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Anna Castillo started the topic Thank you for the nomination! in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHello to all! Many thanks for the recent nomination for a seat on the Executive Committee of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American Forum. I’m a newcomer to the MLA Commons, so let me introduce myself. I am the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University, where I research and teach contemporary literature and…[Read more]
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Benigno Trigo started the topic Introduction and many thanks! in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHello, everyone! I’ve been nominated for a seat on the Executive Committee of the LLC Puerto Rican Forum Panel, so I’d like to tell you a little about myself. My research interests include nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American and Caribbean Literature; Women’s Writing; Psychoanalysis and Autobiography. My publications include Malady a…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe influential Tamil writer Pudumaippittan turned to the short story to theorize the relationship between literature and society in the late-colonial era. He used the genre’s brevity to compress his portrayals of well-known female types—such as widows, prostitutes, and goodwives—into singular emotional events. This enabled Pudumaippittan to evoke…[Read more]
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Romana Radlwimmer started the topic CfP: Entornos coloniales y de colonialidad (conferencia semi-virtual) in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoCfP: Entornos coloniales y de colonialidad: rentabilidad, distanciamiento, medición (Sección 4 del XXIII. Congreso de la Asociación Alemana de Hispanistas, 24-27 de febrero 2021, semi-virtual)
Desde la temprana Edad Moderna, lo colonial ha sido una de las categorías que han marcado el mundo decisivamente. A través de la medición, la renta…[Read more]
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Dr Rahul K Gairola deposited Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoLightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today
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Fabian Banga started the topic Revista Zama – Universidad de Buenos Aires in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoRevista Zama
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Número actual Vol. 11 Núm. 11 (2019) http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/zama/issue/view/596 -
Fabian Banga started the topic Revista Zama in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoRevista Zama
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Número actual Vol. 11 Núm. 11 (2019) http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/zama/issue/view/596 -
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Daniel Williams deposited Coetzee’s Stones: Dusklands and the Nonhuman Witness in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoBringing together theoretical writing on objects, testimony, and trauma to develop the category of the “nonhuman witness,” this essay considers the narrative, ethical, and ecological work performed by peripheral objects in J. M. Coetzee’s Dusklands (1974). Coetzee’s insistent object catalogues acquire narrative agency and provide material for a c…[Read more]
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Lisa Voigt started the topic Women & Language CFP (https://www.womenandlanguage.org/submissions) in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoCall for Papers | Women & Language Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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Daniel Williams deposited Life among the Vermin: Nineveh and Ecological Relocation in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoHenrietta Rose-Innes’s novel Nineveh (2011) catalogs the activities of a humane pest expert as she discovers, on an estate under construction outside Cape Town, how human and insect actors undermine the spatial expectations of post-apartheid South Africa. Rose-Innes advances a vision of interspecies connection by recasting controversial themes…[Read more]
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Anita Harris Satkunananthan deposited Monsters at the End of Time: Alternate Hierarchies and Ecological Disasters in Alaya Dawn Johnson’s Spirit Binders Novels in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis paper interrogates the connection between entities that hover in the liminal state between life and death (such as vampires and spirits) and the manner in which these entities relate to Alaya Dawn Johnson’s conjurings of alternate political structures and hierarchies in her Spirit Binders series. Johnson’s alternate hierarchies are com…[Read more]
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Isabel Jaén-Portillo started the topic CALL FOR PAPERS: V LALISA Conference Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years agoDear colleagues,
Please find attached the CFP for the V LALISA Conference Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon.
We look forward to your participation!
Best regards,
Isabel
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Brian Bernards started the topic SE Asian CLCS Forum-Hosted Happy Hour: Fri, Jan 10 at the MLA in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoMembers and friends of the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic CLCS MLA Forum:Our forum invites you to a MLA 2020 Happy Hour at 9pm on Friday, January 10 at the Frolik Kitchen + Cocktails, which is located on the 5th floor of the Motif Seattle Hotel (3 blocks from the Washington State Convention Center). Come mingle and decompress…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited Latinx Literatures and Cultures in the U.S. and Beyond in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will concentrate our attention on works by Chicanos, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Dominican Americans. We will consider how these works represent and participate in the upheavals that characterize the…[Read more]
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Elvira L. Vilches started the topic MLA 2020 LLC Colonial Latin American HAPPY HOUR in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoDear friends,
Please join the LLC Colonial Latin American Forum Happy Hour. As she usually does, Lisa Voigt has picked the coolest place: The Belmont Bar. https://www.belmontseattle.com/January 10th, 8:00 pm at the Belmont Bar.
518 Pike StreetSeattle 98122 206-557-0733
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Elvira L. Vilches started the topic MLA 2020 LLC Colonial Latin American Sessions in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago46. Colonial Translation: Rendering Indigenous and Western Exchanges
Organizer and Chair: Galen Brokaw
THURSDAY, 9 JANUARY 1:45 PM-3:00 PM, 203 (WSCC)
- Marlena Cravens, U of Texas, “Quechua Dictionaries: Catholicism and Tribute in the Wake of Castilian Conquest, 1535-1620”
- Ben Post, Murray State U, “Calderón reducido: Theological Drama in…
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Shane Graham started the topic CFP: Langston Hughes Review Special Issue—”‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ at 100″ in the discussion
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoLangston Hughes Review
Guest Editor: Shane Graham
Expected Publication: May 2021
In June 1921, Crisis published Langston Hughes’ first adult poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” In many ways it contained the blueprint for the poet’s entire subsequent career, and established many of his key themes: black pride and self-assertion; the validat…[Read more] -
Jason Frydman deposited Scheherezade in Chains: Arab-Islamic Genealogies of African Diasporic Literature in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDrawing on Arabic textual traditions and foregrounding the liminal time and space of administrative detention, of the expired visa, of deportation, and of repatriation, Muslim slave narratives deserve recognition as generative forebears of transnational, multicultural literature in both England and the United States. Yet these forebears were…[Read more]
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