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Lena Burgos-Lafuente posted an update in the group
LLC Puerto Rican on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoWe would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York. The panel will be presided by Judith Sierra Rivera (Penn State U).
Panel # 379 Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton
“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Fer…[Read more]
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Laura Halperin posted an update in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoMLA 2018 Chicana/o/x Panels and Cash Bar–Please Join Us!!!
Happy 2018, everyone! For those of you who will be attending MLA this week, below is the list of panels (along with times and locations) that the Chicana/o/x Literature Forum is sponsoring. I also am including information about the cash bar our forum is jointly organizing with the…[Read more]
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Mariana Romo-Carmona posted an update in the group
LLC Puerto Rican on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoWhat’s the number of your session?
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Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic Puerto Rican Forum Panel: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoWe would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York. The panel will be presided by Judith Sierra Rivera (Penn State U).
Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton
“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Ferrari
“Crossing…[Read more] -
Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic Puerto Rican Forum Panel: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoWe would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York. The panel will be presided by Judith Sierra Rivera (Penn State U).
Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton
“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Ferrari
“Crossing…[Read more] -
Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic Puerto Rican Forum Panel: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoWe would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York. The panel will be presided by Judith Sierra Rivera (Penn State U).
Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton
“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Ferrari
“Crossing…[Read more] -
Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic Puerto Rican Forum Panel: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoWe would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York.
Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton
“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Ferrari
“Crossing Imperial Frontiers: Puerto Ricans in the Dominican Republic, Santiago…[Read more] -
Judy Bertonazzi deposited Caridad’s Choice for Transformation: Jumping off a Mesa Cliff in Ana Castillo’s Novel So Far from God in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAs part of my research, I argue that one important way the definition of a feminist borderland develops in these narratives is from a female character’s knowledge of and interpretation of her physical presence within the borderlands. By applying Linda Martín Alcoff’s theories of gender “positionality” and “self-embodiment” from her text Visible…[Read more]
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited The Subaltern and Familial Ghosts: Impossible Representations in The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Beloved in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis paper discusses the relationships made between ghost figures and their living relatives within Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Toni Morrison’s Beloved. In this paper I argue that a specific female identity and agency is represented in these texts through figurative language and symbolization of…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic Candidate Introduction – MLA Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues:
I am a candidate for the 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Forum executive committee. Now that the voting period has opened, and following MLA recommendations, I would like to post a brief introduction.
I am professor of Spanish at the University of Florida, where I serve as associate chair and graduate coordinator in…[Read more]
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Yolanda Padilla deposited Felix beyond the Closet: Sexuality, Masculinity, and Relations of Power in Arturo Islas’s The Rain God in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis essay examines the uneasy relationship that Arturo Islas’s The Rain God has had with narratives of identity, focusing on how the representation of Felix’s sexuality makes him a problematic figure for certain strains of Chicana/o and queer studies. In other writings, Islas criticizes Quinto Sol, the chief publishing house of Chicano literature…[Read more]
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José Francisco Robles deposited La crítica ilustrada a la realidad americana: el colonialismo ilustrado del funcionario Alonso Carrió de la Vandera en “El Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes” in the group
LLC 19th-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months ago“El Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes” is one of the most important works of the Peruvian eighteenth century. This article examines the author’s critical perspective ––in his geographical and political journey through the viceroyalty–– in whose ideological position, called here “enlightened colonialism,” colonialist ideas meld with those of the pen…[Read more]
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José Francisco Robles deposited Una singular defensa novohispana de la república de las letras: “Oración vindicativa” (1763) de Cristóbal Mariano Coriche in the group
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months ago“Oración vindicativa del honor de las letras y de los literatos” (1763) del dominico poblano Cristóbal Mariano Coriche es un ensayo novohispano que nace como respuesta a un discurso cuyo supuesto autor era nada menos que Jean Jacques Rousseau. En este discurso se sostenía que el trabajo intelectual desarrollado en distintas etapas históricas hab…[Read more]
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Yolanda Padilla deposited “Chicana/o Narratives: Then and Now” in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoIntroduction to the edited volume Bridges, Borders, and Breaks: History, Narrative, and Nation in Twenty-First-Century Chicana/o Literary Criticism.
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Laura Halperin started the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED! Chicana and Chicano Literature Forum: MLA 2018 Call for Papers in the discussion
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago21st Century Chicanx Performance
We invite papers on 21st century Chicanx performance/ performance of Chicanidad on stage/film/street, etc.; 200-300 word abstract; 1-page cv. 200-300 word abstract; 1-page cv by 20 March 2017; José Navarro (jnavar17@calpoly.edu).
Trump Terror
We invite analyses of the president’s/executive cabinet’s anti…[Read more]
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Rebecca Haidt started the topic CFP: Sets, Spaces, Stages of Cinema 1750-1899 in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoMLA 2018 Call for Papers: please circulate to Spanish media/film/visual/cultural studies lists and urge your students and colleagues to submit abstracts!
CFP for MLA 2018:
SETS, SPACES, STAGES OF CINEMA 1750-1899
Submission requirements: 250-word abstracts by March 15th
Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2017
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Judith Sierra-Rivera started the topic CFP (MLA 2018) Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years agoImperial frontier/zone; militarism/militarization of space; soldiers, veterans, military migrations, encounters with unforeseen “others”; censorship, persecution, political prisoners; pacifism, civil disobedience. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2017; Judith Sierra-Rivera (jus55@psu.edu).
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Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic CFP MLA 2018: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years agoCaribbean Space and Bodies at War
Forum: LLC Puerto Rican
Imperial frontier/zone; militarism/militarization of space; soldiers, veterans, military migrations, encounters with unforeseen “others”; censorship, persecution, political prisoners; pacifism, civil disobedience. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2017; Judith Sierra-Rivera (jus55@psu.edu). -
Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic Nueva publicación: Decimonónica in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years ago[Disculpas por el error de formato en el mensaje anterior]
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Nos complace presentarles el último número (Invierno 2017) de Decimonónica, Revista de producción cultural hispánica decimonónica.
ARTÍCULOS EN ESTE NÚMERO
• “Women and Huevos: Matters of Food, Religion, and Gender in Emilia Pardo Baz…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic Nuevo número de la revista "Decimonónica" in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years ago<div>
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<div><span style=”font-family: Verdana;”>Nos complace presentarles el último número (Invierno 2017) de Decimonónica, Revista de producción cultural hispánica decimonónica.
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