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Kyle Frackman deposited Archival Research Guide for Grad Students in the group
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months agoThis document is a basic guide for graduate students who need to work in archives or other special libraries. The guide includes items to bring or have on hand as well as steps for planning your visit and organizing your notes.
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Amel Abbady deposited The Intersections of Masculinity and Disability in Khaled Hosseini᾿s A Thousand Splendid Suns and Leila Aboulela᾿s Lyrics Alley in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoAbstract of my full article published on disability and masculinity in the Global South.
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Amel Abbady deposited The Intersections of Masculinity and Disability in Khaled Hosseini᾿s A Thousand Splendid Suns and Leila Aboulela᾿s Lyrics Alley in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoAbstract of my full article published on disability and masculinity in the Global South.
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Amel Abbady deposited Afghanistan’s “Bacha Posh”: Gender-Crossing in Nadia Hashimi’s The Pearl That Broke Its Shell in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoThis article explores the tradition of Bacha Posh in Afghan culture as depicted in Afghan-American Nadia Hashimiʼs debut novel The Pearl that Broke its Shell (2014). In this novel, Hashimi shows how Afghan girls are obliged to cross-dress and live dual lives as boys for several years to lay claim for their rights to education and freedom of…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited Afghanistan’s “Bacha Posh”: Gender-Crossing in Nadia Hashimi’s The Pearl That Broke Its Shell in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoThis article explores the tradition of Bacha Posh in Afghan culture as depicted in Afghan-American Nadia Hashimiʼs debut novel The Pearl that Broke its Shell (2014). In this novel, Hashimi shows how Afghan girls are obliged to cross-dress and live dual lives as boys for several years to lay claim for their rights to education and freedom of…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited “‘You cannot assimilate Indian ghosts’ : a magical realist reading of Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoIn The Night Watchman (2020), Louise Erdrich continues to blur the lines between history and fiction as she has done in several of her novels. Erdrich introduces the reader to several magical elements that appear to be entirely real: two ghosts, a dog that talks, and an unearthly powwow with Jesus as one of the dancers. The main objective of this…[Read more]
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Tekla Babyak deposited Contemplation, Heroism, and Gender in Clara Schumann’s Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 17, Third Movement (1846) in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoI’m a disability activist and musicologist with multiple sclerosis (PhD, Musicology, Cornell, 2014). I’m unaffiliated due to discrimination against my disabilities. However, I often give guest lectures, both virtually and in person. My speaking engagements help to advance diversity and representation in academia: I offer students the opportunity…[Read more]
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Esha Sil started the topic ‘Creole Indias, Creolising Pondicherry’: New Article in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoDear all
It gives me great pleasure to announce the publication of the article, ‘Creole Indias, Creolising Pondicherry’, authored by Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir (Department of English, King’s College, London). The essay develops her theory of littoral enclaves, archipelagic theory, and creolisation in India, via Pondicherry, and has a…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Hydrocolonial Johannesburg in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoJohannesburg is a landlocked city, famously the largest human concentration in the southern hemisphere not located on a river. What opportunities does it afford for hydrocolonial analysis, given Isabel Hofmeyr’s anchoring of that term in oceanic studies? How might a hydrocolonial orientation defamiliarize the relations between surface and depths…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Hydrocolonial Johannesburg in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoJohannesburg is a landlocked city, famously the largest human concentration in the southern hemisphere not located on a river. What opportunities does it afford for hydrocolonial analysis, given Isabel Hofmeyr’s anchoring of that term in oceanic studies? How might a hydrocolonial orientation defamiliarize the relations between surface and depths…[Read more]
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Esha Sil started the topic CFP: The Routledge Handbook to Global Literature and Culture in the Romantic Era in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoCall for Papers: The Routledge Handbook to Global Literature and Culture in the Romantic Era
Edited by Arif Camoglu, Bakary Diaby, Omar F. Miranda, Gaura Narayan, and Kate Singer
How might we re-envision and extend the “Romantic period” through an archive of texts and forms of expression from multiple communities across the planet during…[Read more]
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Esha Sil started the topic Lorna Sage Memorial Lecture 2022: Paul Gilroy in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoThe School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia (UEA) is delighted to announce that this year’s Annual Lorna Sage Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Paul Gilroy.
