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Arif Camoglu deposited Postkolonyal Teori ve Osmanlı Türk Emperyalizmini Beraber Düsünmek in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoOsmanlı emperyalizminden ve kolonyalizminden bahsedebilmek için postkolonyal teorinin analitik ufkunu ve kelime dağarcığını esnetmek ve belki de yeniden gözden geçirmek gereklidir. Bu yazının akademik ve politik meramı işte budur Daha açık bir deyişle, Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan örneğiyle önümüzde beliren Osmanlı hayal(et)ini postkolonyal teoriyle k…[Read more]
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James Mulholland deposited Translocal Anglo-India and the Multilingual Reading Public in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis article proposes a new literary history of British Asia that examines its earliest communities and cultural institutions in translocal and regional registers. Combining translocalism and regionalism redefines Anglo‐Indian writing as constituted by multisited forces, only one of which is the reciprocal exchange between Britain and its c…[Read more]
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Thomas Robert Ward deposited Coloniality and the Rise of Liberation Thinking during the Sixteenth Century in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis book delves into the inadequately explored, liberative side of Humanism during the late Renaissance. While some long-sixteenth-century thinking anticipates twentieth-century Liberation Theology, a broader description is simply “liberation thinking,” which embraces its diverse, timeless, and sometimes nontheological aspects.
Two moments fra…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman deposited Peter Abrahams of South Africa: Learning to Read (in) the Global 1930s in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoBorn poor, the material and ideological networks that propelled Peter Abrahams to literacy in 1930s South Africa lay bare how white liberalism, Pan-Africanism, and Marxism all overlapped as well as contradicted one another in the global 1930s. The confluences and contradictions of these currents of thought, artistic production, and political…[Read more]
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Jason Frydman deposited Death in the Arena: A Brief History of Dancehall, Time, and the Cold War in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis essay decodes how Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings uses the history of Jamaican music, culminating in the conflict between roots reggae and dancehall, to chart the Cold War’s conflicts over time, temporality, and futurity. A Brief History of Seven Killings points readers to a jaded, subaltern temporality encoded in a dan…[Read more]
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Umar Anjum replied to the topic CFP for MLA 2022 panel that could include South Asian Languages taught in the US in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoHi,
No worries.
Have a nice week ahead
-umar
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Umar Anjum replied to the topic CFP for MLA 2022 panel that could include South Asian Languages taught in the US in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThank you, this looks great. I am interested. Can you please share details? Thanks
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for MLA 2022 panel that could include South Asian Languages taught in the US in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoWorld Languages, World Literature, Comparative Literature
Description: Comparative and World Literature programs depend on world language education pipeliines — and vice versa. This panel explores articulations, pipeline building, language-planning advocacy, including dialogue with high school language and literature teachers and…[Read more]
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Alden Sajor Marte-Wood started the topic Call for papers: Big Data & Social Media in Southeast Asia (MLA 2022) in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCall for papers: Big Data & Social Media in Southeast Asia (MLA 2022)
We invite papers for a proposed session on “Big Data & Social Media in Southeast Asia” for the 2022 Modern Language Association conference (6-9 January). This session is sponsored by the MLA’s Southeast Asia and Southeast Asia Diasporic forum. In The Costs of Connection: How D…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic Call for Applications: Southeast Asian Studies Archives Fellows in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe University of Washington Libraries invites applicants for our Southeast Asian Studies Archives Fellowship Program funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. We invite recent Ph.D. graduates, or finishing doctoral candidates across all disciplines in the arts, humanities and social sciences to apply for one of three one-quarter long full time paid…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Symposium: Literary / Media Histories of (Post)colonial Southeast Asia in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoA symposium on Literary / Media Histories of (Post)Colonial Southeast Asia. Friday 12 March at 9:30 AM US Pacific time (Los Angeles) on Zoom.
Speakers: Elizabeth Wijaya, Nadine Chan, Cheryl Narumi Naruse, & Philip Holden
Please register in advance: tinyurl.com/sealitmedia21
We have a website with talk abstracts, speaker bios, & helpful…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoCall for papers: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature (MLA 2022)
We invite papers for a proposed session on “Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature” for the 2022 Modern Language Association conference (6-9 January). The session is co-sponsored by the MLA’s Asian American Liter…[Read more]
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yasser elhariry started the topic The Black Mediterranean / CFP / MLA 2022 Guaranteed Session in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 5 years agoCall for Papers
MLA Annual Convention
6–9 January 2022
Washington DC
Guaranteed Forum Session
Sponsored by CLCS Mediterranean
The Black Mediterranean
Michelle Murray (Vanderbilt University), presiding
The subordinations of racial disparity, conflict, and death are persistent traits of the Mediterranean and its d…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Dean started the topic Textual Scholarship 2021 conference "Reckonings, Recoveries, and Transitions" in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the 2021 conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship, to be hosted virtually by The New School May 19-22, on the theme Reckonings, Recoveries, and Transitions. Proposals are due February 8, for presentations in a variety of formats.
The Society hopes to attract participation in this conference from…[Read more]
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Whit Frazier Peterson deposited A Magnificent Blond Beast: Exploring the Implications of Harlem Renaissance Writer Wallace Thurman as Ghostwriter of a Forgotten Celebrity Gossip Memoir in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years agoIn an early version of his article “Harlem Literati in the Twenties,” first published in the Saturday Evening Review in 1940, Langston Hughes offers the curious suggestion that Wallace Thurman was the ghostwriter of Men, Marriage and Me (erroneously written as Men, Women and Checks in Hughes’ article), the tell-all memoir ostensibly by the origi…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward started the topic MLA Elections Close TODAY!!! in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoDon’t forget that MLA elections close today!
Don’t forget to vote for the new member of the LLC African American Forum Executive Committee and for the MLA Executive Council among other elections.
https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Elections/Nominations-for-2020-MLA-Elections
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Southeast Asia & Southeast Asia diasporic sessions MLA 2021 in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoFYI: based on a search of the MLA 2021 online program, here’s a list of the sessions/panels that have content related to Southeast Asia & its diasporas. All dates & times are US Eastern Time (New York).
* Asian American Literature and Empire and Imperialism
Thursday, 7 January 2021
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Esha Sil uploaded the file: Call for Papers: SPEAKING AS THE 'OTHER': CALLIOPE International Conference, University of Helsinki: 10-12 May 2021 to
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers: SPEAKING AS THE ‘OTHER’: CALLIOPE International Conference, University of Helsinki: 10-12 May 2021
SPEAKING AS THE ‘OTHER’: Coloniality, Subalternity, and Embodied Political Articulations
(late 18th – early 20th centuries)
10-12 May 2021
Live in Helsinki and online
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Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe influential Tamil writer Pudumaippittan turned to the short story to theorize the relationship between literature and society in the late-colonial era. He used the genre’s brevity to compress his portrayals of well-known female types—such as widows, prostitutes, and goodwives—into singular emotional events. This enabled Pudumaippittan to evoke…[Read more]
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