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David C. Lloyd started the topic Jeff Sacks responds to Anthony Appiah in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis open letter by Jeff Sacks, in response to Anthony Apia’s recent blog on the Commons, appeared in the online journal Jadaliyya: http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/25811/an-open-letter-to-kwame-anthony-appiah-president-o
Sacks writes:
With all of the talk about academic freedom, what is this “freedom” that we are talking about, if it i…[Read more]
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Raphael Dalleo started the topic MLA 2017 Panel: Caribbean Specters in 1920s Harlem in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis panel, about the presence of the Caribbean in the Harlem Renaissance, takes place on Sunday, January 8th at noon in the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 112A.
Vanessa K. Valdés, Imani Owens James C. Davis, and Raphael Dalleo will be part of the panel, presenting on Arturo Schomburg, Eulalie Spence, Nella Larsen, and Eric Walrond.
More…[Read more]
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Peter Leman started the topic CFP UPDATE: "Law and Literature from the Global South"–DEADLINE EXTENDED in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoCall for Papers – DEADLINE EXTENDED (January 15, 2017)
The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies
Spring 2018 Special Issue: Law and Literature from the Global South
Guest Editors: David Babcock (James Madison University) and Peter Leman (Brigham Young University)
Deadline for Submissions (approximately 4,000-5,000 words): DE…[Read more]
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Subramanian Shankar started the topic Report on Academic Freedom and Higher Education in Palestine in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoLA members, and in particular members of this forum who will be attending this year’s MLA 2017 assembly meeting in Philadelphia may already know that there are a number of resolutions to be considered that address the question of boycotting Israeli academic institutions. The Resolution to endorse the Palestinian call for the boycott of Israeli in…[Read more]
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Subramanian Shankar started the topic Report on Academic Freedom and Higher Education in Palestine in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoMLA members, and in particular members of this forum who will be attending this year’s MLA 2017 assembly meeting in Philadelphia may already know that there are a number of resolutions to be considered that address the question of boycotting Israeli academic institutions. The Resolution to endorse the Palestinian call for the boycott of Is…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Law and the Humanities Forum Panels at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe Law and the Humanities Forum is delighted to be sponsoring three panels at MLA next month. We hope that you can join us for these sessions:
Session 67. “Object Lessons in Personhood”
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities
Presiding: Kevin Curr…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Law and the Humanities Forum Panels at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe Law and the Humanities Forum is delighted to be sponsoring three panels at MLA next month. We hope that you can join us for these sessions:
Session 67. “Object Lessons in Personhood”
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities
Presiding: Kevin Curr…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Law and the Humanities Forum Panels at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe Law and the Humanities Forum is delighted to be sponsoring three panels at MLA next month. We hope that you can join us for these sessions:
Session 67. “Object Lessons in Personhood”
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities
Presiding: Kevin Curr…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited The Man That Was a Thing: Reconsidering Human Commodification in Slavery in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis essay examines a longstanding normative assumption in the historiography of slavery in the Atlantic world: that enslaved Africans and their American-born descendants were bought and sold as “commodities,” thereby “dehumanizing” them and treating them as things rather than as persons. Such claims have, indeed, helped historians concept…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde deposited Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2016 in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoIntroduction – excerpt from book published by Columbia University Press.
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James Gifford deposited Hellenism/Modernism: Negotiating Modernisms and the Philhellene in Greece in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoPhilhellenism in modernist literature is familiar. I examine Lawrence Durrell’s works, locating him between Eliot’s Classicism (perhaps the hegemonic Modernism) and the Greek authors who responded to Eliot. Through his ties to Greek Modernists and Parisian Surrealists, Durrell contributed to the Anglo-American tradition in a mode that reflects the…[Read more]
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David Palumbo-Liu deposited Open Letter to MLA Members: Why Think About Palestine Now? in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoAn argument for more, not less, attention to issues of Palestine, and beyond.
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Isabelle Hesse started the topic CFP – Palestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017 in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPalestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017
24<sup>th</sup> February 2017
John Woolley Common Room, Level 4, John Woolley Building
The University of Sydney, Australia
Organised by
Dr Isabelle Hesse, The Department of English, The University of Sydney
Dr Ben Etherington, The Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney…[Read more]
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Isabel Carrera Suárez uploaded the file: cfp Performing the Urban to
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for EACLALS triennial conference in Oviedo, Spain. 3-7 April 2017.
Deadline 15 November 2106 -
Isabel Carrera Suárez uploaded the file: cfp Performing the Urban to
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for EACLALS triennial conference in Oviedo, Spain. April 2017
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Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Election of a New Forum Delegate–Call for Suggestions in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe election of a new Delegate Assembly representative for this forum is scheduled for the fall of 2017; the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to n…[Read more]
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Patrick Herald deposited "The Black", space, and sexuality: Examining resistance in Selvon's The Lonely Londoners (forthcoming in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature) in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis article argues that theoretical notions of resistance and agency prove inadequate for considering the complexities of the treatment of Sam Selvon’s Trinidadian characters. Indeed, to proceed from a binary logic of resistance and oppression carries the danger of universalizing those seen as oppressed, and smoothing over important c…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited “Genres of Identification: Holocaust Testimony and Postcolonial Witness,” in _Marking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age_, edited by Amos Goldberg and Haim Hazan, 171 – 192. Berghahn Books: New York and Oxford. in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis chapter explores the strange intimacies of dis/avowal that obtain between Holocaust studies and postcolonial theory, with particular reference to writing by Aimé Césaire and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. For all that the Jewish body remains, by and large, unmourned in the canonical texts of postcolonial theory, the Holocaust has, I seek to a…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of "a land without a people": Mahmoud Darwishs Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced […] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land witho…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Gentili, the Poets, and the Laws of War in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis chapter illuminates a different sense in which Gentili’s work was influenced by humanist sensibilities. Differentiating between legal humanism (the mos Gallicus) on one hand and rhetorical humanism on the other, it argues that Gentili did not subscribe to the rigid historical approach to legal sources as practised by the French humanist…[Read more]
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