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Jason Frydman deposited Peter Abrahams of South Africa: Learning to Read (in) the Global 1930s in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoBorn poor, the material and ideological networks that propelled Peter Abrahams to literacy in 1930s South Africa lay bare how white liberalism, Pan-Africanism, and Marxism all overlapped as well as contradicted one another in the global 1930s. The confluences and contradictions of these currents of thought, artistic production, and political…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman deposited Death in the Arena: A Brief History of Dancehall, Time, and the Cold War in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis essay decodes how Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings uses the history of Jamaican music, culminating in the conflict between roots reggae and dancehall, to chart the Cold War’s conflicts over time, temporality, and futurity. A Brief History of Seven Killings points readers to a jaded, subaltern temporality encoded in a dan…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman deposited Death in the Arena: A Brief History of Dancehall, Time, and the Cold War in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis essay decodes how Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings uses the history of Jamaican music, culminating in the conflict between roots reggae and dancehall, to chart the Cold War’s conflicts over time, temporality, and futurity. A Brief History of Seven Killings points readers to a jaded, subaltern temporality encoded in a dan…[Read more]
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Scott Newman started the topic CFP African Sound Studies in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers
A Panel on “African Sound Studies” at the Virtual Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association
November 16 – 20, 2021
Sound studies has exploded over the past decade, drawing heightened attention to how sound and sonic media shape both the everyday and the exceptional. But even as sound studies has attended closely to qu…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi deposited Humanities Special Issue “Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoSpecial issue of Humanities exploring expressions and registrations of environmental culture and the eco-critical imagination in 21st century Scottish literature and culture. Open access.
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Race, Theory and the Practice of Psychoanalysis in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoGreetings! This message is to announce a CFP for MLA 2022. Please consider submitting an abstract! Please circulate widely!
The concise version is available on the main MLA Convention web site, but an expanded and detailed version is included here:
Race, Theory, and the Practice of Psychoanalysis
- How does the category of race allow for new…
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Kristin Moriah deposited On the Record: Sissieretta Jones and Black Feminist Recording Praxes in the group
MS Sound on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoIn this article, I examine how Sissieretta Jones (frequently described as America’s first Black superstar, among other superlatives) strategically leveraged her European performance reviews in order to increase her listenership and wages in the United States. Jones toured Europe for the first (and only) time from February until November in 1895. A…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Sign petition to Save CENTRO (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis is a petition shared by Aldo Lauria Santiago of Rutgers University.
Please consider reading and signing the “Save Centro (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)” petition, which you can access here: https://forms.gle/pDfE56LPkopPZHwb8
Thanks,
Elena Machado Sáez
Chair of the LLC Latina and Latino Forum
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Julia Elsky started the topic CFP (MLA): Making Waves: Two Decades of Experimental Romanian Cinema in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers: MLA 2022 (6-9 January, Washington, D.C.)
Romanian Forum’s Guaranteed Panel
Making Waves: Two Decades of Experimental Romanian Cinema
2021 marks two decades since the symbolic launch of Romanian New Wave cinema, a movement that has received important recognition at international film festivals. The Romanian Forum of th…[Read more]
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Janice Ho started the topic CFP: Infrastructures of Care MLA 2022 in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis panel explores intersections between infrastructure studies, labor, and care in global anglophone literature: in what ways are care work and the realms of reproductive and affective labor infrastructural to our lifeworlds? What kinds of infrastructures facilitate or impede domestic labor and the work of caring? How is the ongoing labor of…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoCall for papers: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature (MLA 2022)
We invite papers for a proposed session on “Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature” for the 2022 Modern Language Association conference (6-9 January). The session is co-sponsored by the MLA’s Asian American Liter…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited Contemporary Latinx Literatures & Cultures in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the last two decades. We will concentrate our attention on how contemporary art works represent and participate in the upheavals of the twenty-first century—9/11, global economic and ecological crisis, mass migration and mass deportation, political and social mobilization, s…[Read more]
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Christopher M. Lupke started the topic CFP Ritual and Representation in East Asian Literature in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoRitual and Representation in East Asian Literature We are inviting proposals for papers featuring ritual as a theme or structuring device in East Asian (including diasporic) literature in relation to belief, kinship, and/or community. This will be a collaborative session between the TC Anthropology and Literature and TC Religion and Literature…[Read more]
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Yomaira Figueroa started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Afro-Diasporic Afterlives & Archipelagos Across the Global Hispano in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 5 years agoWe invite 250-word abstracts for papers that examine the legacies, archives, and memories of slavery and Afro-diasporic afterlives across the global Hispanophone and archipelagic Mediterranean, Pacific, and Atlantic worlds. The panel also seeks to establish connections between these different regions and/or follow the moment of racialized actors…[Read more]
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yasser elhariry started the topic The Black Mediterranean / CFP / MLA 2022 Guaranteed Session in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 5 years agoCall for Papers
MLA Annual Convention
6–9 January 2022
Washington DC
Guaranteed Forum Session
Sponsored by CLCS Mediterranean
The Black Mediterranean
Michelle Murray (Vanderbilt University), presiding
The subordinations of racial disparity, conflict, and death are persistent traits of the Mediterranean and its d…[Read more]
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Gerard Holmes deposited “‘The Bird / Who Sings the Same, Unheard, / As Unto Crowd —’: Dickinson, Birdsong, and the Business of Improvisation” in the group
MS Sound on MLA Commons 5 years agoBirds are everywhere in nineteenth-century American literature, including the work of Emily Dickinson. Women poets often referred to their poems in terms of making songs. This essay rethinks the birds in Dickinson’s letters and poems. It suggests that Dickinson’s birds, and their songs, show her awareness of business. They exist within com…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Tonight at 7:15pm: Join us for joyful conversation and community! in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 5 years agoDear Colleagues,
Join us this evening for our much-anticipated multi-forum reception, held via Zoom from 7:15-8:30 p.m!
548 Social Event Arranged by the Forums LLC Latina and Latino, Chicana and Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban and Cuban Diasporic, Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English, African American, Caribbean,…[Read more]
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Lisa Nalbone posted an update in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoAnnouncing the “1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate” Jan. 28-30, 2021. For more information, please visit: https://www.ut.edu/academics/college-of-arts-and-letters/center-for-jos%C3%A9-mart%C3%AD-studies-affiliate/1st-biannual-conference-registration
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Today at MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 5 years agoDear MLA members,
Join us today at the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!
“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)
- Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
- Presider: Joshua Guzmán, U of California, Los Angeles
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Li Guo started the topic Invitation to LLC Ming Qing Chinese Social Event, Session 11077 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoInvitation to MLA 2021 LLC Ming and Qing Chinese Social EventSession 11077: January 7th, TR, 8:45pm-10:00pm EST
Event in the program: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Session/11077
Dear colleagues attending the upcoming MLA,
Please join us for lively conversations and networking with colleagues at MLA.
Forum members:…[Read more]
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