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David A. Wacks started the topic Blog post: A Moroccan Jewish nightclub artist sings sáetas to the Virgin in León in the discussion
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David A. Wacks deposited Conversos e identidad in the group
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThis is a pedagogical edition of the medieval Castilian texts with modern Spanish introduction, notes, and bibliography by Ana Gómez Bravo, of a series of excerpts of late fifteenth-century texts related to the cultural practices (perceived and actual) of judeo-conversos, or Jews who have converted to Christianity. It includes an introduction…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Conversos and Identity in the group
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThis is a pedagogical edition of the medieval Castilian texts with English introduction, translation, notes, and bibliography by Ana Gómez Bravo, of a series of excerpts of late fifteenth-century texts related to the cultural practices (perceived and actual) of judeo-conversos, or Jews who have converted to Christianity. It includes an…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Isaac Cardoso, Las excelencias de los hebreos (1679) (English .doc) in the group
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThis is a pedagogical edition of a selection of Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679), in .doc format with Spanish introduction and notes, with the original text in Spanish. Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) is a treatise describing the positive characteristics (excelencias) of the Jewish people and a containing a…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Isaac Cardoso, Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) in the group
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is a pedagogical edition of a selection of Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679), in .doc format with a Spanish-language introduction and notes, with the original text in both the original Castilian.
Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) is a treatise describing the positive characteristics (excelencias) of the Jewish…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) in the group
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is a pedagogical edition of a selection of Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679), in .pdf format with an English-language introduction and notes, with the original text in both the original Castilian and English translation.
Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) is a treatise describing the positive characteristics…[Read more]
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Nohemy Solorzano-Thompson started the topic MLA 2020 LLC Sephardic Forum Panel — Friday, January 10, 8:30 am, at WSCC 614 in the discussion
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 6 years agoDear colleagues
I am writing to invite you to the LLC Sephardic Forum Panel for the 2020 MLA on Friday, January 10, 8:30 am, WSCC 614.
This year’s panel focuses on Sephardic Cultural Expressions in the Portuguese- and Spanish-Speaking Americas and Beyond.
Full details below and please note the title update for Dr. Bolorinos A…[Read more]
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Shane Graham started the topic CFP: Langston Hughes Review Special Issue—”‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ at 100″ in the discussion
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoLangston Hughes Review
Guest Editor: Shane Graham
Expected Publication: May 2021
In June 1921, Crisis published Langston Hughes’ first adult poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” In many ways it contained the blueprint for the poet’s entire subsequent career, and established many of his key themes: black pride and self-assertion; the validat…[Read more] -
Payton Phillips-García Quintanilla replied to the topic Elections: Sephardic Forum Executive Committee Nomination in the discussion
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the MLA Sephardic Forum:
First of all, my thanks to Monique for beginning this thread; it is an honor to have been nominated alongside such a dynamic and accomplished professor. As an early career academic, I also welcome this opportunity to introduce myself to a community of scholars that I hope to work with in the years to…[Read more]
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Monique Rodrigues Balbuena started the topic Elections: Sephardic Forum Executive Committee Nomination in the discussion
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoDear MLA Sephardic Forum Members,
Thank you for the opportunity to run for a position on the Sephardic Forum Executive Committee. The voting will close at midnight (EST) on 10 December.
I would like to introduce myself and share some of my interests and goals. I am Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies in the Clark…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman deposited Scheherezade in Chains: Arab-Islamic Genealogies of African Diasporic Literature in the group
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDrawing on Arabic textual traditions and foregrounding the liminal time and space of administrative detention, of the expired visa, of deportation, and of repatriation, Muslim slave narratives deserve recognition as generative forebears of transnational, multicultural literature in both England and the United States. Yet these forebears were…[Read more]
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Nohemy Solorzano-Thompson started the topic LASA 2020: Interest in a Latin American Sephardic Culture Panel?? in the discussion
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoHi everyone,
The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) just issued its call for the 2020 conference which will be held in Guadalajara, Mexico, on May 13 to 16, 2020.
The conference theme is entitled “Améfrica Ladina: vinculando mundos y saberes, tejiendo esperanzas” [Améfrica Ladina: link worlds, knowledge, and disciplines, weave h…[Read more]
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Judith Roumani replied to the topic Serving on the Sephardic Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC Sephardic via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoHello, Bethany,
Thank you for this opportunity, I am sorry but I have dropped my MLA
membership.
Good luck with your search,
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Bethany Beyer started the topic Serving on the Sephardic Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe MLA Sephardic Forum Executive Committee is looking for forum members who would be interested in serving as future committee members. This process involves running for election, and if successful, serving for 5 years. It’s not a lot of work; instead, the committee helps organize/plan the yearly (guaranteed) MLA panel, takes care of committee b…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Stenographic fictions: Mary Benson’s At the Still Point and the South African political trial in the group
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoFrom the mid-1960s onward, compilations of the speeches and trial addresses of South African opponents of apartheid focused attention on the apartheid regime despite intensified repression in the wake of the Rivonia Trial. Mary Benson’s novel, At the Still Point, transposes the political trial into fiction. Its “stenographic” codes of repre…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Sepharadim/conversos and premodern Global Hispanism in the group
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoSepharadim participated in the Hispanic vernacular culture of the Iberian Peninsula. Even in the time of al-Andalus many spoke Hispano-Romance, and even their Hebrew literature belies a deep familiarity with and love of their native Hispano-Romance languages. However, since the early sixteenth century the vast majority of Sepharadim have never…[Read more]
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Bethany Beyer replied to the topic CFP MLA 2020 LLC Sephardic Cultural Expressions Panel in the discussion
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoHere are the abstracts for the 2020 LLC Sephardic Studies Panel:
Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard
Spanish Jew or Hispanist? Abraham Z. López-Penha and the Negotiation of Columbian, Pan-Hispanic, and Sephardic Identity
Abstract: This paper explores the negotiation of Sephardic, Columbian, and Hispanic identity in the poetry and correspondence of…[Read more]
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Wendy Laura Belcher started the topic Early African Literature in the discussion
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoLooking for citations. It is my sense that most of the people who are in the African literature MLA forum are working on African literature from the 1950s through the 2010s. If you conduct research on literature written earlier, pre-1950s, especially African literature from the 1800s or earlier, please let me know. I am a faculty member publishing…[Read more]
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Bethany Beyer started the topic CFP MLA 2020 LLC Sephardic Cultural Expressions Panel in the discussion
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoSephardic Cultural Expressions in the Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking Americas
This panel seeks to explore expressions of Sephardic culture in the Americas in Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking nations. Papers could examine cultural products from fields including literature, performance, music, visual art, or language. Submission deadline: Friday,…[Read more]
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Wendy Laura Belcher started the topic Invitation to Serve on the Exec Com of LLC Pre-1990 African Literature Forum in the discussion
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 7 years agoThe Executive Committee of the Pre-1990 African Literature Forum is always looking for people willing and able to serve on the committee, as it is a four-year commitment with one person rotating off each year. The main responsibility of committee members is hosting two to four panels on pre-1990 African literature, so the labor is not onerous. It…[Read more]
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