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Rajender Kaur posted an update in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoGauranteed panel of the llc South Asian and South Asian Diasporic Forum:
Theorizing the Refugee
Roundtable seeks to theorize the political figure of our time: the refugee who though stateless remains imbricated in hypernationalism of militarized borders. 300 word abstracts by March 15 to Rashmi Bhatnagar rb305@snu.edu.in
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic CFP: 2018 MLA Special Session– Partition and/in South Asian Diasporas in the discussion
South Asian Languages and Literatures 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 15 March 2017; Chandrima Chakraborty (chandri@mcmaster.ca).
Thanks!
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Lucinda Newns started the topic CFP UPDATE: PSA Convention 2017 on Globalisation – NEW KEYNOTES (Deadline: 2/28) in the discussion
South Asian Languages and Literatures 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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Gaura Shankar Narayan started the topic CFP MLA 2018: Special Session: "South-Asia in/and Romanticism" in the discussion
South Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoDear Friends,
There was a typo in the previous post so I am re-sending the message and the CFP. Here it is:
The South Asian and South Asian Diaspora Forum is partnering with the Keats-Shelley Association of America to propose a joint special session for MLA 2018 on “South Asia in/and Romanticism.” Below please find an expanded CFP and note the…[Read more]
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Gaura Shankar Narayan started the topic CFP MLA 2018 Special Session: "South-Asia in/and Romanticism" in the discussion
South Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoDear All,
The South Asian and South Asian Diaspora Forum is partnering with the Keats-Shelley Association of America to propose a joint special session for MLA 2018 on “South Asia in/and Romanticism.” Below please find an expanded CFP and note the deadline of 1 March 2017 for submitting abstracts. Please let us know if you have any…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic CFP–MLA Session 2018, GS Prose Fiction session in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoFictionality in a Post-Fact World
New theorizations of truth-making in and from fiction. Abstracts: grogers@pitt.edu Abstracts of up to 350 words by 1 March 2017. -
Katherine D. Harris replied to the topic MLA Panel 550. "Victorian" in a Comparative Field — Major Issues in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years agoThank you for your response.
My primary concern is the concluding call to action by most of the panelists for the lack of scholarship in the area of newspaper/periodical/publishing transnational movement. Though there may not be many digital archives (to which I wasn’t exclusively referring), there are already many, many scholarly materials on…[Read more]
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Katherine D. Harris replied to the topic MLA Panel 550. "Victorian" in a Comparative Field — Major Issues in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years agoThank you for your response.
My primary concern is the concluding call to action by most of the panelists for the lack of scholarship in the area of newspaper/periodical/publishing transnational movement. Though there may not be many digital archives (to which I wasn’t exclusively referring), there are already many, many scholarly materials on…[Read more]
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Katherine D. Harris replied to the topic MLA Panel 550. "Victorian" in a Comparative Field — Major Issues in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years agoThank you for your response.
My primary concern is the concluding call to action by most of the panelists for the lack of scholarship in the area of newspaper/periodical/publishing transnational movement. Though there may not be many digital archives (to which I wasn’t exclusively referring), there are already many, many scholarly materials on…[Read more]
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Local Speech, Global Acts: Performative Violence and the Novelization of the World in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis article examines the performativity of novelistic discourse in order to propose a different set of terms for understanding the circulation of the novel around the world than those that are based on the referential form/content model.
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Local Speech, Global Acts: Performative Violence and the Novelization of the World in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis article examines the performativity of novelistic discourse in order to propose a different set of terms for understanding the circulation of the novel around the world than those that are based on the referential form/content model.
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Local Speech, Global Acts: Performative Violence and the Novelization of the World in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis article examines the performativity of novelistic discourse in order to propose a different set of terms for understanding the circulation of the novel around the world than those that are based on the referential form/content model.
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Dickens Performs Dickens in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years agoOn performativity of Dickens as author in his prefaces
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Dickens Performs Dickens in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoOn performativity of Dickens as author in his prefaces
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Dickens Performs Dickens in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years agoOn performativity of Dickens as author in his prefaces
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited LiminAnimal: The Monster in Late Victorian Gothic Fiction in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoThe animal characteristics of the monster in late Victorian gothic fiction make visible the biopolitical rationalisation of life in modern societies. Key moments in Bram Sto- ker’s Dracula and R.L. Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde provide evidence for the animality of late Victorian gothic monsters. In an extended reading of Ric…[Read more]
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited LiminAnimal: The Monster in Late Victorian Gothic Fiction in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years agoThe animal characteristics of the monster in late Victorian gothic fiction make visible the biopolitical rationalisation of life in modern societies. Key moments in Bram Sto- ker’s Dracula and R.L. Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde provide evidence for the animality of late Victorian gothic monsters. In an extended reading of Ric…[Read more]
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Richard Menke deposited Telegraphic Realism: Henry James’s In the Cage in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn setting his 1898 tale In the Cage in a telegraph office, Henry James was adapting and investigating a metaphor that earlier novelists had used for the workings of fiction. As invoked by writers such as Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens, the idealized image of the electric telegraph hints at some of the formal and ideological properties of…[Read more]
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Richard Menke deposited Telegraphic Realism: Henry James’s In the Cage in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn setting his 1898 tale In the Cage in a telegraph office, Henry James was adapting and investigating a metaphor that earlier novelists had used for the workings of fiction. As invoked by writers such as Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens, the idealized image of the electric telegraph hints at some of the formal and ideological properties of…[Read more]
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Richard Menke deposited Telegraphic Realism: Henry James’s In the Cage in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn setting his 1898 tale In the Cage in a telegraph office, Henry James was adapting and investigating a metaphor that earlier novelists had used for the workings of fiction. As invoked by writers such as Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens, the idealized image of the electric telegraph hints at some of the formal and ideological properties of…[Read more]
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