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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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Zahid R. Chaudhary deposited The Politics of Exposure: Truth After Post-Facts in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis essay analyzes contemporary politics of truth across overlapping contexts: the predicament of whistleblowers, the proliferation of digital disinformation, the extractive imperatives of data economies, and the impossibility of exposing the truth when exposé becomes itself a game. The essay reads the recent cultural and political interest in…[Read more]
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Anne E. B. Coldiron created the doc CFP: PMLA Special Topic on Translation in the group
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Anne E. B. Coldiron created the doc CFP: PMLA Special Topic on Translation in the group
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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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Ben Vu Tran started the topic Southeast Asian Literary & Cultural Studies: Navigating the Job Market in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoSoutheast Asian Literary & Cultural Studies: Navigating the Job Market Wednesday, July 22, 2020 / 4:00pm EST (US & Canada) Please join members of the MLA Southeast Asian & Southeast Asian Diasporic forum to discuss how candidates working in Southeast Asian literary and cultural studies can effectively navigate the academic job market. This co…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited May 2020 Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoa bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic What’s the future have in store for the Italian American Studies Association? in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoWhat’s the future have in store for the Italian American Studies Association? Join the Italian American Studies Association on May 22, 2020 at 4:00 PM Eastern Time for a Zoom Q&A regarding the Lucca Symposium, Pittsburgh Conference, and the new IASA journal published by the University of Illinois Press. The participants will provide updates and a…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Probing the limits of Crocean historicism in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoThis article reconsiders the post-war reaction against Benedetto Croce, focusing on the critical reappraisal of Crocean historicism that followed the defeat of Italian Fascism. Motivated by a growing sense of historical uncertainty, Italians increasingly dissented from Croce, but they remained more wedded to Crocean thought – and in particular t…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Mindreading and Social Status in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoWould you like to get better at mindreading (i.e., at inferring people’s beliefs, desires, and intentions, based on their behavior)? As it turns out, all you would have to do is lower your relative social status. Studies have shown that people in weaker social positions engage in more active and perceptive mindreading than do people in stronger s…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks started the topic Blog post: A Moroccan Jewish nightclub artist sings sáetas to the Virgin in León in the discussion
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Cesar Dominguez started the topic Reading Group: (Re)Thinking Post-/De-Colonialism in the Hispanophone World in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoI’d like to invite you to join a virtual reading group on key texts to (re)think post-/de-colonialism in the Hispanophone world. A meeting will be held every three weeks for a two-hour session. The aim is to foster collaboration in both teaching and research on these topics, as well as creating synergies for future actions. If you’re interested,…[Read more]
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Cesar Dominguez started the topic Reading Group: (Re)Thinking Post-/De-Colonialism in the Hispanophone World in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoI’d like to invite you to join a virtual reading group on key texts to (re)think post-/de-colonialism in the Hispanophone world. A meeting will be held every three weeks for a two-hour session. The aim is to foster collaboration in both teaching and research on these topics, as well as creating synergies for future actions. If you’re interested,…[Read more]
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Kate Marshall started the topic Women and Language CFP in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoHello,
Can you please share the Women & Language CFP with the MLA GS Prose Fiction Forum? I’ve pasted it below, but it’s also available online here.
Thanks,Leland G. Spencer, Editor
Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami UniversityWomen & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal pub…[Read more]
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Catherine Barbour started the topic MLA Galician Forum Twitter in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoFor all the latest news and updates from the MLA LLC Galician Forum, follow us on Twitter!
@MLAGalician
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Jessie M. Labov started the topic MLA 2021 Collaborative Session: Academic Autonomy in Illiberal Times in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoWe are looking for one more panelist in this session being proposed for next year’s MLA. It would be a collaboration between the Hungarian and Slavic/EE fora. Titls/short abstracts to Jessie Labov (jlabov@ceu.edu) by April 5th.
Academic Autonomy in Illiberal Times: Although the right to academic freedom faces challenges all over the world, the…[Read more]
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Vanessa Valdés started the topic CFP: Deportation and Affect: Mapping the Hemispheric Americas (MLA 2021 Toronto in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThis panel explores a variety of methodological and disciplinary approaches to the topic of mass deportations and immigrant justice from the perspective of the humanities. Please submit 300-word abstracts and short presenter’s biographies to Laura Torres-Rodriguez, New York U (ljt233@nyu.edu ) Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 2 April 2020. (C…[Read more]
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Vanessa Valdés started the topic CFP: Survival Strategies in the Americas (MLA 2021 Toronto) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoWhat can we learn from indigenous and Black strategies for survival in the Americas, as we face the enduring legacies of capitalist settler colonialism? Please send a 200-word abstract and a brief biographical statement to Vanessa K. Valdés (vvaldes@ccny.cuny.edu) Please share broadly. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 3 April 2020
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