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Alexa Huang deposited “What Country, Friends, Is This?”: Touring Shakespeares, Agency, and Efficacy in Theatre Historiography in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoTouring theatre is a place where theatre studies and globalization come into contact. The year of 2012 was a year of global festivities in which Shakespeare’s works played a major part. Through their exemplary power, the intersections of world cultures and Shakespeare provide a set of important issues for repositioning theatre studies in the w…[Read more]
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Alexa Huang deposited Global Shakespeares as Methodology in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHaving reached a critical mass of participants, performances and the study of Shakespeare in different cultural contexts are changing how we think about globalization. The idea of global Shakespeares has caught on because of site-specific imaginations involving early modern and modern Globe theatres that aspired to perform the globe. Seeing global…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic LLC Japanese since 1900 panels at MLA 2017! in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoWe are excited to present the following two panels at the next Annual Meeting, and hope to see you there! Sorry for cross postings.
311. “Nature and Disaster in the Contemporary Japanese Cultural Imagination” Friday Jan 6 1:45–3:00 p.m., 406, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding: Karen Thornber, Harvard Univ.
1. “What about Animals? In the Wake of N…[Read more]
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Monika Dix started the topic 2017 MLA Panel Announcement in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoPlease note the following panel since it will be of interest to anyone working on East Asia.
“Literature as Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia”, Friday 1/6, 8:30am-9:45am, 204 Marriott
Thanks and hope to see many of you at this panel!
Monika Dix
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse started the topic Petition for Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease support efforts to establish a Forum for Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Literatures, Languages, and Cultures by signing the petition.
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Monika Dix replied to the topic CFP: Literature as Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
The 2017 Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Conference will take place January 5-8, 2017 in Philadelphia.
Please see the cfp below.
Literature as Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia
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Forum: LLC East Asian
How does literature negotiate boundaries, cultural awareness, or individual self-definition in…[Read more] -
Charlotte Eubanks started the topic CFP Sounding the Sinosphere in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months ago<u>Sounding the Premodern Sinosphere</u>
How should we understand the aural dimensions of composing, performing, and appreciating Literary Sinitic texts in pre-modern East Asia? 250-300 word abstracts to Matthew Fraleigh (fraleigh@brandeis.edu) by 1 March 2016.
Longer abstract:
Several new forums of particular interest to scholars working in…[Read more]
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Monika Dix started the topic CFP: Literature as Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoThe cfp for my panel “The Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia” is posted on the MLA website. I look forward to receiving your submisisons.
Monika Dix
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Philip Smith deposited Writing in the rain: Erasure, trauma, and Chinese Indonesian identity in the recent work of FX Harsono in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis is an examination of the recent work of Indonesian visual artist FX Harsono in relation to Chinese Indonesian identity, the erasure of history, and the challenge of communicating through trauma. It is my hope that this work will contribute to the dialogue on both the Chinese Indonesian experience and large-scale ethnic violence.
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Shiao-ling S. Yu replied to the topic LLC EAST ASIAN Panel Topic in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear Monica,
I would like to propose a topic “Border-Crossing: Uncle Tom in Japan and China” for your panel “Literature as Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia.” Uncle Tom refers to the American novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which was adapted into plays three times: the first time in Japan and the next two times in China. All three…[Read more]
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Shiao-ling S. Yu replied to the topic LLC EAST ASIAN Panel Topic in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear Monica Dix,
I would be interested to propose a topic for your panel: “Border-Crossing: Uncle Tom in China.” Uncle Tom refers to the American novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which was adapted into plays in China three times during the past one hundred years.
Shiao-ling Yu
Oregon State University
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Christopher M. Lupke replied to the topic LLC EAST ASIAN Panel Topic in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoTo Monica and All —
This sounds great. Just to let you know, LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese Forum will propose as our guaranteed session something like “Breaking Media Boundaries in Chinese Literature and Culture.” It looks like it will fit well with what your team is planning. We also selected it with the Presidential Theme of “Boundary…[Read more]
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Charlotte Eubanks started the topic Proposed Collaborative Session for MLA 2017 in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Japan to 1900 group would like to propose a collaborative panel with the East Asia group, on the topic of
‘Sounding the Pre-Modern Sinosphere’
which would focus on Chinese-language compositions from across Asia (such as kanshi in Japan).
I’ll be interested in your thoughts, and will hope for a ‘go ahead’ from the leadership! 🙂
Charlotte…[Read more]
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Charlotte Eubanks replied to the topic LLC EAST ASIAN Panel Topic in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoSounds good, Monika! I’ll be interested to see what others post, but if you need someone to talk, I could do something on ‘sutras as a genre of world literature’ in the trans-Asian sphere.
Cheers,
Charlotte (Eubanks)
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Monika Dix started the topic LLC EAST ASIAN Panel Topic in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoI would like to propose the following panel for the 2017 MLA:
“Literature as the Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia”
I am posting it to see if there is any interest from group members to present on this topic.
Monika Dix
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Monika Dix started the topic LLC East Asian Business Meeting Minutes in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear LLC East Asian Executive Committee Members,
On Saturday, January 9, 2016, the LLC EAST ASIAN forum had its business meeting at MLA. The meeting took place from 4:30-5:45pm in room 302 in the JW Marriott in Austin, TX. The following people attended: Ming-Bao Yue (Skype), Michael Emmerich (Skype), Rivi Handler-Spitz (Skype), Charlotte Eubanks,…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic FYI: LLC Japan since 1900 meeting in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoHello everyone,
We are holding our first executive committee meeting on Skype this Friday at 2 p.m. PST. Please email me, your inaugural chair, at mso1@sfu.ca if you’d like to be patched in.
If you can’t make it, please send us your ideas for
a) the one guaranteed panel our new forum gets, and
b) potential nominees for the executive com…[Read more]
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Monika Dix started the topic LLC East Asian Business Meeting in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoOur LLC East Asian Business Meeting is scheduled for Saturday, January 9, 2016 from 4:30-5:45pm in room 302 in the JW Marriott. (see below)
Please forward this info to your panelists and anyone else I might have missed from the list of officers.
Thanks and see you soon.Monika Dix
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic New Japanese Forum created!! in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHi everyone,
If you aren’t already a member, head on over to “LLC Japanese since 1900” and join. We are now official! Rosemary Feal informs us:
“I am pleased to inform you that the Executive Council, acting on the recommendation of the Program Committee, has approved the creation of the forum LLC Japanese since 1900.
The first official sessions…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Lisa Zunshine articles now downloading correctly from CORE in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHello!
Several of you wrote to tell us that the files containing Lisa Zunshine’s articles in CORE, the MLA repository, were not downloading correctly. Thank you for letting us know! We have now fixed the files, and you can download “Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies” at http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6401R and “The Secret Life of Fic…[Read more]
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