committee of TC Sexuality Studies. I would like to introduce myself, my academic work, and my plans for the next few years. I am thrilled to have received the nomination, and I look forward to meeting more members of the group.
I have taught in the Department of…[Read more]
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Julie Ward posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoHi, As I am on the ballot for the Forum Executive Committee, I was invited to introduce myself here in the Commons.
I work on representations of reality in contemporary Latin American cultural production, in particular in Mexican theatre and drama, though I write about South American theatre, including Brazilian, as well.
My goals for the LLC…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] - Load More
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