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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Soothing Satire in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoExplores Douglas Coupland’s “Generation X” as almost a Gen Xer’s “version of John Updike’s Couples”; that is, as, a place where, like Updike’s book, friends create a community isolated only to themselves. Though unlike Updike’s work, where — considering the time it was written in, the ’70s, where a generation succeeded in overtly contesting and…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Deadline extended March 20: SEAsia-Australia session in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago***Deadline extended to March 20, 2019***
CFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections
This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the January…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited A Good Place for a Pump and a Dump in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoExplores Bertram Brooker’s “Think of the Earth” from Norman Holland’s perspective of literature as a “place” where unsavory wishes can be satisfied, without alarming super-ego censors. Explores the character Tavistock as built to lure many readers into situating themselves within him, for conveying characteristics that define him as both a prodigy…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Other Crowd in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoA.M. Klein’s “Political Meeting” as problematic as a poem highlighting and delineating a dangerous orator’s power; as really more on which suggests he’s ensnared, enslaved, by the crowd’s expectations and demands of him to “lead” them into particular fervour.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Leaving Home in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores Elizabeth Daryush’s “Children of wealth in your warm nursery” as of a narrator visiting us to warn us about our possible ill-fate, if we don’t “escape..” The game for the reader is to decide if she’s to be trusted, or not.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Poet as Physician in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoDaphne Marlatt’s “Healing” as a poem about re-cooperating from the infliction of a triggering, caustic word upon one’s mental composition, using efficacy, experience in knowing composure and competency, as a rebutting counter.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Introductions and Initiations in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores how Phyllis Webb’s “To Those Who Have Also Considered Suicide” is a poem which mischievously induces the reader to become one of the “friends” who undergo the “initiation” of suicide. The reader is encouraged to let go any grievance, however, in consideration of the poet’s successful demonstration of the initiation as involving genuine…[Read more]
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Sheela Jane Menon started the topic MLA 2020: Southeast Asia-Focused CFPs in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoMLA 2020: Southeast Asia-Focused CFPs
Having a hard time keeping track of the Southeast Asia-focused CFPs for MLA 2020? See the attached PDF for both the short and long descriptions of these four exciting CFPs! Please feel free to share widely and submit your own abstracts!
Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections:…[Read more]
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Sheela Jane Menon started the topic MLA 2020 CFP: Settler Colonialism in Southeast Asia in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoMLA 2020 CFP: Settler Colonialism in Southeast Asia
This special session of the MLA Southeast Asian Forum seeks to interrogate settler colonialism through a diverse range of Southeast Asian literary and cultural texts. We are particularly interested in texts that illuminate the reconfiguration of place, power, and politics in the region, both…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic MLA 2020 CFP: "Transmedia Engagement and the Performance of Place in SE Asia" in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoMLA 2020 (Jan 9-12, Seattle) CFP for Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum:
“Transmedia Engagement and the Performance of Place in Southeast Asia”
In Transmedia Television: Audiences, New Media, and Daily Life (2011: 1-2), Elizabeth Evans defines transmediality as “the increasingly popular i…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic 2019 Brandeis Novel Symposium – Talk on Sonny Liew in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoI’ll be giving a talk on Sonny Liew’s Eisner Award-winning The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye at the 2019 Brandeis Novel Symposium, and there are other fascinating talks on graphic novels lined up too. The event takes place on Friday April 12 at the Mandel Humanities Center, Brandeis University.
Below is the program and a link to the BNS web…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Southeast Asia & Australia: Literary & Cultural Connections in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years agoCFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections
This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the January 2020 MLA conference in Seattle. Given the…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP for EuroSEAS 2019: "Southeast Asian Travelogues and Global Asia" in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years agoCFP for EuroSEAS 2019: “Southeast Asian travelogues and global Asia”
This laboratory considers the ways in which travelogues by Southeast Asians articulated the concept of inter-Asian connections, thus prefiguring the term ‘global Asia.’ Examples include the study of early modern India and Southeast Asia by Chinese-language Nanyang (South Sea…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards replied to the topic Article from Kyoto Review of SEAsia in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis is a really helpful resource. Thanks, Weihsin!
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Article from Kyoto Review of SEAsia in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years agoHere’s an interesting article I thought I’d share with everyone, published December 2018 in the _Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia_.
Lee Jun Jie. “Colonialism and ASEAN Identity: Inherited ‘Mental Barriers’ Hindering the Formation of a Collective ASEAN Identity.”
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Brian Bernards started the topic Job Announcement: Asst Prof. in Southeast Asian Studies, UCLA in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoOpen assistant prof position in SE Asian Studies (including broadly-defined literature and culture focus) at UCLA:
https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/apply/JPF04048
The Department of Asian Languages & Cultures (http://www.alc.ucla.edu/) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), invites applications for a position in Southeast Asian studies,…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Canadian Literature in English 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
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic 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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Weihsin Gui replied to the topic Southeast Asia related papers in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoHello! So my earlier post below contained a lot of formatting tags/HTML data, and MLA Commons does not allow users to edit or delete their error-filled posts in the spirit of preserving a transparent record of all conversations. So I’m posting the info from my previous post here.
THURSDAY, 3 JANUARY
“Historical Genres of the Nanyang”
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse started the topic Southeast Asia related papers in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoHi everyone, we plan to make an announcement detailing all Southeast Asia related papers at MLA 2019, so please let me know if you are presenting one! Thanks. Cheryl
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