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Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years agoWill students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
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Anna Ziajka Stanton started the topic Executive Committee — Nominees Needed in the discussion
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 2 years agoThe MLA Global Arab & Arab American Forum seeks nominees to the Executive Committee, with a term to begin after the 2025 MLA Convention and run through Jan 2030.
- Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment.
- Seven convention years must elapse before an individual can serve another term on the same executive committee.
- No member…
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Anna Ziajka Stanton started the topic Executive Committee — Nominees Needed in the discussion
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 2 years agoThe MLA Global Arab & Arab American Forum seeks nominees to the Executive Committee, with a term to begin after the 2025 MLA Convention and run through Jan 2030.
- Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment.
- Seven convention years must elapse before an individual can serve another term on the same executive committee.
- No member may…
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Ramzi Salti deposited Vivian and Her Son in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years agoThis short story, written by Dr. Ramzi Salti, was published as part of his book titled “The Native Informant and Other Stories: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World”. It has been turned into a short film titled “The 40th Day’–available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/fspvJSiSQkc. Complete E-Book now available on Google Play and Kindle.
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Ramzi Salti deposited Vivian and Her Son in the group
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 2 years agoThis short story, written by Dr. Ramzi Salti, was published as part of his book titled “The Native Informant and Other Stories: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World”. It has been turned into a short film titled “The 40th Day’–available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/fspvJSiSQkc. Complete E-Book now available on Google Play and Kindle.
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andré carrington started the topic Open General Business Meeting for the Forum:MS Sound at #MLA2024 in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 years agoGood day everyone! If you’re attending the annual convention and you’d like to join the Forum MS Sound (or you’re already a member) please join us at 3:30p.m. on Saturday, January 6, in the Marriott – Grand D (Level 5). We’ll catch up and solicit interest in potential topics for sponsored sessions, and we have seats opening up, so you can become a…[Read more]
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Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic The Executive Committee endorses the Radical Caucus’s motion in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Forum Participants,
The executive committee of the Sound Forum is writing to let you know of our intention to endorse the Radical Caucus’s emergency motion in defense of academic freedom. The draft text of the motion is included below and our endorsement will be listed as “The Sound Forum Executive Committee.” There will be an open hearing…[Read more]
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Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic The Executive Committee endorses the Radical Caucus’s motion in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Forum Participants,
The executive committee of the Sound Forum is writing to let you know of our intention to endorse the Radical Caucus’s emergency motion in defense of academic freedom. The draft text of the motion is included below and our endorsement will be listed as “The Sound Forum Executive Committee.” There will be an open hearing…[Read more]
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Raj Chetty started the topic CLCS Caribbean Forum panel at MLA 2024 (in-person, Philadelphia) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years agoHey all!
Please join us for this year’s Caribbean forum in-person panel, “Evolutions in Caribbean State Formation” (326), which has been selected by Frieda Ekotto, MLA President, to be included in this year’s Presidential Theme, “Celebration: Joy and Sorrow.”
- Friday, 5 January 2024
- 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
- Loews – Congress B (4th Floor)
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Eva Cherniavsky started the topic Updates from the Forum Executive Committee 12/28/23 in the discussion
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Members of the TC Marxism, Literature and Society Forum,
I am writing on behalf of the Executive Committee of our forum with some information, and a call for self-nominations to serve on the Executive Committee and for your ideas for sessions that we can organize for the 2025 and 2026 MLA Conventions. I also wanted to inform you of a…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited The Literary Management of Multilingualism in Postcolonial India in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years agoThis chapter explores a tension in postcolonial Indian literature between the monolingual form of the nation and the multilingual tendencies of the linguistic regions through a comparison between the Sahitya Akademi’s (India’s national academy of letters) activities and Tamil putukkavitai (new poetry) writing. By promoting translation and con…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by…[Read more]
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Arif Camoglu deposited Loving Sovereignty: Political Mysticism, Seyh Galib, and Giorgio Agamben in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoCentering on the poetry of Şeyh Galib (1757–1799), this article considers Ottoman imperial sovereignty in tandem with the discourse of mysticism that underpinned it. A key rhetorical device that enables the abstraction of the politics of empire in this discourse is the metaphor of the beloved sovereign. In the mystical writing of Galib, this me…[Read more]
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Arif Camoglu deposited “Supreme in Ruin”: Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial Ruins in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoRegistered in Romantic depictions of imperial ruins is the endurance of empire in its immateriality: the imageries of empire’s ruination announce a future where imperial sovereignty maintains its presence spectrally. Using Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology, and recruiting further insight from political theory, this essay argues that emp…[Read more]
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Golam Rabbani deposited The Creative Industries in Bangladesh: The Case of Coke Studio Bangla’s “Deora” in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis article analyzes the case of Coke Studio Bangla’s music and performance production titled “Deora.”
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Golam Rabbani deposited In the Light of What We Know: A Novel of Its Time in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoBook review of Zia Haider Rahman’s novel In the Light of What We Know
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Arif Camoglu deposited Inter-imperial Dimensions of Turkish Literary Modernity in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoCalling for a historiographical shift in literary criticism, this essay stresses the expansionist vision of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, approaches its literature as a corpus of representation for imperial subjectivities, and thereby supplements the critique of the narrative of literary modernity identified with the orientalist E. J. W.…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoAnthropomorphism, which combines two Greek words, anthropos and morphe, meaning “human” and “form’ respectively, is a term that reflects our attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals and objects, bestowing upon them agency (Taylor 2011: 266). In this respect, we elevate the status of the non-human animal, moving it from being a…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Songs of Nostalgia: Creative Activism and Exile in Elia Suleiman’s “It Must be Heaven” and Panah Panahi’s “Hit the Road” in the group
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAbstract | The final scene of Elia Suleiman’s film, It Must be Heaven (2019), ends with the actor/director sitting in an Arab bar in the city of Haifa, while the young crowd is dancing to “Arabyon Ana” (2000) by Lebanese singer Yuri Mrakadi. The Arabic music is a testimony to a Palestinian-Arab culture that resists erasure.
The songs in Sulei…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Songs of Nostalgia: Creative Activism and Exile in Elia Suleiman’s “It Must be Heaven” and Panah Panahi’s “Hit the Road” in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAbstract | The final scene of Elia Suleiman’s film, It Must be Heaven (2019), ends with the actor/director sitting in an Arab bar in the city of Haifa, while the young crowd is dancing to “Arabyon Ana” (2000) by Lebanese singer Yuri Mrakadi. The Arabic music is a testimony to a Palestinian-Arab culture that resists erasure.
The songs in Sulei…[Read more]
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