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Alan Jose replied to the topic OrwellianLiterary / Rhetorical Analysis Project in the forum Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago

Hello Gloria,

A large corpus-based rhetorical analysis of photography in war zones is an intimidating project. i would love to read it when you are done. You may know of these sources already, but here they are in case you find one or two useful to your project…

First, there is mass communication theory. Mass-media communication prompted…[Read more]
Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic OrwellianLiterary / Rhetorical Analysis Project in the forum Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago

Thanks, Hania. I
It may be something that journalism people have more experience with…?

Once again, your reply was most helpful.
Stay in touch here, please.

Gloria
Hania A.M. Nashef replied to the topic OrwellianLiterary / Rhetorical Analysis Project in the forum Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago

Gloria, this is an extremely important topic. I did some analysis of how media chose to portray certain people, namely Arabs, for certain agendas. I based my research on postcolonial theory and the dehumanizing of the other. I looked at TV news reports, photos circulated via media organizations, films, etc…, even the ‘trophy’ photos of Abu G…[Read more]
Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic OrwellianLiterary / Rhetorical Analysis Project in the forum Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago

Hi, Everybody!

A Rich Field for Rhetorical Analysis

I know you are all familiar with the Orwell novel 1984, with its permanently at war nations of Oceania,
Eurasia, and Eastasia. The Newsspeak and media coverage were something that Orwell gave some time
and attention to in that novel. Oceania is always right, tells the truth, the other two…[Read more]
Suha Kudsieh started the topic Reminder: Pls. cast your vote: MLA Resolution 2014-1 in the forum Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months ago

Dear Colleagues,

Please remember to cast your vote concerning Resolution 2014-1. Regardless of how you intend to cast your vote, please vote.

You can read the MLA Executive Director’s letter, Rosemary G. Feal, here: http://t.e2ma.net/message/mx8ig/yum5sh

Please click on http://t.e2ma.net/click/mx8ig/yum5sh/6c2vcc (you need to log into your…[Read more]
Madhurima Chakraborty started the topic Nation and Its Discontents: South Asian Review Special Issue 2014 in the forum Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months ago

How do cultural texts address, in our times, the limits and achievements of South Asian nationalisms? The essays invited for South Asian Review’s 2014 Special Issue, “Nation and Its Discontents,” will examine this central question from various perspectives. Despite a long history of the critique of nationalism in and through South Asian cultu…[Read more]
Shuchi Kapila replied to the topic Post-memory in South Asia in the forum Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago

Revised call:

I would like to organize a special session at the MLA in Vancouver on the ‘postmemory in South Asia.’ Please write to kapilas@grinnell.edu with a 250 word abstract by March 25 if interested.

Some of the questions we might address are:

How do we describe the study of post-memory, in Marianne Hirsch’s terms, or ‘post-a…[Read more]
Leigh Anne Duck started the topic CfP: MLA 2015/journal special issue in the forum Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago

We’re seeking proposals for a panel at MLA 2015 (Vancouver, Jan. 8-11) and for a special issue of the journal The Global South (published by Indiana UP, available via JSTOR and Project Muse) on the topic “Narrating Global South Cities.” Even though the “global South” has emerged as a “new and powerful ordering system for academic disci…[Read more]
Dawn Childress posted an update in the group TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago

CFP for MLA 2015: Bibliography for the twenty-first century — How are scholars adapting the study and documentation of material texts in the twenty-first century? What affordances, opportunities, challenges, or obstacles are offered to bibliography by digital transmission, transformation, and augmentation? For more information, visit:…[Read more]
- Betsy Dahms replied 11 years, 7 months ago
  
  Call for Papers
  WORLDS and WORDS
  29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
  Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
  University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
  Carrollton, Georgia
  October 30-November 1, 2014
  
  Deadline Extended until July 22nd
  
  We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]
Filippo Menozzi started the topic New Publication in the forum Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago

Dear Group Members

I’d like to announce a new publication that could be of interest. Thank you!

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415735650/

Postcolonial Custodianship: Cultural and Literary Inheritance

This book engages with current developments in postcolonial research, exploring notions of cultural transmission, tradition and…[Read more]
Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic MLA 2015: CFP "Immigration and Comics" in the forum Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago

The Modern Language Association (MLA) Discussion Group on Comics & Graphic Narratives is pleased to announce its secod Call for Papers for the next MLA convention, to be held in Vancouver in January 2015:

<span>”Immigration and Comics”</span>

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<span>Call for Papers for a proposed panel at the Modern Language Association (MLA)…[Read more]
Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic MLA 2015: CFP "Immigration and Comics" in the forum European Literary Relations on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago

<span>”Immigration and Comics”
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<span>Call for Papers for a proposed panel at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, 8-11 Jan. 2015, in Vancouver. Jointly sponsored by the MLA Division on <i>European Literary Relations </i>and the MLA Discussion Group on <i>Comics and Graphic Narratives</i>.</span>

<span> Recently, the…[Read more]
Robin E. Visel started the topic CFP: Special Issue of Doris Lessing Studies in the forum Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years ago

Call for papers: special issue of <i>Doris Lessing Studies</i>: Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London
<i>Doris Lessing Studies</i> is seeking papers for a special issue, “Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London.” We invite papers about Lessing’s life and work in the 1950s, when she joined an influx of immigrants to London…[Read more]
Hans Adler replied to the topic New Franz Kafka play in progress in the forum Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 12 years ago

Hello, I’d appreciate if you could send me your play to the following email address: hadler@wisc.edu. I might consider to use it for my annual Kafka lecture here at the UW Madison.

Thanks in advance and congratulations to your achievement!

Sincerely,

Hans Adler
Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New Franz Kafka play in progress in the forum Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 12 years ago

Good afternoon, Kafka fans,

The play is finished! Anybody wish to read it? I would love comments.
This is a surreal play about the Franz Kafka few people know.
Intriguing?

Just ask with a valid email address and I will sennd the play on to you.

Thanks,
Gloria
Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for the Comparative 20th-Century Studies Division (MLA 2015). in the forum European Literary Relations on MLA Commons 12 years ago

Please consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “world” in world literature; to the “planet” in planetarity;…[Read more]
Dawn Childress posted an update in the group TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 12 years ago

CFP for MLA 2015: Libraries, Archives, and Public Memory — How do libraries and archives function as sites for preserving and constructing public memory? For more information, visit http://mlalibraries.mla.hcommons-staging.org/?p=181
Nicholas Birns started the topic CFP; Teaching Indigenous Lit in the forum Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years ago

<h3>Teaching Indigenous Australian and New Zealand Literatures</h3>
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<div><b>Special Session</b></div>
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Maori and Aboriginal Australian literatures as taught worldwide; theoretical/pedagogical discussions welcome. Contributions on Grace, Ihimaera, Wright, Scott or any other relevant writer welcome. 1-page abstracts by 3 March 2014;…[Read more]
Nicholas Birns started the topic CFP; Teaching Indigenous Lit in the forum Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years ago

<h1>Teaching Indigenous Australian and New Zealand Literatures</h1>
<div>
<div><b>Special Session</b></div>
</div>
Maori and Aboriginal Australian literatures as taught worldwide; theoretical/pedagogical discussions welcome. Contributions on Grace, Ihimaera, Wright, Scott or any other relevant writer welcome. 1-page abstracts by 3 March 2014;…[Read more]
Indrani Mitra started the topic South Asian Languages and Literatures Discussion Group in the forum Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago

The annual meeting of the South Asian Languages and Literatures Discussion Group will take place today, January 11, from 5-6 pm in Sheraton Parlor G. Please join us.
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Richard Hacken

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Richard Hacken

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