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Golam Rabbani deposited The Creative Industries in Bangladesh: The Case of Coke Studio Bangla’s “Deora” in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis article analyzes the case of Coke Studio Bangla’s music and performance production titled “Deora.”
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Golam Rabbani deposited In the Light of What We Know: A Novel of Its Time in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoBook review of Zia Haider Rahman’s novel In the Light of What We Know
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Dorothy Stringer replied to the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoApologies for missing info; dates and times as follows:
194 – Lacan and the Event: Papers in Honor of Mari Ruti
Friday, 5 January 2024 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Marriott – Franklin 7 (Level 4)
648 – Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis
Sunday, 7 January 2024 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Marriott – Franklin 2 (Level 4)
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Arif Camoglu deposited Inter-imperial Dimensions of Turkish Literary Modernity in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoCalling for a historiographical shift in literary criticism, this essay stresses the expansionist vision of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, approaches its literature as a corpus of representation for imperial subjectivities, and thereby supplements the critique of the narrative of literary modernity identified with the orientalist E. J. W.…[Read more]
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Arif Camoglu deposited Inter-imperial Dimensions of Turkish Literary Modernity in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoCalling for a historiographical shift in literary criticism, this essay stresses the expansionist vision of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, approaches its literature as a corpus of representation for imperial subjectivities, and thereby supplements the critique of the narrative of literary modernity identified with the orientalist E. J. W.…[Read more]
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Arif Camoglu deposited Inter-imperial Dimensions of Turkish Literary Modernity in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoCalling for a historiographical shift in literary criticism, this essay stresses the expansionist vision of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, approaches its literature as a corpus of representation for imperial subjectivities, and thereby supplements the critique of the narrative of literary modernity identified with the orientalist E. J. W.…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAnthropomorphism, which combines two Greek words, anthropos and morphe, meaning “human” and “form’ respectively, is a term that reflects our attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals and objects, bestowing upon them agency (Taylor 2011: 266). In this respect, we elevate the status of the non-human animal, moving it from being a…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Francisco Núñez Muley, Petition (Granada, 1566) in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThe Edict of 1567, or Anti-Morisco Edict, was promulgated by Spanish King Philip II on January 1, after being approved in Madrid on November 17, 1566. Its purpose was to eliminate specific Morisco customs, such as their language, dress, and dances. Núñez Muley’s Petition is an attempt to persuade Christian authorities to delay enforcing the 156…[Read more]
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Epifanio San Juan deposited INTER-CROSSCULTURAL DIALOGUES AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIGENIZATION IN LATE MODERNITY in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoSurvey of the rise of sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology) in the context of decolonization and indigenization movements in the Philippines in the last decades of the 20th century.
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
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Ignacio Infante started the topic Asst Prof in Global Hispanophone Studies (Washington University in St. Louis) in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Assistant Professor. The Department of Romance Languages & Literatures (RLL) at Washington University in St. Louis invites applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Global Hispanophone Studies to begin in the fall semester of 2024. We seek an…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Franklin Lewis started the topic Ibero-Amercian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Coloquio Virtual 8 de nov. in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoIbero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Invita al 1º Coloquio Virtual IASECS
La Leyenda Negra de España y su imperio en el siglo XVIII
Presentada por Karen Stolley y Cathy Jaffe, con la colaboración de Antonio Calvo Maturana (Universidad de Málaga) y otros autores del volumen de próxima aparición
el miércoles, 8 de noviemb…[Read more]
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Angela Acosta started the topic CFP Spanish Sapphic Modernity – Feminist Modernist Studies in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoCFP: Spanish Sapphic Modernity, Special Issue of Feminist Modernist Studies
Article proposals (250-300 words) and short bios (50-75 words) due by November 15.
Co-editors: Angela Acosta (Davidson College) and Rebecca Haidt (The Ohio State University)
Given the relative dearth of scholarship exploring sapphic modernism in Spain, Europe, and…[Read more]
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation – revised in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis is a revised 2023 version of a course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018. It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies.
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation – revised in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis is a revised 2023 version of a course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018. It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies.
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation – revised in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis is a revised 2023 version of a course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018. It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies.
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Janine M. Utell started the topic MLA Sit and Writes Announced for Fall 2023! in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoPlease join us for our first MLA Sit and Write of Fall 2023! Katherine Fusco will offer a Snack on “How to Write a Book Proposal in Five Easy Steps,” Thursday, 21 September.
Learn more about this fall’s Sit and Write sessions, and last year’s recordings, here: https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Sit-and-Write-Sessions
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Golam Rabbani deposited When the Subaltern Screams: Pedophilia and Patriarchy in Humayun Ahmed’s Pleasure Boy Kômola. in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis paper aims to analyze the depiction of pedophilia in Humayun Ahmed’s film ‘Pleasure Boy Kômola.’ It concentrates on the social and psychological reasons for this rarely existing sexual practice or perversion and the oppressive consequences it causes on the subalterns in Bangladesh during the colonial period.
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