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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited The Forbidden City: Tombolo between American Occupation and Italian Imagination in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoLargely ignored by scholarship and increasingly occluded in historical memory, Tombolo was once so central to Italian culture and politics that even allusive references to the term could conjure the doubt, anxiety, and indignation of a society working to recover after the war. A pine grove located between Pisa and Livorno, Tombolo housed a large…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Repressed Memory and Traumatic History in Alberto Moravia’s The Woman of Rome in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoIn composing The Woman of Rome (La Romana, 1948), I argue in this chapter, Moravia was attempting to redress the twinned traumas of national history and personal memory. The novel’s protagonist, a Roman prostitute, serves as the symbolic incarnation of-as well as the developing resistance to-bourgeois corruption and Fascist coercion. An intricate…[Read more]
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Shawn Casey started the topic Call for Papers: Women & Language in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThe editor asked us to share the following call for submissions with the HEP Community College Forum.
The call can also be found here: https://www.womenandlanguage.org/submissions
Call for Papers | Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Notes on the End of Rome, Open City in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoAmong the most iconic images in world cinema, the final shot of Rossellini’s Rome Open City has inspired an effusion of critical commentary but little critical consensus, instead giving rise to opposing interpretations. I argue that the shot, in which the camera pans to follow a band of children as they march on a hillside overlooking the city of…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited On the Translation of Literary Terms: Neorealismo and Neue Sachlichkeit in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThis essay examines the cultural practices and prejudices that shaped the Italian reception of German Neue Sachlichkeit in the 1920s and explores their role in the development of Italian Neorealism in the 1940s. I argue that, precisely because Italian critics approached the German critical category – and indeed all critical categorisation – wit…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Weltliteratur as Anti-Fascism: Philology and Politics in Luigi Foscolo Benedetto’s “Letteratura mondiale’” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThe search for a methodology for reading world literature largely entails the development of new critical paradigms, but it has also occasioned a re-examination and rehabilitation of world literature’s historical formulations. This essay reclaims a forgotten milestone, the 1946 essay “La ‘letteratura mondiale'” by the eminent Italian philologist…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited An Entirely New Land? Italy’s Post-War Culture and its Fascist Past in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoScholarship has for decades emphasized the significant continuities in Italian culture and society after Fascism, calling into question the rhetoric of post-war renewal. This article proposes a reassessment of that rhetoric through the analysis of five key metaphors with which Italian intellectuals represented national recovery after 1945:…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: Italian Intellectuals and the African-American Struggle in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoIn the aftermath of the Second World War, Italian intellectuals participated in Italy’s reconstruction
with an ideological commitment inspired by the African-American struggle for equal rights in the
United States. Drawing on the work of many of the leading figures in postwar Italian culture,
including Italo Calvino, Giorgio Caproni, Cesare P…[Read more] -
Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Il realismo di un nuovissimo Medio Evo: Boccaccio in the Age of Neorealism in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoIn this essay, I argue that the post-war critical re-interpretation of Boccaccio’s oeuvre was central to the theory and practice of Italian Neorealism. What is more, I maintain that Neorealism significantly influenced Boccaccio studies, shaping critical approaches to Boccaccio for decades after 1945. Reading scholarly and critical studies of…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Miravitlles, Francesc (ed.) (1997) Primo Levi «La treva» in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoPrimo Levi, ‘La treva’
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Miravitlles, Francesc (ed.) (1996). «Primo LEVI, Si això és un home» in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoReview of Primo Levi, ‘Si això és un home’
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Just published: Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Politics of US Latinx Twitter in the discussion
LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoIf you’re interested, check out the essay I recently published in issue #4 of archipelagos: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis, edited by Kaiama L. Glover and Alex Gil: http://archipelagosjournal.org/issue04/machado-gratitude.html
In “Debt of Gratitude: Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Politics of US Latinx Twitter,” I engage in an ana…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Just published: Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Politics of US Latinx Twitter in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoIf you’re interested, check out the essay I recently published in issue #4 of archipelagos: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis, edited by Kaiama L. Glover and Alex Gil: http://archipelagosjournal.org/issue04/machado-gratitude.html
In “Debt of Gratitude: Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Politics of US Latinx Twitter,” I engage in an ana…[Read more]
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Jennifer M. Wilks replied to the topic CFP: Extra-Anthropcentric Subjects in and from the Global South (MLA 2021) in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoDeadline extended to 3/31!
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Laura Torres-Rodríguez started the topic CFP: Deportation and Affect: Mapping the Hemispheric Americas (MLA 2021) in the discussion
LLC Mexican on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThis panel explores a variety of methodological and disciplinary approaches to the topic of mass deportations and immigrant justice from the perspective of the humanities. Please submit 300-word abstracts and short presenter’s biographies. Send to Laura J. Torres-Rodríguez ljt233@nyu.edu Deadline: April 2LCC Mexico and CLCS Hemispheric American
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Shawn Casey started the topic Extension: Centering Student Expertise MLA 2021 CFP – Deadline March 18 in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoAt least one member of the forum has asked for an extension of our CFP. It seems the least we can do, given the circumstances. MLA has not extended the deadline to submit panels, however, so we still need proposals this week, by end of day Wednesday the 18th if possible. Please email with any concerns: scasey5@cscc.edu.
This week I return to…[Read more]
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Elena Margarita Past started the topic LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoPlease consider submitting proposals for one of two guaranteed sessions organized by the Forum on 20th and 21st century Italian Literature at the 2021 MLA Convention in Toronto, from January 10-14, 2021.
1. MLA 2021, LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian, Guaranteed Session. Occupied Italy. This panel welcomes papers examining literary texts and…[Read more]
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Shawn Casey started the topic MLA 2021: Centering Student Expertise proposals due 15 March 2020 in the discussion
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months ago“How do collaborative teaching and learning, alternative assessments, corequisites, and other classroom strategies reject the deficit model and center student experience? A panel on practical approaches for dismantling hierarchies in English.”
250-word proposals may be submitted directly to Shawn Casey scasey5@cscc.edu by 15 March 2020.
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Gian Piero Persiani started the topic CFP for MLA2021 “The Location of Culture: Places/Spaces of the Asian Imaginary” in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoWe invite proposals for the following, non-guaranteed session of the LLC Japanese to 1900 Forum @ MLA 2021:
Session title: The Location of Culture: Places and Spaces of the East Asian Imaginary
As either unmovable physical locations or portable culturally-mediated psychological spaces, places are an essential feature of our world.…[Read more]
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Clara Iwasaki started the topic CFP Guaranteed Session Reimagining Wartime Incarceration in East Asia in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoSponsored by LLC East Asia Forum World War II remains the focus of intense contemporary interest across the transpacific and particularly in East Asia, where contested borders and competing narratives collide. Although these nationalist discourses are historically articulated in terms of aggressor and victim (China/Japan, Korea/Japan, etc.),…[Read more]
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