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Preetha Mani deposited What Was So New about the New Story? Modernist Realism in the Hindi Nayī Kahānī in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis essay examines the Hindi Nayī Kahānī, or New Story, Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, which was influential for the short stories, criticism, and literary history that its writers produced. Incorporating a view toward the larger “metaliterary” corpus in relation to which properly “literary” nayī kahānī texts were written, the essay shows h…[Read more]
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Transcultural Manipulations: Translation Workshop syllabus HACU 241 in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis multilingual undergraduate translation workshop was co-taught in the Spring of 2014 with Prof. Norman Holland in the division of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies at Hampshire College. During the course, students were introduced to translation theory and explored key concepts through intralingual translation exercises before embarking on…[Read more]
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Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic CFP: Women and Language journal in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis CFP came to several of us on email, with a request to post to our group. So here it is:
Women & Language Editor <editorwomenandlanguage@gmail.com> Yesterday, 10:12 AM dbalder@pitt.edu; aebc@st-andrews.ac.uk; kljohnson@wm.edu;
Hi all,
Can you please share the Women & Language CFP with the MLA Translation Studies forum? I’ve pasted it b…[Read more] -
Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic CFP: The 1970s and the Caribbean (MLA 2020) in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoSeeking presentations on the significance of the 1970s to cultural engagements with the Caribbean’s postcolonial history. 300-word abstract and 1-page CV to Rafe Dalleo (prdalleo@gmail.com) and Sheri Harrison (harrisonsl@missouri.edu ) by March 15, 2019
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2019
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Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic CFP: Sylvia Wynter in the Undergraduate Classroom (MLA 2020) in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoSeeking presentations that discuss how to engage the significant theoretical principles of Sylvia Wynter’s work from a rigorous and non-jargonistic perspective in the undergraduate classroom. 300-word abstract and 1-page CV to Kaiama L. Glover (kglover@barnard.edu)
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2019
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Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic CFPs: Translation Studies Forum Sessions, MLA 2020 Seattle in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoDear Translation Studies scholars,
The CFPs for our Translation Studies Forum have been posted, and I repeat them here for your convenience and invite you to send proposals or abstracts:
(1) Translatability and World Literature: How best to acknowledge translation as a mediating factor in world literature? Incommensurability vs.…[Read more]
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Stefania Licata started the topic Session Proposal:Production and circulation of Afro-Hispanophone/ Lusophone arts in the discussion
LLC Luso-Brazilian on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear colleagues,
Please consider submitting an abstract to the following session for the 2019 ALA (African Literature Association) Conference, which will take place at Renaissance Columbus Downtown Hotel, from May 15 to May 18, 2019.
Session Title: Production and circulation of Afro-Hispanophone/ Lusophone performing and vis…[Read more]
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018.
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Mariela Mendez deposited “De crepusculares y garotas modernas: Las columnas travestidas de Alfonsina Storni y Clarice Lispector” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHinging on the concept of transvestism, this article traces a trajectory that goes from Alfonsina Storni’s re-appropriation of the women’s page in the guise of a male persona, through Alejo Carpentier’s contributions to a fashion column disguised as Jacqueline, to Clarice Lispector’s unsettling use of the page addressed specifically to women i…[Read more]
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Oana Popescu-Sandu deposited “Translingualism as Dialogism in Romanian-American Poetry” in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis essay examines how translingual poetry by immigrant Romanian writers who live in or travel to the United States requires a transnational community framing rather than a national one and raises new questions about cultural and linguistic identity formation that reflect on both national and world literature issues. This analysis of the…[Read more]
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Giovanna Gobbi Alves Araujo started the topic CFP: OPINIÃES N. 14 – Dossiê "A tragédia e o trágico na literatura brasileira" in the discussion
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoCall For Papers / Chamada de trabalhos — Opiniães nº 14
Dossiê: A tragédia e o trágico na literatura brasileira
A Revista Opiniães (Qualis B5) tratará do tema da tragédia e do trágico na literatura
brasileira em seu dossiê temático para a edição de número 14, a ser publicada no
primeiro semestre de 2019.A Opiniães – Revista dos alunos de lite…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Alexa Joubin deposited Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis collection of scholarly essays offers a new understanding of local and global myths that have been constructed around Shakespeare in theatre, cinema, and television from the nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on a definition of myth as a powerful ideological narrative, Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance examines…[Read more]
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Currently Accepting Submissions: Spectral Mexico in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThe peer reviewed journal iMex. Interdisciplinary Mexico, ISSN 2193-9756 is currently accepting original, unpublished articles on the subjects of haunting and spectrality in contemporary Mexican cultures for its special issue Spectral Mexico. Original call for papers available here:…[Read more]
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Charlotte Rogers started the topic CFP: “Current and Future Ecocriticisms of the Americas” for ASLE 2019 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoWhat is the current state of hemispheric American ecocritical studies? Where is the discipline headed? The newly formed Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment interest group “Ecocriticism of the Americas” offers a jam session to address these questions at the biannual conference in Davis, CA from June 26-29, 2019. Panel…[Read more]
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Alexa Joubin deposited Preface, The Shakespearean International Yearbook 17: Shakespeare and Value, Edited by Tom Bishop, Alexa Alice Joubin, Simon Haines (New York: Routledge, 2018) in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoHow do Shakespearean plays sustain clashing values within them, or imposed on them? Is Shakespeare anti-Semitic? Can Shakespeare be a feminist? How is value subject to context, to market, and demand? A wide range of moral, political, and aesthetic values—profitable or heartening or threatening from case to case—have been associated with Sha…[Read more]
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Alexa Joubin deposited “‘To unpath’d waters, undream’d shores’: Shakespeare in the World.” The Score : An Insider’s Guide to the Performing Arts (New York: Lincoln Center, June 28, 2018) in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoIn the centuries since William Shakespeare’s death, numerous stage and, more recently, film and television adaptations of his work have emerged to inspire, comfort, and provoke audiences in far-flung corners of the globe. As early as 1619, for example, Hamlet was performed in colonial Indonesia to entertain European expatriates. In 1845, U.S. Army…[Read more]
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Eliseo Jacob started the topic CFP: V SIMPÓSIO INTERNACIONAL DE LITERATURA NEGRA IBERO-AMERICANA in the discussion
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agohttps://simposioliteraturanegraiberoamericana.wordpress.com/
COORDENADOR: PROF. DR. RODRIGO VASCONCELOS MACHADO/UFPR,
EMENTA DO EVENTO: Este simpósio tem como objetivo pensar a problemática da mestiçagem desde a ótica Negra, Indígena, Branca e Mestiça, bem como refletir sobre as causas da sua presença em quase todos os âmbitos da cultura e da su…[Read more]
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Téa Rokolj deposited Many a Footnote and Afterword: Dubravka Ugrešić and the Essay in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoA widely translated author, and a prominent voice from post-communist Europe, Dubravka Ugrešić has published a variety of literary forms in addition to literary criticism and translations. Playful experimentation with language, boundaries between texts, and literary conventions as well as an acute awareness of the contemporary socio-political c…[Read more]
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