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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic Postgrowth Imaginaries (Liverpool University Press, 2018) Available Open Access in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoPostgrowth Imaginaries (Liverpool University Press, 2018). This book demonstrates that a postgrowth imaginary is emerging on the Iberian Peninsula today and offers several ways of reading its cultural implications from a degrowth-inspired environmental humanities perspective. The complex interrelations among cultural practices, economic paradigms,…[Read more]
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Mariela Mendez deposited “De crepusculares y garotas modernas: Las columnas travestidas de Alfonsina Storni y Clarice Lispector” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHinging on the concept of transvestism, this article traces a trajectory that goes from Alfonsina Storni’s re-appropriation of the women’s page in the guise of a male persona, through Alejo Carpentier’s contributions to a fashion column disguised as Jacqueline, to Clarice Lispector’s unsettling use of the page addressed specifically to women i…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch replied to the topic CFP: Medical Humanism / American Literature in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoCorrection: Submit 250- to 500-word abstracts and a CV, by January 5, 2019, to Tana Jean Welch, Florida State University College of Medicine, at tana.welch@med.fsu.edu
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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi deposited The Look of Medieval Ethnography: William of Rubruck’s Mission to Mongolia in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoReads William of Rubruck’s mission to Asia as an instance of premodern ethnographic representation and the shape of the precolonial European ethnographic gaze upon Asia.
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Phillip Usher started the topic French Natures featuring Bruno Latour's "Inside" at NYU, October 26-27 in the discussion
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FRENCH NATURES featuring BRUNO LATOUR’s conference-spectacle “INSIDE”
October 26-27, 2018, New York UniversityA two-day conference-festival about how literature, film, visual art, theater, and philosophy mediate our relationship to the planet in our times of environmental catas…[Read more]
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Patricia Akhimie deposited “Bruised with Adversity”: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months ago“‘Bruised with Adversity’: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors” examines the role of the body, and of the somatic mark in particular, in the social production of both individual subjects and racial groups. In The Comedy of Errors, two sets of twins experience the benefits as well as the pitfalls of mistaken identity, revealing the ease with which…[Read more]
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Ida Yoshinaga started the topic CFP International Fantastic Division for ICFA #40 (proposals due 10/31) in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoInternational Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts #40
March 2019
Orlando, Florida
CFP Deadline 10/31/18
Please join us on <u>March 13-16, 2019</u>, for the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA) #40 in its theme of “Politics and Conflicts.” We welcome ideas for papers and panels on science fiction, fantasy, fair…[Read more]
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Tom White deposited Written in Trees in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoSeminar paper for ‘Translating the Nonhuman’, organised by Liam Lewis (University of Warwick) and Haylie Swenson (The George Washington University)
Seminar Abstract — This seminar invites participants to consider the connections created by translations of the nonhuman into human languages. To what extent is language the domain of the human,…[Read more]
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Charlie Gleek deposited Writing History: 19th Century African American Activism in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoOur work in this course will center around two questions. First, what were the material and social conditions for Black men, women, and children living in the territory that would become the United States, from roughly 1750 until on or about 1860? While slavery is likely the first concept that comes to mind, additional concepts such as racism,…[Read more]
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Currently Accepting Submissions: Spectral Mexico in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThe peer reviewed journal iMex. Interdisciplinary Mexico, ISSN 2193-9756 is currently accepting original, unpublished articles on the subjects of haunting and spectrality in contemporary Mexican cultures for its special issue Spectral Mexico. Original call for papers available here:…[Read more]
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Charlotte Rogers started the topic CFP: “Current and Future Ecocriticisms of the Americas” for ASLE 2019 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoWhat is the current state of hemispheric American ecocritical studies? Where is the discipline headed? The newly formed Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment interest group “Ecocriticism of the Americas” offers a jam session to address these questions at the biannual conference in Davis, CA from June 26-29, 2019. Panel…[Read more]
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Ben Click started the topic CFP: Mark Twain and the Natural World in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoSPECIAL ISSUE: Mark Twain and the Natural World
The Mark Twain Annual is seeking article-length submissions that examine aspects of Twain’s work that comment on the relation between human beings and the natural world. This broad scope allows for critical examinations of Twain’s writing about the natural world in any number of ways: as nat…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty deposited “Don’t Write About September 11th”: Meta-poetic Elements in Post-9/11 American Poetry in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThis article focuses on three post-9/11 meta-poems – “My Wife Says Don’t Write About September 11th” by Ryan G. Van Cleave, “How to Write A Poem After September 11th” by Nikki Moustaki and “To the Words” by W. S. Merwin – to demonstrate the point that the current scholarly understanding of post-9/11 aesthetics as something functioning like…[Read more]
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Lisa L. Tyler deposited “Modernist Jane: Austen’s Reception by Writers of the Twenties and Thirties” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoDespite their commitment to Ezra Pound’s commandment to “make it new!:” modernist authors like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Katherine Mansfield, Edith Wharton, and Thornton Wilder referred to Jane Austen surprisingly often in their public and private writings. Although they excoriated her sexual inexperience and limited…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: American Ecogothic, NeMLA 2019 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis panel on the American ecogothic will take place at the 50th annual NeMLA conference (March 21-24, 2019 in Washington, DC).
Leslie Fiedler describes American fiction as “bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction… a literature of darkness and the grotesque in a land of light and affirmation” (Love and Death in the American Novel…[Read more]
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic CfP: International Conference: Migration Studies, Transnational Literature in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoCFP: Forms of Migration: An International Conference on Transnational Literature & Innovative Aesthetics
May 2—4, 2019: University of Graz (Graz, Austria)
The Department of American Studies and the Centre for Intermediality Studies at the University of Graz (Graz, Austria), in conjunction with the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), announces a call f…[Read more]
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Charles Gleek deposited Review of Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South by Talitha LeFlouria. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015. in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoTalitha LeFlouria’s Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South ambitiously takes on the task of highlighting the roles that black women played in the modernization of the Georgian economy and culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; roles that were products of material and ideological circumstances as well as a…[Read more]
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Marissa K. López deposited The Political Economy of Early Chicano Historiography: The Case of Hubert H. Bancroft and Mariano G. Vallejo in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis article compares the historiographic methods of two 19th century, California historians.. Mariano Vallejo, former Mexican military commander of Alta California, wrote his Recuerdos at the request of San Francisco-based, Anglo-American historian Hubert H. Bancroft. In his own memoir, Literary Industries (1915), Bancroft describes his…[Read more]
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