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Hania Nashef deposited اهلا, hello and bonjour: a postcolonial analysis of Arab media's use of code switching and mixing and its ramification on the identity of the self in the Arab world in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoCode switching is a practice exercised by multilingual speakers. Linguists define the term as the simultaneous use of more than one language. Code switching is prevalent in postcolonial countries in which the colonial language has continued to exist alongside the native language. In the past, code switching in the Arab world has been confined to…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Disconcerting Images: Arab Female Portrayals on Arab Television in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe changes that have been witnessed by media in the Arab world have redefined media’s initial role as a source of information. With the advent of satellite television new realities, namely the dismantling of communication boundaries, have emerged. At first, such advancements posed a challenge to government bodies, specifically in the Arab region;…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited 'Some Reckonings with the Not-Old and with Surprise': Postmodern Ballads of Urban Crisis in the group
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis paper offers a brief consideration of the literary ballad as a register of what by the mid-’60s economists had diagnosed as “urban crisis” and in 1970 John Ashbery called “urban chaos.” I’m particularly interested in how poets used the ballad to see and see into the failures of the “spatio-temporal fix” of urban renewal. My general idea is…[Read more]
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Angel M. Diaz Miranda replied to the topic CFP MLA 2017 Unbounded: David Huerta's Incurable at 30 in the discussion
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoExtended until March 20th, 2016
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Sonia Nora Feder-Lewis deposited Leadership in Literature Course Syllabus in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis course, designed for a graduate program in education which focuses on leadership, explores works of literature that have had a significant cultural impact and shaped ways in which societies view social issues from the perspective of how leadership is enacted within the texts. For students from disciplines outside of literature studies, this…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse replied to the topic Petition for Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoHi Jessie, thanks for your support! Sorry if I wasn’t clear enough, but would you mind voicing your support over at the other thread? I’m afraid your signature won’t be counted otherwise. Here is the link:…[Read more]
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Jessie Casteel replied to the topic Petition for Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoWriting in support of this petition.
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Moradewun Adejunmobi started the topic CPF for MLA 2017 Illegal Diasporas in African Literature and Cinema in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoIllegal Diasporas in African Literature and Cinema
The Afropolitan is an increasingly salient but contested figure in African literary studies. This panel focuses on alternative figures of diaspora for whom an Afropolitan identity appears beyond reach or ill-advised. The panel provides an opportunity to build on the work of Khalid Koser in the…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse started the topic Petition for Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease help with the formation of a new MLA Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum by signing the petition here.
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Serguei Alex Oushakine deposited Postcolonial Estrangements: Claiming a Space between Stalin and Hitler. in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoIn this essay, I follow debates about forms and sites of memorialization in post- Soviet Belarus. Begun during perestroika, the public discussions about Khatyn’ and Kuropaty eventually evolved into persistent attempts to realign the Soviet past along new narrative axes. Most prominently, this discursive reformatting of the socialist experience w…[Read more]
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic MLA Survey and CFP: Teaching Volume on Karen Tei Yamashita in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease tell us about your experience (use this link) teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey. Deadline: June 1, 2016.
Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for an MLA 2017…[Read more]
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Mark Bracher started the topic CFP: Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPhilosophy and Literature Colleagues,
An international conference, Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience, will be held at Kent State University, Kent, OH, November 17-20, 2016. Sponsored by KSU’s Neurocognitive Research Program for the Advancement of the Humanities (NRPAH), this conference will explore the i…[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). -
Angel M. Diaz Miranda started the topic CFP MLA 2017 Unbounded: David Huerta's Incurable at 30 in the discussion
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoUnbounded: David Huerta’s Incurable at 30
Special 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).
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Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP: Adoption and Culture: Sixth Biennial Conference of ASAC in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoSixth Biennial Conference of the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture
ASAC 2016: Building Communities, Changing Discourses
Crowne Plaza Minneapolis Northstar Downtown Hotel, 27-29 October 2016
Proposal deadline 1 March 2016.
This conference, sponsored by The Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture, looks at stories, histories,…[Read more] -
Juan Meneses started the topic CFP: "Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent" (MLA) in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoCFP: “Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent”
MLA Special Session (Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2017)
This non-guaranteed, MLA special seeks papers that examine how literary and audiovisual works articulate dissent by operating at different national tempos, challenging the global synchronicity that dominates the…[Read more]
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Patrick Whitmarsh started the topic CFP: Lovecraft's Weird Modernism (MLA 2017 Special Session) in the discussion
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoLovecraft’s relationship to modernism/modernity; Lovecraft and race; Lovecraft and science/technology; Lovecraft and modernist gothic; modernism and weird fiction. Abstracts, 200-300 words by 1 March 2016; Patrick Whitmarsh (pwhitmar@bu.edu).
Link: https://apps.mla.org/cfp_detail_8647
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Eileen McGinnis deposited The Anachronistic Ada: Inventing a Twenty-First-Century Public for a Nineteenth-Century Programmer in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years agoToday, Lady Lovelace is recognized as the first computer programmer – for an algorithm she co-authored with inventor Charles Babbage in 1843. She has also become, per biographer Betty Toole, a “modern myth,” whose very ambiguity and otherness encourage readers’ self-invention around gender and tech, human-machine interactions, and female sexuali…[Read more]
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Zahi A. Zalloua started the topic CFP Catastrophe: Special issue of The Comparatist in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years agoWe welcome contributions that examine the notion of catastrophe in comparative studies and literary theory. Thinking catastrophe today raises multiple questions. What constitutes a catastrophe? How do we bear witness to a catastrophe? What historical catastrophes serve an exemplary or paradigmatic function? Whose catastrophe is heard and whose…[Read more]
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