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Leah Wood Middlebrook started the topic Abstracts – Surveillance in Early Modern Culture in the discussion
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoSunday, Jan. 8 – Noon – 1:15 p.m.
Franklin 10, Philadelphia MarriottPresiding: John Slater, U.C. Davis
Abstracts:
“Poetry and Espionage During the Spanish Armada and the Anglo-Spanish War” – Jesus- David Jerez-Gomez, C.S. San Bernardino
This paper will explore how the religious and political tensions originating from the conflict between…[Read more]
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Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo started the topic Special Issue Hispanic Journal "Rebeldes Históricos en el imaginario mexicano" in the discussion
Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoSPECIAL ISSUE OF HISPANIC JOURNAL
“Rebeldes históricos en el imaginario mexicano”
Este número especial de Hispanic Journal propone estudiar la figura del/la rebelde en el imaginario mexicano, un personaje histórico-cultural que ha existido desde tiempos pre-colombinos hasta la actualidad. Una de las premisas fundamentales de los ensayos selecc…[Read more]
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Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo posted an update in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe editors of Hispanic Journal invite submissions of unpublished studies all year around. Hispanic Journal is published twice annually by the Department of Foreign Languages and the Graduate School of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Its purpose is to publish research and criticism of the highest quality in the areas of Spanish, Spanish…[Read more]
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Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo posted an update in the group
LLC 19th-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe editors of Hispanic Journal invite submissions of unpublished studies all year around. Hispanic Journal is published twice annually by the Department of Foreign Languages and the Graduate School of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Its purpose is to publish research and criticism of the highest quality in the areas of Spanish, Spanish…[Read more]
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Julien Jacques Simon deposited Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology exploring human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It includes the leading voices in the field, along with the main themes and directions that this important area of study has been producing. The book begins with an overview of the…[Read more]
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Aurora Peraza-Rugeley deposited Zoé Jiménez Corretjer. Las Camelias de Amelia. Scott Depot, WV: Obsidiana Press. 2009. 207 pp. ISBN: 9781935400158 in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoLa Camelias de Amelia (written in Spanish) is a 2009 collection of short stories about Puerto Rico and its people. Its author, Zoé Jiménez Corretjer, forms part of the Puerto Rican writers called ‘La Generación de los 80’ (authors writing in Spanish from the island and not in English from US territory.)
This review only analyzes the work as a u…[Read more] -
Daniela Goldfine started the topic Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoThe editors of a volume titled Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production invite proposals from potential contributors. The volume is planned for publication with Lexington Books as part of their Latin American Gender and Sexualities series edited by Carolina Rocha.
Essay proposals should explicitly address issues and/or…[Read more]
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Leah Wood Middlebrook started the topic Iberian Cultures of Translation – a round table – MLA 2017 in the discussion
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoFriday, Jan. 6, 2017 , Noon – 1:15 p.m.
Franklin 3, Philadelphia MarriottPresiding: Leah Middlebrook, Univ. of Oregon
Matters pertinent to culture, translational and translated, in early modern Iberia. Our participants will present prepared remarks, after which we invite vigorous discussion :
Lucia Binotti, UNC Chapel Hill – “Translation,…[Read more]
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Felipe Valencia started the topic New forum delegate at the Delegate Assembly until 2019 in the discussion
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoDear colleagues,
My name is Felipe Valencia, and I would like to introduce myself as the new delegate of this forum at the MLA Delegate Assembly starting next convention, in 2017, until the 2019 convention. I urge you to please contact me at felipe.valencia@usu.edu or through MLA Commons if you would like to share your thoughts on any of the…[Read more]
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Ana Paulina Lee started the topic CFP: Charge and Challenge of Hemispheric Studies in the discussion
Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoForum: CLCS Hemispheric American and African American Studies (collaborative session)
What are the challenges of doing a transnational critique based on concepts from US academy ex: transnational racialization, queer studies? 250-word abstract; 2-page CV; short bio by 15 March 2016; Ana Paulina Lee (ana.lee@columbia.edu) and Dana Williams (…[Read more]
