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Juan E. De Castro deposited Alfonso Reyes, Jorge Luis Borges, y Nuestra América in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis article studies the uses made of the phrase “Nuestra América” by both Alfonso Reyes and Jorge Luis Borges. It also traces the influence of the Reyes on Borges.
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Molly Appel deposited The Pedagogical Poetics of Testimony: How in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 8 years agoFeminist resistance has been crucial for Argentina’s recovery from the military dictatorship of 1976-1983. Alicia Partnoy was “disappeared” into one of hundreds of torture centers sardonically called “Little Schools.” After her release and exile to the United States, she published her poetic testimony, The Little School, with Cleis Press in 1986.…[Read more]
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Lena Burgos-Lafuente posted an update in the group
LLC Puerto Rican on MLA Commons 8 years agoWe would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York. The panel will be presided by Judith Sierra Rivera (Penn State U).
Panel # 379 Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton
“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Fer…[Read more]
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Mariana Romo-Carmona posted an update in the group
LLC Puerto Rican on MLA Commons 8 years agoWhat’s the number of your session?
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Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic Puerto Rican Forum Panel: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoWe would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York. The panel will be presided by Judith Sierra Rivera (Penn State U).
Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton
“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Ferrari
“Crossing…[Read more] -
Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic Puerto Rican Forum Panel: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoWe would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York. The panel will be presided by Judith Sierra Rivera (Penn State U).
Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton
“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Ferrari
“Crossing…[Read more] -
Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic Puerto Rican Forum Panel: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoWe would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York. The panel will be presided by Judith Sierra Rivera (Penn State U).
Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton
“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Ferrari
“Crossing…[Read more] -
Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic Puerto Rican Forum Panel: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoWe would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York.
Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton
“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Ferrari
“Crossing Imperial Frontiers: Puerto Ricans in the Dominican Republic, Santiago…[Read more] -
Silvia G. Kurlat-Ares deposited Políticas de lo estético en la ilustración de ciencia ficción. El caso de “Think Blue, Count Two” de Cordwainer Smith in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoDesde el período del Dadá se han ido borrando los límites entre las formas artísticas y sus soportes, entre las estéticas de uso y las estéticas formales, entre los espacios altos y bajos de producción cultural, y también, entre la percepción de centros y periferias que parecen haberse astillado y reproducido a la interioridad de espacios hasta ha…[Read more]
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Call for Articles. Spectral Mexico in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoSpectral Mexico. Ghosts and the Talking Dead in Contemporary Mexican Culture
The persistence of death and its figurative representations is a recognizable commonplace in the visual and narrative discourses of Mexican culture. Underworlds like Mictlan and Xibalba, the Catrina skull, the Santa Muerte, ghosts, dancing skeletons, post-mortem…[Read more]
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Julie Ward posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHi, As I am on the ballot for the Forum Executive Committee, I was invited to introduce myself here in the Commons.
I work on representations of reality in contemporary Latin American cultural production, in particular in Mexican theatre and drama, though I write about South American theatre, including Brazilian, as well.
My goals for the LLC…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2018 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2018, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2018 convention in New York. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Mariela Mendez de Coudriet started the topic CFP Special Dossier on Clarice Lispector in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months ago<h2>CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Edited Volume of Critical Essays on Clarice Lispector</h2>
<h2>Mariela Méndez (University of Richmond) and Anna Katsnelson (Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York) invite proposals for a volume of critical essays on Clarice Lispector’s contributions to the Brazilian press.</h2>
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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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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, 11 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, 11 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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Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic CFP MLA 2018: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCaribbean Space and Bodies at War
Forum: LLC Puerto Rican
Imperial 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). -
Benigno Trigo deposited From Necrotic to Apoptotic Debt in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 9 years 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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