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Arif Camoglu deposited “Supreme in Ruin”: Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial Ruins in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoRegistered in Romantic depictions of imperial ruins is the endurance of empire in its immateriality: the imageries of empire’s ruination announce a future where imperial sovereignty maintains its presence spectrally. Using Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology, and recruiting further insight from political theory, this essay argues that emp…[Read more]
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Golam Rabbani deposited The Creative Industries in Bangladesh: The Case of Coke Studio Bangla’s “Deora” in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis article analyzes the case of Coke Studio Bangla’s music and performance production titled “Deora.”
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Golam Rabbani deposited In the Light of What We Know: A Novel of Its Time in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoBook review of Zia Haider Rahman’s novel In the Light of What We Know
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Radical Listening and the Global Politics of Inclusiveness,” Inclusive Shakespeares: Identity, Pedagogy, Performance, ed. Sonya Freeman Loftis, Mardy Philippian, Justin P. Shaw (Palgrave, 2023), pp. 221-234 in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoInclusiveness in higher education is distinct from advocacy journalism, which means we have to work actively against any ineffectual default to rituals of inclusion. When implemented unilaterally as a one-size-fits-all social imposition, some gestures of inclusion risk becoming empty rituals. As multifocal, multilingual, and multicultural…[Read more]
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Arif Camoglu deposited Inter-imperial Dimensions of Turkish Literary Modernity in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoCalling for a historiographical shift in literary criticism, this essay stresses the expansionist vision of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, approaches its literature as a corpus of representation for imperial subjectivities, and thereby supplements the critique of the narrative of literary modernity identified with the orientalist E. J. W.…[Read more]
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Arif Camoglu deposited Inter-imperial Dimensions of Turkish Literary Modernity in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoCalling for a historiographical shift in literary criticism, this essay stresses the expansionist vision of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, approaches its literature as a corpus of representation for imperial subjectivities, and thereby supplements the critique of the narrative of literary modernity identified with the orientalist E. J. W.…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Alfonso X, Cantigas de Santa Maria: “Como Santa Maria ajudou a Emperadriz de Roma”/ “Cómo Santa María ayudó a la emperatriz de Roma” in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAlfonso X was king of “Castilla, León, Sevilla, Córdoba, Murcia, Jaén, and el Algarbe.” As evidenced by his title, he came to have possession of various kingdoms in Iberia. He was born in Toledo in 1221 and died in Seville in 1284, at 63 years of age. He is called the Learned King because he was an author, poet, musician, and historian, and becaus…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Alfonso X, Cantigas de Santa Maria: “Como Santa Maria ajudou a Emperadriz de Roma”/ “Cómo Santa María ayudó a la emperatriz de Roma” in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAlfonso X was king of “Castilla, León, Sevilla, Córdoba, Murcia, Jaén, and el Algarbe.” As evidenced by his title, he came to have possession of various kingdoms in Iberia. He was born in Toledo in 1221 and died in Seville in 1284, at 63 years of age. He is called the Learned King because he was an author, poet, musician, and historian, and becaus…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Cantigas de Santa Maria: “Como Santa Maria ajudou a Emperadriz de Roma”/ “How the Virgen Mary Helped the Empress of Rome” in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAlfonso X was king of “Castilla, León, Sevilla, Córdoba, Murcia, Jaén, and el Algarbe.” As evidenced by his title, he came to have possession of various kingdoms in Iberia. He was born in Toledo in 1221 and died in Seville in 1284, at 63 years of age. He is called the Learned King because he was an author, poet, musician, and historian, and becaus…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Cantigas de Santa Maria: “Como Santa Maria ajudou a Emperadriz de Roma”/ “How the Virgen Mary Helped the Empress of Rome” in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAlfonso X was king of “Castilla, León, Sevilla, Córdoba, Murcia, Jaén, and el Algarbe.” As evidenced by his title, he came to have possession of various kingdoms in Iberia. He was born in Toledo in 1221 and died in Seville in 1284, at 63 years of age. He is called the Learned King because he was an author, poet, musician, and historian, and becaus…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Francisco Núñez Muley, Memorial (Granada, 1566) in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoNúñez-Muley abstract
The Edict of 1567, or Anti-Morisco Edict, was promulgated by Spanish King Philip II on January 1, after being approved in Madrid on November 17, 1566. Its purpose was to eliminate specific Morisco customs, such as their language, dress, and dances. Núñez Muley’s Petition is an attempt to persuade Christian authorities to de…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Francisco Núñez Muley, Memorial (Granada, 1566) in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoNúñez-Muley abstract
The Edict of 1567, or Anti-Morisco Edict, was promulgated by Spanish King Philip II on January 1, after being approved in Madrid on November 17, 1566. Its purpose was to eliminate specific Morisco customs, such as their language, dress, and dances. Núñez Muley’s Petition is an attempt to persuade Christian authorities to de…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks started the topic Open access teaching unit: Alfonso X, Cantigas de Santa Maria (Cantiga 5) in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAlfonso X was king of “Castilla, León, Sevilla, Córdoba, Murcia, Jaén, and el Algarbe.” As evidenced by his title, he came to have possession of various kingdoms in Iberia. He was born in Toledo in 1221 and died in Seville in 1284, at 63 years of age. He is called the Learned King because he was an author, poet, musician, and historian, and becaus…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Plenary: “Are There Transgender Characters in Shakespeare?” Blackfriars Conference, American Shakespeare Center, Staunton, Virginia, November 4, 2023. in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoVideo recording of Alexa Alice Joubin’s plenary is available on YouTube, https://youtu.be/8P5nNv86goQ There are certainly non-binary actors on stage, but are there Shakespearean characters who can be read as trans? The answer is yes. To ask whether there are transgender characters is to ask questions about the performance of gender roles. We are…[Read more]
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Epifanio San Juan deposited CHALLENGING AMERICAN STUDIES in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoCritique of orthodox American Studies in the last quarter of the twentieth=century.
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Epifanio San Juan deposited INTER-CROSSCULTURAL DIALOGUES AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIGENIZATION IN LATE MODERNITY in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoSurvey of the rise of sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology) in the context of decolonization and indigenization movements in the Philippines in the last decades of the 20th century.
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Epifanio San Juan deposited INTER-CROSSCULTURAL DIALOGUES AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIGENIZATION IN LATE MODERNITY in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoSurvey of the rise of sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology) in the context of decolonization and indigenization movements in the Philippines in the last decades of the 20th century.
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited The Shakespearean International Yearbook 20: Pericles, ed. Tom Bishop, Alexa Alice Joubin, Deanne Williams in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThis volume focuses on Pericles, Prince of Tyre, whose narrative of refugee suffering, familial loss, emotional distancing, people-trafficking, and eventual, joyous recovery speaks strikingly to our historical moment. The play’s internationalist reach, its images of cross-cultural relations, and its Eastern Mediterranean setting also promote a r…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Abandoning Tragedy in James Ijames Fat Ham in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe story of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is adapted and revised by James Ijames in his play Fat Ham, which ran from 12 May to 31 July 2022 at The Public Theater, coproduced by the National Black Theatre. Ijames’s play, which won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for drama, plays with and departs from the plot of Hamlet to explore Black manhood, the fam…[Read more]
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Sophie Christman deposited Alt-Burger: Transforming Populist Food Systems in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis article argues that there exists a problematic nexus between the industrial livestock industry, US food system policies, and American propagandist literature. The essay’s specific aim is to transform carnivorous appetites by subverting the integrity of America’s national gastronomic emblem – the hamburger. The article examines how hambu…[Read more]
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