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Minni Sawhney deposited Friendship and Politics in the works of Cervantes and Lope de Vega in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThe convivencia between the followers of the different religions of the Mediterranean persisted despite the fraught politics of Christianity and Islam. Despite the long arm of the Inquisition the protagonists in the plays of Cervantes and Lope struggle to maintain fraternal ties.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Cervantes’ cosmopolitan El gallardo español during an earlier clash of civilisations. in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoDespite being an army officer Don Fernando is drawn towards the Muslim Princess Arlaxa. He defies army convention to meet her much to the chagrin of fellow Spanish soldiers in the presidio where they are stationed.
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Minni Sawhney deposited The Agency of Muslim Women in the Narrative of Cervantes in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoDespite prevailing stereotypes, the Muslim women in Cervantes’ captivity plays are forthright, ambitious and endowed with considerable agency. Though there is no evidence that Cervantes had read Erasmus, yet his portrayal of women shows them as standing their ground during adversity.
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Minni Sawhney deposited “La frontera hispano-musulmana en El Hamete de Toledo y El cordobés valeroso Pedro Carbonero de Lope de Vega” in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoEl reflejo del islam en dos obras de Lope de Vega.
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Minni Sawhney deposited La evolución de la sensibilidad islámica en el teatro de Cervantes in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoPortrayal of Muslims in Cervantes drama
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Minni Sawhney deposited Fantasy and the Honour Code: Lope’s “La viuda valenciana and “El cordobés valeroso Pedro Carbonero in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoPortrayal of Otherness in Lope’s dramas
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Minni Sawhney deposited Distintos enfoques para enseñar el teatro calderoniano en la India. in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoIn this work I show how the writings of Spanish historians such as José Antonio Maravall, Américo Castro y Dominguez Ortiz have been useful in the teaching of Calderon’s drama in India.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Distintos enfoques para enseñar el teatro calderoniano en la India. in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoIn this work I show how the writings of Spanish historians such as José Antonio Maravall, Américo Castro y Dominguez Ortiz have been useful in the teaching of Calderon’s drama in India.
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Noemi Martin Santo deposited “Vive el Sol, / si Dios le debo llamar”. La conversión de un príncipe en Los mártires del Japón de Lope de Vega in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoThis article examines the conversion to Christianity of the prince Tayco in the comedia de santos Los mártires del Japón by Lope de Vega and the creation of the Dominican missionary Alonso de Navarrete as a dramatic character. Lope portraits Tayco as a young prince who has to learn how to become a king, having Navarrete as a role model. Lope c…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Sepharadim/conversos and premodern Global Hispanism in the group
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoSepharadim participated in the Hispanic vernacular culture of the Iberian Peninsula. Even in the time of al-Andalus many spoke Hispano-Romance, and even their Hebrew literature belies a deep familiarity with and love of their native Hispano-Romance languages. However, since the early sixteenth century the vast majority of Sepharadim have never…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Sepharadim/conversos and premodern Global Hispanism in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoSepharadim participated in the Hispanic vernacular culture of the Iberian Peninsula. Even in the time of al-Andalus many spoke Hispano-Romance, and even their Hebrew literature belies a deep familiarity with and love of their native Hispano-Romance languages. However, since the early sixteenth century the vast majority of Sepharadim have never…[Read more]
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Bethany Beyer replied to the topic CFP MLA 2020 LLC Sephardic Cultural Expressions Panel in the discussion
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoHere are the abstracts for the 2020 LLC Sephardic Studies Panel:
Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard
Spanish Jew or Hispanist? Abraham Z. López-Penha and the Negotiation of Columbian, Pan-Hispanic, and Sephardic Identity
Abstract: This paper explores the negotiation of Sephardic, Columbian, and Hispanic identity in the poetry and correspondence of…[Read more]
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Bethany Beyer started the topic CFP MLA 2020 LLC Sephardic Cultural Expressions Panel in the discussion
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoSephardic Cultural Expressions in the Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking Americas
This panel seeks to explore expressions of Sephardic culture in the Americas in Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking nations. Papers could examine cultural products from fields including literature, performance, music, visual art, or language. Submission deadline: Friday,…[Read more]
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Thomas Robert Ward deposited The Formation of Latin American Nations in the group
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis book brings the pre-Columbian and colonial history of Latin America home: rather than starting out in Spain and following Columbus and the conquistadores as they “discover” New World peoples, The Formation of Latin American Nations begins with the Mesoamerican and South American nations as they were before the advent of European col…[Read more]
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Noelia Sol Cirnigliaro started the topic 2 additional Panels on Why Theater Matters and Performing Childhood @ Seattle in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoAnd another reminder: there is still time to submit abstracts for these two panel @ Seattle [Send us your 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2019 to Noelia.Cirnigliaro@dartmouth.edu]. Panel on childhood is Co-sponsored by GEMELA.
Why Theater Matters: Then and Now
Theater clearly mattered in early modern times as evidenced by the…[Read more]
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Noelia Sol Cirnigliaro started the topic Panel on Comedia, Disability, Disease @ Seattle in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoJust a reminder: there is still time to submit abstracts for this panel @ Seattle [Send us your 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2019 to Noelia.Cirnigliaro@dartmouth.edu]
Building on work in the history of medicine and disability studies, this panel will engage with the following questions: How was disease construed and negotiated in early…[Read more]
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Elvira L. Vilches started the topic CFP MLA 2020JOINT SESSION– COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA FORUM AND GLOBAL HISPANOPHON in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoThe Global Hispanophone Forum and the Colonial Latin American Forum seek proposals for a multidisciplinary panel with the title “Overlapping Colonialisms”in which panelists will have the opportunity to make brief presentations of their research projects on the conflicts and gaps created in territories, past and present, where one colonial pow…[Read more]
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Galen Brokaw started the topic Call for proposals 2020 MLA panel on Colonial Translation in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoThe Latin American Colonial Forum invites proposals for a panel on colonial translation for the 2020 MLA convention. This panel seeks to explore the effects of translation in the relationship between Europeans and indigenous Americans. Beyond the issue of mere accuracy in translation, what kind of effects does translation produce? For example, to…[Read more]
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Galen Brokaw started the topic Call for proposals 2020 MLA panel on Colonial Translation in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoThe Latin American Colonial Forum invites proposals for a panel on colonial translation. This panel seeks to explore the ways in which translation shaped the relationship between Europeans and indigenous Americans. Beyond the issue of mere accuracy in translation, what kind of effects does translation produce? For example, to what extent does…[Read more]
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Jesús R. Velasco deposited The Invention of Invention in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoAlfonso de Toledo (15th century) was, indeed, a curious guy. But he was doing something with his curiosity. He was researching and translating. He was focusing on particular themes and institutions, and giving a legal and juridical reading of them –he, as he confesses, has very little theology to forget, so even theological inventions are, for h…[Read more]
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