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Alexa Huang deposited Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents: The Dialectic between the Global and the Local in Lao She's Fiction in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoModern Chinese fiction dealing with cultural others can be taken as a lens through which to reread the cosmopolitan theory. At stake in the debate between communitarianism and liberalism are the viability of single cultural membership and its validity. Lao She’s Self-Sacrifice (1934) and Dr. Wen (1936-1937) question the viability of global c…[Read more]
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Susan Slyomovics deposited Algerian Women’s Būqālah Poetry: Oral Literature, Cultural Politics, and Anti-Colonial Resistance in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoBūqālah refers both to a ceramic pitcher as well as to poems ritually embedded in the traditional, favorite, divinatory pastime associated with women city dwellers of specific Algerian towns such as Blida,Cherchell, Tlemcen, Constantine, and Algiers. This essay considers the shift from orality to a written archive of French and Algerian c…[Read more]
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Alexa Huang deposited “What Country, Friends, Is This?”: Touring Shakespeares, Agency, and Efficacy in Theatre Historiography in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoTouring theatre is a place where theatre studies and globalization come into contact. The year of 2012 was a year of global festivities in which Shakespeare’s works played a major part. Through their exemplary power, the intersections of world cultures and Shakespeare provide a set of important issues for repositioning theatre studies in the w…[Read more]
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Alexa Huang deposited Global Shakespeares as Methodology in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHaving reached a critical mass of participants, performances and the study of Shakespeare in different cultural contexts are changing how we think about globalization. The idea of global Shakespeares has caught on because of site-specific imaginations involving early modern and modern Globe theatres that aspired to perform the globe. Seeing global…[Read more]
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Maria Lujan Figueredo started the topic Digital Humanities & Digital Media: Conversations on Politics Culture Aesthetics in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoNew book collection! Announcement via John Cayley and Loss Pequeño Glazier.
Digital Humanities and Digital Media: Conversations on Politics, Culture, Aesthetics and Literacy
edited by Roberto SimanowskiNotice of this book of interviews – published open access and freely downloadable – deserves wide circ…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic LLC Japanese since 1900 panels at MLA 2017! in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoWe are excited to present the following two panels at the next Annual Meeting, and hope to see you there! Sorry for cross postings.
311. “Nature and Disaster in the Contemporary Japanese Cultural Imagination” Friday Jan 6 1:45–3:00 p.m., 406, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding: Karen Thornber, Harvard Univ.
1. “What about Animals? In the Wake of N…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic CFP: Children's Literature Crossing Borders (ACLA 2017) in the discussion
Children’s Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoHi everyone,
Vanessa Joosen and I have proposed a children’s literature-related seminar for the American Comparative Literature Association’s 2017 Annual Meeting, which will be held in Utrecht July 7-9.
Here’s the CFP:
Children’s Literature Crossing Borders
Children’s literature has long been viewed as an agent for international peace. Fr…[Read more]
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Monika Dix started the topic 2017 MLA Panel Announcement in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoPlease note the following panel since it will be of interest to anyone working on East Asia.
“Literature as Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia”, Friday 1/6, 8:30am-9:45am, 204 Marriott
Thanks and hope to see many of you at this panel!
Monika Dix
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Julian Grajewski deposited bringing the war back home (to women) in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoattempt to bring the horrors of the indo-china war to the most intimate part of women, 1967, xuan loc, rvn
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Heidi Bostic deposited The Humanities Must Engage Global Grand Challenges in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoThe humanities must work together with STEM if we are to succeed in articulating relevant, historically informed, and culturally nuanced responses to grand challenges.
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Scott Challener deposited 'Some Reckonings with the Not-Old and with Surprise': Postmodern Ballads of Urban Crisis in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis paper offers a brief consideration of the literary ballad as a register of what by the mid-’60s economists had diagnosed as “urban crisis” and in 1970 John Ashbery called “urban chaos.” I’m particularly interested in how poets used the ballad to see and see into the failures of the “spatio-temporal fix” of urban renewal. My general idea is…[Read more]
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Emily Hegarty started the topic CFP: MLA 2017: Teaching Eco-composition at the Community College in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoSpecial Session (to be proposed)
Teaching first-year writing to community college students through an ecocritical lens: interdisciplinary aspects, nature writing, journaling, environmental research, field trips, service learning, etc. 300-500 word abstracts by 15 March 2016; Emily A. Hegarty (emily.hegarty@ncc.edu). -
Giovanna Montenegro started the topic CFP: MLA 2017: The Colonial Americas:Ecocritical Perspectives in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis panel seeks papers that address the environment in literature and film of the Early Americas through a Hemispheric perspective (South, Central, North, Caribbean). Papers may address the representation of natural catastrophes and theories on climatology, the representation of endemic vs. invasive species in fiction and travel narratives,…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse started the topic Petition for Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease support efforts to establish a Forum for Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Literatures, Languages, and Cultures by signing the petition.
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic MLA Teaching Volume on Karen Tei Yamashita: Survey and CFP in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease tell us about your experience (use this link) teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey. Deadline: June 1, 2016.
Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for an MLA 2017…[Read more]
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Angel M. Diaz Miranda started the topic CFP MLA 2017 Unbounded: David Huerta's Incurable at 30 in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoUnbounded: David Huerta’s Incurable at 30
Special Session
Incurable (1987) shatters the boundaries of form. Papers on readership, intertextuality, illness, poetic connections, and fragmentation are especially welcomed. 200-word abstract and very short bio. by 10 March 2016; Angel M. Diaz Miranda (diazam@hollins.edu).
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Monika Dix replied to the topic CFP: Literature as Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
The 2017 Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Conference will take place January 5-8, 2017 in Philadelphia.
Please see the cfp below.
Literature as Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia
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Forum: LLC East Asian
How does literature negotiate boundaries, cultural awareness, or individual self-definition in…[Read more] -
Charlotte Eubanks started the topic CFP Sounding the Sinosphere in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months ago<u>Sounding the Premodern Sinosphere</u>
How should we understand the aural dimensions of composing, performing, and appreciating Literary Sinitic texts in pre-modern East Asia? 250-300 word abstracts to Matthew Fraleigh (fraleigh@brandeis.edu) by 1 March 2016.
Longer abstract:
Several new forums of particular interest to scholars working in…[Read more]
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Monika Dix started the topic CFP: Literature as Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoThe cfp for my panel “The Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia” is posted on the MLA website. I look forward to receiving your submisisons.
Monika Dix
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen deposited Midhumanism in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agocontribution to roundtable on “Becoming Human” co-sponsored by the Middle English and Chaucer forums
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