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Benita Sampedro posted an update in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019 Session: Textual Transactions in the Global Hispanophone
As the nexus of seemingly highly disparate groups, Global Hispanophone studies explore the paradox of a separation that unifies. This paradox is reflected in texts that navigate separations such as those between countries, languages, generations, interior frontiers, and colonial…[Read more]
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Benita Sampedro posted an update in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019 (guaranteed) Session: Teaching the Global Hispanophone
(Roundtable)Many of the challenges inherent in teaching the Global Hispanophone are apparent: for instance, curricula structured according to mid-twentieth-century conceptions of Hispanism; issues of language; or difficulties in securing copies of texts. How have you met these…[Read more]
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Mahan Ellison posted an update in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoExtended deadline for the Lusophone/Hispanophone Caucus of the African Literature Association.
Call for Papers: Lusophone/Hispanophone Caucus of the African Literature Association (LHCALA)
In line with the theme proposed for the 44th annual meeting of the African Literature Association in 2018, “The Environments of African Literature”, the Lus…[Read more]
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Edgar Illas replied to the topic Call for Papers, Catalan Forum: MLA 2019 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months ago- Session Title: Catalan Culture and the State
Session Organizer: Edgar Illas
Correlations between Catalan cultural products and the form of the State in modernity and globalization. Abstracts by 15 March 2018; Edgar Illas (eillas@indiana.edu).
Modern Catalan culture has been extensively studied in terms of nation building. This focus has ec…[Read more]
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Luz Angélica Kirschner started the topic International Conference on Global Human Rights in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
please find attached the CfP for the International Conference on Human Rights that will take place at the South Dakota State University, Oct. 4-6, 2018. We are looking forward to you panel proposals, round tables, and individual presentations.
Many thanks,
Luz Angélica Kirschner
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Edgar Illas started the topic Call for Papers, Catalan Forum: MLA 2019 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoCatalan Culture and the State
Forum: LLC Catalan Studies
Correlations between Catalan cultural products and the form of the State in modernity and globalization. Abstracts by 15 March 2018; Edgar Illas (eillas@indiana.edu). -
Juan E. De Castro deposited Alfonso Reyes, Jorge Luis Borges, y Nuestra América in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoThis article studies the uses made of the phrase “Nuestra América” by both Alfonso Reyes and Jorge Luis Borges. It also traces the influence of the Reyes on Borges.
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Catherine Marie Jaffe posted an update in the group
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoCall for Papers, MLA Chicago, 3 to 6 January, 2019
Buried but Not Dead: Unanthologized Texts – Mapping the Cultural Terrain of 18th/19th C SpainForum: LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian
How do unanthologized texts contribute to our knowledge of cultural parameters? Who shapes the canon? why? abstracts by 10 March 2018; María Elena…[Read more] -
Catherine Marie Jaffe started the topic CFP MLA 2019, LLC 18th-19thC Spanish and Iberian in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoHow We Teach the 18th Century
The forum LLC 18th-and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian invites abstracts for a panel at MLA 2019 on the pedagogical and methodological practices of teaching the 18th century. How, what, why, and to whom do we teach 18th-century Spanish and Iberian literature and culture? We are interested in innovative approaches…[Read more]
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Aurelie Vialette started the topic CFP MLA 2019 in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoMLA 2019. “Galdós in Cataluña, Cataluña in Galdós”
Catalan Studies Forum and Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas (AIG).
Abstracts should be sent to aurelie.vialette@stonybrook.edu
Deadline: March 1st, 2018.
Short description:
The literary, social and political debates around Benito Pérez Galdós’s work in Catalonia. T…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez-Solas posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 8 years agoCALL FOR PAPERS
THEATERS OF MARGINALITY
University of Massachusetts Amherst and Amherst College
SEPTEMBER 21-22, 2018The Second Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) will focus on the topic of marginality. It is informed by the transhistorical persistence of marginality, which we aim to approach from a textual,…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez-Solas posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 8 years agoCALL FOR PAPERS
THEATERS OF MARGINALITY
University of Massachusetts Amherst and Amherst College
SEPTEMBER 21-22, 2018The Second Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) will focus on the topic of marginality. It is informed by the transhistorical persistence of marginality, which we aim to approach from a textual,…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez-Solas posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 8 years agoCALL FOR PAPERS
THEATERS OF MARGINALITY
University of Massachusetts Amherst and Amherst College
SEPTEMBER 21-22, 2018The Second Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) will focus on the topic of marginality. It is informed by the transhistorical persistence of marginality, which we aim to approach from a textual,…[Read more]
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Molly Appel deposited The Pedagogical Poetics of Testimony: How in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoFeminist resistance has been crucial for Argentina’s recovery from the military dictatorship of 1976-1983. Alicia Partnoy was “disappeared” into one of hundreds of torture centers sardonically called “Little Schools.” After her release and exile to the United States, she published her poetic testimony, The Little School, with Cleis Press in 1986.…[Read more]
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Silvia G. Kurlat-Ares deposited Políticas de lo estético en la ilustración de ciencia ficción. El caso de “Think Blue, Count Two” de Cordwainer Smith in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDesde el período del Dadá se han ido borrando los límites entre las formas artísticas y sus soportes, entre las estéticas de uso y las estéticas formales, entre los espacios altos y bajos de producción cultural, y también, entre la percepción de centros y periferias que parecen haberse astillado y reproducido a la interioridad de espacios hasta ha…[Read more]
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Call for Articles. Spectral Mexico in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoSpectral Mexico. Ghosts and the Talking Dead in Contemporary Mexican Culture
The persistence of death and its figurative representations is a recognizable commonplace in the visual and narrative discourses of Mexican culture. Underworlds like Mictlan and Xibalba, the Catrina skull, the Santa Muerte, ghosts, dancing skeletons, post-mortem…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic Candidate Introduction – MLA Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues:
I am a candidate for the 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Forum executive committee. Now that the voting period has opened, and following MLA recommendations, I would like to post a brief introduction.
I am professor of Spanish at the University of Florida, where I serve as associate chair and graduate coordinator in…[Read more]
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Julie Ward posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoHi, As I am on the ballot for the Forum Executive Committee, I was invited to introduce myself here in the Commons.
I work on representations of reality in contemporary Latin American cultural production, in particular in Mexican theatre and drama, though I write about South American theatre, including Brazilian, as well.
My goals for the LLC…[Read more]
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David Wacks deposited SPAN 150: Introduction to cultures of the Spanish-speaking world in Comics in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoDescription: This course is an introduction to cultures of the Spanish-speaking world with an emphasis on comics and graphic novels. In this course we will learn about the graphic novel as an artistic vehicle for studying the history and cultures of Spain and Latin America (including the Latino US). There will be a series of guest appearances from…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly deposited Family Documents, Analogy, and Reconciliation in the Works of Carme Riera in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoIn La meitat de l’ànima and Temps d’innocència Carme Riera looks to the family album and personal history to reconcile with Spain’s turbulent past. The fictionalization of history emphasizes the unstable nature of the past and the improbability of “truth.” Through letters and photographs the past lives in the present yet remains elusive as m…[Read more]
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