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Miriam Thaggert started the topic LLC Af Am Events at MLA in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
Please join the LLC African American Forum for the following panels and cash bar at this year’s MLA in Philadelphia:
41A. Imagining New Literary Histories: Mapping Aesthetics and Poetics in the Black Arts Movement
Thursday, 5 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Presiding: Dana A. Wil…[Read more]
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic LLC Af Am Events at MLA in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
Please join the LLC African American Forum for the following panels and cash bar at this year’s MLA in Philadelphia:
41A. Imagining New Literary Histories: Mapping Aesthetics and Poetics in the Black Arts Movement
Thursday, 5 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Presiding: Dana A. Williams, How…[Read more]
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Stefania Irene Sini posted an update in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoEnthymema. International journal of literary criticism, literary theory, and philosophy of literature
http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema/index
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Raphael Dalleo started the topic MLA 2017 Panel: Caribbean Specters in 1920s Harlem in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis panel, about the Caribbean presence (both demographic and discursive) in 1920s Harlem, takes place on Sunday, January 8th at noon in the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 112A.
Vanessa K. Valdés, Imani Owens James C. Davis, and Raphael Dalleo will be part of the panel, presenting on Arturo Schomburg, Eulalie Spence, Nella Larsen, and…[Read more]
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Raphael Dalleo started the topic MLA 2017 Panel: Caribbean Specters in 1920s Harlem in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis panel, about the presence of the Caribbean presence (both demographic and discursive) in 1920s Harlem, takes place on Sunday, January 8th at noon in the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 112A.
Vanessa K. Valdés, Imani Owens James C. Davis, and Raphael Dalleo will be part of the panel, presenting on Arturo Schomburg, Eulalie Spence, Nella…[Read more]
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Raphael Dalleo started the topic MLA 2017 Panel: Caribbean Specters in 1920s Harlem in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis panel, about the presence of the Caribbean in the Harlem Renaissance, takes place on Sunday, January 8th at noon in the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 112A.
Vanessa K. Valdés, Imani Owens James C. Davis, and Raphael Dalleo will be part of the panel, presenting on Arturo Schomburg, Eulalie Spence, Nella Larsen, and Eric Walrond.
More…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited “I Talk More of The French”: Creole Folklore and the Federal Writers’ Project in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis essay tackles a question that has preoccupied Francophone postcolonial studies for several decades—namely, what is believed almost unanimously to be the absence of a Francophone equivalent to the slave narrative in English. My article challenges this assumption by reconciling the legacies of slavery in both the Anglophone and Francophone “…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited The Man That Was a Thing: Reconsidering Human Commodification in Slavery in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis essay examines a longstanding normative assumption in the historiography of slavery in the Atlantic world: that enslaved Africans and their American-born descendants were bought and sold as “commodities,” thereby “dehumanizing” them and treating them as things rather than as persons. Such claims have, indeed, helped historians concept…[Read more]
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Anne Garland Mahler posted an update in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoWe’ve got three exciting upcoming panels at the MLA Convention that have been organized by the Global South Forum. Please make plans to attend!
Digital Boundaries of the Global South (Co-organized with the Digital Humanities Forum)
Friday, January 6, 5:15- 6:30 PM
Presiding: Élika Ortega, Northeastern Univ.
Speakers: Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Gr…[Read more] -
Aarthi Vadde deposited Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2016 in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoIntroduction – excerpt from book published by Columbia University Press.
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James Gifford deposited Hellenism/Modernism: Negotiating Modernisms and the Philhellene in Greece in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoPhilhellenism in modernist literature is familiar. I examine Lawrence Durrell’s works, locating him between Eliot’s Classicism (perhaps the hegemonic Modernism) and the Greek authors who responded to Eliot. Through his ties to Greek Modernists and Parisian Surrealists, Durrell contributed to the Anglo-American tradition in a mode that reflects the…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez started the topic CfP – Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for proposals
Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration
“We felt enlarge itself round us the huge blackness of what is outside us, of what we are not,” declares Bernard in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931/2000, 213). “What we are not”—the nonhuman—has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking concepts in contemporary…[Read more] -
David Rodriguez started the topic CfP – Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for proposals
Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration
“We felt enlarge itself round us the huge blackness of what is outside us, of what we are not,” declares Bernard in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931/2000, 213). “What we are not”—the nonhuman—has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking concepts in contemporary…[Read more] -
David Rodriguez started the topic CfP – Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for proposals
Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration
“We felt enlarge itself round us the huge blackness of what is outside us, of what we are not,” declares Bernard in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931/2000, 213). “What we are not”—the nonhuman—has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking concepts in contemporary…[Read more] -
David Rodriguez started the topic CfP – Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration in the discussion
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Marissa Nicosia started the topic 742. Returning to the History Play: Time, Affect, Memory in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoI’m excited for MLA Philly for a lot of reasons: friends are coming to town, I’m giving a paper on prophecy from my book manuscript, and I’m convening a roundtable connected to my research that’s part of the Presidential Theme, Boundary Conditions. If you’re attending the conference, check out the proposal and full-length abstracts below a…[Read more]
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CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for EACLALS triennial conference in Oviedo, Spain. 3-7 April 2017.
Deadline 15 November 2106 -
Petar Penda deposited CFP – TRANSCENDING BORDERS AND BINARIES: New Insights into Language, Literature, and Culture in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
The Department of English, at the Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in cooperation with the School of English and American Studies, University of Opole (Poland) and the College of Liberal Arts, University of Central Oklahoma (USA) are pleased to announce the third conference on English…[Read more]
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Zachary Ludington started the topic Call for Submissions: Poéticas in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPoéticas, Revista de Estudios Literarios, a new journal published in English and Spanish, invites submissions of scholarly work related to all aspects of poetry, in any language or period. In addition to scholarly studies, and book reviews, the journal publishes new work from recognized poets like Charles Simic and Yusef Komunyakaa. See the…[Read more]
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Esther Sánchez-Pardo started the topic CFP: On Sappho's Website: Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoOn Sappho’s Website: Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries
International Conference, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain,
April 25-27, 2017
https://onsapphoswebsite.wordpress.com/
EXTENDED DEADLINE: November 30, 2016
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