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Annabel Kim deposited The Riddle of Racial Difference in Anne Garréta’s Sphinx in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis article examines Sphinx, the debut novel of the French novelist Anne Garréta, which was recently published in English translation in 2015. The reception of Sphinx in both French and English has focused primarily on Garréta’s virtuosic removal of gender from a love story, passing over a caricatural and crude rendering of racial difference tha…[Read more]
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Nienke Boer started the topic Petition to create new MLA forum: CLCS Indian Ocean in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoDear members,
I’m getting the ball rolling on trying to activate the prospective MLA forum CLCS Indian Ocean. The first step involved getting 35 signatures on the petition at MLA Commons as well as five volunteers for leadership positions. After that, a full proposal will be solicited by the MLA, probably in mid-June.Here is a link to the…[Read more]
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Mary Gallucci deposited The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici. Catherine Fletcher. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xxvii + 308 pp. $29.95. in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoAs the first biography in English of Alessandro de’ Medici, this important book raises questions about how historical narratives are constructed and how race has evolved into a critical, if contested, category.
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Rebecca Jane Stanton started the topic CFP for MLA 2019: The Global Far North: Arctic Literatures in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe Global Far North: Arctic Literatures
The Global South has challenged Eurocentric narratives; what of the Global (Extreme) North? Colonial encounters; environmental extremes; imperial and indigenous literatures in the Arctic.
200-word abstract and CV or brief bio to Rebecca Stanton (rjs19@columbia.edu) by March 18.(Sponsored by LLC…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Southeast Asia session proposals for 2019 MLA (deadline March 15) in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoDear academic colleagues: there’s still time (deadline March 15) to submit a paper to one of these three proposed sessions about Southeast Asia for the 2019 MLA conference in Chicago. Details below.
* “Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia”: What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? C…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic ADCPL CFP MLA 2019: “Transacting Comparative Studies” in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoHi all, I’m on the board of the Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature and I’m posting on behalf of the chair, Thomas Beebee, to publicize our CFP for MLA 2019. Here it is, inspired by the Presidential Theme of “Textual Transactions”:
Transacting Comparative Studies with other Disciplines and Units
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Jason Frydman started the topic CFP MLA 2019: Peter Abrahams, RIP – Commemorating a Pan-African Life. in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019 Special Session. Honoring the centenary of Abrahams’ birth, we re-assess his epoch-making career as author-journalist-Panafricanist from Johannesburg to London to Kingston. Abstracts 100-300 words by 22 March 2018; Jason Frydman (jfrydman@brooklyn.cuny.edu).
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Jason Frydman started the topic CFP MLA 2019: Peter Abrahams, RIP – Commemorating a Pan-African Life. in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019 Special Session. Honoring the centenary of Abrahams’ birth, we re-assess his epoch-making career as author-journalist-Panafricanist from Johannesburg to London to Kingston. Abstracts 100-300 words by 22 March 2018; Jason Frydman (jfrydman@brooklyn.cuny.edu).
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Jason Frydman started the topic CFP MLA 2019: Peter Abrhamas, RIP – Commemorating a Pan-African Life. in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019 Special Session. Honoring the centenary of Abrahams’ birth, we re-assess his epoch-making career as author-journalist-Panafricanist from Johannesburg to London to Kingston. Abstracts 100-300 words by 22 March 2018; Jason Frydman (jfrydman@brooklyn.cuny.edu).
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Chandrima Chakraborty deposited Canada’s Troubling Indifference to the Air India Bombing in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoWhy has the 1985 Air India Kanishka bombing not claimed a more prominent place in Canadian history and public memory?
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Lorelei Caraman deposited Between Anthropocentrism and Anthropomorphism: A corpus-based analysis of animal comparisons in Shakespeare’s plays in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe assertion of the centrality and supremacy of man, or rather, of the idea(l) of humanity, during the Renaissance period, inevitably entailed the repudiation of the animal and the beginning of the great human-animal divide. What was seen, at the time, as the rebirth of man, was also the birth of a rampant anthropocentrism which, until the recent…[Read more]
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Sheela Jane Menon posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2019: “Race, Nation, and Empire in Southeast Asian Life Writing.” How does Southeast Asian life writing reframe questions of race, nation, empire, and history? Comparative approaches welcomed. 300-word abstract and short bio to John David Zuern (zuern@hawaii.edu) and Sheela Jane Menon (menons@dickinson.edu) due 15 March 2018. Please…[Read more]
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Brian Lennon deposited JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis essay attempts a philological, meaning a both technically and socially attentive historical study of an individual computer programming language, JavaScript. From its introduction, JavaScript’s reception by software developers, and its importance in web development as we now understand it, was structured by a continuous negotiation of e…[Read more]
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Annette Damayanti Lienau started the topic CFP: Afro-Asian Cultural Solidarity and Unfinished Projects of Independence in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoGuaranteed panel sponsored by the Modern Language Association’s Committee of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, 20th and 21st century.
This panel takes its cue from Leopold Senghor’s writing on the ambiguities and paradoxes of the Bandung moment: as a call to shared independence that bears the risk of (ethno)-nationalist exploitations i…[Read more]
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Annette Damayanti Lienau started the topic CFP: Afro-Asian Cultural Solidarity and Unfinished Projects of Independence in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoGuaranteed panel sponsored by the Modern Language Association’s Committee of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, 20th and 21st century.
This panel takes its cue from Leopold Senghor’s writing on the ambiguities and paradoxes of the Bandung moment: as a call to shared independence that bears the risk of (ethno)-nationalist exploitations i…[Read more]
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Radovan Škultéty started the topic CFP (MLA 2019 Chicago): Reinterpreting Nonsense in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis is a call for papers for a special session at the annual MLA convention to take place in Chicago, Jan 3 – 6, 2019.
We live in the internet era with its mirrored online reality where (almost) everything seems quantifiable, searchable and generally predictable. Our minds are trained to apply logic and reason to analyze the world and organize…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2019 Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum:
Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions
Each year, the Southeast Asian Writers Award (S.E.A. Write) is awarded to an author from each of the member states of ASEAN. The awardees are typically authors whose works are written…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:
Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia
What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:
Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia
What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]
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George Phillips deposited CFP: Global Modernisms and the Graphic in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoDouglas Mao and Rebecca Walkowitz’s field-defining article, “The New Modernist Studies,” turns ten in 2018. Despite the fact that the article takes up new media as a key topic-and although it was published just after ground-breaking work in the “visual turn” of literary studies by Mary Lou Emery (Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature,…[Read more]
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