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Rosemary G. Feal started the topic Achy Obejas at the MLA Convention in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoGoing to the MLA Convention? Please come to hear queer Cuban-American writer and translator Achy Obejas in Session 298 , “Endlessly Cuban: A Discussion on the Work of Achy Obejas with the Author” and Session 473, “A Creative Conversation with Achy Obejas.” See https://achyobejas.mla.hcommons-staging.org/ for bios.
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Mariela Mendez deposited “De crepusculares y garotas modernas: Las columnas travestidas de Alfonsina Storni y Clarice Lispector” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHinging on the concept of transvestism, this article traces a trajectory that goes from Alfonsina Storni’s re-appropriation of the women’s page in the guise of a male persona, through Alejo Carpentier’s contributions to a fashion column disguised as Jacqueline, to Clarice Lispector’s unsettling use of the page addressed specifically to women i…[Read more]
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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi deposited The Look of Medieval Ethnography: William of Rubruck’s Mission to Mongolia in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoReads William of Rubruck’s mission to Asia as an instance of premodern ethnographic representation and the shape of the precolonial European ethnographic gaze upon Asia.
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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi deposited Durendal, translated: Islamic object genealogies in the chansons de geste in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe transfer of Saracen arms into Frankish ownership is a leitmotif of
many chansons de geste, but one whose significance for translatio imperii has yet to be
elucidated. In this essay, I focus on the Chanson d’Aspremont, a twelfth-century epic
set in Calabria that narrates the pre-history of Durendal, Roland’s sword of Song of
Roland fam…[Read more] -
Shirin A. Khanmohamadi deposited The Look of Medieval Ethnography: William of Rubruck’s Mission to Mongolia in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoReads William of Rubruck’s mission to Asia as an instance of premodern ethnographic representation and the shape of the precolonial European ethnographic gaze upon Asia.
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Jeremiah Mercurio deposited Faithful Infidelity: Charles Ricketts’s Illustrations for Two of Oscar Wilde’s Poems in Prose in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe artist, collector, and critic Charles Ricketts (1866–1931) has often been characterised as a reactionary voice in early-twentieth-century debates about modern art. Although he responded conservatively to modern-art developments such as those embodied by the term ‘Post-Impressionism’, his work in book design and illustration exemplifies p…[Read more]
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John Laudun started the topic Candidate for Executive Committee in the discussion
Folklore and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHello, everyone. I am delighted to have been nominated to serve on the GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale forum executive committee. I am on the faculty of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where I am the Meriwether Professor of English. Like many others, I have degrees in both English (BA, Louisiana State University; MA, Syracuse University…[Read more]
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John Laudun started the topic Candidate for Executive Committee in the discussion
Folklore and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months ago<div class=”bp_group type-bp_group odd bbp-parent-forum-864 bbp-parent-topic-9099 bbp-reply-position-1 user-id-5489 topic-author post-9099 topic type-topic status-publish hentry topic-tag-adaptation-studies topic-tag-digital-humanities topic-tag-fairy-tale topic-tag-folklore-scholarship topic-tag-history-2 topic-tag-indigenous-studies…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Alien Evolution and Dialectical Materialism in Eastern European Science Fiction in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis essay reads Ivan Efremov’s “Andromeda Nebula” (1957), Stanisław Lem’s “Solaris” (1961), and Angela and Karlheinz Steinmüller’s “Andymon” (1982) in order to explore the relationship between biological evolution and dialectical materialism, as it was negotiated through the trope of the alien in the context of the cultural politics of Eastern E…[Read more]
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Patricia Akhimie deposited “Bruised with Adversity”: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months ago“‘Bruised with Adversity’: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors” examines the role of the body, and of the somatic mark in particular, in the social production of both individual subjects and racial groups. In The Comedy of Errors, two sets of twins experience the benefits as well as the pitfalls of mistaken identity, revealing the ease with which…[Read more]
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Ida Yoshinaga started the topic CFP International Fantastic Division for ICFA #40 (proposals due 10/31) in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoInternational Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts #40
March 2019
Orlando, Florida
CFP Deadline 10/31/18
Please join us on <u>March 13-16, 2019</u>, for the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA) #40 in its theme of “Politics and Conflicts.” We welcome ideas for papers and panels on science fiction, fantasy, fair…[Read more]
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Ida Yoshinaga started the topic CFP International Fantastic Division for ICFA #40 (proposals due 10/31) in the discussion
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoInternational Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts #40
March 2019
Orlando, Florida
CFP Deadline 10/31/18
Please join us on <u>March 13-16, 2019</u>, for the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA) #40 in its theme of “Politics and Conflicts.” We welcome ideas for papers and panels on science fiction, fant…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Folklore and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Donald Haase deposited No Laughing Matter: Fairy Tales and the 2016 US Presidential Election in the group
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoWeaponizing the fairy tale in the service of political persuasion and propaganda is a popular tactic. In times of conflict, fairy-tale motifs are often adapted for political satire and commentary in a variety of popular media, from poetry and protest songs to caricatures and cartoons. In the 2016 American presidential election–which provided more…[Read more]
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Charlie Gleek deposited Writing History: 19th Century African American Activism in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoOur work in this course will center around two questions. First, what were the material and social conditions for Black men, women, and children living in the territory that would become the United States, from roughly 1750 until on or about 1860? While slavery is likely the first concept that comes to mind, additional concepts such as racism,…[Read more]
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Currently Accepting Submissions: Spectral Mexico in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThe peer reviewed journal iMex. Interdisciplinary Mexico, ISSN 2193-9756 is currently accepting original, unpublished articles on the subjects of haunting and spectrality in contemporary Mexican cultures for its special issue Spectral Mexico. Original call for papers available here:…[Read more]
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Charlotte Rogers started the topic CFP: “Current and Future Ecocriticisms of the Americas” for ASLE 2019 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoWhat is the current state of hemispheric American ecocritical studies? Where is the discipline headed? The newly formed Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment interest group “Ecocriticism of the Americas” offers a jam session to address these questions at the biannual conference in Davis, CA from June 26-29, 2019. Panel…[Read more]
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic CfP: International Conference: Migration Studies, Transnational Literature in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoCFP: Forms of Migration: An International Conference on Transnational Literature & Innovative Aesthetics
May 2—4, 2019: University of Graz (Graz, Austria)
The Department of American Studies and the Centre for Intermediality Studies at the University of Graz (Graz, Austria), in conjunction with the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), announces a call f…[Read more]
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