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Linda V Troost deposited Choose Your Own Jane Austen Adventure (slides only) in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoPDF of slides for a panel presentation on Jane-Austen and Regency-themed video games.
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Yolanda Padilla deposited Felix beyond the Closet: Sexuality, Masculinity, and Relations of Power in Arturo Islas’s The Rain God in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis essay examines the uneasy relationship that Arturo Islas’s The Rain God has had with narratives of identity, focusing on how the representation of Felix’s sexuality makes him a problematic figure for certain strains of Chicana/o and queer studies. In other writings, Islas criticizes Quinto Sol, the chief publishing house of Chicano literature…[Read more]
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José Francisco Robles deposited La crítica ilustrada a la realidad americana: el colonialismo ilustrado del funcionario Alonso Carrió de la Vandera en “El Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes” in the group
LLC 19th-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months ago“El Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes” is one of the most important works of the Peruvian eighteenth century. This article examines the author’s critical perspective ––in his geographical and political journey through the viceroyalty–– in whose ideological position, called here “enlightened colonialism,” colonialist ideas meld with those of the pen…[Read more]
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Claudia Cabello-Hutt started the topic CFP 2018- Working Group Wild Interventions in Latin/o America – XX and XXI Centu in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoAddress the ways in which cultural, literary, and artistic interventions in the socio-political landscape of Latin/o America during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have queered genders and sexualities, practices of sociality, public spaces, the production and consumption of cultural goods, forms of embodiment, developmental rhetorics, and…[Read more]
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Rebecca Haidt started the topic CFP: Sets, Spaces, Stages of Cinema 1750-1899 in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoMLA 2018 Call for Papers: please circulate to Spanish media/film/visual/cultural studies lists and urge your students and colleagues to submit abstracts!
SETS, SPACES, STAGES OF CINEMA 1750-1899
Submission requirements: 250-word abstracts by March 15th
Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2017
<div class=”text_exposed_show”>Pre-cinema…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoFantastic tales of rebellious robots and animated artifacts are a permanent fixture in popular culture. What kind of behavior do we expect from such conceptual hybrids in science fiction, nonsense poetry, and surrealist art?
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP MLA 2018– Connecting the Dots: Museums and Comics (12 March 2017) in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoConnecting the Dots: Museums and Comics
Drawing from art theorist André Malraux—“The museum invites comparison of each of the expressions of the world it brings together, and forces us to question what it is that brings them together,” what indeed brings comics and museums into dialogue and/or dispute over exhibitionary spaces and praxis?…[Read more]
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Judith Sierra-Rivera started the topic CFP (MLA 2018) Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoImperial frontier/zone; militarism/militarization of space; soldiers, veterans, military migrations, encounters with unforeseen “others”; censorship, persecution, political prisoners; pacifism, civil disobedience. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2017; Judith Sierra-Rivera (jus55@psu.edu).
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Judith Sierra-Rivera started the topic CFP (MLA 2018) Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoCFP (MLA 2018) Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
LLC Puerto RicanImperial frontier/zone; militarism/militarization of space; soldiers, veterans, military migrations, encounters with unforeseen “others”; censorship, persecution, political prisoners; pacifism, civil disobedience. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2017; Judith Sierra-Rivera (jus55@psu.edu).
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Artaud y México in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis essay proposes the concept of literary immanence as a new critical model for reading world literature from the perspective of the specific situation experienced by the subject as he or she encounters the world. The literary event is instantiated within three discursive domains: literary immanence, the literary situation into which the subject…[Read more]
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Local Speech, Global Acts: Performative Violence and the Novelization of the World in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis article examines the performativity of novelistic discourse in order to propose a different set of terms for understanding the circulation of the novel around the world than those that are based on the referential form/content model.
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Jap-Nanak Makkar started the topic CFP: "Global Literature and Technology," Special Session for MLA 2018 in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 9 years agoDetails:
Proposal for Special Session: “Global Literature and Technology”
Organizer: Jap-Nanak Makkar, University of Virginia
MLA 2018 in New York CityPlease consider submitting to a special session, proposed to take place at MLA 2018 in New York City, on “Global Literature and Technology.”
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Jap-Nanak Makkar started the topic CFP: "Global Literature and Technology," Special Session for MLA 2018 in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 9 years agoDetails:
Proposal for Special Session: “Global Literature and Technology”
Organizer: Jap-Nanak Makkar, University of Virginia
MLA 2018 in New York CityPlease consider submitting to a special session, proposed to take place at MLA 2018 in New York City, on “Global Literature and Technology.”
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Digital media pose a challenge…[Read more] -
Jap-Nanak Makkar started the topic CFP: "Global Literature and Technology," Special Session for MLA 2018 in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 9 years agoDetails:
Proposal for Special Session: “Global Literature and Technology”
Organizer: Jap-Nanak Makkar, University of Virginia
MLA 2018 in New York CityPlease consider submitting to a special session, proposed to take place at MLA 2018 in New York City, on “Global Literature and Technology.”
Description:
Digital media pose a challenge…[Read more] -
Hania Nashef deposited Demythologizing the Palestinian in Hany Abu-Assad’sOmarandParadise Now in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn the past, Palestinian cinema was dominated by a nationalist discourse revolving around refugee ideology, resulting from the trauma of the lost homeland. As the past is generally static, revisiting it became an exercise in nostalgia. The last decade, however, has seen the emergence of a number of transnational Palestinian films telling stories…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Demythologizing the Palestinian in Hany Abu-Assad’sOmarandParadise Now in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn the past, Palestinian cinema was dominated by a nationalist discourse revolving around refugee ideology, resulting from the trauma of the lost homeland. As the past is generally static, revisiting it became an exercise in nostalgia. The last decade, however, has seen the emergence of a number of transnational Palestinian films telling stories…[Read more]
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Peter M. Logan started the topic 2018 CFP: The Institutional History of Theory in the discussion
Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years agoLiterary and Cultural Theory Group CFP
<b>The Institutional History of Theory</b>
Theory arose not just via ideas but through organizations, schools, institutes, and symposia. Papers on any aspect of this institutional history. Abstract and short CV by 1 March 2017; Peter M. Logan (peter.logan@temple.edu). -
Peter M. Logan started the topic 2018 CFP: The Book History of Theory in the discussion
Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years agoLiterary and Cultural Theory Group CFP
<b>The Book History of Theory</b>
Theory arose not just via ideas but through publishing. Papers investigating presses, journals, book series, or other aspects of print history. Abstract and short CV by 1 March 2017; Jeffrey J. Williams (jwill@andrew.cmu.edu). -
Benigno Trigo deposited From Necrotic to Apoptotic Debt in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoAnalysis of debt of the unincorporated territory of Puerto Rico from a psychoanalytic perspective using recent work by Eduardo Lalo as a point of departure for the analysis.
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Francesco Masala started the topic Call for Submission: Constructing and Representing Ecuadorian Identity in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″><b>“YOU Think Therefore I Am”: Constructing and (Re)presenting Identity In and Outside </b></span><span class=”s1″><b>Ecuador</b></span></p>
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>This Call for Papers seeks scholarly contributions for an edited volume focusing upon the Ecuadorian’s individual experience while abroad. In par…[Read more] - Load More
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