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Rebecca Kennison deposited The Central Mystery: Conversion Experiences in Selected Works of Flannery O’Connor in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoAlthough Flannery O’Connor’s fiction has been subjected to criticism of all types and although she is known for her interest in religious matters, no one prior to this has done an in-depth study on the presentation of conversion in her fiction. With William James’ The Varieties of Religious Experience as a basis for both definition and struc…[Read more]
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Subarno Chattarji deposited ‘‘The New Americans’’ : The Creation of a Typology of Vietnamese-American Identity in Children’s Literature in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThe influx of Vietnamese refugees, ‘‘boat people,’’ and immigrants into the United States after April 1975 has led to the establishment of a significant Vietnamese-American community. There is a body of literature written for children and young adults that creates and delineates this new community within the topography of a welcoming and immigra…[Read more]
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Yomaira Figueroa deposited Faithful Witnessing as Practice: Decolonial Readings of Shadows of Your Black Memory and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers Marıa Lugones’s concept of faithful witnessing as a point of departure to think about the ethics and possibilities of faithful witnessing in literary contexts. For Lugones, faithful witnessing is an act of aligning oneself with oppressed peoples against the grain of power and recognizing their humanity, oppression, and re…[Read more]
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Petar Penda deposited Cultural and Textual (Dis)Unity: Poetics of Nothingness in The Waste Land in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agon his theoretical writings, as well as in the subtext of The Waste Land, Eliot expresses the idea of the organic nature of culture and its unity despite its regional diversity. This unity is represented by some formal features of The Waste Land, such as its rhythm and structure. However, cultural unity, at times also represented by the textual, is…[Read more]
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Victor Goldgel-Carballo deposited The Reappropriation of Poverty and the Art of “Making Do” in Contemporary Argentine Cultural Productions in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThrough an analysis of two post-crisis films (Estrellas, Federico León
and Marcos Martínez, 2007; El nexo, Sebastián Antico, 2005) shot in
the largest slum in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this essay sketches the
terms for conceptualizing a cultural dimension of the Global South
marked by the aesthetic reappropriation of poverty. Working ag…[Read more] -
Marissa K. Lopez deposited Chicano Vibrations in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article reads the smuggling of Aztec artifacts described in Lucha Corpi’s novel Black Widow’s Wardrobe in the context of new materialist philosophies of becoming.
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Marissa K. Lopez deposited Chicano Vibrations in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article reads the smuggling of Aztec artifacts described in Lucha Corpi’s novel Black Widow’s Wardrobe in the context of new materialist philosophies of becoming.
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Yolanda M. Martinez-San Miguel started the topic Postdoc in Caribbean Studies at Rutgers in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoPostdoctoral Fellowship in Critical Caribbean Studies 2016-2017
Critical Caribbean Studies at Rutgers, in collaboration with the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, is pleased to announce a one-year competitive postdoctoral fellowship for a humanities or social science scholar pursuing research in Caribbean Studies. Scholars…[Read more]
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic CFP–Iberian, Latin American, and Lusophone African Transatlantic Ecocriticism in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoSpecial Issue on Transatlantic Ecocriticism.
Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment
http://www.ecozona.eu/index.php/journal/announcement/view/29
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Susan Signe Morrison replied to the topic MLA 2016 Happy Hour in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoCan’t wait to see folks there!
Cheers, Susan Morrison
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen started the topic MLA 2016 Happy Hour in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoIf you are attending the MLA convention in Austin, TX please join us at Container Bar (made of recycled shipping containers!) for a happy hour on Thursday January 7 beginning at 8 PM. The gathering is co-sponsored by ASLE and the MLA Ecocriticism and Environmental Forum. All are welcome!
The Container Bar is located at 90 Rainey St, Austin, T…[Read more]
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Penelope M. Kelsey started the topic Ethnic Studies Division Panels, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe following are panels sponsored by the Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature Division at MLA 2016:
113, Social Death and Citizenship, is scheduled to take place at 3:30+4:45 p.m. on 07-JAN-16 in 7, ACC.
568, Archival Legibility and Invisibility, is scheduled to take place at 12:00 noon+1:15 p.m. on 09-JAN-16 in 311, JW Marriott.
618,…[Read more]
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Jennifer Cazenave started the topic CFP: ACLA 2016 – Writing the Disaster in the Era of the Anthropocene in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCFP: ACLA 2016 – Writing the Disaster in the Era of the Anthropocene
http://www.acla.org/seminar/writing-disaster-era-anthropocene
Location: Harvard University
Date: March 17-20, 2016
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 23rd, 2015 (http://www.acla.org/node/add/paper)
Organizers: Jennifer Cazenave and Alla Ivanchikova, Hobart and William Smith…[Read more] -
Nicole Seymour started the topic Masculinity and Environment in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoDear All:
I’m co-organizing a February 2016 workshop titled “Men and Nature: Gender, Power, and Environmental Change” at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, Germany. Our CfP deadline is tomorrow, but if you have interest and need more time, please contact me at nseymour@fullerton.edu. See our CfP at:…[Read more]
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Penelope M. Kelsey started the topic 568. Archival Legibility and Invisibility Selected for Presidential Theme in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature Division Panel 568 on Archival Legibility and Invisibility has been selected for inclusion in this year’s Presidential theme, Literature and Its Publics: Past, Present, and Future.”
Saturday, 9 January, 2016
568. Archival Legibility and Invisibility
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m.
Program arranged by the Fo…[Read more]
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Penelope M. Kelsey started the topic MLA 2016: 113. Social Death and Citizenship in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThursday, 7 January 2016
113. Social Death and Citizenship
3:30–4:45 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
Presiding: Stephen P. Knadler, Spelman Coll.; Amritjit Singh, Ohio Univ., Athens
1. “Declaration of Independence: Origin of American Social Death in Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Sally Hemings,” Michael Lackey, Uni…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: Unsettling the Gendered West, C19 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCFP: Unsettling the Gendered West
<div>C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists</div>
<div>March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University</div>
<div>http://c19conference.org
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and u…[Read more] -
Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Laura J. Beard started the topic Deadline extended CFP Special Issue of a/b in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCall for papers:
Special Issue of Indigenous Autobiographical Works in the Americas
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies http://www.tandfonline.com/raut
NEW DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
Diana Taylor has referred to a shared hemispheric reality of “tangled systems of expression, representation, and economic and power relat…[Read more]
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