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Philip Smith deposited Postmodern Chinoiserie in Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis paper offers a synthesis and critique of the existing academic literature on Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese and an overview of Asian American alternative comics. It examines the range of literary and linguistic sources which Yang draws upon in his collage of Chinoiserie and Japonism. It presents the argument that existing criticism h…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Wiz Kids, nuclear bombs, and Marvel’s Hazmat in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 10 years agoIn my paper ‘Postmodern Chinoiserie in Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese’ (2014, Literature Compass 11 (1): 1–14), I propose that existing scholarship on the portrayal of Asians and Asian Americans in American comics has largely focused upon racist newspaper cartoons from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and modern Asian-A…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Writing in the rain: Erasure, trauma, and Chinese Indonesian identity in the recent work of FX Harsono in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis is an examination of the recent work of Indonesian visual artist FX Harsono in relation to Chinese Indonesian identity, the erasure of history, and the challenge of communicating through trauma. It is my hope that this work will contribute to the dialogue on both the Chinese Indonesian experience and large-scale ethnic violence.
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Shiao-ling S. Yu replied to the topic LLC EAST ASIAN Panel Topic in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear Monica,
I would like to propose a topic “Border-Crossing: Uncle Tom in Japan and China” for your panel “Literature as Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia.” Uncle Tom refers to the American novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which was adapted into plays three times: the first time in Japan and the next two times in China. All three…[Read more]
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Shiao-ling S. Yu replied to the topic LLC EAST ASIAN Panel Topic in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear Monica Dix,
I would be interested to propose a topic for your panel: “Border-Crossing: Uncle Tom in China.” Uncle Tom refers to the American novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which was adapted into plays in China three times during the past one hundred years.
Shiao-ling Yu
Oregon State University
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Charlotte Eubanks started the topic Soundscapes in Premodern Japan (CFP for MLA 2017) in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoSoundscapes in Premodern Japan (guaranteed panel) CFP
How do sound imaginaries in literature (the racket of the street and the warbling of birds) represent space? Who hears, listens in, or overhears, and what power do they enjoy in this sonic culture? What constitutes a sacred sound or its profane or transgressive counterpart? What role is…[Read more]
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Ian Cornelius deposited The Accentual Paradigm in English metrics: Or, why we don’t talk more about quantity in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 10 years agoRead 8 January 2016 in Austin, TX, at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, session number 218, “Quantity in English Verse: Linguistic and Neuroscience-Based Challenges to the Accentual Paradigm.” This short historiographical paper was the half-time show in our roundtable—an interlude between the session’s more substantive linguis…[Read more]
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Christopher M. Lupke replied to the topic LLC EAST ASIAN Panel Topic in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoTo Monica and All —
This sounds great. Just to let you know, LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese Forum will propose as our guaranteed session something like “Breaking Media Boundaries in Chinese Literature and Culture.” It looks like it will fit well with what your team is planning. We also selected it with the Presidential Theme of “Boundary…[Read more]
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Charlotte Eubanks started the topic Proposed Collaborative Session for MLA 2017 in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Japan to 1900 group would like to propose a collaborative panel with the East Asia group, on the topic of
‘Sounding the Pre-Modern Sinosphere’
which would focus on Chinese-language compositions from across Asia (such as kanshi in Japan).
I’ll be interested in your thoughts, and will hope for a ‘go ahead’ from the leadership! 🙂
Charlotte…[Read more]
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Charlotte Eubanks replied to the topic Petition in the discussion
Prospective Forum: LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese on MLA Commons 10 years agoThough late to the game, I also support the formation of this forum.
Charlotte Eubanks
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Charlotte Eubanks replied to the topic LLC EAST ASIAN Panel Topic in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoSounds good, Monika! I’ll be interested to see what others post, but if you need someone to talk, I could do something on ‘sutras as a genre of world literature’ in the trans-Asian sphere.
Cheers,
Charlotte (Eubanks)
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Monika Dix started the topic LLC EAST ASIAN Panel Topic in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoI would like to propose the following panel for the 2017 MLA:
“Literature as the Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia”
I am posting it to see if there is any interest from group members to present on this topic.
Monika Dix
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Monika Dix started the topic LLC East Asian Business Meeting Minutes in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear LLC East Asian Executive Committee Members,
On Saturday, January 9, 2016, the LLC EAST ASIAN forum had its business meeting at MLA. The meeting took place from 4:30-5:45pm in room 302 in the JW Marriott in Austin, TX. The following people attended: Ming-Bao Yue (Skype), Michael Emmerich (Skype), Rivi Handler-Spitz (Skype), Charlotte Eubanks,…[Read more]
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Charlotte Eubanks started the topic Panel Topics for MLA 2017 in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe second item of business is organizing panel(s) for MLA 2017.
We get 1 guaranteed panel. Jayanthi (your current Secretary) and I (your current Chair) will organize a panel on
“Soundscapes in Pre-modern Japanese Literature.”
CFP to be circulated shortly. (NB: the Japan *from* 1900 forum is also doing their guaranteed panel on sound, and the…[Read more]
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Charlotte Eubanks started the topic Want to be on the executive committee? in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoFor the first time in MLA history, pre-modern Japan has a designated ‘place at the table.’ Thanks, all, for your efforts to help make this vision a reality!
With MLA 2016 just over, it’s time to start preparing for MLA 2017, to be held in Philadelphia. We have a couple of items of business, one of which is to collect nominations (including sel…[Read more]
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Thomas Mazanec started the topic CFP: "Machine Translation Before 1800" (MLA 2017) in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years agoContributors are invited for a special session on “Machine Translation Before 1800” for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia (January 5–8, 2017).
Translation has usually been conceived as a relationship between individual persons or texts across languages. How does thinking in terms of systems, teams, and conditions instead of indiv…[Read more]
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Laura Lisabeth deposited The Fetish of Style: The Elements of Style and The Marketing of English Language Usage in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 10 years agoI argue that The Elements of Style by Strunk and White comes out of a history connecting it to the nineteenth century “conversation handbook” (Connors) and other cultural guides to middlebrow identity formation including The Book-Of-The-Month Club. The Elements of Style is a guide to a genteel language performance rooted in the racialized,…[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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Melek Ortabasi started the topic FYI: LLC Japan since 1900 meeting in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoHello everyone,
We are holding our first executive committee meeting on Skype this Friday at 2 p.m. PST. Please email me, your inaugural chair, at mso1@sfu.ca if you’d like to be patched in.
If you can’t make it, please send us your ideas for
a) the one guaranteed panel our new forum gets, and
b) potential nominees for the executive com…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic FYI: Japan after 1900 info in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoHello everyone,
We are holding our first executive committee meeting on Skype this Friday at 2 p.m. PST. Please email me, your inaugural chair, at mso1@sfu.ca if you’d like to be patched in.
If you can’t make it, please send us your ideas for
a) the one guaranteed panel our new forum gets, and
b) potential nominees for the executive com…[Read more]
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