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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “The Roots of Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.” George Washington University Department of English Blog, March 23, 2021 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoCOVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of a group of people based on their perceived social value—in the United States in the cultural and political life. This article that analyzes the language of racism and misogyny. It also offers strategies for inclusion during and after the pandemic. Racialized thinking is ins…[Read more]
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Glynne Walley replied to the topic CFP: Japan to 1900 in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoWe’re extending the deadline on this CFP. If you’re interested in participating in this panel please send an abstract by March 26, 2021.
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James Mulholland deposited Translocal Anglo-India and the Multilingual Reading Public in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis article proposes a new literary history of British Asia that examines its earliest communities and cultural institutions in translocal and regional registers. Combining translocalism and regionalism redefines Anglo‐Indian writing as constituted by multisited forces, only one of which is the reciprocal exchange between Britain and its c…[Read more]
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Pamela Lim-McAlister started the topic March 25 deadline for CFPs–Please join us! in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoPlease read the three CFPs below and send in an abstract by March 25 to be a part of the following sessions at MLA 2022. We would appreciate your forwarding the CFPs to colleagues as well. Much appreciation for your time and help.
Building Bridges and Breaking Down Walls: The Teaching of World Literature in English
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Andrea Mendoza started the topic Deadline extension in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoHi all,
We are still accepting papers for the LLC Japanese since 1900 panels, “Antiracist Pedagogy in Modern Japanese Studies” and “Decolonial and Indigenous Interventions in Japanophone Media/Literature.” Please share and consider submitting!
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2022/webprogrampreliminary/Session11305.html
Below are the longer versions…[Read more]
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Andrea Mendoza started the topic Deadline extension in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoHi all,
We are still accepting papers for the LLC Japanese since 1900 panels, “Antiracist Pedagogy in Modern Japanese Studies” and “Decolonial and Indigenous Interventions in Japanophone Media/Literature.” Please share and consider submitting!
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2022/webprogrampreliminary/Session11305.html
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Margaret Hillenbrand. Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China. Chinese Literature Today 9.2 (2020): 89-90 in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoWestern observers often attribute Chinese suppression of undesirable information to state crackdowns on dissidents, pervasive censorship apparatus, and even self-censorship. For contemporary Chinese citizens under a certain age, Tiananmen Square protests allegedly did not happen. The PRC leadership’s private lives are shrouded in secrecies, m…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Margaret Hillenbrand. Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China. Chinese Literature Today 9.2 (2020): 89-90 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoWestern observers often attribute Chinese suppression of undesirable information to state crackdowns on dissidents, pervasive censorship apparatus, and even self-censorship. For contemporary Chinese citizens under a certain age, Tiananmen Square protests allegedly did not happen. The PRC leadership’s private lives are shrouded in secrecies, m…[Read more]
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Nick Admussen started the topic CFP: Translations of Song, MLA 2022 (Washington, D. C.) in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoHi everyone,
The Ming-Qing forum and the Modern and Contemporary Chinese forum are collaborating to offer a panel on the translation of song. Here’s the CFP:
We invite papers that explore how song forms from early modern and modern China have been/can be translated in ways that engage with their extant or lost musical dimensions. Contact…[Read more]
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Nick Admussen started the topic CFP: Translations of Song, MLA 2022 (Washington, D. C.) in the discussion
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoHi everyone,
The Ming-Qing forum and the Modern and Contemporary Chinese forum are collaborating to offer a panel on the translation of song. Here’s the CFP:
We invite papers that explore how song forms from early modern and modern China have been/can be translated in ways that engage with their extant or lost musical dimensions. Contact…[Read more]
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Glynne Walley started the topic CFP: Japan to 1900 in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoWe’ve just posted the following call for papers for a panel for MLA 2022:
Title: The Translation’s Semivisibility: Interlingual, Intralingual, and Other Kinds of Translation in Premodern Japan
Description: We invite papers exploring translation in premodern Japan, with particular emphasis on types of linguistic rendering that challenge or bro…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Tragedy, Euripides, Melodrama: Hamartia, Medea, Liminality in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis article examines socio-historical dimensions and cultural and dramaturgic implications of the Greek playwright Euripides’ treatment of the myth of Medea. Euripides gives voice to victims of adventurism, aggression and betrayal in the name of ‘reason’ and the ‘state’ or ‘polity.’ Medea constitutes one of the most powerful mythic forces to…[Read more]
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Katsuyo Motoyoshi started the topic MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY Fellowships in the discussion
LLC Korean on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoApplication deadline: April 1, 2021
The MLA International Bibliography would like to expand the coverage of Korean-language scholarly publications, and we believe our fellowship program for field bibliographers might be of interest to members of this forum and other faculty and graduate students in their departments.
We are now accepting appl…[Read more]
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Joanne Bernardi started the topic CFP (MLA 2022) "Antiracist Pedagogy in Modern Japanese Studies (1900-present)" in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCFP MLA 2022 (Guaranteed panel): We invite papers exploring antiracist pedagogies in modern (1900 to the present) Japanese Studies classrooms, program curricula, and campus/disciplinary outreach. In particular, we seek presentations that are intersectional in approach, taking into consideration relations between race and class, gender, sexuality,…[Read more]
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Joanne Bernardi started the topic CFP Decolonial & Indigenous Interventions in Japanophone Media/Lit 1900-present in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCFP MLA 2022 – LLC Japanese since 1900 Forum (Guaranteed panel)
This panel invites papers that apply approaches in indigenous studies and epistemologies to the study of study Japanophone cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic productions. Given the long history and global legacy of Japanese colonialisms and settler colonialisms, this panel…[Read more]
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Joanne Bernardi started the topic CFP Decolonial & Indigenous Interventions in Japanophone Media/Lit 1900-present in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCFP MLA 2022 – LLC Japanese since 1900 Forum (Guaranteed panel)
This panel invites papers that apply approaches in indigenous studies and epistemologies to the study of study Japanophone cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic productions. Given the long history and global legacy of Japanese colonialisms and settler colonialisms, this panel…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Five themes in Asian Shakespeare adaptations,” Oxford University Press blog, February 16, 2021 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoSince the nineteenth century, stage and film directors have mounted hundreds of adaptations of Shakespeare drawn on East Asian motifs, and by the late twentieth century, Shakespeare had become one of the most frequently performed playwrights in East Asia. There are five striking themes surrounding cultural, racial, and gender dynamics. Gender…[Read more]
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Heidi Kathleen Kim started the topic CFP: Radical Care in the discussion
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoFor MLA 2022:
How does Asian American literary studies address radical care for collective survival, and as a critical method for creating reciprocity and justice? 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March to jinah.kim@csun.edu or itagakil@missouri.edu.
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Heidi Kathleen Kim started the topic CFP: Radical Care in the discussion
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoFor MLA 2022:
How does Asian American literary studies address radical care for collective survival, and as a critical method for creating reciprocity and justice? 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March to jinah.kim@csun.edu or itagakil@missouri.edu.
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford University Press, 2021) in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoFour themes distinguish post-1950s East Asian cinemas and theaters from works in other parts of the world: Japanese innovations in sound and spectacle; Sinophone uses of Shakespeare for social reparation; the reception of South Korean presentations of gender identities in film and touring productions; and multilingual, disability, and racial…[Read more]
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