Date: Thursday 9th June 2022Time: 17:30-19:00, followed by a drinks reception
Location: Lecture Theatre 1
Paul was the recipient of the 2019 H…[Read more]
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Cheryl Farris-Clayton deposited On Dickinson in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoEssay on the poetry of Emily Dickinson and her impact upon literature. This essay celebrates her global reach from within societal spheres of gender. “Emily Dickinson transformed the genre of poetry from the academic salon styled idealism to the personal poignant voice of reality from the poet’s point of view.”
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Patrick Chura started the topic Call for Essays on African American Literature and Culture in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoThe non-profit digital scholarly database The Literary Encyclopedia was founded in 1998 to provide a scholarly online resource for university-level teaching and research. We are in the process of expanding our offerings in the field of African American Literature and Culture.
We’re interested in commissioning reference articles (2,000-…[Read more]
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Corinna Sauter deposited “nur die Flüssigkeit gibt die Freiheit zu neuer Gestaltung”. Überlegungen zum Witz als Prinzip der ungebundenen Schreibart bei Jean Paul in the group
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoDer Aufsatz widmet sich dem Jean Paulschen Witz als einem grundlegenden Verfahren, das maßgeblich zur Poetizität seiner satirischen Prosa beiträgt. Der Gang der Argumentation führt vom Wort-Schatz als Ressource des Witzes (I.) über die Manöver des (unbildlichen) Witzes (II.), die sprachliche Selbstreferenz des Wortspiels (III.) und die Anagr…[Read more]
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Corinna Sauter deposited Wilhelm Raabe Meisterdieb. Plagiarismus in “Gutmanns Reisen” in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoMit dem Begriff des Plagiats findet Wilhelm Raabe in “Gutmanns Reisen” eine Chiffre für seine Praxis unhintergehbarer Intertextualität. Angesichts einer durch starke Vorgänger und eine stetig anwachsende ‘Literaturgeschichte’ fraglich gewordenen Kategorie des Neuen behauptet Raabe eine paradoxe Autorschaft originärer Sekundarität, die darin best…[Read more]
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Corinna Sauter deposited Wilhelm Raabe Meisterdieb. Plagiarismus in “Gutmanns Reisen” in the group
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoMit dem Begriff des Plagiats findet Wilhelm Raabe in “Gutmanns Reisen” eine Chiffre für seine Praxis unhintergehbarer Intertextualität. Angesichts einer durch starke Vorgänger und eine stetig anwachsende ‘Literaturgeschichte’ fraglich gewordenen Kategorie des Neuen behauptet Raabe eine paradoxe Autorschaft originärer Sekundarität, die darin best…[Read more]
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Corinna Sauter deposited Proversa – “Oder umgekehrt”. Wilhelm Raabes (Literatur-)Satire “Deutscher Mondschein” (1872/1873) als Programmschrift der Prosa in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoRaabe schreibt eine Prosa, die er an der Verdichtung der Versdichtung bemisst und die sich die Umwendung zum Modell nimmt. Ein Text, der diesen Umstand im Zeichen der Korrektur ‘dürftiger Prose’ inszeniert und den ich daher eine Programmschrift der Prosa nenne, liegt mit “Deutscher Mondschein” vor. Auf der Textbühne der Satire werden nicht nur d…[Read more]
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Corinna Sauter deposited Proversa – “Oder umgekehrt”. Wilhelm Raabes (Literatur-)Satire “Deutscher Mondschein” (1872/1873) als Programmschrift der Prosa in the group
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoRaabe schreibt eine Prosa, die er an der Verdichtung der Versdichtung bemisst und die sich die Umwendung zum Modell nimmt. Ein Text, der diesen Umstand im Zeichen der Korrektur ‘dürftiger Prose’ inszeniert und den ich daher eine Programmschrift der Prosa nenne, liegt mit “Deutscher Mondschein” vor. Auf der Textbühne der Satire werden nicht nur d…[Read more]
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