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Jeronimo Arellano started the topic CfP (MLA 2017): Post/Colonial Affect in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis panel invites papers that rethink the affective turn in the humanities from the vantage of colonial and postcolonial histories. The proposed focus in an exploration of colonial and postcolonial affects, both in general terms as well as in relation to specific cultural practices, visual objects, or written texts. How do we theorize and his…[Read more]
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Giovanna Montenegro started the topic CFP: MLA 2017: Special Session: The Colonial Americas:Ecocritical Perspectives in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis panel seeks papers that address the environment in literature and film of the Early Americas through a Hemispheric perspective (South, Central, North, Caribbean). Papers may address the representation of natural catastrophes and theories on climatology, the representation of endemic vs. invasive species in fiction and travel narratives,…[Read more]
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Angel M. Diaz Miranda started the topic CFP MLA 2017 Unbounded: David Huerta's Incurable at 30 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoSpecial Session
Incurable (1987) shatters the boundaries of form. Papers on readership, intertextuality, illness, poetic connections, and fragmentation are especially welcomed. 200-word abstract and very short bio. by 10 March 2016; Angel M. Diaz Miranda (diazam@hollins.edu). -
Josef Raab started the topic CFP: Inter-American Studies Conference on "Human Rights in the Americas" in the discussion
Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThe Fourth Biennial Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS) will be held at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) October 4 through 6, 2016. The conference topic is on “Human Rights in the Americas.”
The conference organizers have decided to extend the deadline for submitting proposals for papers…[Read more]
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Ivonne del Valle started the topic Colonial Latin America Forum/ Proposed panels for MLA 2017—Philadelphia, Jan 5-8 in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years agoColonial Latin America Forum/ Proposed panels for MLA 2017—Philadelphia, Jan 5-8.
Colonial ethnographiesThis panel seeks papers on colonial ethnographic discourse in the context of Spanish imperialism. Numerous colonial texts engage in the description and interpretation of indigenous cultures, dealing with the complexities of transferring i…[Read more]
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Annette Kolodny deposited New World Encounters: Where Do We Go from Here? in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 10 years agoEarly American studies scholar and feminist literary critic, Annette Kolodny, offers three projects that she would take on if she were not now retiring from the profession. These three projects include a feminist analysis of women’s interactions on the earliest contact and frontier landscapes; the development of a cross- and inter-disciplinary…[Read more]
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Ivonne del Valle started the topic Panels and Happy hour for Colonial Latin American Literatures/MLA 2016 in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear Members,
The Forum for Colonial Latin American Literatures cordially wishes to invite you to the following events at MLA 2016. We hope to see you all very soon!
Best wishes,
Nicolás Wey Gómez
Colonial Texts and Communities of Readers
Friday, 8 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 209, JW Marriott
Happy Hour, Colonial Latin American Lit…[Read more]
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Daniel Escandell Montiel started the topic Journal Caracteres: new issue. Cybertheatres and Performativity (monograph) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoMessage both in English & Spanish; Mensaje en español e inglés]
Estimados colegas:
El nuevo número de la revista Caracteres, vol.4 n. 2, ya está disponible tanto a través de la web como mediante descarga (en PDF): http://revistacaracteres.net/revista/vol4n2noviembre2015/ Este número incluye un monográfico coordinado por María Ángeles Grande t…[Read more]
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Monica Diaz started the topic Abstracts for the session "Colonial Texts and Communities of Readers" in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago“Circulating Spanish and European Texts in Colonial Latin America,” Angelica Duran, Purdue University.
I seek to nuance our understanding and appreciation the history of textual presence of both Iberian-Spanish canonical literature specifically and also European canonical literature more generally in Colonial Latin America. In the first hal…[Read more]
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Vicky Unruh deposited Unpacking the Libraries of Post-Soviet Cuba in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoBeginning with the renowned “Words to Intellectuals” (1961) delivered by Fidel Castro in the José Martí National Library and the creation of a state network of libraries, the library in Cuba was transformed into a cultural sphere saturated with ideological ambiguity. On the one hand, the library embodied the symbolic axis of the literacy campa…[Read more]
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