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Zahi A. Zalloua started the topic CFP Catastrophe: Special issue of The Comparatist in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years agoWe welcome contributions that examine the notion of catastrophe in comparative studies and literary theory. Thinking catastrophe today raises multiple questions. What constitutes a catastrophe? How do we bear witness to a catastrophe? What historical catastrophes serve an exemplary or paradigmatic function? Whose catastrophe is heard and whose…[Read more]
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Laura Barbas Rhoden deposited Connecting Curriculum to Context: Our Story of Two Liberal Arts College Spanish Programs Engaged in a Changing South in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe purpose of this article is to refl ect upon the process by which two professors in Spanish programs at small liberal arts colleges in the southeastern United States developed courses with civic engagement components that enabled our students to engage with the local Hispanic community in meaningful ways. From the outset, we focused on what we…[Read more]
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Zoe Roth started the topic CFP: Transnational French Modernisms in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Call for Papers:
Transnational French Modernisms
7th-8th July 2016, Durham University, UK
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Jonathan Eburne (Penn State)
Professor Susan Harrow (Bristol)
Professor Debarati Sanyal (Berkeley)
The rise of France’s colonial empire in the 19th century shaped French culture as a global arena and fra…[Read more] -
Shazia Rahman deposited Rachna Mara’s Cosmopolitan (Yet Partial) Feminisms in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis article shows how Rachna Mara’s collection of short stories Of Customs and Excise puts forth a cosmopolitan feminism that reveals the losses and gains of diaspora in an arena of partiality and relationality.
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Serguei Alex Oushakine started the topic CFP: "Imperial Reverb: Exploring the Postcolonies of Communism, May 13-15, 2016 in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Princeton Conjunction – 2016
https://imperialreverb.princeton.edu/
IMPERIAL REVERB:
Exploring the Postcolonies of Communism<h1 id=”site-title”>
May 13-15, 2016
Princeton University
In a 2001 issue of the journal PMLA, David Chioni Moore asked: “Is the Post- in Postcolonial the Post- in Post-Soviet?” Answers to this importa…[Read more] -
Tsitsi Jaji started the topic CFP: The Performance of Pan-Africanism (Conference on Cultural Festivals) in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Performance of Pan-Africanism:
from Colonial Exhibitions to Black and African Cultural Festivals
International Conference
20-22 October, 2016
Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University
Keynote speakers: Andrew Apter (UCLA), Cheryl Finley (Cornell University), Souleymane B…[Read more]
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Julia V. Douthwaite deposited How Revolutionary is our Scholarship Today? in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis is a longer version of my conference paper, in which I provide some ideas on how to merge scholarship on 18th-c France, especially the revolutionary period, with the kinds of advocacy promoted by the MLA. I foreground exciting new work done by colleagues in the US, UK, and Italy, and provide a “sneak peek” at materials to be included in the…[Read more]
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Shazia Sadaf deposited Daniyal Mueenuddin’s Dying Men in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDaniyal Mueenuddin’s In Other Rooms, Other Wonders is reflection of Pakistani masculinity in a metamorphosed state. A disturbingly masculine vocabulary frames the appearance and actions of the female characters. In contrast, the speech and thought of the male characters is minified in words of loss and regret. Their material ambitions and the r…[Read more]
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoHoward Eiland (MIT) and Michael Jennings (Princeton)’s response to the Future of Benjamin Project. What a beautiful closure to a list of brilliant articles. Let us know what you think:
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Peter Leman started the topic Invitation to "Legal and Literary Persons" special session in Austin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
As you make plans for the convention later this week, I’d like to draw your attention to a special session that will be of particular interest to those working in law and the humanities. The session, “Legal and Literary Persons,” highlights several innovative approaches to the concept of personhood in a range of natio…[Read more]
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic REIM CFP in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago<div align=”center”>CALL FOR PAPERS
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The Journal of International Mediterranean Studies (REIM) invites authors to submit articles for its 2016 special issue on“Local Politics in Contemporary Middle Eastern and North African Countries: Spaces of Political Continuity or Change?”.This special issue aims to explore the MENA countries and…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic An invitation to a literary trivia quiz in Austin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoI’d like to invite any members of this group attending the 2016 convention to participate in the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which will take place next Thursday night at the JW Marriott. It promises to be unabashedly nerdy, but fun too! A cash bar and prizes will be available.
Space is limited, so please reserve your spot at [Read more]
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoArticle # 7: Galili Shahar about Benjamin’s (Jewish) tradition:
http://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/content/one-foot-study-tradition-walter-benjamin
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoArticle # 6: Annika Thiem (Villanova) about the Benjamin field and the philosophy of disciplinary boundaries:
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Juan E. De Castro deposited ¿En qué idioma escribe usted?: Spanish, Tagalog and Identity in José Rizal's Noli me tangere in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago“¿En qué idioma escribe Ud.?” (142) “In which language are you writing?” This question, that Juan Crisóstomo Ibarra, the protagonist of José Rizal’s novel Noli me tangere (1887), addresses to the old scholar Don Anastasio, better known as Tasio, is more than just an expression of curiosity when he sees the latter writing, of all things, hiero…[Read more]
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoArticle # 5: Daniel Weidner (Humboldt/ZfL) about the AFTERLIFE of Benjamin:
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoArticle # 4: Ilit Ferber (TAU) “A Feel for Benjamin”:
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James Gifford deposited Introduction to Pied Piper of Lovers in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoEditor’s Introduction to Pied Piper of Lovers. Durrell’s first novel, Pied Piper of Lovers, was published in 1935, shortly after he left England to live abroad until his death in 1990. As an autobiographical Künstlerroman, it traces Walsh Clifton’s Anglo-Indian childhood and his struggles to negotiate a life between “mother” India and “father”…[Read more]
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoArticle # 3: Brian Britt (Virginia Tech) about Benjamin’s displaced Judaism:
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Nitzan Lebovic started the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoArticle # 3: Brian Britt (Virginia Tech) about Benjamin’s displaced Judaism:
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