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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Becoming a Gwo Nèg in 1970s Haiti: Dany Laferrière’s Coming-of-Age Film Le Goût des Jeunes Filled (On the Verge of Fever) in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoWhen all men are either dead, exiled, thugs or zombies in a world ruled through violence and terror by a President-for-Life and his son, how is a young boy expected to come of age and forge his own identity? Le Goût des Jeunes Filles (On the Verge of Fever), a 2004 film about Fanfan, a 15-year-old boy, set in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on the same…[Read more]
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Mary Dockray-Miller deposited “Judith of Flanders and Her Books: Patronage, Piety, and Politics in mid-eleventh century Europe” in Telling Tales and Crafting Books, Essays in Honor of Thomas H. Ohlgren, eds. Dorsey A. Armstrong, Shaun F. D. Hughes, and Alexander L. Kaufman. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2016, 267-322. in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis essay analyzes the illustration sequences of the four magnificent Gospel books made for Judith of Flanders within the context of the political chaos in pre-Conquest England. These deluxe display books indicate one of the ways that literacy and literary patronage provided cultural legitimacy and social status for secular women in the late…[Read more]
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Annette Kolodny deposited Schooling the Nation’s Newspaper of Record: The New York Times and Indian Genocide in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoIn late 1991, an editor at the Sunday New York Times Book Review asked me to write a feature article about that uniquely American genre, the Indian captivity narrative. When the editor called, I was dean of the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. I accepted the Times assignment in hopes that writing this article might prove a…[Read more]
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Kanika Batra deposited City Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCity Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke
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Hatem Akil replied to the topic Reminder re. Global Arab and Arab American Forum MLA 2018 CFPs in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agocorrection to the above post.
The CFPs are for the following panels:
Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities
Teaching Global Arab Comics in the U.S.Teaching Global Arab Comics in the U.S.
This panel seeks papers that address graphic narratives by/about Arabs, and how they are taught or not taught today in the US. Some of…[Read more]
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Hatem Akil started the topic Reminder re. Global Arab and Arab American Forum MLA 2018 CFPs in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoDear Friends,
Time is closing on submissions to the MLA 2018 convention panels organized by the Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature (GAAM). Please review and circulate as may be necessary.
Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities
Beyond Bounds: The Refugee in Global Arab/Arab American StudiesBelow are the…[Read more]
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Noreen O'Connor started the topic Call for Papers: Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield (due 3/15) in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThe Elizabeth von Arnim Society and the Katherine Mansfield Society welcome scholars interested in Women’s Studies to the “
Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield – Literary Connections, Friendships and Influence Conference” which will be held 19 & 20 July 2017 at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CaliforniaConference web sit…[Read more]
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John Charles Hawley uploaded the file: CFP: Queer Theory in African Film and Fiction to
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHow are African literatures and cultures mediating globalizing frameworks for gender and sexuality and shifting understandings of “queer”? From Woubi Cheri and Dakan, to Stories of Our Lives, African film has begun this conversation. From K. Sello Duiker, to Chinelo Okparanta and Diriye Osman, new voices have invited national debates on these top…[Read more]
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John Charles Hawley uploaded the file: CFP: Queer Theory in African Film and Fiction to
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHow are African literatures and cultures mediating globalizing frameworks for gender and sexuality and shifting understandings of “queer”? From Woubi Cheri and Dakan, to Stories of Our Lives, African film has begun this conversation. From K. Sello Duiker, to Chinelo Okparanta and Diriye Osman, new voices have invited national debates on these top…[Read more]
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John Charles Hawley uploaded the file: CFP special issue African Literature Today: Queer Theory in Film and Fiction to
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHow are African literatures and cultures mediating globalizing frameworks for gender and sexuality and shifting understandings of “queer”? From Woubi Cheri and Dakan, to Stories of Our Lives, African film has begun this conversation. From K. Sello Duiker, to Chinelo Okparanta and Diriye Osman, new voices have invited national debates on these top…[Read more]
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Lucinda Newns started the topic Deadline Tomorrow: Postcolonial Studies Association Convention on Globalisation in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPostcolonial Studies Association Convention
School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London
18–20 September 2017Special Topic: Globalisation
Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Prof. Aamir Mufti (University of California, LA), Prof. Nandini Gooptu (University of Oxford), Dr. Sharae Deckard (University College Dublin)
A reminder that t…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP MLA '18: Comparatively Perfect: Guided Tours of Essential Essays in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoA Panel Sponsored by the Association of Departments and Programs in Comparative Literature
What is the “tipping point” that makes a scholarly argument persuasive? This panel combines the sharing of scholarly interests and discoveries that are the purpose of conventions with a pragmatic aspect of rehearsing the mechanics of comparative…[Read more]
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Samara Hayley Steele deposited The Reality Code: Interpreting Aggregate Larp Rules as Code that Runs on Humans in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoAggregate larp rules are a type of code that runs on humans. Code can be thought of as a linguistic form that is both declarative and imperative; it is both truth and command (Buswell 2009). In aggregate larp, elements of the game’s
diegesis are rendered codic, or playable, allowing players a degree of autonomy from game staff. Through the m…[Read more] -
Samara Hayley Steele deposited The Reality Code: Interpreting Aggregate Larp Rules as Code that Runs on Humans in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoAggregate larp rules are a type of code that runs on humans. Code can be thought of as a linguistic form that is both declarative and imperative; it is both truth and command (Buswell 2009). In aggregate larp, elements of the game’s
diegesis are rendered codic, or playable, allowing players a degree of autonomy from game staff. Through the m…[Read more] -
Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic CFP: MLA 2018 Special Session– Partition and/in South Asian Diasporas in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPartition and/in South Asian Diasporas
Seeking papers for a special session on how the 1947 Partition of British India appears in, erupts, underwrites or disrupts diasporic cultural productions (film, fiction, poetry, painting, play). Please send 250-word abstracts by 20 March 2017; Chandrima Chakraborty (chandri@mcmaster.ca).
Thanks!
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Christopher Michaelson posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoWith thanks to many MLA contributors for their suggestions, please check out (and continue to send ideas for) my living list of business stories, a.k.a. Capitalism Reading List! http://ethicalsystems.org/content/reading-succeed
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Christopher Michaelson posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoWith thanks to many MLA contributors for their suggestions, please check out (and continue to send ideas for) my living list of business stories, a.k.a. Capitalism Reading List! http://ethicalsystems.org/content/reading-succeed
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Lucinda Newns started the topic CFP UPDATE: PSA Convention 2017 on Globalisation – NEW KEYNOTES (Deadline: 2/28) in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″><b>Postcolonial Studies Association Convention</b>
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<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″><b>School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London (UK), 18–20 September 2017</b>
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<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>We are pleased to announce that the 2017 PSA Convention will be held at the School of…[Read more] -
Lucinda Newns started the topic CFP UPDATE: PSA Convention 2017 on GLOBALISATION – NEW KEYNOTES (Deadline: 2/28) in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPostcolonial Studies Association Convention
School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London (UK), 18–20 September 2017
We are pleased to announce that the 2017 PSA Convention will be held at the School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London, from 18th to 20th September 2017. Paper and panel proposals are invited fr…[Read more]
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Sean Kennedy started the topic MLA 2018 CFP: "The MLA and Anti-Oppression" in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThe DA votes against academic boycott were a reckoning for many. What are the prospects (if any) for continuing to advance the Palestinian call—and anti-oppression overall? 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2017; Sean M. Kennedy (skennedy@gradcenter.cuny.edu).
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