Masood Raja
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic History, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference. McMaster U in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoDepartment of English & Cultural Studies
History, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference
May 6-7, 2016
McMaster Innovation Park
<div class=”entry-content”>On June 23, 1985 a bomb detonated on Air India Flight 182 en route from Toronto to New Delhi via Montreal. The mid-air explosion killed all 329 passengers and crew, the…[Read more]
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Greg Forter deposited Atlantic and Other Worlds: Critique and Utopia in Postcolonial Historical Fiction in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoThis essay explores the meanings and effects of postcolonial authors’ recent refashioning of classical historical fiction. That refashioning has two aims: a materialist cartography that counters the nationalist vocation of classical historical fiction by revealing the supra-national, global aspirations of colonial capitalism as a system; and an e…[Read more]
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Adeline Koh replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoI support this.
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Tim August replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of a Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum.
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E.K. Tan replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of a Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum.
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Frank Cha replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoI support the petition to create a Forum called LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic.
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Carlos Rojas replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of a Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum.
carlos rojas, duke university
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Adam Knee replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoI support the petition to create an LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum. This has been a long-standing and glaring lack, given that most of the rest of Asia is represented in existing forums.
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Cynthia Franklin replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of a Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diaspora Forum.
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Karina Vernon replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoAbsolutely! Creating a Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum will acknowledge and advance this important scholarly field.
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Sunny Xiang replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of a Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum.
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Alison Groppe replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoI absolutely support the creation of a Southeast Asian & Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum … yes, please!
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Michelle Huang replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoI support the petition to create a Forum called LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic.
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Christopher Fan replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoI support the petition to create a Forum called LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic.
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Jacqulyn Teoh replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of a Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum!
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Darwin Tsen replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of a Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum.
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Vinh Nguyen replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of a Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum.
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Hania Nashef deposited "Barbaric Space: Portrayal of Arab lands in Hollywood films" in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoOn many occasions cinema has chosen to shoot movies in locales other than the ones in which the events of the films are supposed to take place in. This could be due to various reasons, namely cheaper production costs, or inability to gain access to the original place. The choice of location, however, tries to provide a mirror image of the…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited The blurring of boundaries: images of abjection as the terrorist and the reel Arab intersect in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agon her treatise on abjection, Julia Kristeva argues that the abject is located outside the self, remaining in a state of repulsion that threatens to destroy the self. Abject representations are prevalent in the way terrorists have been portrayed in the Western news media post-September 11, 2001. These images of abjection are problematic, as they…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited اهلا, hello and bonjour: a postcolonial analysis of Arab media's use of code switching and mixing and its ramification on the identity of the self in the Arab world in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoCode switching is a practice exercised by multilingual speakers. Linguists define the term as the simultaneous use of more than one language. Code switching is prevalent in postcolonial countries in which the colonial language has continued to exist alongside the native language. In the past, code switching in the Arab world has been confined to…[Read more]
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