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Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024–Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]
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Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024–Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks started the topic Deadline extended to Mar 15: CFPs MLA 2024 (Medieval Iberian Studies) in the discussion
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe Medieval Iberian Forum of the MLA announces the following calls for papers for the 2024 MLA Convention (Philadelphia, Jan 4-7). Please note that presenters must be members of the MLA before registering for the conference (but not in order to submit an abstract).
New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies (in person) The LLC Medieval Iberian F…[Read more]
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic CFP: MLA 2024–Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis (Guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on queer theory and psychoanalysis. We particularly welcome theoretical and archival scholarship that centers LGBTQI+ theorists, artists, intellectuals, and writers. Queer theory embraces p…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Suppressed Narrator, Silenced Victim in Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoAlthough the systematic eviction of Palestinians from their homeland has been recorded at length since the establishment of the state of Israel in 948, the documentation has namely concerned itself with urban centers or villages. Expulsion and removal of marginalized communities, namely the Bedouins’, from their ancestral encampments or homes h…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum CFPs for MLA 2024 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoFor the 2024 Modern Language Association in Philadelphia (January 4 to 7), the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum is organizing or co-organizing four sessions / panels. Please click on the links below to see the full CFPs and submission deadlines.
1) Postcolonial Southeast Asia?: Limits and…[Read more]
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Sean Mark started the topic new book on Pound and Pasolini in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDear group members,
I’m pleased to announce that my book on Ezra Pound and Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pound and Pasolini: Poetics of Crisis, has been published by Palgrave Macmillan: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-91948-1
The Introduction and a translation of the Pasolini-Pound interview of 1967 are available for free download in th…[Read more]
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Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic Call for book proposals: Translatio (see flyer, attached) in the discussion
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoSee attached flyer on the TRANSLATIO book series and the call for book proposals. Please forward to all interested potential authors, co-authors, translators, and editors.
“Key words, concepts, and texts all gather new force – and encounter new obstacles – as they move between languages, cultures, and societies. Translatio explores trans…[Read more]
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Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic Call for book proposals: Translatio (see flyer, attached) in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoSee attached flyer on the TRANSLATIO book series and the call for book proposals. Please forward to all interested potential authors, co-authors, translators, and editors.
“Key words, concepts, and texts all gather new force – and encounter new obstacles – as they move between languages, cultures, and societies. Translatio explores tra…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Aljamiado retellings of the Hebrew Bible in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoStories from the Hebrew Bible were popular among the Iberian Peninsula’s Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Beginning in the 14th century, Muslims and Moriscos retold these stories in Aljamiado texts in Spanish or Aragonese written in Arabic characters. These fictionalized retellings drew on vernacular language and literary forms common to C…[Read more]
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic Nominations and Self-Nominations For Assembly Delegate in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe TC Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature solicits nominations and self-nominations for Delegate to the MLA Delegate Assembly. Running for Delegate is a good way to become more involved in Forum activities and to make connections with colleagues who share your scholarly interests. To forward your own or a colleague’s name, or to…[Read more]
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Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoLanguages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc. Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more]
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2023 MLA Convention in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature is pleased to announce five panels at MLA 2023 (including some postponed from 2022). The full list can be accessed at this link. We hope to see you there!
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “Testimonies of War: Reportages by Samar Yazbek and Atef Abu Saif” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoWar diaries are often written under duress, and are attempts at documenting events as they unfold, or narrating stories of how people survive under trying circumstances. She argues that conditions of war under which authors produce their work dictate the form itself. When an author’s life is under threat, when safety is compromised, m…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited ‘To have been and no longer be’: The angst towards death in Darwish’s Mural and Saramago’s Death at Intervals in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoIn Portuguese Nobel Laureate José Saramago’s As Intermitências da Morte (2005) and in Mahmoud Darwish’s epic poem Mural (2000), the authors contemplate the nothingness that accompanies death, a concern that increasingly permeates their later writings. Although ‘death’ is depicted differently, the authors fear that with death “the universe wo…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Ciaran Carson: A Memorial Tribute (10 October 2019) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThis memorial tribute for the late Ciaran Carson (1948-2019), Irish creative writer extraordinaire, was commissioned three years ago for inclusion in a special number of “Reading Ireland” which has not yet materialised. It is now archived in and by Humanities Common on the third anniversary of his funeral rites and burial in Belfast, Northern…[Read more]
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Jacob Jewusiak deposited Tennyson’s Wrinkled Feet: Ageing and the Poetics of Decay in the group
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThis article argues that Tennyson’s ‘Tithonus’ (1860) draws together ageing and decay through the poem’s formal wrinkling: moments where metrical disruption, folding, slackness, or concealment correspond to the insights derived from the perspective of great age — chiming the poet’s keynotes of disappointment, mourning, and loss. I turn to ‘Ulysses…[Read more]
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Jacob Jewusiak deposited Grandpaternalism: Kipling’s Imperial Care Narrative in the group
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe significance of old age in Kipling’s work has gone largely unacknowledged by critics who attend to the many youthful protagonists who sail, hunt, and explore their way across the plots of his fiction. This essay argues that the relationship between grandparent and grandchild in Kipling’s Kim serves as a representational strategy—at the level…[Read more]
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