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Travis M. Foster deposited Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States, Introduction in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 6 years agoIntroduction to Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (Oxford UP, 2019).
If your library doesn’t already own a copy, please consider submitting a purchase request.
Full citation: Travis M. Foster, Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).
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Brian Bernards started the topic CLCS SE Asian & SE Asian Diasporic Forum: Call for Exec Committee Nominations in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 6 years agoTo All Members of the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum:
This is an open call to all our forum members for nominations for election to the forum’s executive committee. Executive committee members serve 5-year terms (this election is for the 2021-2026 term) and are expected to attend roughly two out of every three annual…[Read more]
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Cynthia Chase replied to the topic Call For Candidates: LLC Pre-14th Chinese Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention via email on MLA Commons 6 years agoNo, thank you.
Cynthia Chase
From: Xiaowen Xu [mailto:noreply@hcommons-staging.org]
Sent: mardi 14 janvier 2020 17:08
To: Cynthia Chase
Subject: [MLA Commons] Call For Candidates: LLC Pre-14th Chinese Forum… (2019 MLA Convention) -
Xiaowen Xu started the topic Call For Candidates: LLC Pre-14th Chinese Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years agoDear Colleagues,
The LLC Pre-14th Forum is calling for your volunteering to be an alternate candidate for the executive committee 2021 to 2026. Please contact Xiaowen Xu (xiaowen.xu@ubc.ca) or Benjamin Ridgway (brdgwa1@swarthmore.edu) if you are interested. Or you could reply to this thread directly.
We would need four forum members who are…
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Jervette Ward started the topic MLA LLC African American 2021 Panels – Toronto in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 6 years agoLLC African American will be soliciting suggestions for our panels for MLA 2021 via Humanities/MLA Commons — Stay Tuned!!!
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Julie Phillips Brown deposited Otherbreath: Bare Life and the Limits of Self in Claudia Rankine’s ‘Citizen’ in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoFor the “Extreme Texts” special issue of Jacket2, edited by Divya Victor (2019)
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Brian Bernards started the topic SE Asian CLCS Forum-Hosted Happy Hour: Fri, Jan 10 at the MLA in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoMembers and friends of the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic CLCS MLA Forum:Our forum invites you to a MLA 2020 Happy Hour at 9pm on Friday, January 10 at the Frolik Kitchen + Cocktails, which is located on the 5th floor of the Motif Seattle Hotel (3 blocks from the Washington State Convention Center). Come mingle and decompress…[Read more]
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Adrian Alarilla started the topic The Southeast Asia x Seattle Film Festival in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoHello everyone,
If anyone is interested and has some free time, I would like to cordially invite you all to our little film festival at the University of Washington campus:
SEAxSEA 2020: Southeast Asia x Seattle Film Festival
January 9 and 10, 2020, 5:00 to 7:30 pm
Thomson Hall (THO) room 101, King Ln NE, Seattle, WA 98105
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Brian Bernards started the topic SE Asian CLCS Forum-Hosted Happy Hour: Fri, Jan 10 at the MLA in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoMembers and friends of the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic CLCS MLA Forum:
Our forum invites you to a MLA 2020 Happy Hour at 9pm on Friday, January 10 at the Frolik Kitchen + Cocktails, which is located on the 5th floor of the Motif Seattle Hotel (3 blocks from the Washington State Convention Center). Come mingle and decompress…[Read more]
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Shane Graham started the topic CFP: Langston Hughes Review Special Issue—"'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' at 100" in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoLangston Hughes Review
Guest Editor: Shane Graham
Expected Publication: May 2021In June 1921, Crisis published Langston Hughes’ first adult poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” In many ways it contained the blueprint for the poet’s entire subsequent career, and established many of his key themes: black pride and self-assertion; the validat…[Read more]
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Tanja Stampfl started the topic Tenure Track Position in Global Anglophone Literature and Composition in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe Department of English at the University of the Incarnate Word seeks applications for an Assistant Professor position in Composition and Global Anglophone Literature with an emphasis on social justice issues (tenure-track, 4-4 teaching load) beginning August 2020. Ph.D. is required prior to the appointment start date. The successful candidate…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHello everyone, I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.
https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019
Please share with those who may be interested.
Thank you so much!
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Jefferson Gatrall started the topic Job posting: Assistant Professor of Religion and Medical Humanities in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThe Department of Religion and the Medical Humanities Program at Montclair State University seeks an Assistant Professor of Religion and Medical Humanities.
Job Description
The Assistant Professor of Religion and Medical Humanities will teach and conduct research at the intersections of religion/culture and medicine/healthcare, such as…[Read more]
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Elizabeth M. Holt deposited “In a Language That Was Not His Own”: On Ahlām Mustaghānamī’s Dhākirat al-jasad and Its French Translation Mémoires de la chair in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoAbstract
This paper argues that Ah!lam Mustaghanami’s novel Dhakirat al-jasad (Memories of the Flesh)
enacts a break with Algeria’s Francophone literary past, multiply staging its affiliation with the
Arabic language. !e novel positions itself as part of an Algerian linguistic drama that, once
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Elizabeth M. Holt deposited “Bread or Freedom”: The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA, and the Arabic Literary Journal Ḥiwār (1962-67) (complete) in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoIn 1950, the United States Central Intelligence Agency created the Congress for Cultural Free- dom, with its main offices in Paris, lhe CCF was designed as a cultural front in the Cold War in response to the Soviet Cominform, and founded and funded a worldwide network of literary journals (as well as conferences, concerts, art exhibits and other…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: special issue-Southeast Asian & Australian Literary & Cultural Connections in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoCFP: special issue of Antipodes journal on Southeast Asian and Australian Literary and Cultural Connections
We invite essay submissions for a special issue of Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) on the topic of Southeast Asian and Australian Literary and Cultural Connections. This special section will…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman deposited Scheherezade in Chains: Arab-Islamic Genealogies of African Diasporic Literature in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDrawing on Arabic textual traditions and foregrounding the liminal time and space of administrative detention, of the expired visa, of deportation, and of repatriation, Muslim slave narratives deserve recognition as generative forebears of transnational, multicultural literature in both England and the United States. Yet these forebears were…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman deposited Kafka, the Caribbean, and the Holocaust in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThis essay reexamines the figure of Franz Kafka (1883–1924) in light of his largely ignored, recursive links to circum-Caribbean and Black Atlantic processes of racialized exploitation and corporal punishment. When we centre Kafka’s extensive biographical and literary engagements with these processes, the persistent debate over Kafka’s statu…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic 3rd IASA International Symposium in Italy Call for Papers in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months ago3rd IASA International Symposium in Italy Call for Papers
May 28-31, 2020
Fondazione Campus
Via del Seminario Prima, 790
Lucca, Italy
http://www.fondazionecampus.it
Italian Diaspora(s): The Manifestations and Dynamics of Cultural ChangeSubmission Deadline: Saturday, February 1, 2020 https://italianamericanstudies.submittable.com/submit…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon deposited Introduction to Four Poems from Langston Hughes’s Spanish Civil War Verse in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoIntroduction to four poems written by Langston Hughes during the Spanish Civil War, published in the Little-Known Documents section of PMLA.
The introduction alongside the text of the four poems can be found on the PMLA’s site: https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2019.134.3.562.
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