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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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Nicholas Rinehart deposited “I Talk More of The French”: Creole Folklore and the Federal Writers’ Project in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis essay tackles a question that has preoccupied Francophone postcolonial studies for several decades—namely, what is believed almost unanimously to be the absence of a Francophone equivalent to the slave narrative in English. My article challenges this assumption by reconciling the legacies of slavery in both the Anglophone and Francophone “…[Read more]
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Latifa Zoulagh posted an update in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoLooking for a female roommate!
Is anyone (female) willing to share her room, I will be staying the 5th and the 6th?
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Isabelle Hesse replied to the topic CFP – Palestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017 in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoYes, it’s going to be a one-day conference, to be held on Friday, 24th February.
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Hania Nashef replied to the topic CFP – Palestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017 in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoIs this a one-day conference or longer?
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Isabelle Hesse started the topic CFP – Palestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017 in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPalestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017
24<sup>th</sup> February 2017
John Woolley Common Room, Level 4, John Woolley Building
The University of Sydney, Australia
Organised by
Dr Isabelle Hesse, The Department of English, The University of Sydney
Dr Ben Etherington, The Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney…[Read more]
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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic MLA 2017 Panels organized by Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
We hope you will join us for the following panels organized for the 2017 MLA by the Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum. They are as follows:
Session 200: States of In/Security: Global Palestine in Literature, Culture, Art, and Activism
Friday, 6 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 104B, Pennsylvania Convention Ce…[Read more] -
Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic Suggest a nominee for the GAAM executive committee in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoDear members,
It is time to suggest nominations for a new committee member to the MLA Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum’s current Executive Committee.
The procedure for nominations is outlined by Anna Chang and posted on 10 August 2016 on the MLA Commons’ “News from the MLA”: https://news.mla.hcommons-staging.org/2016/08/10/nominatio…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Request for Membership Suggestions for the Fall 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe next scheduled election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in 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 req…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for the Forum's First Delegate Election in the discussion
West Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe first election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017, and 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 req…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Forum Delegate Election: Solicitation of Membership Suggestions in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoWhen this forum’s executive committee meets during the upcoming convention in Philadelphia, it will take up the matter of nominations for the fall 2017 election of a new Delegate Assembly representative for the forum. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who has be…[Read more]
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A. E. B. Coldiron started the topic MLA 2017–Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture (on translation and Edmund Spenser) in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoHi, all; at the risk of self promotion, I forward this:
[The following comes to us from Dr Jane Grogan.]
Please join us at MLA 2017 for the International Spenser Society’s Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture, to be given by Prof. Anne Coldiron (Florida State University), on ‘Spenser and the Resources of Translation’. The lecture takes place during…[Read more]
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Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic Britto — Executive Committee Candidate Statement in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear Members of the LLC Francophone Forum,
I am honored to have been nominated by the current members of our executive committee to stand for election to the committee this year.
I am an Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where I teach francophone and anglophone literatures of…[Read more]
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Eloy Eduardo Merino started the topic Call for papers in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago“Aula lírica. Revista sobre poesía ibérica e iberoamericana” invites submissions for its issue number 9 (2017).
“Aula lírica” is an electronic peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of Iberian and Ibero-American poetry. It publishes essays, notes, and reviews, in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, on all periods, movements, and app…[Read more] -
Hania Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of "a land without a people": Mahmoud Darwishs Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced […] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land witho…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Suggest a nominee for Delegate Assembly representative! in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSuggest a nominee for Delegate Assembly representative!
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017, and 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 comm…[Read more]
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John Walsh started the topic Walsh – candidate for forum executive committee in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear Fellow LLC Francophone Forum members, I’m running for a seat on our executive committee, so please allow me to tell you a little about my work.
My name is John Walsh, and I’m an Associate Professor in the Department of French & Italian at the University of Pittsburgh. My teaching and research include the literature and history of Haiti and t…[Read more]
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Aleksondra Hultquist deposited Adapting Desires in Aphra Behn's The History of the Nun in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoBetween 1694 and 1757, there were at least five adaptations of Behn’s “The History of the Nun; or The Fair Vow Breaker”. Modern critics have focused on Thomas Southerne’s play, “The Fatal Marriage: or, the Innocent Adultery” (1694), David Garrick’s 1757 revision of Southerne’s play into the tragedy, “Isabella: or, the Fatal Marriage,” and Jane…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of “a land without a people”: Mahmoud Darwish’s Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agon his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced […] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land without a peopl…[Read more]
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John Walsh started the topic CFP: Migrations of Cultures – Undergraduate Conference at Pitt in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago“Migrations of Cultures” – Undergraduate Conference in the Modern Languages
To be held at the University of Pittsburgh, March 30-31, 2017
Calling all Advisors, spread the word to your students!
Do you want to share your ideas with other undergraduate students? Or get feedback on a paper? Maybe you are considering graduate school in one of the…[Read more]
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