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Kristin E. Pitt replied to the topic CFPs in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoHaiti: Beyond Commemorations & Boundaries (University of Chicago, May 12-14, 2016; Deadline: August 14, 2015)
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Corine Tachtiris started the topic CFPs in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoStarting a new thread for CFPs. Here’s one for the Caribbeanists, co-organized by our colleague here Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo:
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Kristin E. Pitt replied to the topic Literature about business in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoA couple of accessible short story suggestions from the environmentally-focused series on Oil and Water that The Guardian published in the past few years: “The Swimming Pool” by Jekwu Anyaegbuna, http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/16/jekwu-anyaegbuna-swimming-pool-short-story , and “Barthelme” by Joanna Kavenna, http://www.theguardian.com/bo…[Read more]
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Michael Barclay replied to the topic Literature about business in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoFor a majorly dystopian view of the corporate world written in the 1950s, I recommend Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano. Granted, it is set in the U.S., but its view of corporations as embodying their own cultural existence was way ahead of its time. It shows a vision of what happens when mechanization has displaced human labor.
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Patti Marxsen replied to the topic Is this forum still active? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoBy way of introducing myself… I am an independent writer/scholar whose work relates to the Francophone world. I live in German-speaking Switzerland but use French quite a lot and read French all the time. (Am a former French teacher, among other things.) Just finished Kamel Daoud’s spectacular “Meursault, contre-enquete”… working on an article…[Read more]
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Charles Whitney replied to the topic Literature about business in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoHi Christopher,
I recommend Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia and Ian McEwen, Solar. They were both published in the last few years. They would be good because they contextualize their principal settings, the business or work-related worlds, in the larger framework of contemporary economy and society, the former in de…[Read more]
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Christopher Michaelson started the topic Literature about business in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoI would value recommendations of novels and stories that explore, directly or allegorically, business, economic, and work-related behaviors – especially in the context of contemporary, developing markets. This is for a project to bring world literature into the business classroom, scholarly management research, and even the dialogue of busi…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Is this forum still active? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoIt has been a year since Claire Oberon García asked members of this forum to introduce themselves, a year in which the forum’s membership has doubled. I would like to invite you all once again to introduce yourselves to the group, and to use this forum to share calls for papers, works in progress or completed papers (see the articles on Aimé C…[Read more]
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Matthew H. Brown started the topic CFP: Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis and Pop Culture in the Global South in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoCFP: Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis and Popular Culture in the Global South, March 11-12, 2016
Keynote speakers: Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California, Davis) and Juan Poblete (University of California, Santa Cruz)
We invite scholars working on popular culture in/of the Global South to submit paper proposals that interrogate the…[Read more]
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Alexander Gil deposited Bridging the Middle Passage: The textual (r)evolution of Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal in the group
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThe paper represents an up-to-date, comprehensive and accurate account of the history of The Cahier d’ un retour au pays natal in English today. I use the early productions and reproductions of the poem to argue that Césaire’s early work is meant for an American (in the broad sense of the word) audience. Using textual evidence and archival…[Read more]
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Alexander Gil deposited Découverte de l'Ur-texte de Et les chiens se taisaient in the group
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThis brief piece tells the story of my discovery of the Saint-Dié Typescript of Et les chiens se taisaient. The text also provides a preliminary description of the typescript, a summary of the plot of the historical drama, as well as a brief comparison with the published version of 1946.
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic Reminder: CFP: Special Issue of Postcolonial Text in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoTranslated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia
(In Honour and Memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam)
The editors of a forthcoming special issue of Postcolonial Text—to be dedicated to the memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam—would like to remind scholars that papers are gratefully accepted until June 15, 2015.
To date, we have rec…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Abu Ghraib and Beyond: Torture as an Extension of the Desiring Machine in the group
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoIn his discussion of Dante’s Inferno, Edward Said writes that “Maometto” or Mohammed occupies the eighth circle in the nine circles of Hell, belonging to “a rigid hierarchy of evils.” According to Said, “Maometto” is “endlessly being cleft in two from his chin to his anus,” a punishment in Dante’s belief is well deserved because of Maometto…[Read more]
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Filippo Menozzi started the topic CFP for MLA Volume in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoWe invite proposals for a volume in the MLA Options for Teaching series entitled Teaching Anglophone South Asian Women’s Writing, edited by Deepika Bahri and Filippo Menozzi.
This volume seeks meaningful responses to the following questions: What do we teach when we teach South Asian Women’s Writing? How do we teach it in a variety of cont…[Read more]
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Nancy Bogen replied to the topic slide-choreographies of poems in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoThank you, Marisa!
Please continue to pass the word along re my work.
Nancy
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Marisa Verna replied to the topic slide-choreographies of poems in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoDear Nancy
it really doesn’t look like you’re old… You bring the youth of poetry in any spectator-listener. I enjoyed everything of your slides-poems that translate them (poems) in a new language without losing their sense/meaning
thank you so much
Marisa Verna
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Francesco Levato started the topic CFP: Border(ing) Anxiety: Constructions of a Biopolitical Other in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers: Permanent Section – Creative Writing II (Prose) – Deadline Extended
2015 Midwest Modern Language Association Convention
Border(ing) Anxiety: Constructions of a Biopolitical Other
The force of biopolitics in contemporary society marks boundaries beyond geopolitical borders, inscribing otherness on bodies simultaneously necessary…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoSpecial Issue for Postcolonial Text
CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia
(In Honour and Memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam)
In honour of a dear mentor, teacher, and scholar–Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam–who recently passed away, we (former students of Prof. Kanaganayakam’s) will be editing and compiling a forthcoming i…[Read more]
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Verena Kick started the topic CFP for 2016 MLA: Grasping at Screens in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCFP for 2016 MLA in Austin, TX
Grasping at Screens
This panel asks whether the multiplication of screens and the constant traversal of different media demand new ways of thinking about embodied engagement with the moving image. As our bodies move, our various screens may move with us. We may be engaged intensely with a given flow of images, o…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic MLA Panel for 2016 – Forum on South Asia and South Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoTransnational Memories: 9/11 and South Asians (Guaranteed panel)
Papers that engage with racial injury, anger, trauma, and grief of South Asians in post-9/11 US, Canada, and Britain; representations of 9/11 in fiction, cinema, memoirs, etc. produced in South Asia and in the West; surveillance and securitization in South Asia and in the W…[Read more]
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