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Geraldine Heng deposited INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER OF THE INVENTION OF RACE IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES (Cambridge UP, March 8,, 2018) in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis is the typescript of the Introductory chapter of the book, THE INVENTION OF RACE IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES, published on March 8, 2018 by Cambridge UP (503 pp., 8 chapters, 10″ x 7″ format). The book discusses Jews, Muslims, Africans and blackness, Native Americans, Mongols, and the Romani (“Gypsies”) in 7 chapters, including a critical…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic 51ST ANNUAL IASA CONFERENCE AT UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, CHICAGO in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months ago51st Annual IASA Conference at University of Illinois, Chicago
— Call for Papers: Reminder —
“The Conflicts of Immigration Past and Present:
The Position[ing] of Italians and the Diaspora”
October 18-20, 2018
Submission Deadline: Friday, April 27, 2018
Upload/submit proposals to Submitta…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic CFP: Rust Belt Literature panel for 3-6 Jan. 2019 MLA Conv. in Chicago in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoDear Colleagues,
(1) We hope to have the first Rust Belt Literature panel ever at the MLA at the next national convention in Chicago. We are INTERDISCIPLINARY: For instance Lit. and Sociology, Lit and race, Radical Causus, teaching of Lit., Creative Writing (!), Urban lit. 20th and 21st C. Lit., Lit. in Lang. other than English, Lit. and…[Read more]
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Benita Sampedro replied to the topic New book about Spanish colonialism in Morocco in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCongratulations, Eric Calderwood, for such groundbreaking contribution to Global Hispanophone Studies!
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Eric Calderwood started the topic New book about Spanish colonialism in Morocco in the discussion
Global Hispanophone via email on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m delighted to announce the publication of my book, *Colonial al-Andalus:
Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture*
<https://www.amazon.com/Colonial-al-Andalus-Making-Moroccan-Culture/dp/0674980328/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522093517&sr=8-1&keywords=colonial+al-andalus>
(Harvard University Press, 2018).Grounded in n…[Read more]
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Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra replied to the topic Petition {new thread] in the discussion
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of this forum,
Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra
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Alok Amatya posted an update in the group
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of this forum.
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Maryam Fatima replied to the topic Petition {new thread] in the discussion
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of this forum. As someone working within a global south framework, I’ve found Indian Ocean perspectives particularly insightful for uncovering south-south connections. This forum will contribute to the study of this very rich literary and geopolitical space. Thank you for putting this together!
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Octavio Gonzalez deposited Isherwood’s Impersonality: Ascetic Self-Divestiture and Queer Relationality in A Single Man in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoPart of the Introduction in lieu of an abstract:
Christopher Isherwood’s celebrated novel A Single Man portrays a gay man as an ordinary human being. For its time, the novel’s depiction of homosexuality as a legitimate minoritarian identity, rather than individual pathology, was a radical political gesture. Given this context, literary critics…[Read more] -
Octavio Gonzalez deposited Isherwood’s Impersonality: Ascetic Self-Divestiture and Queer Relationality in A Single Man in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoPart of the Introduction in lieu of an abstract:
Christopher Isherwood’s celebrated novel A Single Man portrays a gay man as an ordinary human being. For its time, the novel’s depiction of homosexuality as a legitimate minoritarian identity, rather than individual pathology, was a radical political gesture. Given this context, literary critics…[Read more] -
Weihsin Gui started the topic Petition to form an Indian Ocean Studies CLCS Forum in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoHi everyone: just FYI – there’s a petition to create a CLCS Forum focused on Indian Ocean Studies.
I support the creation of this forum as I think it can be a venue to discuss the historical and contemporary connections between Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, and this forum could be a potential collaborator in future. Please consider…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui replied to the topic Petition {new thread] in the discussion
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of this forum. As a member of the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic CLCS Forum, I think the creation of a CLCS Forum focused on the Indian Ocean will contribute to the study of historical and contemporary connections and exchanges between Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
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Octavio Gonzalez deposited The Narrative Mood of Jean Rhys’ Quartet in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoAbstract: This article evaluates the application of dominant institutional discourses, such as psychoanalysis, in the interpretation of literary fiction. I take up the case of Jean Rhys and her 1929 novel _Quartet_. Both author and novel have been analyzed through the concept of masochism, as creating masochistic characters or a masochistic…[Read more]
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Octavio Gonzalez deposited The Narrative Mood of Jean Rhys’ Quartet in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoAbstract: This article evaluates the application of dominant institutional discourses, such as psychoanalysis, in the interpretation of literary fiction. I take up the case of Jean Rhys and her 1929 novel _Quartet_. Both author and novel have been analyzed through the concept of masochism, as creating masochistic characters or a masochistic…[Read more]
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Pallavi Rastogi posted an update in the group
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of this forum
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I am also happy to take on a leadership position if needed.
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Shuchi Kapila posted an update in the group
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of this forum.
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Annabel Kim deposited The Riddle of Racial Difference in Anne Garréta’s Sphinx in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis article examines Sphinx, the debut novel of the French novelist Anne Garréta, which was recently published in English translation in 2015. The reception of Sphinx in both French and English has focused primarily on Garréta’s virtuosic removal of gender from a love story, passing over a caricatural and crude rendering of racial difference tha…[Read more]
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Mahan Ellison uploaded the file: Congreso AMEII 2019 Formulario de inscripción to
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCongreso AMEII 2019 Formulario de inscripción
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Mahan Ellison uploaded the file: I Congreso de la Asociación Marroquí de Estudios Ibéricos e Iberoamericanos 2019 to
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoLa Asociación Marroquí de Estudios Ibéricos e ibreoamericanos tiene el honor de enviarles la convocatoria oficial de su Primer Congreso Internacional que tendrá lugar en Agadir, los días 18, 19 y 20 de abril de 2019, sobre el tema: “Las literaturas africanas en lenguas ibéricas (1956-2018)”. Aprovechando esta ocasión, les invita para partic…[Read more]
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Kanika Batra posted an update in the group
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of this group. I cannot volunteer for a co-leadership position this year as I’m presiding over the Forum on South Asian and Diasporic literatures for 2019. We can think of a collaborative panel if the CLCS Indian Ocean gets approved.
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