Groups – Activity – Raúl Coronado

Hania Nashef deposited The blurring of boundaries: images of abjection as the terrorist and the reel Arab intersect in the group TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months ago

n her treatise on abjection, Julia Kristeva argues that the abject is located outside the self, remaining in a state of repulsion that threatens to destroy the self. Abject representations are prevalent in the way terrorists have been portrayed in the Western news media post-September 11, 2001. These images of abjection are problematic, as they…[Read more]
Hania Nashef deposited اهلا, hello and bonjour: a postcolonial analysis of Arab media's use of code switching and mixing and its ramification on the identity of the self in the Arab world in the group TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months ago

Code switching is a practice exercised by multilingual speakers. Linguists define the term as the simultaneous use of more than one language. Code switching is prevalent in postcolonial countries in which the colonial language has continued to exist alongside the native language. In the past, code switching in the Arab world has been confined to…[Read more]
Hania Nashef deposited Disconcerting Images: Arab Female Portrayals on Arab Television in the group TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months ago

The changes that have been witnessed by media in the Arab world have redefined media’s initial role as a source of information. With the advent of satellite television new realities, namely the dismantling of communication boundaries, have emerged. At first, such advancements posed a challenge to government bodies, specifically in the Arab region;…[Read more]
Jason Charles Courtmanche started the topic Hawthorne Society Summer Meeting registration in the discussion Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months ago

The 21st Summer Meeting of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society

June 2-5, 2016

The Stoweflake Inn at Stowe, Vermont
Early Bird Special for Registration ends April 1!

Register here: http://www.planetreg.com/greenmountainhawthorne

Please please go to the website below to download a DRAFT of the program for the conference. This will be updated…[Read more]
Lillian Melendez deposited James Joyce’s Priesthood through his Art of Writing in the group LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago

Dreams are abstract thoughts in one’s mind that can be revealed. Thoughts that are suppressed can be revealed in the subconscious mind. Sigmund Freud views dreams as one views sleep; as an abstract code that can be decoded through actions and through the ‘slip of the tongue.’ The Freudian slip is found in several passages of A Portrait of the A…[Read more]
Cheryl Narumi Naruse replied to the topic Petition for Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago

Hi Jessie, thanks for your support! Sorry if I wasn’t clear enough, but would you mind voicing your support over at the other thread? I’m afraid your signature won’t be counted otherwise. Here is the link:…[Read more]
Jessie Casteel replied to the topic Petition for Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago

Writing in support of this petition.
Moradewun Adejunmobi started the topic CPF for MLA 2017 Illegal Diasporas in African Literature and Cinema in the discussion Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago

Illegal Diasporas in African Literature and Cinema

The Afropolitan is an increasingly salient but contested figure in African literary studies. This panel focuses on alternative figures of diaspora for whom an Afropolitan identity appears beyond reach or ill-advised. The panel provides an opportunity to build on the work of Khalid Koser in the…[Read more]
Cheryl Narumi Naruse started the topic Petition for Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago

Please help with the formation of a new MLA Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum by signing the petition here.
Serguei Alex Oushakine deposited Postcolonial Estrangements: Claiming a Space between Stalin and Hitler. in the group TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago

In this essay, I follow debates about forms and sites of memorialization in post- Soviet Belarus. Begun during perestroika, the public discussions about Khatyn’ and Kuropaty eventually evolved into persistent attempts to realign the Soviet past along new narrative axes. Most prominently, this discursive reformatting of the socialist experience w…[Read more]
Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic MLA Survey and CFP: Teaching Volume on Karen Tei Yamashita in the discussion Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago

Please tell us about your experience (use this link) teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey. Deadline: June 1, 2016.

Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for an MLA 2017…[Read more]
Raúl Coronado started the topic Latina/o studies CFP's in the discussion Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago

Please consider submitting proposals for the following CFP’s.

1. CFP: Latina/o Materialisms, guaranteed session sponsored by the Latina and Latino Forum

queer, feminist, cultural, new &/or old materialisms; Marxisms; text as material object, comparative Chicana/o, PuertoRican, CubanAm, CentralAm, DominicanAm print cultures & histories of…[Read more]
Yolanda Padilla started the topic CFP (MLA 2017): “25 Years of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage” in the discussion Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago

“25 Years of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage”

Special session proposed by the 19thc American LLC and the Chicana and Chicano LLC

Papers considering past contributions, archival silences, and future prospects of the Hispanic Recovery Project with interest on dissensus or dialogue with other currents in the long American 19th c…[Read more]
Yolanda Padilla started the topic Chicana/o Literature Division CFP (MLA 2017): "Teaching Borderlands at 30" in the discussion Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago

“Teaching Borderlands at 30”

As we commemorate the thirty-year anniversary of Anzaldúa’s Borderlands we invite papers that address how we teach this genre-blurring text. 200-300-word abstract; 1-page cv by 15 March 2016; Laura Halperin (lhalperi@email.unc.edu)
Yolanda Padilla started the topic Chicana/o Literature Division CFP (MLA 2017): “La Raza y Gaza” in the discussion Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago

“La Raza y Gaza”

Papers engaging the political resonances of Palestine for Chican@s. Intersections in various texts, teaching, or other topics. 200-300-word abstract; 1-page cv by 15 March 2016; José Navarro (jnavar17@calpoly.edu)
Yolanda Padilla started the topic Chicana/o Literature Division CFP (MLA 2017): “Liberty Crack'd” in the discussion Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago

“Liberty Crack’d”

What are possibilities and fault lines within the promise of US liberty when examined through the lens of immigration, incarceration, police brutality, etc.? 200-300-word abstract; 1-page cv by 15 March 2016; Olga Herrera (herr0480@stthomas.edu).
Jason Charles Courtmanche started the topic “Writing? Authoring? Scribbling: Fuller, Hawthorne, and Their Contemporaries” in the discussion Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago

We welcome proposals on biographical/contextual relations; representations of women; intertextuality; trans-Atlantic/trans-American treatments; race, gender, class, and sexuality, etc.

Please send 250-word abstracts to Ivonne Garcia (garciai@kenyon.edu) and Charlene Avallone (avallone000@gmail.com) by March 15, 2016.
Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP: Adoption and Culture: Sixth Biennial Conference of ASAC in the discussion Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago

Sixth Biennial Conference of the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture
ASAC 2016: Building Communities, Changing Discourses
Crowne Plaza Minneapolis Northstar Downtown Hotel, 27-29 October 2016
Proposal deadline 1 March 2016.
This conference, sponsored by The Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture, looks at stories, histories,…[Read more]
Maia Gil'Adi started the topic CFP – Speculative Latin@: Histories of the Future in the discussion Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago

Call for Papers, non-guaranteed session sponsored by the Latina and Latino Forum.

Speculative Latin@: Histories of the Future

Papers engaging speculative fiction by Latin@ authors: alternative archives; utopias/dystopias; futurity; disruption of nationhood, racial identity; historical violence; decolonial critiques. 300 word abstracts, CV, March…[Read more]
Raúl Coronado started the topic CFP: Latina/o Materialisms in the discussion Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago

Please consider submitting an abstract for a panel on Latina/o Materialisms.

queer, feminist, cultural, new &/or old materialisms; Marxisms; text as material object, comparative Chicana/o, PuertoRican, CubanAm, CentralAm, DominicanAm print cultures & histories of writing.

Send CV and 300 word abstract by 15 March 2016; Raúl Coronado (…[Read more]
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Raúl Coronado

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Raúl Coronado

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