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Nicholas T Rinehart deposited Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoCanon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave…[Read more]
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited «دوک همت» در دستان عنکبوت دورگه: پذیرش خلاق پروین اعتصامی از شعر والت ویتمن in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoپروین اعتصامی (۱۲۸۵ـ ۱۳۲۰)، شاعر نامدار معاصر، در شعرهایش از منابع متعددی بهره بردهاست؛ اما نکته جالب توجه این است که او در تمام این برداشتهای ادبی، اشعار خود را کاملاً از آثار پیشین متمایز میکند. پروین عناصری را که از آثار دیگران وام گرفته است هنرمندانه با عناصر شعر خود و سنت ادبی فارسی درمیآمیزد و آن را از آن خود میکند؛ به گ…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Hemingway in Spain in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoA disingenuous look on Hemingway Cutthroat and on Hemingway in Spain: Retropost, 2011: Hemingway, días de vino y muerte https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2011/08/hemingway-dias-de-vino-y-muerte.html
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Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY AUGUST 31, 2021 in the discussion
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoI am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.
Although American expatriate literature in Paris is typified by the Lost Generation or the Jazz Age of the 1920s, Americans show a distinct…[Read more]
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Vanessa Valdés started the topic Call for Abstracts: Multilingualism in Hemispheric Americas (MLA 2022) in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoDescription & Requirements: Abstracts (250 words) on the following topics: multilingualism in literature, visual and performing arts; multilingualism and history; multilingualism’s challenges to national literatures; revitalization of African/Indigenous languages; multilingual DH. Comparative/interdisciplinary approaches preferred. Submission D…[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
CLCS Caribbean 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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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘La Peste Escarlata’ y la epidemiología evolutiva in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoEl artículo examina el relato de Jack London “La Peste Escarlata” desde la perspectiva de la actual epidemiología evolucionista, sosteniendo que su comprensión pesimista de la dinámica epidemiológica en poblaciones crecientes, y su visión catastrofista de la evolución, son esencialmente correctas y se hallan muy por delante de las ideas recibi…[Read more]
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Victoria Addis deposited Forming Ecomasculinities through Deep Ecology in Gravity’s Rainbow in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis article examines the concept of ecomasculinity – how masculinities and ecologies interact – through the lens of deep ecology, arguing (following Serpil Oppermann) that Pynchon’s postmodernist boundary collapsing informs deep-ecological interconnections for male characters previously embroiled in negative cycles of patriarchal dominance.…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Sign petition to Save CENTRO (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis is a petition shared by Aldo Lauria Santiago of Rutgers University.
Please consider reading and signing the “Save Centro (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)” petition, which you can access here: https://forms.gle/pDfE56LPkopPZHwb8
Thanks,
Elena Machado Sáez
Chair of the LLC Latina and Latino Forum
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Sign petition to Save CENTRO (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis is a petition shared by Aldo Lauria Santiago of Rutgers University.
Please consider reading and signing the “Save Centro (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)” petition, which you can access here: https://forms.gle/pDfE56LPkopPZHwb8
Thanks,
Elena Machado Sáez
Chair of the LLC Latina and Latino Forum
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: "Democracy and the US Latinx Novel" in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months ago“Democracy and the US Latinx Novel”
Call for Papers
LLC Latina and Latino ForumRecent events have demonstrated the simultaneous vulnerability and resiliency of democratic projects, and of our cultural frameworks for imagining the norms and processes of those institutions.
This collaborative panel seeks presentations that address democracy…[Read more]
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Malin Lidström Brock deposited Beyond Multiculturalism: Invisible Men and Transculturality in The Human Stain and Erasure in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoIn Philip Roth’s The Human Stain (2000) and Percival Everett’s Erasure (2001) multiculturalism is described as moralistic and essentialist; both novels present black American male protagonists who feel victimized by multiculturalism. Although critics have maintained that the two novels present a universalist view of American identity, in this cha…[Read more]
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Malin Lidström Brock deposited Almost French: Food, Class, and Gender in the American Expatriate Memoir in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis chapter explores links among food, class and gender in two memoirs written by contemporary American expatriates in France. The argument made is that references to French cuisine simultaneously create and resolve the tensions that arise in the texts when the authors describe their ideal and elitist lives to a presumed American female…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic SSRN English & American Literature Research Network in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoEnglish & American Literature Research Network: https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2021/01/english-american-literature-research.html
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Lisa Nalbone started the topic 1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 5 years agoYou are cordially invited to attend the “1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies“, January 28 (7:00pm) to January 30 (5:00pm), hosted by the University of Tampa, themed “Envisaging José Martí in 2021: History, Culture and Education“. Program and registration appear: 1st Biannual Conference Registration | University of Tampa (ut.edu)
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Lisa Nalbone started the topic 1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 5 years agoYou are cordially invited to attend the “1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies“, January 28 (7:00pm) to January 30 (5:00pm), hosted by the University of Tampa, themed “Envisaging José Martí in 2021: History, Culture and Education“. Program and registration appear: 1st Biannual Conference Registration | University of Tampa (ut.edu)
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Tonight at 7:15pm: Join us for joyful conversation and community! in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 5 years agoDear Colleagues,
Join us this evening for our much-anticipated multi-forum reception, held via Zoom from 7:15-8:30 p.m!
548 Social Event Arranged by the Forums LLC Latina and Latino, Chicana and Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban and Cuban Diasporic, Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English, African American, Caribbean,…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Today at MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 5 years agoDear MLA members,
Join us today at the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!
“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)
- Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
- Presider: Joshua Guzmán, U of California, Los Angeles
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels (Jan 7) in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoDear MLA members,
Please consider attending one of the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!
“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)
- Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
- Presider: Joshua Guzmán, U of California, Los An…
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Lorena Gauthereau started the topic Call for applications: US Latino/a/x Digital Humanities Grants-in-Aid ($7,500) in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoUniversity of Houston
Recovering the US Hispanic Heritage Program / US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH)
Call for Proposals
GRANTS-IN-AID funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The University of Houston US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) program is a digital scholarship/research undertaking to provide training and research on US Latino…[Read more] - Load More
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