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Melek Ortabasi posted an update in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoAnnouncement on behalf of Dr. Ute Dettmar:
The inaugural issue of the new Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (Yearbook of the German Children’s Literature Research Society (GKJF)) is now online, It succeeds the print annual journal Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (1995-2015) in a fundamentally revised form. As…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Review of The Taming of the Shrew.” Shakespeare Bulletin 35.4 (2017): 700-703 in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoCan we entertain the idea that The Taming of the Shrew can be performed and received as comedy in the post-Women’s March US? If so, would the laughter be empathetic and solidary rather than callous? The answer lies in physical theater which is uniquely poised to activate elements of farce in the play. Shrew is one of the Shakespearean comedies t…[Read more]
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Ivonne Garcia started the topic Nathaniel Hawthorne Society CFPs for ALA 2018 in San Francisco in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month ago1) Bullying, Slut-Shaming, and Stalking: Hawthorne’s Fictional Anticipations of Twenty-first Century Psychopathologies
We invite proposals for papers investigating Hawthorne’s depictions of pathologies that have become endemic this century. A focus on pedagogical applications is particularly welcome. Abstracts of 250 words to Ivonne García at g…[Read more]
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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
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA 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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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Libraries and Publisher Price Control: The Net Price System (1901–1914) and Contemporary E-book Pricing in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis article explores how librarians have responded to publishers’ control
over book prices in two different, yet related, historical periods. It historicizes the net price
system, a book-price control system in the early twentieth century, within debates by librarians
about library book buying and price negotiation practices. Turning to s…[Read more] -
Hania Nashef deposited HOMO SACER DWELLS IN SARAMAGO’S LAND OF EXCEPTION in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoGiorgio Agamben defines the sacred man or Homo Sacer as one who is not worthy of sacrifice. Having lost all rights, the person is reduced to the non-human. In modern times, banishment or banning by the law occurs when a state of exception is sanctioned by a totalitarian supremacy that suspends judicial power. The state of exception does not lie…[Read more]
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Jan Christopher Susina posted an update in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoInformation on the Business Meeting of the Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum at 2018 MLA Conference
The meeting will be held Friday, January 5, from 1:45 to 3 pm in Madison 4 at the Sheraton New York Times Square.
The open meeting will begin shortly after Session 298 is completed. The assigned room for the business meeting is snug, but…[Read more]
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Jan Christopher Susina posted an update in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoChildren’s and Young Adult Literature Sessions at the 2018 MLA Conference
18: Calling Dumbledore’s Army: Activist Children’s Literature
Thursday, January 04, 2018, 12:00 PM – 01:15 PM. Hilton: Clinton
PresiderPhilip Nel, Kansas State U
PresentationsAgents of Change: Pupils, Parents, and Publishers Moving toward Enlightenment in Denma…[Read more]
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Amanda M. Smith started the topic Chiricú Journal – Latinx Literature & Politics Issue – Extended Deadline: Dec 15 in the discussion
Children’s Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoChiricú Journal announces a deadline extension for submissions for our upcoming issue on Latinx literature and politics. Submissions by December 15 to chiricu.indiana.edu For questions, contact chiricu@indiana.edu
Chiricú Journal is a new, cutting-edge, peer-reviewed journal in Latinx studies launched by the Indiana University Press in Fall 201…[Read more] -
Caren Irr deposited Toward the World Novel: Genre Shifts in Twenty-First-Century Expatriate Fiction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoPresents an analysis of the emergence of new genres of international–especially expatriate–fiction in 21st-century US letters.
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Kanika Batra deposited Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme’s The Reign of Wazobia in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoNigerian authors have consistently and effectively critiqued insidious connections between
masculinity, political power, religious fundamentalism, and capitalist interests. The unstable
political structures in Nigeria since the 1970s have led to such critiques. This essay deploys the
idea of polygamy in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the S…[Read more] -
Judy Bertonazzi deposited Migratory Dialectics and Border Semiosis in Ana Castillo’s Chicana Novel So Far from God in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoMy paper argues for a shift in our theoretical focus on time in narrative dialectics and a post-Barthesian semiotic model for critical interpretations of Latino/a/x border narratives. Currently, we know that border narratives reveal the underlying patterns of literary communicative acts of difference (i.e., oral and literary ambiguity, high…[Read more]
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited Caridad’s Choice for Transformation: Jumping off a Mesa Cliff in Ana Castillo’s Novel So Far from God in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAs part of my research, I argue that one important way the definition of a feminist borderland develops in these narratives is from a female character’s knowledge of and interpretation of her physical presence within the borderlands. By applying Linda Martín Alcoff’s theories of gender “positionality” and “self-embodiment” from her text Visible…[Read more]
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited Fleur Pillager, Midewewinini: Food as the Source of Female Power in Louise Erdrich’s Novel Tracks in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoFrom the original paper presentation: In this paper I discuss the figurative language used in Louise Erdrich’s novel Tracks with a particular focus on the figures and symbols associated with food and food practices. This paper performs a textual analysis of figurative language and symbols and the themes of food and food practices to reveal the…[Read more]
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited The Critical and the Creative: A Feminist Praxis for Borderland Narratives of the U.S./North America(s) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoFrom the original abstract file: This paper presentation examines the hermeneutic and epistemological impacts of developing a feminist praxis for researching borderland narratives in the northern Americas. Borderlands in the northern Americas will be discussed as lands that border two countries (one of which is the U.S.), islands that border…[Read more]
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited The Subaltern and Familial Ghosts: Impossible Representations in The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Beloved in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis paper discusses the relationships made between ghost figures and their living relatives within Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Toni Morrison’s Beloved. In this paper I argue that a specific female identity and agency is represented in these texts through figurative language and symbolization of…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear members of the Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American group:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning…[Read more] -
Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear Members of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, for your consideration:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Close Reading with Computers: Genre Signals, Parts of Speech, and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDavid Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas (2004) contains six different generic registers. This article is the first to explore computationally the linguistic mechanisms that create these genre effects. Authorship attribution techniques incorrectly cluster the chapters of Cloud Atlas as distinct ‘authors’ using anything above the nineteen most-common words…[Read more]
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