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Michael Barclay replied to the topic Literature about business in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoFor a majorly dystopian view of the corporate world written in the 1950s, I recommend Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano. Granted, it is set in the U.S., but its view of corporations as embodying their own cultural existence was way ahead of its time. It shows a vision of what happens when mechanization has displaced human labor.
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Charles Whitney replied to the topic Literature about business in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoHi Christopher,
I recommend Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia and Ian McEwen, Solar. They were both published in the last few years. They would be good because they contextualize their principal settings, the business or work-related worlds, in the larger framework of contemporary economy and society, the former in de…[Read more]
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Christopher Michaelson started the topic Literature about business in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoI would value recommendations of novels and stories that explore, directly or allegorically, business, economic, and work-related behaviors – especially in the context of contemporary, developing markets. This is for a project to bring world literature into the business classroom, scholarly management research, and even the dialogue of busi…[Read more]
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Matthew H. Brown started the topic CFP: Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis and Pop Culture in the Global South in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoCFP: Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis and Popular Culture in the Global South, March 11-12, 2016
Keynote speakers: Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California, Davis) and Juan Poblete (University of California, Santa Cruz)
We invite scholars working on popular culture in/of the Global South to submit paper proposals that interrogate the…[Read more]
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Chris Zarate deposited Recovery and Reconfigurations of New Mexico's Oral Tradition in Ana Castillo's So Far from God in the group
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoThis paper traces the origins of Chicana-centered figures and tropes found in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God to early 20th century cuentos recorded in the New Mexico Federal Writer’s Project.
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic Reminder: CFP: Special Issue of Postcolonial Text in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoTranslated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia
(In Honour and Memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam)
The editors of a forthcoming special issue of Postcolonial Text—to be dedicated to the memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam—would like to remind scholars that papers are gratefully accepted until June 15, 2015.
To date, we have rec…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Abu Ghraib and Beyond: Torture as an Extension of the Desiring Machine in the group
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoIn his discussion of Dante’s Inferno, Edward Said writes that “Maometto” or Mohammed occupies the eighth circle in the nine circles of Hell, belonging to “a rigid hierarchy of evils.” According to Said, “Maometto” is “endlessly being cleft in two from his chin to his anus,” a punishment in Dante’s belief is well deserved because of Maometto…[Read more]
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Filippo Menozzi started the topic CFP for MLA Volume in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoWe invite proposals for a volume in the MLA Options for Teaching series entitled Teaching Anglophone South Asian Women’s Writing, edited by Deepika Bahri and Filippo Menozzi.
This volume seeks meaningful responses to the following questions: What do we teach when we teach South Asian Women’s Writing? How do we teach it in a variety of cont…[Read more]
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Carlos Vargas-Salgado started the topic Congreso Mariano Melgar y la Independencia de las Américas, Arequipa, PERU in the discussion
Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoCONGRESO INTERNACIONAL “MARIANO MELGAR, 200 AÑOS: POESÍA E INDEPENDENCIA” Arequipa, Peru, agosto de 2015
PRIMERA CIRCULAR
(para los interesados en Mariano Melgar, el bicentenario de las independencias y el romanticismo en general)
La Asociación Internacional de Peruanistas (AIP), la Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana (RCLL), el Muni…[Read more]
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Francesco Levato started the topic CFP: Border(ing) Anxiety: Constructions of a Biopolitical Other in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers: Permanent Section – Creative Writing II (Prose) – Deadline Extended
2015 Midwest Modern Language Association Convention
Border(ing) Anxiety: Constructions of a Biopolitical Other
The force of biopolitics in contemporary society marks boundaries beyond geopolitical borders, inscribing otherness on bodies simultaneously necessary…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoSpecial Issue for Postcolonial Text
CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia
(In Honour and Memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam)
In honour of a dear mentor, teacher, and scholar–Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam–who recently passed away, we (former students of Prof. Kanaganayakam’s) will be editing and compiling a forthcoming i…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic MLA Panel for 2016 – Forum on South Asia and South Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoTransnational Memories: 9/11 and South Asians (Guaranteed panel)
Papers that engage with racial injury, anger, trauma, and grief of South Asians in post-9/11 US, Canada, and Britain; representations of 9/11 in fiction, cinema, memoirs, etc. produced in South Asia and in the West; surveillance and securitization in South Asia and in the W…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Rhines, PhD started the topic Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoSession type: Special Session
Title of session: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures
Submission requirements: Abstract of about 250 words.
Deadline for submissions: 20 March 2015
Description: Utopia? How should nations want their human societies to look in 150 years? Color, gender, heritage differences, sure. Religious too? Visual ar…[Read more] -
Jesse A. Rhines, PhD started the topic Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoUtopia? How should nations want their human societies to look in 150 years? Color, gender, heritage differences, sure. Religious too? Visual arts welcome.
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Jesse A. Rhines, PhD started the topic Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoUtopia? How should nations want their human societies to look in 150 years? Color, gender, heritage differences, sure. Religious too? Visual arts welcome.
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Hatem Akil started the topic CFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature:
Dear Friends,
The Global Arab and Arab American MLA Forum invites proposals for the following two panels at the MLA convention in Austin, Texas (Jan 7-10, 2016):
Global Arab Texts and their Publics
Displaced writers. Deterritorialized texts. How do recent Arab é…[Read more]
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Hatem Akil started the topic CFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature:
Dear Friends,
The Global Arab and Arab American MLA Forum invites proposals for the following two panels at the MLA convention in Austin, Texas (Jan 7-10, 2016):
Global Arab Texts and their Publics
Displaced writers. Deterritorialized texts. How do recent Arab é…[Read more]
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Benita Sampedro started the topic CFP: Forum on Global Hispanophone in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThe new MLA Forum on Global Hispanophone is delighted to invite submissions for our inaugural session/s, which will take place at the MLA Annual Convention in Austin, Texas, on 7-10 January, 2016. (Note: these Calls for Papers are also available on the MLA website).
Hispanophone Literatures and Postcolonial Theory
The term ‘Hispanophone li…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic Invitation to Join New MLA Forum: Global Arab and Arab American in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Dear Colleagues,
I hope you are well. The MLA has agreed to launch the new forum on Global Arab and Arab American Lit & Culture (a.k.a. GAAM).
GAAM would like to urge MLA members who are interested in the new focum to sign up for it on the MLA Commons: http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-a…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED (FEB 15): Call for Nominations — Latina/o Studies Association in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 11 years agoDear Colleagues,
On behalf of the Latina/o Studies Association organizing committee, the members of the election committee invite nominations for the Founding Executive Council of LSA.
The Founding Executive Council will establish the structures necessary for the incorporation of the Latina/o Studies Association as a national org…[Read more]
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