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Shazia Rahman deposited Rachna Mara’s Cosmopolitan (Yet Partial) Feminisms in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis article shows how Rachna Mara’s collection of short stories Of Customs and Excise puts forth a cosmopolitan feminism that reveals the losses and gains of diaspora in an arena of partiality and relationality.
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Tsitsi Jaji started the topic CFP: The Performance of Pan-Africanism (Conference on Cultural Festivals) in the discussion
African Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Performance of Pan-Africanism:
from Colonial Exhibitions to Black and African Cultural Festivals
International Conference
20-22 October, 2016
Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University
Keynote speakers: Andrew Apter (UCLA), Cheryl Finley (Cornell University), Souleymane B…[Read more]
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Tsitsi Jaji started the topic CFP: Conference on Black and African Cultural Festivals in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 10 years agoT
The Performance of Pan-Africanism:
from Colonial Exhibitions to Black and African Cultural Festivals
International Conference
20-22 October, 2016
Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University
Keynote speakers: Andrew Apter (UCLA), Cheryl Finley (Cornell University), Souleymane B…[Read more]
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic CFP- Beat Studies at ALA 2016 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Beat Studies Association invites papers for 2 panels at the upcoming American Literature Association Annual Conference in San Francisco (May 26-29, 2016): papers on all aspects of Beat Literature and Beats Studies OR papers on the work and contributions to Beat Studies of the scholar Ann Charters, for the panel “Mapping Beat Movements…[Read more]
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T. Mera Moore Lafferty deposited Abstracts for Session 809: Poetry, Gender, Ecocriticism in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoMLA Convention January 2016, Abstracts for Session 809
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Shazia Sadaf deposited Daniyal Mueenuddin’s Dying Men in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDaniyal Mueenuddin’s In Other Rooms, Other Wonders is reflection of Pakistani masculinity in a metamorphosed state. A disturbingly masculine vocabulary frames the appearance and actions of the female characters. In contrast, the speech and thought of the male characters is minified in words of loss and regret. Their material ambitions and the r…[Read more]
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Dana Luciano started the topic Invitation and Panel Info: Afterlives of 19c American Racism, 8:30 am 1/9/16 in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago82. Afterlives of Nineteenth-Century American Racism
Saturday, 9 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 14, ACCProgram arranged by the forum LLC 19th-Century American
Presiding: Dana Luciano, Georgetown Univ.
Speakers: Marlene Daut, Claremont Graduate Univ.; Gordon Fraser, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs; Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz; <…[Read more]
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Rodrigo Lazo started the topic Invitation – Canon and Archives Panel MLA in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago19. From Canon to Archival Encounters
<div id=”conv_program_details”>Thursday, 7 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 8C, ACC
Program arranged by the forum LLC 19th-Century American
Presiding: Rodrigo Lazo, Univ. of California, Irvine
1. “Slavery and the Archival Uncanny,” Jennifer C. James, George Washington Univ.
2. “Tales of Archival E…[Read more]
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Davide Castiglione deposited A Parsing-Proof Whole: Susan Howe’s Experimental Syntax and Its Processing Implications in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoIt has long been acknowledged that syntactic violations in poetry are central to the difficulty of a poetic text (e.g. Fowler 1971, Fois-Kaschel 2002, Burke 2007, Thoms 2008). However, for all its merits, most of the work carried out so far tends either to be more concerned with linguistic theory than with literary effects (i.e. the generativist…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Articles of Interest? in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear All,
Happy (almost) end of semester, and happy holidays! I wanted to alert you to the poetry, research papers, book chapters, dissertations, and pedagogical materials that have been shared with this forum by MLA members using CORE. (They are denoted by the “Deposits” menu item to the left of the group’s page.) I encourage you to read your…[Read more] -
Nicky Agate started the topic Articles of Interest? in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear All,
Happy (almost) end of semester! I wanted to alert you to the scholarly materials that have been shared with this forum by MLA members via CORE. (They are denoted by the “Deposits” menu item to the left of the group’s page.) I encourage you to read your colleagues’ work and, perhaps, share some of your own!
