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Joseph R. Millichap deposited James Agee, Frances Wickes, and The Morning Watch as Shadowy Autobiography in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoJames Agee’s complicated life and complex work have elicited varied critical responses, but none thus far by way of the writer’s intriguing relationship with his sometime analyst Frances Wickes. I believe Agee’s autobiographical writings prove both intertextual with and influenced by Wickes’s work, especially in regard to her novel and to The Mor…[Read more]
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Elisa Kriza deposited Helena. La soledad en el laberinto. Epistolario de Helena Laura Paz Garro y Ernst Jünger, por: Elsa Margarita Schwarz Gasque y María del Carmen Vázquez Martínez, ISBN: 9786078706433, Ediciones del Lirio, 2020. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis is a book review that evaluates the Spanish-language edition of the letters written by the Mexican poet Helena Paz Garro to the German writer Ernst Jünger, which were originally written in French. The reviewer had access to the original letters in the German Literature Archive in Germany and she compares the original texts with the…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited Afghanistan’s “Bacha Posh”: Gender-Crossing in Nadia Hashimi’s The Pearl That Broke Its Shell in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoThis article explores the tradition of Bacha Posh in Afghan culture as depicted in Afghan-American Nadia Hashimiʼs debut novel The Pearl that Broke its Shell (2014). In this novel, Hashimi shows how Afghan girls are obliged to cross-dress and live dual lives as boys for several years to lay claim for their rights to education and freedom of…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited “‘You cannot assimilate Indian ghosts’ : a magical realist reading of Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoIn The Night Watchman (2020), Louise Erdrich continues to blur the lines between history and fiction as she has done in several of her novels. Erdrich introduces the reader to several magical elements that appear to be entirely real: two ghosts, a dog that talks, and an unearthly powwow with Jesus as one of the dancers. The main objective of this…[Read more]
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Debra Ann Castillo started the topic Invitation to apply, editorship Latin American Literary Review in the discussion
LLC Mexican on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoCall for applications to edit the Latin American Literary Review
Applications are invited for the position of editor(s)-in-chief of the Latin American Literary Review (LALR), a well-established literary journal with a fifty-year history of excellence in publishing original scholarship, key translations, and important creative work. LALR publishes…[Read more]
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Minni Sawhney deposited Surmounting Borders, The Corridos of Jenni Rivera in the group
LLC Mexican on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoRanchera music on the U.S. Mexican Border
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Patrick Chura started the topic Call for Essays on African American Literature and Culture in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoThe non-profit digital scholarly database The Literary Encyclopedia was founded in 1998 to provide a scholarly online resource for university-level teaching and research. We are in the process of expanding our offerings in the field of African American Literature and Culture.
We’re interested in commissioning reference articles (2,000-…[Read more]
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Aldon Lynn Nielsen deposited Of Dr. Shelby Steele and Others in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoA sharply critical response to Shelby Steele’s first book, The Content of Our Character.
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Ted Laros started the topic CFP for MLA 2023: World Literature from the Global South and Human Rights in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years agoWorld Literature from the Global South and Human Rights
In light of recent studies on the topic (e.g. Parikh 2019, McClennen and Moore 2016), this panel explores the relations between world literature from the Global South and human rights. 250-500 word abstracts plus CV.Deadline for submissions: Friday, 4 March 2022
Ted Laros, Open Univ of the…[Read more]
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Laura Torres-Rodríguez started the topic Call for nominations for the LLC Mexican Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC Mexican on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe LLC Mexican group calls for nominations (or self-nominations) to its Executive Committee. You may suggest new committee members by writing or typing in the name of an individual to be considered for appointment in the space reserved for that on the ballot of the annual MLA election or at the MLA website or by sending a letter to the MLA…[Read more]
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Ted Laros replied to the topic Session on World Literature and Human Rights at the 2022 MLA Annual Convention in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years agoPlease see below for a description of the session on “World Literature and Human Rights”:
Session Description:
What is the relation between ‘world literature’ and ‘human rights’? Both notions imply a universalizing gesture, by relying on transcultural aesthetic or literary categories (world literature) or shared moral values (human rights)…[Read more]
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Christine Holbo replied to the topic Panel at MLA 2022: Representing Race in Law and Literature in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years agoAttached are the abstracts for the Representing Race in Law and Literature panel…
284AV Representing Race in Law and Literature
Virtual Session at MLA 2022, 12 pm on January 7
Representing Race in Law and Literature
In recent decades, scholarship across diverse fields has converged on the question of how legal and literary forms conspire to pr…[Read more]
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Christine Holbo started the topic Panel at MLA 2022: Representing Race in Law and Literature in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoPlease join us at MLA 2022 for the following session sponsored by the Law and the Humanities Forum:
284AV Representing Race in Law and Literature
Virtual Session
Presiding:
Christine Holbo, Arizona State U, Tempe
Simon Stern, U of Toronto (Zoom Host)
Presentations
Judge Lynch Writes Political Theology: Race and the Law in The Qua…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic (Dec. 13, 2021; 6-7:30pm) Latinx Project featuring NYU Press Books in the discussion
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoLatinx Studies at NYU Press
Mon, December 13, 2021, from 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST
On Monday, December 13, 2021, The Latinx Project is holding a feature of NYU Press books on Latinx Studies; including Jesica S. Fernández, author of Growing Up Latinx: Coming of Age in a Time of Contested Citizenship; Mary Beltran, author of the forthcoming Latino TV…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe’s Fiction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoGene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]
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Ted Laros deposited Literature and the Law in South Africa, 1910–2010: The Long Walk to Artistic Freedom in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoIn 1994, artistic freedom pertaining inter alia to literature was enshrined in the South African Constitution. Clearly, the establishment of this right was long overdue compared to other nations within the Commonwealth. Indeed, the legal framework and practices regarding the regulation of literature that were introduced following the nation’s t…[Read more]
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Ted Laros started the topic Session on World Literature and Human Rights at the 2022 MLA Annual Convention in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoAll are welcome to join our session on world literature and human rights at the 2022 MLA Annual Convention in Washington, DC:
Session 15 – World Literature and Human Rights
Thursday, 6 January 2022 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM, Marquis 16 (Marriott Marquis)
For related material, visit http://www.oslit.nl/literature-law-and-society/
Presider
Ted Laros, Open U…[Read more]
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Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY AUGUST 31, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoI am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.
Although American expatriate literature in Paris is typified by the Lost Generation or the Jazz Age of the 1920s, Americans show a distinct…[Read more]
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Claudio Palomares-Salas deposited The Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde: Ultraísmo & Estridentismo, 1918-1927 in the group
LLC Mexican on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThe Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde: Ultraísmo & Estridentismo, 1918-1927 is a thorough exploration of the meanings and values Hispanic poets and artists assigned to four iconic locations of modernity: the city, the cafés, means of transportation, and the sea, during the first decades of the 20th century. Joining important studies on S…[Read more]
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