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Edgar Illas started the topic Cfps. NACS Colloquium in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoPlease find under files the Cfps. for the 16th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (Indiana University, Bloomington, May 18-20, 2017).
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Edgar Illas started the topic Cfps. NACS Colloquium in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoPlease find under files the Cfps. for the 16th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (Indiana University, Bloomington, May 18-20, 2017).
The deadline for proposals is October 1, 2016. Send abstracts/panels to Edgar Illas eillas@indiana.edu -
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LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoAttached please find the call for papers for the 16th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (Indiana University, Bloomington, May 18-20, 2017).
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Laila Amine deposited Crossroads of Memory in the group
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoIn the last six years, scholars have engaged with the effects of globalization on the study of collective memory, emphasizing the de-territorialization, de-nationalization of memory cultures. While being attentive to the global circulation and transformation of collective memories, authors in this issue seek to revisit and critique some…[Read more]
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Laila Amine deposited Double Exposure: The Family Album and Alternate Memories in Leïla Sebbar's The Seine was Red in the group
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoAmine’s essay explores memory-making and highlights a paradox in
Leı¨la Sebbar’s The Seine was Red, a novel that describes the conflicting memories of the police massacre of Algerians in Paris on 17 October 1961. Structured as a family album with captioned identities, place, and time, Sebbar’s novel employs a mode of remembrance that convent…[Read more] -
Anna Ciamparella replied to the topic Self-translation of literary works into English in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoCara Arianna,
forse vuole consultare i testi di Antonio d’Alfonso autore del Quebec. Ha tradotto di suo pugno (dal francese all’inglese) non solo raccolte di poesie sue, ma anche uno dei sui romanzi.
Buona lettura!
Anna
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Eleonora Rao replied to the topic Self-translation of literary works into English in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoCiao Arianna,
Nancy Huston: Canadian (Calgary) transpanted to Paris a while ago – she married Todorov – has self translated a few of her novels – I haven’t read them – I know her essay on displacement: Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exile (Toronto, 2012).
eleonora
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Arianna Dagnino started the topic Self-translation of literary works into English in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoI am looking for contemporary published writers who have been self-translating their work from major romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese) into English.
<div class=””>If you know of any living authors active in self-translation in these language combinations, please let me know.</div>
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Hania Nashef deposited “Not to Get Lost in the Loss”: Narrating the Story in Mourid Barghouti’s I Was Born There, I Was Born Here and in Deborah Rohan’s The Olive Grove – A Palestinian Story." in the group
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoIn his introduction to Mourid Barghouti novel, I saw Ramallah, Edward Said refers to the Palestinians as a displaced and a misplaced people. Regardless of the nationalities they carry or countries they live in, they carry with them the trauma of events that led to the loss of their homeland, and the grief of this loss and endless displacement.…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Specters of Doom: Saramago's Dystopias in Blindness and The Cave in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoAlthough Plato’s Utopia or ideal city is the non-place that holds the promise of perfection, it remains the place in which citizens are categorized by a rigid structure. José Saramago, on the other hand, introduces us to a dystopia in his novel Blindness, in which one event leads to the ruin of a city. Yet, as with Plato’s Utopia, a similar…[Read more]
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Michelle R. Warren deposited Ar-ar-archive in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoA reflection on the state of the archive in the state of post-theory.
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Debra J. Ochoa started the topic Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces- (Palgrave Macmillan) in the discussion
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Anton Pujol replied to the topic Call For Papers Submission–MLA in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoArt, Non-Art, Post-Media, Installation: Catalan Museums Today
The role and function of the Museum when art and non-art, exhibit and installation, media and post-media blur in an amalgam of options on-page abstract by 15 March 2016; Teresa M. Vilarós (vilaros@tamu.edu). -
Danny Barreto started the topic CFPs: Galician Studies–Philly 2017 Convention in the discussion
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago1) The Standardization of Galician: A Response to Language Contact and Change
Forum: LLC Galician
Inc. contemporary history/prospects for a Galician oral/standard variety; language standardization as a tool for language maintenance and revival. 250 word abstract by 15 March 2016; Obdulia Castro (ocastro@regis.edu).2) Round table: What is…[Read more]
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Serguei Alex Oushakine deposited Postcolonial Estrangements: Claiming a Space between Stalin and Hitler. in the group
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoIn this essay, I follow debates about forms and sites of memorialization in post- Soviet Belarus. Begun during perestroika, the public discussions about Khatyn’ and Kuropaty eventually evolved into persistent attempts to realign the Soviet past along new narrative axes. Most prominently, this discursive reformatting of the socialist experience w…[Read more]
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Paula A. Sprague replied to the topic North American Catalan Society Award (Nominations) in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoAmended announcement posting:
THE NORTH AMERICAN CATALAN SOCIETY (NACS) PRIZE
For outstanding work in the field of Catalan Studies
COMPETITION GUIDELINES
1) The prize was created to recognize rigorous and high quality contributions to the field of Catalan Studies made by scholars whose prime professional affiliation is with a university or…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Article of Interest? in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThank you, @99522ps! We definitely encourage all our members to explore the materials in CORE and upload their own syllabi, course materials, and research so that others might benefit from it too.
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Paula A. Sprague started the topic North American Catalan Society Award (Nominations) in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoFor outstanding work in the field of Catalan Studies
COMPETITION GUIDELINES
1) The prize was created to recognize rigorous and high quality contributions to the field of Catalan Studies made by scholars whose prime professional affiliation is with a university or research institute in North America.
2) All studies published between the 1st of…[Read more]
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Anton Pujol started the topic Call For Papers Submission–MLA in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCatalan Cinema and New Media
Papers should examine Catalan cinema and new media with a focus on the global, intercultural and transnational aspects of Catalan society. Send 300 word abstract to Anton Pujol at apujol@uncc.edu by March 15th.
2017 MLA (Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2017)
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Kyle Pivetti started the topic CFP: Alternate Histories, Alternate Memories (MLA 2017) in the discussion
Memory Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoIn examples like Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle or Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America, we can see the alternate history genre imagine a multitude of possible pasts, both national and individual. It is those possibilities that lead critics to investigate the constructedness of history and notions of past and future. This pro…[Read more]
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