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Minni Sawhney deposited Jenni Rivera y sus corridos: la historia de un desafío in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society 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 Latin American Travelers in Modern India in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThe travels and writings of Octavio Paz and Severo Sarduy in India.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Latin American Travelers in Modern India in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThe travels and writings of Octavio Paz and Severo Sarduy in India.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Stories on the Margins of History : Spanish Immigrants and the Mexican Revolution in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society 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 La ciudad como protagonista: México D.F. y la literatura mexicana in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoEl retrato de la Ciudad de México en la literatura.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Religion and Colonialism: Jesuits at Akbar’s Mughal Court in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThe reception of Jesuit priests at the the court of Akbar the Mughal emperor of India
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Minni Sawhney deposited Religion and Colonialism: Jesuits at Akbar’s Mughal Court in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThe reception of Jesuit priests at the the court of Akbar the Mughal emperor of India
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Minni Sawhney deposited The Unreachable Other: The myth of the mestizo in the novels of Carlos Fuentes in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoIn this article I investigate the portrayal role of the Aztecs, indigeneous peoples and movements in the writings of Carlos Fuentes.
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Minni Sawhney deposited The Unreachable Other: The myth of the mestizo in the novels of Carlos Fuentes in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoIn this article I investigate the portrayal role of the Aztecs, indigeneous peoples and movements in the writings of Carlos Fuentes.
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Marisa Parham deposited Hughes, Cullen, and the In-sites of Loss in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoThis essay explores how Pierre Nora’s sites of memory work a specific cultural function through what Melvin Dixon refers to as “a memory that ultimately rewrites history.” I look at two of the most well-known poems of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and Countee Cullen’s “Heritage,” one of which reveals a…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic CFP Routledge Literary Handbook (Lit. and Class) in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoWe have passed peer review. Theory will be important in this text. We are looking for essays involving literature viewed through class theory. Let us see what you have!
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Tom White deposited The Future Demands Work: William Morris’s utopian medievalism in an age of precarity, flexibility, and automation in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoIMC paper for panel 374 Medieval Futura 1: Now, sponsored by the Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington and organised by Dr Andrea Whitacre.
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Chandrima Chakraborty deposited Narendra Modi’s victory speech delivers visions of a Hindu nationalist ascetic in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoIndia’s re-elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a victory speech that presented himself as a selfless and humble Hindu ascetic. This vision goes far to promote a Hindu nationalist ‘new India.’
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Caroline Edwards deposited MLA 2020 Roundtable Proposal (accepted) – Reading Utopia in Dark Times in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoWithin the context of an increasingly dystopian sense of global crisis, how can the idea of Utopia help us galvanise political literary readings? This special session will present a roundtable discussion in which panelists consider how we can use utopian methods to understand different kinds of literary texts, reflecting upon the importance of the…[Read more]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic NeMLA 2020, CFP: "Communities of Practice and Shifting Borders in US Spanish" in the discussion
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months ago51st Convention, NeMLA, Boston, March 5-8 2020
“The Old and the New: Communities of Practice and Shifting Borders in US Spanish”
The session seeks papers that examine Spanish in the United States (Mexican, Caribbean, Latin American) as it relates to old and new Hispanic community practices and border crossing (geographical, political, eth…[Read more]
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Marisa Parham deposited Saying “Yes”: Textual Traumas in Octavia Butler’s Kindred in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoThe problem of the “yes,” of affirming an historical identity that is potentially harmful to oneself, troubles some of the imaginative leaps necessary to how readers desire to identify with texts. With that in mind, this article reads Octavia Butler’s 1979 novel Kindred as a story about memory, history, and embodiment as written both on and thr…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Stenographic fictions: Mary Benson’s At the Still Point and the South African political trial in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoFrom the mid-1960s onward, compilations of the speeches and trial addresses of South African opponents of apartheid focused attention on the apartheid regime despite intensified repression in the wake of the Rivonia Trial. Mary Benson’s novel, At the Still Point, transposes the political trial into fiction. Its “stenographic” codes of repre…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Stenographic fictions: Mary Benson’s At the Still Point and the South African political trial in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoFrom the mid-1960s onward, compilations of the speeches and trial addresses of South African opponents of apartheid focused attention on the apartheid regime despite intensified repression in the wake of the Rivonia Trial. Mary Benson’s novel, At the Still Point, transposes the political trial into fiction. Its “stenographic” codes of repre…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi deposited Sir Walter Scott and the Caribbean: Unravelling the Silences in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoMy essay interrogates the striking silences in Scott’s oeuvre in relation to Scotland’s involvement as a partner of the British Empire in the colonization of the Caribbean and in the exploitation of slavery in this region. By drawing from narratological theories (especially those articulated by Robyn R. Warhol and Ruth Rosaler), I treat Scott’s…[Read more]
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Edwige Tamalet Talbayev deposited CFP: Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean International Conference (Toulouse, March 26-27, 2020) in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoWe are inviting proposals for the forthcoming “Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean” International Conference that will be held on March 26-27, 2020 in Toulouse, France (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès).
Abstracts (300 words) are due by September 15, 2019 to yasser elhariry (yasser.elhariry@dartmouth.edu), Isabelle Keller-Privat (isa.…[Read more] - Load More
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