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selisker deposited “Simply by Reacting?”: The Sociology of Race and Invisible Man’s Automata in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis essay considers Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952) from the standpoint of its influential depiction of African Americans as automata. Through Ellison’s other writings, including his review of Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma (1944) and his unpublished drafts of Invisible Man, the essay links the political concerns of the novel with…[Read more]
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Michelle R. Warren deposited Diversity in Every Course, Cross-Cultural Encounters in Every Classroom in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoRound Table on Diversity and Teaching Medieval Studies sponsored by Graduate Student Council. Session title: “Tearing Down Walls, Building Bridges:
Medieval Diversity and Cross-Cultural Encounters in Syllabus Design and Teaching.” This paper is about two courses that illustrate the principle “Diversity in Every Course Title” and several…[Read more] -
Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited How to Make Love to a Negro: But What if I get Tired? Transculturation and its (Partial) Negation In and Through Translation in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoDany Laferrière’s first novel, Comment faire l’amour avec un Nègre was a literary sensation when it was first released in Quebec in the mid-80s. The author/narrator plays with reader’s expectations, presenting both a stereotypical image of the black man (sex-obsessed, white-hating) and one that contradicts and upsets their expectations. Influen…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited “Any differences between our versions and Scott’s…”: Collaboration, Anxiety of Influence, and a Translation of Anne Hébert’s “Le Tombeau des rois” in the group
TC Translation Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months agoAn analysis of the collaboration between Peter Miller and Louis Dudek in the translation of Anne Hébert’s poem, The Tomb of Kings.
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Rebecca Haidt started the topic CFP: Sets, Spaces, Stages of Cinema 1750-1899 in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts 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!
SETS, SPACES, STAGES OF CINEMA 1750-1899
Submission requirements: 250-word abstracts by March 15th
Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2017
<div class=”text_exposed_show”>Pre-cinema…[Read more]
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David Wacks started the topic Graphic novels in English on Hispanic/Latino world in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThis fall I am piloting a gen Ed 100-level course on Cultures of the Spanish-Speaking world in comics. Can anyone recommend good teachable graphic novels on the pre-Columbian world and/or discovery, and also on topics in 18th/19th c.? I’m planning on using Fuentes’ _Buried Mirror_ to frame it and bring short primary documents interspersed with the…
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Native Sons; Or, How “Bigger” Was Born Again in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThis article reconsiders Richard Wright’s Native Son by comparing divergences between the published novel and an earlier typeset manuscript. It argues that such revisions render protagonist Bigger Thomas an icon of global class conflict rather than a national figure of racial tension. By revealing the continuities among critical essays that…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP MLA 2018– Connecting the Dots: Museums and Comics (12 March 2017) in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoConnecting the Dots: Museums and Comics
Drawing from art theorist André Malraux—“The museum invites comparison of each of the expressions of the world it brings together, and forces us to question what it is that brings them together,” what indeed brings comics and museums into dialogue and/or dispute over exhibitionary spaces and praxis?…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic MLA 2018 CFP: Connecting the Dots: Museums and Comics (12 March 2017) in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoConnecting the Dots: Museums and Comics
Drawing from art theorist André Malraux—“The museum invites comparison of each of the expressions of the world it brings together, and forces us to question what it is that brings them together,” what indeed brings comics and museums into dialogue and/or dispute over exhibitionary spaces and praxis?…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano posted an update in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP: Connecting the Dots: Museums and Comics (MLA 2018)
Drawing from art theorist André Malraux—“The museum invites comparison of each of the expressions of the world it brings together, and forces us to question what it is that brings them together,”¬ what indeed brings comics and museums into dialogue and/or dispute over exhibitionary spaces…[Read more]
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Richard Menke deposited Telegraphic Realism: Henry James’s In the Cage in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn setting his 1898 tale In the Cage in a telegraph office, Henry James was adapting and investigating a metaphor that earlier novelists had used for the workings of fiction. As invoked by writers such as Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens, the idealized image of the electric telegraph hints at some of the formal and ideological properties of…[Read more]
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Jap-Nanak Makkar started the topic CFP: "Global Literature and Technology," Special Session for MLA 2018 in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 9 years agoDetails:
Proposal for Special Session: “Global Literature and Technology”
Organizer: Jap-Nanak Makkar, University of Virginia
MLA 2018 in New York CityPlease consider submitting to a special session, proposed to take place at MLA 2018 in New York City, on “Global Literature and Technology.”
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Jap-Nanak Makkar started the topic CFP: "Global Literature and Technology," Special Session for MLA 2018 in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 9 years agoDetails:
Proposal for Special Session: “Global Literature and Technology”
Organizer: Jap-Nanak Makkar, University of Virginia
MLA 2018 in New York CityPlease consider submitting to a special session, proposed to take place at MLA 2018 in New York City, on “Global Literature and Technology.”
Description:
Digital media pose a challenge…[Read more] -
Jap-Nanak Makkar started the topic CFP: "Global Literature and Technology," Special Session for MLA 2018 in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 9 years agoDetails:
Proposal for Special Session: “Global Literature and Technology”
Organizer: Jap-Nanak Makkar, University of Virginia
MLA 2018 in New York CityPlease consider submitting to a special session, proposed to take place at MLA 2018 in New York City, on “Global Literature and Technology.”
Description:
Digital media pose a challenge…[Read more] -
Hania Nashef deposited Demythologizing the Palestinian in Hany Abu-Assad’sOmarandParadise Now in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn the past, Palestinian cinema was dominated by a nationalist discourse revolving around refugee ideology, resulting from the trauma of the lost homeland. As the past is generally static, revisiting it became an exercise in nostalgia. The last decade, however, has seen the emergence of a number of transnational Palestinian films telling stories…[Read more]
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Gayle Rogers deposited Introduction to *Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature* in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 9 years agoAn approach to understanding modernism in literary history through the lens of translation by tracing the work of key figures such as Pound, Dos Passos, Jiménez, and Unamuno to translate US and Spanish literatures after the Spanish-American War of 1898.
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Das Ich über der Natur (1927) in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoEntry on Alfred Döblin’s book, Das Ich über der Natur, in the 2016 Alfred Döblin Handbuch.
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Enrique Fernandez started the topic Designing a database for visula artists and for scholars in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoI am developing an online database of the visual culture of the Spanish masterpiece Celestina (1499). At the moment, everything is in Spanish, but a programmer is helping me to develop the English version (we are using Omeka). I am trying to strike a balance between scholarly thoroughness and accessibility for the average users since there are…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Please Submit Suggestions for 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe next election of a Delegate Assembly representative for this forum is scheduled for the fall of 2017; the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic REMINDER: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (12/1/16) in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe deadline for abstracts looms!
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechdel, offer…[Read more]
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