Laura Murphy
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Subramanian Shankar deposited Thugs and Bandits: Life and Law in Colonial and Epicolonial India in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoAn examination of crime and criminality in colonial and postcolonial India through life-writing and the examples of Thugs and Phoolan Devi, the Bandit Queen.
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Kathleen Woodward deposited Reading Affect in Literary Studies in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoDesigned as a short introduction to academic literary studies of affect, Reading Affect in Literary Studies is a one-credit graduate seminar, offered in Spring 2014, that was framed by the question of how we might rethink our practice as scholars of literature to take our scholarship to publics beyond the academy. Readings included work by Rita…[Read more]
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Yomaira Figueroa deposited Faithful Witnessing as Practice: Decolonial Readings of Shadows of Your Black Memory and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers Marıa Lugones’s concept of faithful witnessing as a point of departure to think about the ethics and possibilities of faithful witnessing in literary contexts. For Lugones, faithful witnessing is an act of aligning oneself with oppressed peoples against the grain of power and recognizing their humanity, oppression, and re…[Read more]
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Yomaira Figueroa deposited Faithful Witnessing as Practice: Decolonial Readings of Shadows of Your Black Memory and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers Marıa Lugones’s concept of faithful witnessing as a point of departure to think about the ethics and possibilities of faithful witnessing in literary contexts. For Lugones, faithful witnessing is an act of aligning oneself with oppressed peoples against the grain of power and recognizing their humanity, oppression, and re…[Read more]
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Loren Kruger deposited Chicago / Johannesburg in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoJohannesburg, Chicago of South Africa
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Amanda Waugh started the topic UMass Achebe Symposium in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoInterdisciplinary Studies Institute
Forty Years After: Chinua Achebe and Africa in the Global Imagination
A Special Symposium, University of Massachusetts 14-15 October
Goodell Building: Wed 14 October, 2 – 6 pm; Thurs 15 October 1.30 – 6 pmOn 18 February 1975, the great African writer Chinua Achebe presented a Chancellor’s Lecture at the U…[Read more]
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Amanda Waugh started the topic UMass Achebe Symposium in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoInterdisciplinary Studies Institute
Forty Years After: Chinua Achebe and Africa in the Global Imagination
A Special Symposium, University of Massachusetts 14-15 October
Goodell Building: Wed 14 October, 2 – 6 pm; Thurs 15 October 1.30 – 6 pmOn 18 February 1975, the great African writer Chinua Achebe presented a Chancellor’s Lecture at the U…[Read more]
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Amanda Waugh started the topic UMass Achebe Symposium in the discussion
African Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoInterdisciplinary Studies Institute
Forty Years After: Chinua Achebe and Africa in the Global Imagination
A Special Symposium, University of Massachusetts 14-15 October
Goodell Building: Wed 14 October, 2 – 6 pm; Thurs 15 October 1.30 – 6 pmOn 18 February 1975, the great African writer Chinua Achebe presented a Chancellor’s Lecture at the U…[Read more]
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Giovanna Montenegro started the topic Due Tomorrow: ACLA 2016: CFP Hemispheric Approaches to Literature & Cartography in the Ameri in the discussion
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<div class=”column”>ACLA 2016: CFP Hemispheric Approaches to Literature and Cartography in the Americas
Please consider submitting your paper to this seminar…[Read more]
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Giovanna Montenegro started the topic ACLA 2016: Due Sep. 23 Tomorrow. CFP Hemispheric Approaches to Literature and Cartography in the Ameri in the discussion
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<div class=”column”>Reminder: ACLA 2016: CFP Hemispheric Approaches to Literature and Cartography in the Americas
Please consider submitting your paper to this seminar proposed for the American Comparative Literature Association Conference from March 17-20, 2016 at…[Read more]
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Raúl Coronado started the topic CFP: Latina/o Studies Association Conference in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoLatina/o Studies Association
Call for Papers
Deliberating Latina/o Studies: Promiscuity, (In)civility, and (Un)Disciplinarity July 7-9, 2016, Westin Pasadena Pasadena, California
Deliberating Latina/o Studies: Promiscuity, (In)civility, and (Un)Disciplinarity builds on the 2014 Chicago conference that asked participants to reflect on the past,…[Read more]
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Pilar Cuder-Dominguez started the topic CFP: Globalization and Violence in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months ago13th ESSE CONFERENCE
National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland), 22-26 August 2016.
CFP: SEMINAR ON “GLOBALIZATION AND VIOLENCE”
Conveners: Pilar Cuder-Domínguez (U of Huelva, Spain, picuder@dfing.uhu.es)
Cinta Ramblado-Minero (U of Limerick, Ireland, cinta.ramblado@ul.ie)
One of the characteristics of postmodernity is the glob…[Read more]
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Sarah P. Casteel started the topic CFP: Caribbean/Jewish Intersections, ACLA 2016 in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCFP: Caribbean/Jewish Intersections in (Post)Colonial Literary and Print Cultures
We are soliciting papers for a seminar that we have proposed for the upcoming American Comparative Literature Association conference (Harvard University, March 17-20, 2016). Paper abstracts can be submitted through the ACLA portal from September 1-23: h…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic CFP: The Public and its Privates in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoBetween the Public and Its Privates
Third Annual MLA Subconference
in partnership with Punctum BooksJanuary 6-7, 2016 (FREE)
Location: Studium Art Space (FREE)
638 Tillery St., Austin, TX 78702As the 2016 MLA Convention turns to consider “Literature and its Publics” the third annual meeting of the MLA Subconference challenges participants to…[Read more]
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Yomaira Figueroa started the topic CFP: Love as Theory, Desire, Performance in the discussion
African Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoWe welcome submissions for the 2016 ACLA proposed seminar:
What’s Love Got To Do With It? Love as Theory, Desire, and Performance
http://www.acla.org/seminar/what%E2%80%99s-love-got-do-it-theory-desire-and-performance
ACLA 2016
Organizer: Yomaira Figueroa, Michigan State University
Co-Organizer: Carolyn Ureña, Rutgers University
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Janice Ho started the topic Literature and Human Rights (CFP for ACLA 2016) in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoPlease consider submitting a paper to the following ACLA seminar:
Organizer: Sonali Perera, Hunter College, City University of New York (sonali.perera@hunter.cuny.edu)
Co-Organizer: Janice Ho, University of Colorado, Boulder (janice.ho@colorado.edu)
This seminar will explore the historical and ideological conjunctions between literary forms a…[Read more]
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Alan Lopez deposited "Kindred Spirits: Fanon's Postcolonialism" in the group
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThis essay concerns the significance of phenomenology in Frantz Fanon’s thought and its influence on the autobiographic and ethnographic contours of his study, Black Skin, White Masks. Of note is Fanon’s movement between metaphor and phenomenology, especially as concerns figures of the hand and the body, and how his narratological treatment of…[Read more]
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Gretchen Head started the topic CFP (ACLA): The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South in the discussion
African Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoFor those of you working on African literatures, we welcome submissions to our upcoming ACLA seminar:
The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South
Organizer: Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS College
Co-Organizer: Rania Said, Binghamton University
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Gretchen Head started the topic CFP (ACLA): The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoWe welcome submissions for our upcoming ACLA seminar:
The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South
Organizer: Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS College
Co-Organizer: Rania Said, Binghamton University
Contact the Seminar Organizers:
In Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, Mikhail…[Read more]
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Gretchen Head started the topic CFP (ACLA): The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoDear all,
Please consider submitting to our ACLA seminar on the intersection of life writing and the city:
The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South
Organizer: Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS College
Co-Organizer: Rania Said, Binghamton University
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