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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Alexa Alice Joubin and Elizabeth Rivlin, “Remedial Uses of Shakespeare,” Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation, ed. Vanessa I. Corredera, L.Monique Pittman, Geoffrey Way (Routledge, 2023), pp. 222-233 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis chapter argues that cultural appropriation can be an exploitative act but need not be; it all depends on what users do with Shakespeare. Due to the unequal status of the parties engaged in appropriative exchange, some appropriations deploy Shakespeare to protect conventional power structures. Appropriations are rarely negotiated on a level…[Read more]
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Priya Wadhera started the topic CFP: Surrealism dans tous ses états in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago2024 marks the centennial of the Surrealist Manifesto. Roundtable participants will examine the conceptual, verbal, and formal tools and strategies at stake in this preeminent artistic and critical stance in 20th-century French studies. They will explore the evolving ways in which surrealism still manifests in today’s cultural and literary imagina…[Read more]
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Shiao-ling S. Yu replied to the topic Drama Forum Executive Committee: Nominations Solicited in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDear Lisa Freeman,
Is it too late to nominate now? Is there a list of the membership that I take a look?
Shiao-ling Yu
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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
2022 MLA Convention 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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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Collaborative Rhizomatic Learning and Global Shakespeares,” Reimagining Shakespeare Education: Teaching and Learning through Collaboration, ed. Liam E. Semler, Claire Hansen, and Jacqueline Manuel (Cambridge University Press, 2023), 225-238 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoCollaborative learning as a pedagogical method effectively reflects the communal character of the performing arts. By creating knowledge about Shakespearean performance collaboratively, students and educators lay claim to the ethics and ownership of that knowledge, an act that is particularly urgent and meaningful in the age of COVID-19 when we…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Translingual Shakespeare: An Afterword,” Shakespeare in Succession: Translation and Time, ed. Michael Saenger and Sergio Costola (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023), 298-307 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoLiterary translations work with, rather than out of, the space between languages. Translations evolve not only across linguistic and cultural borders but also across time. It is notable that Shakespeare’s own play texts feature translational properties that can be amplified in translation. This translingual property makes Shakespeare’s text inh…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum CFPs for MLA 2024 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoFor the 2024 Modern Language Association in Philadelphia (January 4 to 7), the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum is organizing or co-organizing four sessions / panels. Please click on the links below to see the full CFPs and submission deadlines.
1) Postcolonial Southeast Asia?: Limits and…[Read more]
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Sean Mark started the topic new book on Pound and Pasolini in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDear group members,
I’m pleased to announce that my book on Ezra Pound and Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pound and Pasolini: Poetics of Crisis, has been published by Palgrave Macmillan: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-91948-1
The Introduction and a translation of the Pasolini-Pound interview of 1967 are available for free download in th…[Read more]
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Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic Call for book proposals: Translatio (see flyer, attached) in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoSee attached flyer on the TRANSLATIO book series and the call for book proposals. Please forward to all interested potential authors, co-authors, translators, and editors.
“Key words, concepts, and texts all gather new force – and encounter new obstacles – as they move between languages, cultures, and societies. Translatio explores tra…[Read more]
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Nathalie Dupont started the topic Call for Nominations LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 3 years agoDear colleagues,
The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2024 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]
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Nathalie Dupont started the topic Call for Nominations LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years agoDear colleagues,
The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2024 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]
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Lisa A. Freeman started the topic Drama Forum Executive Committee: Nominations Solicited in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 3 years agoWe welcome nominations from our membership for the Drama Forum Executive Committee. Please feel free to email lfreeman@uic.edu before Jan. 20, 2023.
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Morgane Cadieu started the topic TOMORROW SUNDAY: Panel “Words on Food” in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years agoPlease join us tomorrow Sunday for a session sponsored by the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Executive Committee, “Words on Food.” Proust’s madeleine conjures pleasure and memories. What of food in French literature and thought since then, especially in times of scarcity or hunger? How to interpret food that is odd, inedible, absent?
Sunday, J…[Read more]
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Morgane Cadieu started the topic TODAY: Panel “French Eyes on California” in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years agoPlease join us today for a session sponsored by the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Executive Committee. Panelists will examine the role, symbol, and landscapes of California in 20th- and 21st-century French literature and thought.
Saturday, January 7
3:30pm – 4:45pm
Marriott Marquis – Nob Hill C (Lower B2 Level)
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Nathalie Dupont started the topic TODAY: Roundtable on Démission/resignation in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years agoPlease join us today for a roundtable on démission/resignation as a multifaceted motif and a critical stance in 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone cultural and literary imagination, and on the conceptual, verbal, and formal tools and strategies at stake in this dual phenomenon, whether it proceeds from the stasis of discontent or as an…[Read more]
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Caitilin Walsh deposited ATA Joins Forces with the Association of Language Companies to Bridge the Educational Career Gap in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe Association of Language Companies (ALC) has been working to increase connections, relationships, and shared learning between the professional and academic sides of the language services supply chain. From these efforts, the ALC
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Shiao-ling S. Yu deposited Humor and Satire in Contemporary Chinese Drama in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 3 years agoHumor has always been important in Chinese drama. The four major role-types in traditional Chinese drama include the chou (usually translated as “clown”), the others being male roles, female roles, and “painted face” roles. Although placed last in the four-tier hierarchy, the humble clown with his comical facial makeup and humorous speech is an i…[Read more]
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Tahneer Oksman started the topic Seeking nominations in the discussion
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoWe are seeking nominations, including self-nominations, for appointment to the Global Jewish Forum Executive Committee. The term will be for five years, from January 2024 through January 2029.
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Local Habitations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Shakespeare Bulletin 40.3 (Fall 2022): pp. 417-437. in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThe metatheatricality of A Midsummer Night’s Dream has invited recent directors to tell particular kinds of socially progressive stories. This article uses the notion of “social reparation” to theorize remedial uses of Shakespeare in adaptations that give artists and audiences more moral agency. By imagining more inclusive local habitations and s…[Read more]
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Evan Chaloupka deposited Prosthetic Narration and the Engagement of Disability in Literary Naturalism in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThis talk introduces the concept of “prosthetic narration,” a narrative technique that mediates the engagement of disabled cognition such that the reader is invited to reimagine how one thinks and perceives. In his essay, “The Novel,” Émile Zola establishes the “intimate union” between the author and “the reality of the scene” as a premise of fic…[Read more]
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