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Pamela Thoma replied to the topic MLA 2017 Sessions arranged by the Forum in LLC Asian American in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThanks so much for posting these, Crystal! What a great group of sessions. Looking forward to later today and to the other panels later in the convention!
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Crystal Parikh started the topic MLA 2017 Sessions arranged by the Forum in LLC Asian American in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoIf you’re attending the 2017 MLA convention, please check out the following sessions arranged by the Forum in LLC Asian American:
Boundary Conditions and Complexities in Teaching the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita
Thursday, 5 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 110A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Program arranged by the forum LLC Asian A…[Read more]
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu deposited “Mapping Los Angeles: Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange, GIS, and Cartographic Pedagogy” in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoDigital technology in teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu deposited “Memory as Lucid Dreams: Experimenting with Yamashita’s I Hotel in Shanghai, China” in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoOn the teaching of Karen Tei Yamashita’s I Hotel in the People’s Republic of China
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu deposited “The Multiple Racial Subjects of Japanese Immigrants: Brazil-Maru and Diversity Training in Japan” in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoOn the teaching of Karen Tei Yamahita’s Brazil-Maru
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Crystal Parikh started the topic The MLA and the boycott of Israeli academic institutions in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago<div>In April, 2013, the Association for Asian American Studies became the first academic organization within the US to pass a resolution calling for the academic boycott of Israel for its systematic and wholesale violation of the rights of Palestinians in all areas of life, including education. In December 2013, the American Studies Association…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg replied to the topic Kafka as "the Modern Man" = = "K." in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoFrom Walter Sokel’s famous Kafka Study – Fr. K. Tragik & Ironie:
“If Kafka’s writings have a prophetic ring to them, so it is because he made the split {Spaltung} of contemporary human consciousness into two conflicting aspects, namely the decent, respectable façade that we all are quite comfortable displaying and, on the other hand, the ho…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic REMINDER: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (12/1/16) in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe deadline for abstracts looms!
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechdel, offer…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis forum will need to elect a new Delegate Assembly representative in the fall of 2017, and 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. The executive committee is responsible for making nominations, but it is required to nominate at l…[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
CLCS Global Jewish 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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Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Jewish Cultural Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSeeking Membership Suggestions
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017, and 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 mak…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: A Statistical Method for Reconstructing Large Historical Social Networks in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn this paper we present a statistical method for inferring historical social networks from biographical documents as well as the scholarly aims for doing so. Existing scholarship on historical social networks is scattered across an unmanageable number of disparate books and articles. A researcher interested in how persons were connected to one…[Read more]
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