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Hania A.M. Nashef replied to the topic OrwellianLiterary / Rhetorical Analysis Project in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoGloria, this is an extremely important topic. I did some analysis of how media chose to portray certain people, namely Arabs, for certain agendas. I based my research on postcolonial theory and the dehumanizing of the other. I looked at TV news reports, photos circulated via media organizations, films, etc…, even the ‘trophy’ photos of Abu G…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic OrwellianLiterary / Rhetorical Analysis Project in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHi, Everybody!
A Rich Field for Rhetorical Analysis
I know you are all familiar with the Orwell novel 1984, with its permanently at war nations of Oceania,
Eurasia, and Eastasia. The Newsspeak and media coverage were something that Orwell gave some time
and attention to in that novel. Oceania is always right, tells the truth, the other two…[Read more] -
Suha Kudsieh started the topic Reminder: Pls. cast your vote: MLA Resolution 2014-1 in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoDear Colleagues,
Please remember to cast your vote concerning Resolution 2014-1. Regardless of how you intend to cast your vote, please vote.
You can read the MLA Executive Director’s letter, Rosemary G. Feal, here: http://t.e2ma.net/message/mx8ig/yum5sh
Please click on http://t.e2ma.net/click/mx8ig/yum5sh/6c2vcc (you need to log into your…[Read more]
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Madhurima Chakraborty started the topic Nation and Its Discontents: South Asian Review Special Issue 2014 in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoHow do cultural texts address, in our times, the limits and achievements of South Asian nationalisms? The essays invited for South Asian Review’s 2014 Special Issue, “Nation and Its Discontents,” will examine this central question from various perspectives. Despite a long history of the critique of nationalism in and through South Asian cultu…[Read more]
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Shuchi Kapila replied to the topic Post-memory in South Asia in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 10 months agoRevised call:
I would like to organize a special session at the MLA in Vancouver on the ‘postmemory in South Asia.’ Please write to kapilas@grinnell.edu with a 250 word abstract by March 25 if interested.
Some of the questions we might address are:
How do we describe the study of post-memory, in Marianne Hirsch’s terms, or ‘post-a…[Read more]
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Leigh Anne Duck started the topic CfP: MLA 2015/journal special issue in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoWe’re seeking proposals for a panel at MLA 2015 (Vancouver, Jan. 8-11) and for a special issue of the journal The Global South (published by Indiana UP, available via JSTOR and Project Muse) on the topic “Narrating Global South Cities.” Even though the “global South” has emerged as a “new and powerful ordering system for academic disci…[Read more]
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Filippo Menozzi started the topic New Publication in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoDear Group Members
I’d like to announce a new publication that could be of interest. Thank you!
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415735650/
Postcolonial Custodianship: Cultural and Literary Inheritance
This book engages with current developments in postcolonial research, exploring notions of cultural transmission, tradition and…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic MLA 2015: CFP "Immigration and Comics" in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe Modern Language Association (MLA) Discussion Group on Comics & Graphic Narratives is pleased to announce its secod Call for Papers for the next MLA convention, to be held in Vancouver in January 2015:
<span>”Immigration and Comics”</span>
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<span>Call for Papers for a proposed panel at the Modern Language Association (MLA)…[Read more]
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Deidre Lynch posted an update in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months agoHello, members of the MLA Division for Late Eighteenth-Century English Literature.
The executive is proposing three panels for the 2015 Vancouver MLA meeting. Here are our calls for papers:
“Literary Science.”
Given the 18th-Century use of “science” as a term for knowledge and “literature” as writings that bear knowledge, can this his…[Read more] -
Robin E. Visel started the topic CFP: Special Issue of Doris Lessing Studies in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months agoCall for papers: special issue of <i>Doris Lessing Studies</i>: Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London
<i>Doris Lessing Studies</i> is seeking papers for a special issue, “Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London.” We invite papers about Lessing’s life and work in the 1950s, when she joined an influx of immigrants to London…[Read more] -
Nicholas Birns started the topic CFP; Teaching Indigenous Lit in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years ago<h3>Teaching Indigenous Australian and New Zealand Literatures</h3>
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Maori and Aboriginal Australian literatures as taught worldwide; theoretical/pedagogical discussions welcome. Contributions on Grace, Ihimaera, Wright, Scott or any other relevant writer welcome. 1-page abstracts by 3 March 2014;…[Read more] -
Nicholas Birns started the topic CFP; Teaching Indigenous Lit in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years ago<h1>Teaching Indigenous Australian and New Zealand Literatures</h1>
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<div><b>Special Session</b></div>
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Maori and Aboriginal Australian literatures as taught worldwide; theoretical/pedagogical discussions welcome. Contributions on Grace, Ihimaera, Wright, Scott or any other relevant writer welcome. 1-page abstracts by 3 March 2014;…[Read more] -
Indrani Mitra started the topic South Asian Languages and Literatures Discussion Group in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years agoThe annual meeting of the South Asian Languages and Literatures Discussion Group will take place today, January 11, from 5-6 pm in Sheraton Parlor G. Please join us.
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David Samuel Mazella started the topic MLA 2014 Revised Draft, Open Hearings on Forum Changes in the forum
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoThis is a reminder to the members of the late 18th century division that the proposed reorganization and consolidation of the 18c period divisions has been abandoned by the latest version of the Draft Proposal, which is now available here:
http://groupsdiscussion.mla.hcommons-staging.org/
If you are attending MLA, please try to make an…[Read more]
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Pilar Cuder-Dominguez started the topic new online issue of CANADA & BEYOND in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoCanada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies has
just published its latest issue at
http://www.canada-and-beyond.com/index.php/canada-and-beyond. We invite you
to browse the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review
articles and items of interest.Thanks for your continuing interest in our work,
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Deidre Lynch posted an update in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoWe were so heartened by the outpouring of support on the MLA Commons and elsewhere for our attempts to resist the MLA’s proposal for a reorganization that would have seen the Divisions for Restoration and early 18th-century English literature and the Division for Later 18th Century English Literature collapsed into one very long Division indeed…[Read more]
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Thank you for posting this useful information, Deidre, and these encouragement to attend the Division sessions. I’m about to post something similar on the site for the Restoration & Early Eighteenth Century. I hope that the members of our Divisions who are attending MLA will be able to attend as many sessions as possible in both the Divisions.…[Read more]
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On behalf of the Lexicography Discussion Group, which has also been threatened with consolidation (and effective elimination), let me draw the attention of members of this group our session, which should be of interest:
194. Title: Typography and Paratext in Early Modern Lexicography
Friday, 10 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., O’Hare, Chicago M…[Read more]
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Anjali Prabhu uploaded the file: OLANIYAN to
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago222. Ethics and Postcolonialism
Friday, 10 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Ontario, Sheraton Chicago
Program arranged by the Division on Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture
1. “Ethics in Deep Time,” Bruce W. Robbins, Columbia Univ.
2. “Cosmopolitan Rates of Interest,” Tejumola Olaniyan, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
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Anjali Prabhu uploaded the file: Robbins to
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago222. Ethics and Postcolonialism
Friday, 10 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Ontario, Sheraton Chicago
Program arranged by the Division on Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture
1. “Ethics in Deep Time,” Bruce W. Robbins, Columbia Univ.
2. “Cosmopolitan Rates of Interest,” Tejumola Olaniyan, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
Responding: Anjali Prabhu, W…[Read more]-
Hi there,
Its after Dec. 15! Where should I go to see the short versions of the papers?
Thanks.
Shazia-
I support the creation of this new group.
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Open access, open source, open to all
