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Katherine Hallemeier deposited “To Be from the Country of People Who Gave”: National Allegory and the United States of Adichie’s Americanah in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoCurrent debates about Afropolitan literature alternately value it for challenging western stereotypes about Africa and critique it for embracing western capitalism. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013) complicates these debates by articulating a Nigerian dream that, while imbued with the class mobility of its American counterpart, d…[Read more]
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Katherine Hallemeier deposited “To Be from the Country of People Who Gave”: National Allegory and the United States of Adichie’s Americanah in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoCurrent debates about Afropolitan literature alternately value it for challenging western stereotypes about Africa and critique it for embracing western capitalism. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013) complicates these debates by articulating a Nigerian dream that, while imbued with the class mobility of its American counterpart, d…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited The Historical Imaginary of Nineteenth-Century Style in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe first section of David Mitchell’s genre-bending novel, Cloud Atlas (2004), purports to be set in 1850. Narrative clues approximately date the intra-diegetic diary object of this chapter to the period 1851–1910. This article argues for the construction of a stylistic historical imaginary of this period’s language that is not based on mimet…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited The Historical Imaginary of Nineteenth-Century Style in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe first section of David Mitchell’s genre-bending novel, Cloud Atlas (2004), purports to be set in 1850. Narrative clues approximately date the intra-diegetic diary object of this chapter to the period 1851–1910. This article argues for the construction of a stylistic historical imaginary of this period’s language that is not based on mimet…[Read more]
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Timothy Robbins deposited A “Reconstructed Sociology”: Democratic Vistas and the American Social Science Movement in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoSituates the composition of Walt Whitman’s Democratic Vistas—from manuscript notes, source material, and pilot essays to its publication as an 84-page pamphlet—within the intellectual tendencies of the Reconstruction-era American social science movement to reveal Whitman’s text as an important case study in the nascent discipline. In his pro…[Read more]
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Oana Popescu-Sandu deposited “From Minimalist Representation to Excessive Interpretation: Contextualizing 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.” in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe article examines the Romanian and American reception of Cristian Mungiu’s 4 weeks, 3 months, 2 weeks (2007), arguing that the film’s representational minimalism indirectly caused an excess of interpretation across cultural contexts. This overinterpretation was possible because the film’s aesthetic minimalism encouraged viewers to decode the s…[Read more]
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Annabel Kim started the topic CFP: Drafting Monique Wittig, Yale University, October 3-4, 2019 in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers: Drafting Monique Wittig
Conference organized by Morgane Cadieu (Yale) and Annabel Kim (Harvard)
October 3–4, 2019
Yale UniversityThis conference, to be held at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, both marks the 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the publication of Wittig’s landmark novel, Les Guérillères, and showc…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited Feminine Desire Is Human Desire in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis article compares the 1950s and 1960s short story writing of two influential yet underexamined women writers, Mannu Bhandari (1931–) and R. Chudamani (1931–2010), who are considered key representatives of the Hindi and Tamil literary canons, respectively. Mani demonstrates that from within their specific geographic and historical contexts, Bha…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited Feminine Desire Is Human Desire in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis article compares the 1950s and 1960s short story writing of two influential yet underexamined women writers, Mannu Bhandari (1931–) and R. Chudamani (1931–2010), who are considered key representatives of the Hindi and Tamil literary canons, respectively. Mani demonstrates that from within their specific geographic and historical contexts, Bha…[Read more]
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yasser elhariry deposited CFP // Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean: Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and Culture in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers for Peer-Reviewed Edited Volume
Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean:
Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and CultureCo-edited by yasser elhariry, Isabelle Keller-Privat & Edwige Tamalet Talbayev
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Massih Zekavat deposited The Contingent Dynamics of Political Humor in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoCFP for a special issue of the European Journal of Humour Research
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Massih Zekavat deposited The Contingent Dynamics of Political Humor in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoCFP for a special issue of the European Journal of Humour Research
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Literary Criticism 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
Women’s Studies in Language 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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Matthew K. Gold started the topic JOB: Open Educational Technology Specialist — Two Two-Year Positions in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoHi All,
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The…[Read more]
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Ghenwa Hayek started the topic ACLA CfP: Palestine/Israel: The Vocabulary of the Conflict and its Circulation in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoWe invite submissions of proposals to participate in our ACLA seminar titled “Palestine/Israel: The Vocabulary of the Conflict and its Circulation.” A detailed description of the seminar here and at the end of this email. Feel free to contact us for more information.
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Sarah Ruth Jacobs started the topic Nov. 15, 2018 CFP for the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months ago<h4 align=”center”><i>The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
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<p align=”center”><b><i></i></b>Issue Editors:
Luke Waltzer, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Lisa Brundage, Macaulay Honors College, CUNY</p>
<p align=”center”>Editorial Associate:
Teresa Ober, The Graduate Center, CUNY</p>
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Brian Croxall deposited Introduction to Digital Humanities, Fall 2018 Syllabus in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis syllabus is my fifth version of a course aimed at introducing the digital humanities at an undergraduate level. In consultation with my colleagues, I decided that this year’s version should also include a unit that looked at digital objects with a humanities perspective. The course is organized around four projects, each of which is oriented…[Read more]
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic CF Beat P – Louisville Conf for Lit and Culture – 21-23 Feb 2019 in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoCall for Papers:
The Beat Studies Association sponsors an annual panel at the Louisville Conference for Literature and Culture Since 1900, to be held at the University of Louisville Feb. 21-23, 2019.
If you are interested in presenting at this conference, please submit a brief (250 word) abstract and a one-paragraph bio to Deborah Geis ( -
Tom White deposited Written in Trees in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoSeminar paper for ‘Translating the Nonhuman’, organised by Liam Lewis (University of Warwick) and Haylie Swenson (The George Washington University)
Seminar Abstract — This seminar invites participants to consider the connections created by translations of the nonhuman into human languages. To what extent is language the domain of the human,…[Read more]
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