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John Charles Hawley uploaded the file: CFP: Queer Theory in African Film and Fiction to
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHow are African literatures and cultures mediating globalizing frameworks for gender and sexuality and shifting understandings of “queer”? From Woubi Cheri and Dakan, to Stories of Our Lives, African film has begun this conversation. From K. Sello Duiker, to Chinelo Okparanta and Diriye Osman, new voices have invited national debates on these top…[Read more]
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Wendy Laura Belcher started the topic CFP (Conference): MLA 2018: Institutional Histories of African Literature panel in the discussion
African Literatures on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago<p style=”line-height: 19.8pt;”><span style=”font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ‘Arial’,sans-serif; color: #424242;”>The pre-1990 African literature forum of the Modern language Association is preparing to host a panel at the next MLA conference, in New York<span class=”apple-converted-space”> </span>on 4–7 January 2018.<span cla…[Read more]
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Patrick Herald deposited Eng 260/AAS 264 – Introduction to Black Writers: Global Black Fiction in the group
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThis course focuses on developing skills of close reading and literary analysis, both in class discussion and in assignments, through the study of major black writers. This section will be a study of global black literature—novels, drama, and poetry—written in English from the twentieth century to the present. We will consider how major aut…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited ENGL 3384: Postcolonial Literature in the group
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoSelected works from the literatures of former European colonies: African, Indian, Caribbean, Australian, Canadian, Latin American, etc. Colonialism waned in the 1940s through 60s amidst decolonization movements, yet globalization flourished in often unnoticed, hegemonic pathways. Considering cultural products of this moment leads us to ask what…[Read more]
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Tsitsi Jaji started the topic CFP: The Performance of Pan-Africanism (Conference on Cultural Festivals) in the discussion
African Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Performance of Pan-Africanism:
from Colonial Exhibitions to Black and African Cultural Festivals
International Conference
20-22 October, 2016
Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University
Keynote speakers: Andrew Apter (UCLA), Cheryl Finley (Cornell University), Souleymane B…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited “Per omnia saecula saeculorum” or “Inkaba yakho iphi?”: Indigeneity in Alex La Guma and Aidan Higgins in the group
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article argues for an overlapping notion of indigeneity in Alex La Guma’s In the Fog of the Seasons’ End and Aidan Higgins’ Langrishe, Go Down articulated using critical Aboriginal Studies while exploring the materialist emergence of identity. The key tension, then, is not between both authors’ progressive politics nor the real differences b…[Read more]
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Amanda Waugh started the topic UMass Achebe Symposium in the discussion
African Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoInterdisciplinary Studies Institute
Forty Years After: Chinua Achebe and Africa in the Global Imagination
A Special Symposium, University of Massachusetts 14-15 October
Goodell Building: Wed 14 October, 2 – 6 pm; Thurs 15 October 1.30 – 6 pmOn 18 February 1975, the great African writer Chinua Achebe presented a Chancellor’s Lecture at the U…[Read more]
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Yomaira Figueroa started the topic CFP: Love as Theory, Desire, Performance in the discussion
African Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoWe welcome submissions for the 2016 ACLA proposed seminar:
What’s Love Got To Do With It? Love as Theory, Desire, and Performance
http://www.acla.org/seminar/what%E2%80%99s-love-got-do-it-theory-desire-and-performance
ACLA 2016
Organizer: Yomaira Figueroa, Michigan State University
Co-Organizer: Carolyn Ureña, Rutgers University
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Gretchen Head started the topic CFP (ACLA): The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South in the discussion
African Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoFor those of you working on African literatures, we welcome submissions to our upcoming ACLA seminar:
The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South
Organizer: Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS College
Co-Organizer: Rania Said, Binghamton University
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Bhakti Shringarpure replied to the topic Excellent upcoming NYC event with Ngugi wa Thiong'o in the discussion
African Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoNicky,
That post looks fabulous! Thank you….
Bhakti
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Excellent upcoming NYC event with Ngugi wa Thiong'o in the discussion
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Bhakti Shringarpure started the topic Excellent upcoming NYC event with Ngugi wa Thiong'o in the discussion
African Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoAfrican Literature….Says Who? The Last Fifty Years with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Kenyan born and internationally acclaimed, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is the author of more major works of fiction, nonfiction, and drama than any African writer. His groundbreaking first novel Weep Not, Child recently celebrated fifty years, and he has since published over thir…[Read more]
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Leigh Anne Duck started the topic CfP special issue: “Global García Márquez” in the forum
African Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoSalmon Rushdie recently wrote, “Gabo lives. The extraordinary worldwide attention paid to the death of Gabriel García Márquez, and the genuine sorrow felt by readers everywhere at his passing, tell us that his books are still very much alive” (New York Times Book Review, May 18, 2014, p.1). This issue of The Global South seeks to further under…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic Call for Contributions: "The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context" in the forum
African Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoRegarding the Good Life topic I proposed in my previous post, please note that you may e-mail me your abstracts at laura_savu@yahoo.com by Aug. 15. Thank you!
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Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
African Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers posted an update in the group
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThe Program Committee will evaluate those prospective forums that obtained at least thirty-five signatures and five leadership volunteers by 15 June. Though that deadline has passed, we still encourage you to join groups that interest you and voice your support by signing the petition and volunteering. Support for prospective forums will be…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem started the topic Postdoctoral Fellowships "Apartheid–The Global Itinerary" in the forum
African Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoApartheid—The Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in Transnational Circulation 1948-1990
Post-Doctoral Fellowships
The European Research Council (ERC) project “Apartheid—The Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in Transnational Circulation 1948-1990” under the direction of Dr. Louise Bethlehem (English & The Progr…[Read more]
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Shazia Rahman replied to the topic Petition in the forum
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoShazia Rahman
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Cristina Bacchilega replied to the topic Petition in the forum
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoI support this petition,
Cristina Bacchilega, Professor, University of Hawaii-Manoa
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Nandini Bhattacharya replied to the topic Petition in the forum
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoI STRONGLY SUPPORT THE FORMATION OF THIS FORUM
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