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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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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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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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Daniel Williams deposited Coetzee’s Stones: Dusklands and the Nonhuman Witness in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA 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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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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Daniel Williams deposited Life among the Vermin: Nineveh and Ecological Relocation in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA 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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Janice Ho started the topic CFPs for Global Anglophone Forums for MLA Toronto 2021 in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoDear Global Anglophone members,
Please find our CFPs for the guaranteed Global Anglophone sessions for MLA Toronto 2021 below: one is on “Languages of Class” and the second is a joint collaboration with the Global Arab and Arab American Executive Forum on “Global Indigeneity.” We hope you will consider submitting abstracts for…[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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Ben Streeter deposited Reparation in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz and Patrick Modiano’s Dora Bruder in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years agoW. G. Sebald and Patrick Modiano are two contemporary authors who share similar themes and literary practices. They are both fastidiously or even obsessively historical in their narrative development. And they seem preoccupied with the sins of World War II. Critics have divided feelings about their accomplishments. Skeptics say their trauma…[Read more]
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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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Janine M. Utell started the topic S340: The Space Between Creative Nonfiction and Literary Criticism in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 6 years agoMelody Nixon will be unable to join us for S340: “The Space Between Creative Nonfiction and Literary Criticism: Theorizing, Writing, and Publishing Critical-Creative Hybrids” (Friday 3:30–4:45). She requests that those interested review her comments (attached) and consider her questions/prompts/provocations. Please join us in Sheraton Rav…[Read more]
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Raphael Dalleo started the topic 648 – Cash Bar co-sponsored by Caribbean forum, Sat 1/11 @ 7:15 pm in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years ago648 – Cash Bar Arranged by the Forums LLC Latina and Latino, LLC Chicana and Chicano, LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English, LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic, LLC Puerto Rican, and CLCS Caribbean
Saturday, 11 January 2020
7:15 PM – 8:30 PM
Sheraton -…[Read more]
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Raphael Dalleo started the topic 468 – Sylvia Wynter and/in the Undergraduate Classroom, Sat. 1/11 @ 10:15 am in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years ago2020 MLA convention session sponsored by the CLCS Caribbean forum:
Sylvia Wynter and/in the Undergraduate Classroom
Saturday, January 11th, 2020
10:15 am to 11:30 am
Washington State Convention Center, Skagit 3
Presiding: Kaiama Glover, Barnard College-Columbia University
Prose Fiction, Plays, and Pantomimes: Teaching…[Read more]
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Raphael Dalleo started the topic 200. The Caribbean 1970s, Friday 10 January 2020 at 8:30 am in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years ago2020 MLA convention panel, cosponsored by the CLCS Caribbean and TC Postcolonial Studies forums:
The Caribbean 1970s
Friday, January 10th, 2020
8:30 am to 9:45 am
Washington State Convention Center, Chelan 4
Presiding: Raphael Dalleo, Bucknell University
“Liberation of a Small Place: Political Narratives about the…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited An Improbably Moveable Mediterranean: translating, Transplanting, & Transforming Global Surrealisms in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThe Egyptian Surrealist Art et Liberté group was recuperated in two exhibitions beginning in 2016 and continuing through 2018. The larger exhibition by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath emphasizes the group’s internationalism and the complexity of its engagement with various forms of Surrealism, including André Breton and Leon Trotsky’s 1938 manif…[Read more]
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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] -
Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
LLC African since 1990 on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.
https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019
Please share with those who may be interested.
Thank you so much!
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Janice Ho started the topic Candidate Statement for the Executive Committee CLCS Global Anglophone Forum in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
I am honored to have been nominated for the MLA Executive Committee of the CLCS Global Anglophone forum. I am currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder, working in the fields of British and transnational modernisms, and postcolonial and global Anglophone literatures. My monograph, Nation…[Read more]
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Megan Brown started the topic Call for Papers: “Un/Bound” Special Issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers: “Un/Bound”
Special Issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
36.3 Autumn 2021
http://www.tandfonline.com/rautSubmissions Deadline: February 1, 2020
Memoirs and other auto/biographical genres that describe selfhoods at, on, or over borders have long been a subject of scholarly interest but have recently acquired greater urgency. Border cro…[Read more]
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