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Marlene Manoff deposited Archival Silence in the Age of Trump in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThe Trump presidency has fueled growing apprehension about a media landscape rife with lies, bogus news, and conspiracy theories. These concerns can be situated within a discourse of archival silence which questions the ways in which knowledge may be concealed, misappropriated and exploited in the service of governments, corporations and…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited How to Make Love to a Negro: But What if I get Tired? Transculturation and its (Partial) Negation In and Through Translation in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoDany Laferrière’s first novel, Comment faire l’amour avec un Nègre was a literary sensation when it was first released in Quebec in the mid-80s. The author/narrator plays with reader’s expectations, presenting both a stereotypical image of the black man (sex-obsessed, white-hating) and one that contradicts and upsets their expectations. Influen…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Dany Laferrière, Japanses Writer? Borderless Texts, Borderless Trauma in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoAuthor Dany Laferrière, after a seven year hiatus from writing, produced the book Je suis un écrivain japonais (2008) [I am a Japanese Writer]. The title recalls statements he has frequently made in interviews about how much he hates being pigeon-holed by national or racial labels. The book itself is an examination of what (or who) defines s…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Becoming a Gwo Nèg in 1970s Haiti: Dany Laferrière’s Coming-of-Age Film Le Goût des Jeunes Filled (On the Verge of Fever) in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoWhen all men are either dead, exiled, thugs or zombies in a world ruled through violence and terror by a President-for-Life and his son, how is a young boy expected to come of age and forge his own identity? Le Goût des Jeunes Filles (On the Verge of Fever), a 2004 film about Fanfan, a 15-year-old boy, set in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on the same…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Practicing Freedom for the Post-Truth Era— a presentation by Barbara Fister in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoHello!
I thought members of this group might be interested to know that Barbara Fister has shared the text of her Marjorie Whetstone Ashton Annual Lecture, “Practicing Freedom for the Post-truth Era,” with the Library and Information Science group. You can find the text in CORE at http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6H35Q. Here’s the abstract:
Why do we…
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Jennifer Cazenave started the topic CFP: "La France est en guerre" (MLA 2018) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years ago“La France est en guerre” : Witnessing War in Contemporary French Culture
Engaging with the 2018 Presidential theme “States of Insecurity,” this special session seeks cross-disciplinary papers addressing the rhetoric of war in recent French film, literature, and thought.
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Gayle Rogers deposited Introduction to *Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature* in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 9 years agoAn approach to understanding modernism in literary history through the lens of translation by tracing the work of key figures such as Pound, Dos Passos, Jiménez, and Unamuno to translate US and Spanish literatures after the Spanish-American War of 1898.
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Michael Schinasi started the topic CFP 2018 special session: National Theaters Around the Globe in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoNational Theaters Around the Globe
Special Session
Any aspect of worldwide National Theaters (the institution usually manifest in buildings; not dramatic literatures). All periods: history, ideology, relation to culture industry, etc. 250 word abstract by 15 March 2017; Michael Schinasi (schinasim@ecu.edu). -
David Rodriguez-Solas started the topic CFP: Marginality in Iberian Theater, MLA 2018 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoCall For Papers: Marginality in Iberian Theater (MLA Convention, New York City, 4-7 January, 2018)
Proposals should address the topic of marginality in Iberian drama and performance from the 16th to the 21st centuries. 250 word abstract by 1 March 2017; David Rodríguez-Solás dsolas@umass.edu; Esther Fernández ef14@rice.edu
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick started the topic Literary Research Guide in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoHi, all. The office of scholarly communication is thinking about the future of the Literary Research Guide, and we would benefit from your input.
Simply put, we’d like to know more about how you, your faculty members, and/or your students use the LRG. Anything you’d be willing to share, either here or via direct message to me, would be e…[Read more]
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Danny Barreto started the topic CFPs: Galicia-New York, MLA 2018 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoCall For Papers: Sempre en Nova Iorque: Galician Cultures in and from New York City (MLA Convention, New York City, 4-7 January, 2018)
From the second book of Castelao’s Sempre en Galiza (1940), Eugenio Granell’s work between 1958 and 1985, and Gonsar’s Cara a Time Square (1980) to more recent works such as López Silva’s New York, New York (…[Read more]
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Brian Vetruba started the topic CFP New Directions for Libraries, Scholars, & Partnerships: 10/13/17, Frankfurt in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe Center for Research Libraries and its Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections (CIFNAL) and German-North American Resources Partnership (GNARP) international programs, together with French and German partners, invite proposals for papers, presentations, and posters to be presented at an international symposium. New Directions…[Read more]
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Robert H. Kieft replied to the topic Session at Philly convention and doc for review in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoColleagues, I’m sending this reminder as you pack your bags to travel to Philly. My task force colleagues and I look forward to seeing you to discuss this document.
Thanks.
Bob
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Joan Maragall secondo Giuseppe Grilli in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoGrilli’s interpretation of Joan Maragall – the poet who has been purported to be a symbol of Catalan Modernism – is a kaleidoscopic study of literature, art and music. Nonetheless, it maintains an internal coherence over the course of the Grilli’s critical reading and thinking. His maragallian analysis are organized in three point…[Read more]
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Robert H. Kieft started the topic Session at Philly convention and doc for review in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoColleagues, hello. I am writing today to call your attention to a newly released document of potential interest as posted to Humanities Commons at https://printrecord.mla.hcommons-staging.org/ and to a discussion session about the document from 1:45-3:00 PM Fri, 6 January, Marriott 401-403. The meeting immediately precedes the Libraries and Re…[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 Francophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months 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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Jacob Heil started the topic A down-to-the-wire EC Candidate Bio in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoJust in time for the last-minute voters who’ve been thoroughly researching all candidates, please see my bio and “candidate statement” below. You can (a little) read more about me here. See you in Philly!
Biography: I am the College of Wooster’s Digital Scholarship Librarian and the Director of its Collaborative Research Environment (CoRE).…[Read more]
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Jacob Heil started the topic A down-to-the-wire EC Candidate Bio in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoJust in time for the last-minute voters who’ve been thoroughly researching all candidates, please see my bio and “candidate statement” below. You can (a little) read more about me here. See you in Philly!
Biography: I am the College of Wooster’s Digital Scholarship Librarian and the Director of its Collaborative Research Environment (CoRE).…[Read more]
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Latifa Zoulagh posted an update in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoLooking for a female roommate!
Is anyone (female) willing to share her room, I will be staying the 5th and the 6th?
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic Call for Submissions in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers: 2017 Special Section of Letras Hispanas on
“Contemporary Iberian Ecocriticism and New Materialisms”
Editor: Luis I. Prádanos, Miami University
Deadline: June 1, 2017
The global proliferation of ecocriticism and environmental humanities is significantly enriching the depth and scope of literary and cultural studies worl…[Read more]
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