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Roland Greene deposited Interamerican Obversals: Haroldo de Campos and Allen Ginsberg Circa 1960 in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis essay compares two mid-twentieth century poets of the Americas, Allen Ginsberg and Haroldo de Campos, in view of how their work circa 1960 intersects despite the differences in their poetics. It introduces the notion of the obversal, or the identity among poems through a common history.
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Yomaira Figueroa deposited Faithful Witnessing as Practice: Decolonial Readings of Shadows of Your Black Memory and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers Marıa Lugones’s concept of faithful witnessing as a point of departure to think about the ethics and possibilities of faithful witnessing in literary contexts. For Lugones, faithful witnessing is an act of aligning oneself with oppressed peoples against the grain of power and recognizing their humanity, oppression, and re…[Read more]
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Victor Goldgel-Carballo deposited The Reappropriation of Poverty and the Art of “Making Do” in Contemporary Argentine Cultural Productions in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThrough an analysis of two post-crisis films (Estrellas, Federico León
and Marcos Martínez, 2007; El nexo, Sebastián Antico, 2005) shot in
the largest slum in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this essay sketches the
terms for conceptualizing a cultural dimension of the Global South
marked by the aesthetic reappropriation of poverty. Working ag…[Read more] -
Marissa K. Lopez deposited Chicano Vibrations in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article reads the smuggling of Aztec artifacts described in Lucha Corpi’s novel Black Widow’s Wardrobe in the context of new materialist philosophies of becoming.
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Marissa K. Lopez deposited Chicano Vibrations in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article reads the smuggling of Aztec artifacts described in Lucha Corpi’s novel Black Widow’s Wardrobe in the context of new materialist philosophies of becoming.
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Yolanda M. Martinez-San Miguel started the topic Postdoc in Caribbean Studies at Rutgers in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoPostdoctoral Fellowship in Critical Caribbean Studies 2016-2017
Critical Caribbean Studies at Rutgers, in collaboration with the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, is pleased to announce a one-year competitive postdoctoral fellowship for a humanities or social science scholar pursuing research in Caribbean Studies. Scholars…[Read more]
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Heidi Kaufman started the topic CFP: ACLA Caribbean/Jewish Intersections in the discussion
Sephardic Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCFP: Caribbean/Jewish Intersections in (Post)Colonial Literary and Print Cultures
We are soliciting papers for a seminar that we have proposed for the upcoming American Comparative Literature Association conference (Harvard University, March 17-20, 2016). Paper abstracts can be submitted through the ACLA portal from September 1-23: http://www.acla…[Read more]
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Stacy N. Beckwith started the topic CFP ACLA Seminar "Narrating Sepharad Today" in the discussion
Sephardic Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months ago<div>Dear Colleagues,</div>
<div>We are pleased to invite papers for a seminar we have proposed for the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, March 17-20, at Harvard University. The link to our seminar is http://www.acla.org/seminar/narrating-sepharad-today and you can also read the text below. We welcome abstracts thr…[Read more] -
Laura J. Beard started the topic Deadline extended CFP Special Issue of a/b in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCall for papers:
Special Issue of Indigenous Autobiographical Works in the Americas
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies http://www.tandfonline.com/raut
NEW DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
Diana Taylor has referred to a shared hemispheric reality of “tangled systems of expression, representation, and economic and power relat…[Read more]
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Francisco Robles deposited Traveling Borderlands and Travesía Hermeneutics in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo in the group
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoIn this paper, I use Sandra Cisneros’s /Caramelo/ (2002) to examine the “traveling borderlands” in Mexican American migrant narratives. Traveling borderlands names the aesthetic and existential practice of creating contingent home spaces that contest paradigms of fragmentation and essentialism, the former often taken to be a defining feature of ma…[Read more]
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Victor Goldgel-Carballo started the topic CFP: Forms of Informality in the Global South, Madison, WI in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoCFP
Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis and Popular Culture in the Global South
March 11-12, 2016Keynote speakers: Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California, Davis) and Juan Poblete (University of California, Santa Cruz)
We invite scholars working on popular culture in/of the Global South to submit paper proposals that interrogate the…[Read more]
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Chris Zarate deposited Recovery and Reconfigurations of New Mexico's Oral Tradition in Ana Castillo's So Far from God in the group
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoThis paper traces the origins of Chicana-centered figures and tropes found in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God to early 20th century cuentos recorded in the New Mexico Federal Writer’s Project.
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Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Art, Literature and Revolution in Latin America: Telling the Story in the group
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoCourse Description: As German intellectual Walter Benjamin writes in his essay “The Storyteller”, “Experience which is passed on from mouth to mouth is the source from which all storytellers have drawn.” In the process of sharing experiences, more stories are born with authorship that are common while at the same time recognizing the individ…[Read more]
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Carlos Vargas-Salgado started the topic Congreso Melgar y la Independencia, Arequipa, Perú, agosto de 2015 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoCONGRESO INTERNACIONAL “MARIANO MELGAR, 200 AÑOS: POESÍA E INDEPENDENCIA”
PRIMERA CIRCULAR (para los interesados en Mariano Melgar, el bicentenario de las independencias y el romanticismo en general)
La Asociación Internacional de Peruanistas (AIP), la Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana (RCLL), el Municipio de Mariano Melgar, Arequip…[Read more]
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Douglas Kristopher Smith started the topic Deadline extended – CALACS 2015 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago***The Congress submissions deadline has been extended to March 30***
***La date limite pour les soumissions de propositions au Congrès a été repoussée jusqu’au 30 mars***
***Se extendió el plazo de entrega de propuestas para el Congreso hasta el 30 de marzo***
*** O prazo de envio de propostas para o Congresso foi estendido até o 30 de março**…[Read more] -
Jane Mushabac started the topic CFP: Major Sephardic Novelists: The Risks They Take in the discussion
Sephardic Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThe Sephardic Forum seeks proposals that explore the work of a Sephardic novelist, writing in any language, and the risks he or she has taken to further creative or sociopolitical goals.
Please email 1-page abstracts by 15 March 2015
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Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic CFP, MLA2016 Panel on Mexican Authors 1968 to 80's in the discussion
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoSolitary Mexicans: Gaps in Contemporary Literary Historiography
Traditionally, the canon of Mexican literature has been studied by grouping authors into movements, generations, ideological “isms,” or schools. This is a common critical and historiographic procedure that always leaves some authors as not fitting neatly in some of the standard org…[Read more]
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Mariela Méndez started the topic CFP MLA 2016: Clarice Lispector Cronista in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoClarice Lispector Cronista: A Re-assessment. This Session seeks re-examinations of Lispector’s journalism and its contribution to the long tradition of chronicle-writing in Latin America. Send 300-word abstracts and one-page C.V. to Dr. Mariela E. Méndez @ mmendezd@richmond.edu by March 15th, 2015.
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Juan Ramos started the topic MLA 2016: CFP-Andean Modernismos in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoAndean Modernismos
Special Session
This session invites papers that reconceptualize, reimagine, or theorize Modernismos in Andean countries. Papers on all genres and neglected aspects of Andean Modernismos are welcome. 300-word abstract, One-page C.V. by 12 March 2015; Juan G. Ramos (jramos@holycross.edu). -
Laura J. Beard started the topic CFP MLA 2016 session in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoSpecial Session
Papers exploring the relationships between public acts of witnessing, such as Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, and the literary and other texts they inspire or engage. 250 word abstracts by 15 March 2015; Laura J. Beard (lbeard@ualberta.ca). - Load More
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