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cynthia tompkins deposited call for papers in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 6 years agoCall for Proposals
Media, Lingualisms, Translations: Technologies of Language and Power
Conference to be held November 13-14, 2020; hosted by the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University, Tempe.
Keynote speakers: Jean-Noël Robert (Collège de France, Paris)
Lourdes Ortega (Georgetown University, W…[Read more] -
Scott Challener deposited American Literature’s Hemispheric Address: 1823-1923 (Fall 2019) in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis course is a study of American literature’s address to and engagement with the hemisphere in the long nineteenth century. As such, it is first and foremost an inquiry into the concepts—“America,” “literature,” “address,” “hemisphere,” race and period—that animate our study. Our first task, then, is to turn these concepts into problems. What c…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited Latinx Literatures and Cultures in the U.S. and Beyond in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will concentrate our attention on works by Chicanos, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Dominican Americans. We will consider how these works represent and participate in the upheavals that characterize the…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited Latinx Literatures and Cultures in the U.S. and Beyond in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will concentrate our attention on works by Chicanos, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Dominican Americans. We will consider how these works represent and participate in the upheavals that characterize the…[Read more]
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Minni Sawhney deposited Ambivalent Fundamentalists and Reluctant Detectives: Living on the Edge in the Global South in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis article discusses the confluence of the war on drugs and the war on terror with an analysis of the novels of Elmer Mendoza, (Balas de plata, Prueba de ácido, Nombre de perro, Besar al detective) Don Winslow (The Power of the Dog, The Cartel) and Mohsin Hamid (The Reluctant Fundamentalist)
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic University of Florida – Spanish Graduate Program in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues,
The Spanish graduate program at the University of Florida is accepting applications for the MA and PhD degrees in either Spanish Literatures and Cultures or Hispanic Linguistics. Please circulate the attached brochure among any interested parties.
Inquiries can be addressed to: grad-coord@spanish.ufl.edu
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Minni Sawhney deposited Excentric Affects in Cristina Rivera Garza’s Nadie me verá llorar in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoIn this article I try to show how the Mexican Revolution was not only national in nature but also helped ordinary individuals break down barriers in their personal lives. The protagonist of Nadie me verá llorar was considered a madwoman in Porfirian society and with the Revolution she comes into her own and finds a space in post revolutionary Mexico D.F.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Jenni Rivera y sus corridos: la historia de un desafío in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoAn analysis of the life and corridos of Jenni Rivera the sole woman narco corridista
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Minni Sawhney deposited Stories on the Margins of History : Spanish Immigrants and the Mexican Revolution in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThe lives of Spanish immigrants during the Mexican Revolution, their participation therein.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Mexican U.S. Border Literature and the Narco Novel in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoAnalysis of Border literature, Narco novels in the U.S. and Mexico
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Minni Sawhney deposited La ciudad como protagonista: México D.F. y la literatura mexicana in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoEl retrato de la Ciudad de México en la literatura.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Un nuevo espacio en la literatura mexicana: La obra fronteriza de luís Humberto Crosthwaite y Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoLa literatura de la frontera norte
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Pamela K. Gilbert deposited Introduction to _Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History_. in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis is the Introduction to my new book, _Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History_.
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Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic CFP: The 1970s and the Caribbean (MLA 2020) in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoSeeking presentations on the significance of the 1970s to cultural engagements with the Caribbean’s postcolonial history. 300-word abstract and 1-page CV to Rafe Dalleo (prdalleo@gmail.com) and Sheri Harrison (harrisonsl@missouri.edu ) by March 15, 2019
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2019
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Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic CFP: Sylvia Wynter in the Undergraduate Classroom (MLA 2020) in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoSeeking presentations that discuss how to engage the significant theoretical principles of Sylvia Wynter’s work from a rigorous and non-jargonistic perspective in the undergraduate classroom. 300-word abstract and 1-page CV to Kaiama L. Glover (kglover@barnard.edu)
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2019
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Thomas Robert Ward deposited Decolonizing Indigeneity: New Approaches to Latin American Literature in the group
LLC 19th-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoWhile there are differences between cultures in different places and times, colonial representations of indigenous peoples generally suggest they are not capable of literature nor are they worthy of being represented as nations. Colonial representations of indigenous people continue on into the independence era and can still be detected in our…[Read more]
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