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Rajender Kaur started the topic Panels organized at the MLA 2017 in the discussion
South Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoDear All,
The South Asian and South Asian Diasporic Literatures and Cultures Forum has organized three panels are the panels at the upcoming MLA Convention in Philadelphia. In addition, I am very pleased to report that the collaborative panel organized by Kanika Batra with the group LLC African to 1990: “Queer and Here: Crossing Gendered an…[Read more]
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David Palumbo-Liu deposited Open Letter to MLA Members: Why Think About Palestine Now? in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoAn argument for more, not less, attention to issues of Palestine, and beyond.
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Isabelle Hesse started the topic CFP – Palestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017 in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPalestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017
24<sup>th</sup> February 2017
John Woolley Common Room, Level 4, John Woolley Building
The University of Sydney, Australia
Organised by
Dr Isabelle Hesse, The Department of English, The University of Sydney
Dr Ben Etherington, The Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney…[Read more]
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Subarno Chattarji deposited 'Culture(s) of Corruption': Media Representations and Anxieties in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe article analyzes media representations of the anti-corruption movement in India led by Anna Hazare in 2011
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John Charles Hawley started the topic Queer Theory in African Film and Fiction, for Yale ALA, proposed panel in the discussion
LLC African since 1990 on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCFP for proposed panel on Queer Theory in African Film and Fiction, for Yale African Literature Association conference (June 14-17, 2017). How 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…[Read more]
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Isabel Carrera Suárez uploaded the file: cfp Performing the Urban to
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for EACLALS triennial conference in Oviedo, Spain. April 2017
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Carol Zuses started the topic Need Membership Suggestions for 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoBeginning in 2017, the nomination process that applies to executive committee elections will also apply to the election of forum delegates. According to this process, the executive committee is required to nominate at least one candidate who has been suggested by the forum’s membership (unless there are too few suggestions). So when the f…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Forum Delegate Election: Suggestions Needed in the discussion
LLC African since 1990 on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn the fall of 2017, an election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held; the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Patrick Herald deposited "The Black", space, and sexuality: Examining resistance in Selvon's The Lonely Londoners (forthcoming in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis article argues that theoretical notions of resistance and agency prove inadequate for considering the complexities of the treatment of Sam Selvon’s Trinidadian characters. Indeed, to proceed from a binary logic of resistance and oppression carries the danger of universalizing those seen as oppressed, and smoothing over important c…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited “Genres of Identification: Holocaust Testimony and Postcolonial Witness,” in _Marking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age_, edited by Amos Goldberg and Haim Hazan, 171 – 192. Berghahn Books: New York and Oxford. in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis chapter explores the strange intimacies of dis/avowal that obtain between Holocaust studies and postcolonial theory, with particular reference to writing by Aimé Césaire and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. For all that the Jewish body remains, by and large, unmourned in the canonical texts of postcolonial theory, the Holocaust has, I seek to a…[Read more]
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Gulsah Gocmen deposited Modernist Resilience at the End of the World(s) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers for the Panel at the 2017 Biennial ASLE Conference, Detroit, MI
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Peter J. Kalliney started the topic executive committee nominations in the discussion
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Executive Committee member will be held in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s current executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is req…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of "a land without a people": Mahmoud Darwishs Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced […] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land witho…[Read more]
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Zakir Majumder deposited Letters of 1971: The Politics and Poetics of Correspondence in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis study is premised upon my experience of translating _Ekattorer Chithi_ (Bengali title) or _Letters of 1971_ (English version of the title), an anthology of letters written by the freedom fighters of the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971, into English. Letters of 1971, a collection of letters, diverse as they are in meaning and…[Read more]
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Zakir Majumder deposited Letters of 1971: The Politics and Poetics of Correspondence in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis study is premised upon my experience of translating _Ekattorer Chithi_ (Bengali title) or _Letters of 1971_ (English version of the title), an anthology of letters written by the freedom fighters of the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971, into English. Letters of 1971, a collection of letters, diverse as they are in meaning and…[Read more]
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Charles A. Huttar deposited The Art of Detection in a World of Change: "The Silver Chair" and Spenser Revisited in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoC. S. Lewis’s fourth Narnian chronicle is considered as detective fiction, illustrating principles for solving a murder mystery, especially alertness to the difference between appearance and reality. The human protagonists nearly fail through carelessness, overconfidence, and forgetfulness, combined with the deceit and magic of a shape-shifting v…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of “a land without a people”: Mahmoud Darwish’s Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agon his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced […] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land without a peopl…[Read more]
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Gregory Fenton started the topic CFP: ACLA 2017 – Deadline Today, Sept 23 in the discussion
South Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoI’m co-organizing a seminar on Asian American and Asian Canadian topics for next year’s ACLA meeting in Utrecht. I’m sure that the conversations we are envisioning would be of interest to members of this forum! My apologies for a last minute posting, but if you have an abstract ready to submit, the ACLA website will accept proposals to our semin…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Anarchist Surrealism & Canadian Apocalyptic Modernism: Allusive Political Praxis in Elizabeth Smart’s By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThis article gestures to the 1930s through 1950s international anarchist literary networks that ran from Paris to London and Athens, Cairo and Alexandria, Shanghai, Oxford and Cambridge, New York and San Francisco, and finally Big Sur and Vancouver. The distribution across these nodes was intense and sustained, but this project only hints at t…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Rust Belt Post-Colonial Stories in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoRust Belt Literature
Public Group active 5 hours, 52 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust Belt, defined here as industrial communities in the United States. Those ho have been affected by the rust…[Read more]
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