– Nicky Agate (Manag…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Bottles of ink, and reams of paper: Clotel, Racialization, and the Material Cultue of Print in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis essay argues that greater attention to the significance of the material culture of print, especially in early African American print culture, shows how technologies of racialization emerge in conjunction with technologies of printed words and images. The stereotype is perhaps the most familiar case. In one sense it offers quick reproduction…[Read more]
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Jason Charles Courtmanche started the topic Extended Deadline for 21st Summer Meeting of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoExtended Deadline!
Call for Papers
The 21st Summer Meeting
of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
June 2-5, 2016
The Stoweflake Inn at Stowe, Vermont
During an extended period of self-imposed isolation following his graduation from Bowdoin, Hawthorne embarked on a tour of New England and the Hudson Valley. In 1832, he visited Burlington,…[Read more]
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Jason Charles Courtmanche started the topic CFP w/ extended deadline for Hawthorne ALA panels in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago*Extended Deadlines!*
Calls for Papers: Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Sessions, American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, May 26-29, 2016.
“Hawthorne, Poe, and Childhood”
Proposals for papers on the topic of “Hawthorne, Poe, and Childhood” are sought for a Nathaniel Hawthorne Society session at the American Literature Associat…[Read more]
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Nicholas Birns deposited The Horizon’s Hoop: Emerson’s “Monadnoc” in Contingency and History in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoWhen it is spoken of at all, Emerson’s “Monadnoc” is described as a solicitation of natural sublimity. But a close rhetorical analysis of the poem reveals greater ambivalence about this sublimity than is apparent—linking it to later American philosophic poems by Frost, Stevens, Ammons, and Kinnell that at once solicit and question natural plenitu…[Read more]
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Steven Schroeder deposited "Who We Are Is God's Dying: The Real Presence of God's Absence in Bonhoeffer's Prison Poems" in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThe scraps and orts that survived Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s imprisonment and execution by the Nazis played an influential role in theologies of the second half of the twentieth century, and that influence continues unabated in the twenty-first. Of particular interest has been his speculation on “religionless” Christianity in “a world come of age,” s…[Read more]
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Steven Schroeder deposited mind the gaps: fragments in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agomind the gaps: fragments is a digitally printed limited edition of six fragments, four of which are poems that begin with my translations from early Greek thinking (works of Heraclitus, Parmenides, Sappho, and Empedocles). The fifth includes a poem based on my translation of a story included in Plato’s Phaedrus and a hybrid piece built around…[Read more]
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Albertine Fox deposited 'EXTREME STATES: Remixing Cinema, Visual Art and Music in Godard’s Puissance de la parole’ in Sequence, 3.1 (2015). Online at: http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/sequence3/archive/sequence-3-1/. in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis article offers an interdisciplinary perspective on Jean-Luc Godard’s video short Puissance de la parole (1988). It engages with key historical figures in film, visual art and music, positioning Godard’s video mashup as a violent intermedial space where past and future meet. Exploring techniques of fragmentation, decontextualization and rec…[Read more]
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Angelica Alicia Duran started the topic Exec Comm nominee Angelica Duran in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoDear folks, with the MLA’s kind reminder sent out today that there is just one more week to go for voting for the various MLA Executive Committees, including the Poetry and Poetics Forum, I would just like to say that, if I become a member of that Exec Comm, I would work to give due credit to all kinds of poetry; to coordinate public and digital…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Lisa Zunshine in Conversation with Ralph James Savarese in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHave cognitive scientists misread autism? What happens if, instead of simply accepting such research, literary critics turned to the actual prose and poetry written by autistic authors, such as Tito Mukhopadhyay and Donna Williams? Literary theory may never be the same once it comes to terms with neurodiversity.
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