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Eleonora Rao replied to the topic Self-translation of literary works into English in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoCiao Arianna,
Nancy Huston: Canadian (Calgary) transpanted to Paris a while ago – she married Todorov – has self translated a few of her novels – I haven’t read them – I know her essay on displacement: Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exile (Toronto, 2012).
eleonora
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Arianna Dagnino started the topic Self-translation of literary works into English in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoI am looking for contemporary published writers who have been self-translating their work from major romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese) into English.
<div class=””>If you know of any living authors active in self-translation in these language combinations, please let me know.</div>
<div class=””>Kind regards,</div>
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: The Critic as Amateur in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoSaikat Majumdar and I are inviting essays for a proposed collection tentatively titled The Critic as Amateur, with strong interest from Oxford UP. The collection will focus on literary criticism as an activity suspended (productively) between expertise and amateurism. It will explore the idea of the critic of literature as an amateur rather t…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic History, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference, McMaster U in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoHistory, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference
Department of English & Cultural Studies, May 6-7, 2016
<div class=”entry-content”>On June 23, 1985 a bomb detonated on Air India Flight 182 en route from Toronto to New Delhi via Montreal. The mid-air explosion killed all 329 passengers and crew, the majority of whom were South…[Read more]
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Daniela Goldfine started the topic Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe editors of a volume titled Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production invite proposals from potential contributors. The volume is planned for publication with Lexington Books as part of their Latin American Gender and Sexualities series edited by Carolina Rocha.
Essay proposals should explicitly address issues and/or…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited “Not to Get Lost in the Loss”: Narrating the Story in Mourid Barghouti’s I Was Born There, I Was Born Here and in Deborah Rohan’s The Olive Grove – A Palestinian Story." in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoIn his introduction to Mourid Barghouti novel, I saw Ramallah, Edward Said refers to the Palestinians as a displaced and a misplaced people. Regardless of the nationalities they carry or countries they live in, they carry with them the trauma of events that led to the loss of their homeland, and the grief of this loss and endless displacement.…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited "Let the Demon in: Death and Guilt in The Master of Petersburg." in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoUnlike his earlier novels, J.M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg, has not received the attention that it deserves from the critics. The novel, which is set in Russia not only draws on real aspects of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s life but also on certain events in the Russian author’s novels, specifically The Devils. Coetzee’s Dostoevsky is an aging a…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Specters of Doom: Saramago's Dystopias in Blindness and The Cave in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoAlthough Plato’s Utopia or ideal city is the non-place that holds the promise of perfection, it remains the place in which citizens are categorized by a rigid structure. José Saramago, on the other hand, introduces us to a dystopia in his novel Blindness, in which one event leads to the ruin of a city. Yet, as with Plato’s Utopia, a similar…[Read more]
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Ken Martin started the topic CFP: SAMLA-Utopia, Dystopia, and the Search for Self in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoUtopia, Dystopia, and the Search for Self: This panel seeks to explore the relationship between utopia, dystopia, and the journey of self-development or the discovery of Self. By June 1, 2016 please submit a 300-word abstract, brief bio, and A/V requirements to Ken Martin, University of North Georgia, at kdmartin@ung.edu.
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Scott Challener deposited 'Some Reckonings with the Not-Old and with Surprise': Postmodern Ballads of Urban Crisis in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis paper offers a brief consideration of the literary ballad as a register of what by the mid-’60s economists had diagnosed as “urban crisis” and in 1970 John Ashbery called “urban chaos.” I’m particularly interested in how poets used the ballad to see and see into the failures of the “spatio-temporal fix” of urban renewal. My general idea is…[Read more]
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Michelle R. Warren deposited Ar-ar-archive in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoA reflection on the state of the archive in the state of post-theory.
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Annette Damayanti Lienau started the topic Reminder – CFP: Vernacular Comparisons beyond the Europhone in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis panel seeks papers that engage with questions, concepts, and histories of the “vernacular” or “vernacularization” beyond Europhone languages and contexts.
Submissions that address one or more of the following questions are encouraged. How might we explore (and move beyond) the insufficiencies of Europhone terms —such as the “vernacula…[Read more]
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic MLA Survey and CFP: Teaching Volume on Karen Tei Yamashita in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease tell us about your experience teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey (use link above). Deadline: June 1, 2016.
Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for an MLA 2017…[Read more]
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Angel M. Diaz Miranda started the topic CFP MLA 2017 Unbounded: David Huerta's Incurable at 30 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoSpecial Session
Incurable (1987) shatters the boundaries of form. Papers on readership, intertextuality, illness, poetic connections, and fragmentation are especially welcomed. 200-word abstract and very short bio. by 10 March 2016; Angel M. Diaz Miranda (diazam@hollins.edu). -
Josef Raab started the topic New Deadline: Inter-American Studies Conference "Human Rights in the Americas" in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThe International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS) will hold its Fourth Biennial Conference at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) October 4 through 6, 2016. The conference topic is “Human Rights in the Americas.” Keynote addresses will be given by Professor Lisa Hajjar (UCSB), Professor David Palumbo-Liu (Stanford Uni…[Read more]
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Annette Damayanti Lienau started the topic CFP: Vernacular Comparisons beyond the Europhone in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoThis panel seeks papers that engage with questions, concepts, and histories of the “vernacular” or “vernacularization” beyond Europhone languages and contexts.
Submissions that address one or more of the following questions are encouraged. How might we explore (and move beyond) the insufficiencies of Europhone terms —such as the “vernacula…[Read more]
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Juan Meneses started the topic CFP: "Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent" (MLA) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoCFP: “Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent”
MLA Special Session (Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2017)
This non-guaranteed, MLA special seeks papers that examine how literary and audiovisual works articulate dissent by operating at different national tempos, challenging the global synchronicity that dominates the contemporary…[Read more]
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Juan Meneses started the topic CFP: "Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent" (MLA) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoCFP: “Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent”
MLA Special Session (Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2017)
This non-guaranteed, MLA special seeks papers that examine how literary and audiovisual works articulate dissent by operating at different national tempos, challenging the global synchronicity that dominates the…[Read more]
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Ewa Lukaszyk deposited Is there Tunisian literature? Emergent writing and fractal proliferation of minor voices in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years agoIs There Tunisian Literature? Emergent Writing and Fractal Proliferation of Minor Voices.
The article presents the Tunisian literature from the non-local perspective of the global literary market and the circulation of translated literature. The minor status of the studied phenomenon becomes obvious even when the Tunisian literature is compared…[Read more] -
Ewa Lukaszyk deposited Travelling away from the “artsy post-modern lefty-pinko university”. Noor's transcultural experience and the duties of the intellectual in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years agoTravelling away from the “artsy post-modern lefty-pinko university”.
Noor’s transcultural experience and the duties of the intellectual.The volume Qur’an and cricket consists of several travelogues produced by a Malay intellectual, Farish A. Noor, during his trips to the most problematic places of the world, marked by the contemporary “ba…[Read more]
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