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Philip Smith deposited Postmodern Chinoiserie in Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis paper offers a synthesis and critique of the existing academic literature on Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese and an overview of Asian American alternative comics. It examines the range of literary and linguistic sources which Yang draws upon in his collage of Chinoiserie and Japonism. It presents the argument that existing criticism h…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited 'We have experienced a tragedy which words cannot properly describe’: Representations of Trauma in Post-9⁄11 Superhero Comics in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis paper explores the manifestation of trauma in superhero comics following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11. These texts are considered from the perspectives of clinical psychology and Silverman’s concept of historical trauma. The paper first examines the genre as a whole, followed by an exploration of elements c…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Petiton against French government censorship if BDS in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis account of the French government’s criminalization of BDS, by French scholars publicly opposing it, comes with an appeal to academics internationally to protest this startling restriction of freedom of speech in the land that claims to have invented rights of free speech. Once again, the Israeli exception seems to hold sway with the usual…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP MLA 2017 guaranteed session Adoption and Performance in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture seeks paper proposals for its guaranteed session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017.
Adoption in Contemporary Drama and Performance
This panel seeks submissions that explore the engagement of contemporary dramatic literature, theatrical practices, various…[Read more]
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Gayle Rogers deposited Modernism: Evolution of an Idea (Introduction) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years agoIntroduction to Modernism: Evolution of an Idea, which traces the emergence and coherence of the term “modernism”, and the field of modernist studies, from the late 1800s to the present.
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Annette Kolodny deposited New World Encounters: Where Do We Go from Here? in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoEarly American studies scholar and feminist literary critic, Annette Kolodny, offers three projects that she would take on if she were not now retiring from the profession. These three projects include a feminist analysis of women’s interactions on the earliest contact and frontier landscapes; the development of a cross- and inter-disciplinary…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic On MLA 2016's boycott debates in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years agoDavid Lloyd’s response to the debates at MLA 2016, from Jadaliyya:
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/23598/racism-in-the-defense-of-a-racist-state_some-refle
“The vast majority of Palestinians have, through their organizations, voiced their call to us to side with them and to rectify the vast imbalance of power between them and the Israeli…[Read more]
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Helene Meyers deposited The Unmarked Chains of Paper Clips in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoArgues that the documentary Paper Clips exemplifies the ways in which Holocaust education can unwittingly foster competing victimization narratives between blacks and Jews, sanitize both European and U.S. history, and serve subtle
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Even as MLA 2016 was debating the boycott…. in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years agoon January 11, the Israeli army once again invaded Birzeit:
From the statement by Birzeit University:
More than fifteen military Israeli vehicles raided Birzeit University at 2:50 in the morning breaking through the entrance to the…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Israeli Invasion of Birzeit in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years agohttp://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/01/birzeit-university-rises-israel-arrests-160106083537743.html
From the article:
“Nineteen-year-old Jureen Omar Qadah, who majors in media studies, was arrested on October 28 when Israeli forces raided her home in Shukba. Her sister, Sabrin, recalled the night of the arrest. “They took her at around two…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Saree Makdisi on discrimination in Israeli education in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis Los Angeles Times op ed by Saree Makdisi is a short version of his paper for the debate panel on the academic boycott, Thursday January 7, at MLA 2016.
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic CFP- Beat Studies at ALA 2016 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThe Beat Studies Association invites papers for 2 panels at the upcoming American Literature Association Annual Conference in San Francisco (May 26-29, 2016): papers on all aspects of Beat Literature and Beats Studies OR papers on the work and contributions to Beat Studies of the scholar Ann Charters, for the panel “Mapping Beat Movements…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Palestine Related Panels at MLA 2016 in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThese are the panels that include papers relevant to Palestine and the academic boycott resolution at MLA 2016. Please do your utmost to attend the two panels on Thursday afternoon at which the boycott resolution will be debated (Panels 119 and 148):
Thursday
Boycotting Israeli Academic Institutions
Thursday, 7 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Lo…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic On the AAA's Task Force Report on Academic Conditions in Palestine in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis essay discusses the report of a task force established by the American Anthropological Association to investigate conditions for academics and students in Palestine under Israeli Occupation;
Engaged Anthropology: The AAA’s Task Force Report on Israel/Palestine
The report itself can be found…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Facts and Myths about the Boycott in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoA document discussing many myths disseminated about the boycott and its consequences can be found on our Documents tab;
Facts and Myths about the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions
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David C. Lloyd started the topic David Palumbo-Liu on "The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel" in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDavid Palumbo-Liu’s “Not so Much anti-Boycott as Pro-Israel” [symploke 23.1-2 (2015)] is comprehensive critique of The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel, edited by Cary Nelson and Gabriel Noah Brahm.
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David C. Lloyd started the topic New Website and Facebook for MLA Boycott in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoFor more information and discussion of the resolution to endorse the Palestinian call to boycott Israeli academic institutions, please check our new website, which is open to public viewing and regularly updated with news, links and blog-posts, and our Facebook page. Like us there!
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Anthropology and Women's Studies Associations Move to Endorse the Boycott in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis November, the business meeting of the American Anthropological Association overwhelmingly voted–by a margin of 86%–to send a resolution to endorse the Palestinian Call for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions to the full membership for a…[Read more]
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