Masood Raja
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Madhurima Chakraborty posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCFP: South Asian Literatures in the World
South Asian Literary Association Annual Conference
January 6-7, 2019
The Wits Hotel, Chicago, ILThe South Asian Literary Association invites papers, panels, and roundtable proposals for the 2019 annual conference to be held in Chicago January 6-7 on the topic “South Asian Literatures in the World.” We…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic ADCPL CFP MLA 2019: “Transacting Comparative Studies” in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoHi all, I’m on the board of the Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature and I’m posting on behalf of the chair, Thomas Beebee, to publicize our CFP for MLA 2019. Here it is, inspired by the Presidential Theme of “Textual Transactions”:
Transacting Comparative Studies with other Disciplines and Units
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Sheela Jane Menon posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2019: “Race, Nation, and Empire in Southeast Asian Life Writing.” How does Southeast Asian life writing reframe questions of race, nation, empire, and history? Comparative approaches welcomed. 300-word abstract and short bio to John David Zuern (zuern@hawaii.edu) and Sheela Jane Menon (menons@dickinson.edu) due 15 March 2018. Please…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2019 Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum:
Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions
Each year, the Southeast Asian Writers Award (S.E.A. Write) is awarded to an author from each of the member states of ASEAN. The awardees are typically authors whose works are written…[Read more]
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Annette Damayanti Lienau started the topic CFP: Afro-Asian Cultural Solidarity and Unfinished Projects of Independence in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoGuaranteed panel sponsored by the Modern Language Association’s Committee of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, 20th and 21st century.
This panel takes its cue from Leopold Senghor’s writing on the ambiguities and paradoxes of the Bandung moment: as a call to shared independence that bears the risk of (ethno)-nationalist exploitations i…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2019 Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum:
Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions
Each year, the Southeast Asian Writers Award (S.E.A. Write) is awarded to an author from each of the member states of ASEAN. The awardees are typically authors whose works are written…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:
Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia
What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:
Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia
What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoMLA 2019 Update — CFP for Special Session:
Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions
How does one teach/research/compare Southeast Asian texts (literature, cinema, etc.) from different linguistic/national/cultural contexts in translation? 300-word abstracts and short bios due to Brian Bernards (bernards@usc.edu) March 15.
CFP now…[Read more]
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Sheela Jane Menon posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoIncluded in the Griffith Review 59 issue linked below, is this important piece on the Batang Kali Massacre by Bernice Chauly. https://griffithreview.com/articles/truth-still-denied-batang-kali-massacre/
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Sheela Jane Menon posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoGriffith Review 59: Commonwealth Now, co-edited by Julianne Schultz and Jane Camens, features writers from around the world who explore the contemporary experience of Commonwealth citizens – confronting new challenges, reconciling the past, creating a sustainable and equitable future, settling scores and opening new exchanges. Some great S…[Read more]
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Remy Attig deposited Judeo-Spanish and Spanglish: Common Considerations for the English Translator of Two Peripheral Lects in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn the natural order of language development orality precedes literary production, but elements of the oral tradition do often appear in literature. In this presentation I will look at orality in some Judeo-Spanish and Spanglish texts to see how the study of these two lects together may better inform the translator. Though both are lects of…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui deposited Contemporary Literature from Singapore in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 8 years agoLiterature in Singapore is written in the country’s four official languages: Chinese, English, Malay, and Tamil. Since 1999, with the state’s implementation of the Renaissance City Plan to revitalize arts and culture in Singapore, there have been various initiatives to increase the visibility of contemporary Singaporean writing both within the cou…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui deposited Contemporary Literature from Singapore in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 8 years agoLiterature in Singapore is written in the country’s four official languages: Chinese, English, Malay, and Tamil. Since 1999, with the state’s implementation of the Renaissance City Plan to revitalize arts and culture in Singapore, there have been various initiatives to increase the visibility of contemporary Singaporean writing both within the cou…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui replied to the topic Critical texts in Southeast Asian studies? in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 8 years ago(Apologies for the thread necromancy. I hope we can keep this discussion thread active since there’s a lot of new and interesting scholarship being published about SEAsia in recent years.)
Hello everyone! Some time ago I borrowed a copy of the 1939 _Higher Education in Malaya_ report, which is a 150-page document by a commission appointed by the…[Read more]
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Charles Gleek deposited Adventures in Zoochosis in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoPostcolonial theory has a people problem. By this, I am unabashedly suggesting that postcolonial theoreticians’ overemphasis on people as the site of analysis lies at the heart of the limitations of the field’s key terms, epistemological boundaries, and approach to understanding phenomena as a whole. Indeed, if postcolonial theory and its rel…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe deadline is approaching!
To participate in this year’s annual Stony Brook University English Graduate conference, please submit all abstracts to stonybrookenglishgradcon@gmail.com by December 18th, 2017.
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Madhumita Lahiri deposited An Idiom for India: Hindustani and the Limits of the Language Concept in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis essay explores the cultural legacy of Hindustani, which names the intimate overlap between two South Asian languages, Hindi and Urdu. Hindi and Urdu have distinct religious identities, national associations and scripts, yet they are nearly identical in syntax, diverging to some extent in their vocabulary. Hindi and Urdu speakers,…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoPlease note the following sessions for MLA 2018!
THURSDAY 4 JANUARY 2018
#1. “Southeast Asia and Its Empires” (Roundtable)
Date/Time: Thursday 4 January 5:15 PM-6:30 PM
Location: Concourse B (Hilton)
From the Dutch in Indonesia to the British and Japanese in Malaya to the Americans in Vietnam and the Philippines, Southeast Asia has had lon…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoMLA members are invited to the first business meeting of the newly established Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies (CLCS) forum. The meeting will be held at the 2018 MLA Convention on 4 January 2018, 8:45-10:00 p.m., room Clinton, in the New York Hilton Midtown. This meeting will be an…[Read more]
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