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Marisa Verna deposited Corps connaissant(s) et pensée matérielle chez Proust. Les sens du Temps”. in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoThis paper aims to define the concepts of “material thought” and “material time,” as they are theorized by Proust in the Preface of his Ruskin’s Amiens Bible translation, and as they are developed throughout the Recherche. In Proust’s oeuvre ‘material thought’ manifests itself mostly in linguistic and stylistic features, or in concrete images,…[Read more]
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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 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
LLC Francophone 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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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Dany Laferrière, Japanses Writer? Borderless Texts, Borderless Trauma in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoAuthor Dany Laferrière, after a seven year hiatus from writing, produced the book Je suis un écrivain japonais (2008) [I am a Japanese Writer]. The title recalls statements he has frequently made in interviews about how much he hates being pigeon-holed by national or racial labels. The book itself is an examination of what (or who) defines s…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Becoming a Gwo Nèg in 1970s Haiti: Dany Laferrière’s Coming-of-Age Film Le Goût des Jeunes Filled (On the Verge of Fever) in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoWhen all men are either dead, exiled, thugs or zombies in a world ruled through violence and terror by a President-for-Life and his son, how is a young boy expected to come of age and forge his own identity? Le Goût des Jeunes Filles (On the Verge of Fever), a 2004 film about Fanfan, a 15-year-old boy, set in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on the same…[Read more]
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Hoda El Shakry started the topic LAST CALL: Arab/ic CFPs for 2018 MLA in NYC — Please apply or share! in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoArab/ic CFPs for 2018 MLA in NYC — Please apply or share!
“Palestine, Ethics, and World Literature”
We invite proposals that examine BDS and the ethical engagement with literature, as well as Palestine and World Literature. We welcome critical engagements with Edward Said’s work, and papers that explore other boycott movements, state and aca…[Read more]
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Hatem Akil started the topic Reminder re. Global Arab and Arab American Forum MLA 2018 CFPs in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoDear Friends,
Time is closing on submissions to the MLA 2018 convention panels organized by the Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature (GAAM). Please review and circulate as may be necessary.
Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities
Teaching Global Arab Comics in the U.S.
Below are the detailed CFPs:
Environmental…[Read more]
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Hatem Akil started the topic Reminder re. Global Arab and Arab American Forum MLA 2018 CFPs in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoDear Friends,
Time is closing on submissions to the MLA 2018 convention panels organized by the Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature (GAAM). Please review and circulate as may be necessary.
Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities
Teaching Global Arab Comics in the U.S.
Below are the detailed CFPs:
Environmental…[Read more]
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Hoda El Shakry posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP “Insecurity and Dissent in Middle Eastern Cinema”
What are the aesthetics that Middle Eastern filmmakers have deployed to express dissent and challenge the security of the regimes under which they live? What forms do such films employ to represent the insecurities of resistance? Please send abstracts (max. 250 words) and CVs to R. Shareah…[Read more] -
Hoda El Shakry posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP: “Medieval States of Insecurity panel”
We invite proposals for a proposed session on Medieval States of Insecurity cosponsored by the Medieval Iberian Literature and Culture LLC and the Arabic Forum at the MLA annual conference in New York (2018). We welcome proposals that explore how insecurity—political and social, real or i…[Read more] -
Hoda El Shakry posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP: “Speculative Futures in Arab/ic Literature”
We invite proposals that explore literary topoi, themes, and imagery of apocalypse, eschatology, science fiction, dystopia, utopia, (non)futurity, or fantasy in Arab/ic literature. We are particularly interested in papers that problematize the genres of magical realist, speculative, fantastical,…[Read more]
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Hoda El Shakry posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP: “Palestine, Ethics, and World Literature”
We invite proposals that examine BDS and the ethical engagement with literature, as well as Palestine and World Literature. We welcome critical engagements with Edward Said’s work, and papers that explore other boycott movements, state and academic institutions, as well as MLA and the production, c…[Read more]
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Pauline Homsi Vinson posted an update in the group
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2018 in New York City: Session Proposed by CLCS Global Arab and Arab American
Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities
Areas to consider for this panel might include: Global Arab texts/contexts and environmental flashpoints: economy, imperialism, petro-despotism, climate-change, pollution, resource scarcity, war,…[Read more] -
Dina Hassan replied to the topic CFP for 2018 MLA convention collaborative panel – Teaching Global Arab Comics in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThat makes sense. That you so much for your reply.
Best Regards,
Dina
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Pauline Homsi Vinson replied to the topic CFP for 2018 MLA convention collaborative panel – Teaching Global Arab Comics in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHello Dina,
Thank you for your interest in our panel. For this collaborative panel between the Global Arab and Arab American Literature forum and the Comics and Graphic Narratives forum, we are looking for work that addresses comics/graphic narratives written by or about Arabs in or outside the U.S.
We hope you can submit something if this topic…[Read more]
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Dina Hassan replied to the topic CFP for 2018 MLA convention collaborative panel – Teaching Global Arab Comics in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoI was wondering if the proposal particularly specifies Global Arab comics or can we include other forms like global Arab fiction?
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Pauline Homsi Vinson posted an update in the group
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP for a Collaborative Session with Comics and Graphics Narrative forum at the 2018 MLA in NYC: Teaching Global Arab Comics in the U.S. Graphic narratives by/about Arabs: circulation, translation, critical/pedagogical reception; aesthetics/politics of representation, counternarrative; figurations of history, occupation, states of belonging.…[Read more]
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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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Hatem N. Akil posted an update in the group
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years agoThe Global Arab and Arab American Forum (GAAM) is seeking to fill an open position on its Executive Committee. Elected members serve a 5-year term. Eligible nominees should be MLA members and should not be currently serving on another MLA Forum’s Executive Committee. Please check GAAM details at MLA Commons. You may send your nominations (…[Read more]
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