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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited The Past is Always Present: Social Media and Survival in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoIn this chapter, I connect my experience with abuse and intimate partner violence with my research projects and then radically changing my pedagogy away from coercion towards empathy.
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Daniel Williams deposited Transatlantic Climate and Gulf Stream Aesthetics in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe Gulf Stream gained scientific prominence in the nineteenth century as a test case for theories about the dynamics of ocean currents and the equilibrium of transatlantic climate. Discourse about the current supplied descriptions, analogies, and myths that persist into the present. Triangulating oceanic, ecological, and transatlantic approaches…[Read more]
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Daniel Williams deposited Transatlantic Climate and Gulf Stream Aesthetics in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe Gulf Stream gained scientific prominence in the nineteenth century as a test case for theories about the dynamics of ocean currents and the equilibrium of transatlantic climate. Discourse about the current supplied descriptions, analogies, and myths that persist into the present. Triangulating oceanic, ecological, and transatlantic approaches…[Read more]
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Kimberly Mack started the topic GS Life Writing Forum Executive Committee Candidate Statement in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoDear All–My name is Kimberly Mack, and I am running to serve on the executive committee of the GS Life Writing forum. I would like to share a little bit about my work and, if elected, what I would hope to contribute to the GS Life Writing Forum over the next few years. I am very excited about this opportunity, and I look forward to getting to…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited From barbarism to decadence without the intervening civilization: or, living in the aftermath of anticipated futures in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoABSTRACT
The styles, moods, performances, and practices of decadence have been simultaneous with modernization, not least in the process of nation-building. This article considers the dialectics of decadence and modernization with particular attention to the roles and responses of women in the twentieth to twenty-first centuries.…[Read more] -
Arif Camoglu deposited Postkolonyal Teori ve Osmanlı Türk Emperyalizmini Beraber Düsünmek in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoOsmanlı emperyalizminden ve kolonyalizminden bahsedebilmek için postkolonyal teorinin analitik ufkunu ve kelime dağarcığını esnetmek ve belki de yeniden gözden geçirmek gereklidir. Bu yazının akademik ve politik meramı işte budur Daha açık bir deyişle, Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan örneğiyle önümüzde beliren Osmanlı hayal(et)ini postkolonyal teoriyle k…[Read more]
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James Mulholland deposited Translocal Anglo-India and the Multilingual Reading Public in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis article proposes a new literary history of British Asia that examines its earliest communities and cultural institutions in translocal and regional registers. Combining translocalism and regionalism redefines Anglo‐Indian writing as constituted by multisited forces, only one of which is the reciprocal exchange between Britain and its c…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Evans started the topic CFP: Modernist Studies in the Age of Black Lives Matter (MSA2021 Chicago) in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers (MSA 2021 Chicago): Modernist Studies in the Age of Black Lives Matter
Call for papers for a proposed session for the Modernist Studies Association Conference to be held in Chicago, November 4-7, 2021.
This proposed session considers how modernists are responding to Black Lives Matter in their scholarship. It asks, how has the…[Read more]
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Thomas Robert Ward deposited Coloniality and the Rise of Liberation Thinking during the Sixteenth Century in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis book delves into the inadequately explored, liberative side of Humanism during the late Renaissance. While some long-sixteenth-century thinking anticipates twentieth-century Liberation Theology, a broader description is simply “liberation thinking,” which embraces its diverse, timeless, and sometimes nontheological aspects.
Two moments fra…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman deposited Peter Abrahams of South Africa: Learning to Read (in) the Global 1930s in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoBorn poor, the material and ideological networks that propelled Peter Abrahams to literacy in 1930s South Africa lay bare how white liberalism, Pan-Africanism, and Marxism all overlapped as well as contradicted one another in the global 1930s. The confluences and contradictions of these currents of thought, artistic production, and political…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman deposited Peter Abrahams of South Africa: Learning to Read (in) the Global 1930s in the group
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoBorn poor, the material and ideological networks that propelled Peter Abrahams to literacy in 1930s South Africa lay bare how white liberalism, Pan-Africanism, and Marxism all overlapped as well as contradicted one another in the global 1930s. The confluences and contradictions of these currents of thought, artistic production, and political…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman deposited Peter Abrahams of South Africa: Learning to Read (in) the Global 1930s in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoBorn poor, the material and ideological networks that propelled Peter Abrahams to literacy in 1930s South Africa lay bare how white liberalism, Pan-Africanism, and Marxism all overlapped as well as contradicted one another in the global 1930s. The confluences and contradictions of these currents of thought, artistic production, and political…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman deposited Death in the Arena: A Brief History of Dancehall, Time, and the Cold War in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis essay decodes how Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings uses the history of Jamaican music, culminating in the conflict between roots reggae and dancehall, to chart the Cold War’s conflicts over time, temporality, and futurity. A Brief History of Seven Killings points readers to a jaded, subaltern temporality encoded in a dan…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman deposited Death in the Arena: A Brief History of Dancehall, Time, and the Cold War in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis essay decodes how Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings uses the history of Jamaican music, culminating in the conflict between roots reggae and dancehall, to chart the Cold War’s conflicts over time, temporality, and futurity. A Brief History of Seven Killings points readers to a jaded, subaltern temporality encoded in a dan…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Sign petition to Save CENTRO (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis is a petition shared by Aldo Lauria Santiago of Rutgers University.
Please consider reading and signing the “Save Centro (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)” petition, which you can access here: https://forms.gle/pDfE56LPkopPZHwb8
Thanks,
Elena Machado Sáez
Chair of the LLC Latina and Latino Forum
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Janice Ho started the topic CFP: Infrastructures of Care MLA 2022 in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis panel explores intersections between infrastructure studies, labor, and care in global anglophone literature: in what ways are care work and the realms of reproductive and affective labor infrastructural to our lifeworlds? What kinds of infrastructures facilitate or impede domestic labor and the work of caring? How is the ongoing labor of…[Read more]
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yasser elhariry started the topic The Black Mediterranean / CFP / MLA 2022 Guaranteed Session in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 5 years agoCall for Papers
MLA Annual Convention
6–9 January 2022
Washington DC
Guaranteed Forum Session
Sponsored by CLCS Mediterranean
The Black Mediterranean
Michelle Murray (Vanderbilt University), presiding
The subordinations of racial disparity, conflict, and death are persistent traits of the Mediterranean and its d…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Tonight at 7:15pm: Join us for joyful conversation and community! in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 5 years agoDear Colleagues,
Join us this evening for our much-anticipated multi-forum reception, held via Zoom from 7:15-8:30 p.m!
548 Social Event Arranged by the Forums LLC Latina and Latino, Chicana and Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban and Cuban Diasporic, Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English, African American, Caribbean,…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Today at MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 5 years agoDear MLA members,
Join us today at the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!
“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)
- Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
- Presider: Joshua Guzmán, U of California, Los Angeles
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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