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Dorothy Stringer started the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2023 MLA Convention in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature is pleased to announce five panels at MLA 2023 (including some postponed from 2022). The full list can be accessed at this link. We hope to see you there!
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Damage or Pleasure? Teaching Shakespeare as a British Indian in the US in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 3 years agoText of a talk delivered remotely to Seshadripuram Evening Degree College to commemorate their Golden Jubilee in July 2022. Not peer-reviewed. Discusses, in memoiristic fashion, Tripthi Pillai’s coinage “Shakespeare Damage” — the initial encounter of many minoritized or colonized subjects (including LGBTQ+ persons) with Shakespeare– and…[Read more]
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Minni Sawhney deposited Violencia e identidades: Elmer Mendoza y la creación de una saga detectivesca in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThe portrayal of narcotrafficking in the novels of Elmer Mendoza.
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Loren Kruger deposited Brechtian Theatre and the Glocal South The Case from South Africa in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThe glocal scale offers a more productive frame for analyzing the transculturation of theatre, particular Brechtian theory and practice, than either the singularly local or the generalized global. Glocalization brings into focus networks of imaginative representation that may be missed in overbroad applications of global frameworks, particularly…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited Afghanistan’s “Bacha Posh”: Gender-Crossing in Nadia Hashimi’s The Pearl That Broke Its Shell in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months agoThis article explores the tradition of Bacha Posh in Afghan culture as depicted in Afghan-American Nadia Hashimiʼs debut novel The Pearl that Broke its Shell (2014). In this novel, Hashimi shows how Afghan girls are obliged to cross-dress and live dual lives as boys for several years to lay claim for their rights to education and freedom of…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited “‘You cannot assimilate Indian ghosts’ : a magical realist reading of Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman” in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoIn The Night Watchman (2020), Louise Erdrich continues to blur the lines between history and fiction as she has done in several of her novels. Erdrich introduces the reader to several magical elements that appear to be entirely real: two ghosts, a dog that talks, and an unearthly powwow with Jesus as one of the dancers. The main objective of this…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited “‘You cannot assimilate Indian ghosts’ : a magical realist reading of Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman” in the group
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoIn The Night Watchman (2020), Louise Erdrich continues to blur the lines between history and fiction as she has done in several of her novels. Erdrich introduces the reader to several magical elements that appear to be entirely real: two ghosts, a dog that talks, and an unearthly powwow with Jesus as one of the dancers. The main objective of this…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Hydrocolonial Johannesburg in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoJohannesburg is a landlocked city, famously the largest human concentration in the southern hemisphere not located on a river. What opportunities does it afford for hydrocolonial analysis, given Isabel Hofmeyr’s anchoring of that term in oceanic studies? How might a hydrocolonial orientation defamiliarize the relations between surface and depths…[Read more]
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Esha Sil started the topic CFP: The Routledge Handbook to Global Literature and Culture in the Romantic Era in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoCall for Papers: The Routledge Handbook to Global Literature and Culture in the Romantic Era
Edited by Arif Camoglu, Bakary Diaby, Omar F. Miranda, Gaura Narayan, and Kate Singer
How might we re-envision and extend the “Romantic period” through an archive of texts and forms of expression from multiple communities across the planet during…[Read more]
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TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoCall for 500-word article proposals for a special issue of the ‘Comparative Literature Studies’ entitled “Redesigning Modernities.’ The issue seeks studies that identify and explore new paradigms for understanding “modernity”—in all its unevenness and inequities— across the globe, and constructing new cartographies of cultural creation and circulation.
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Poposals: Comparative Literature Studies to
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoCall for 500-word article proposals for a special issue of the ‘Comparative Literature Studies’ entitled “Redesigning Modernities.’ The issue seeks studies that identify and explore new paradigms for understanding “modernity”—in all its unevenness and inequities— across the globe, and constructing new cartographies of cultural creation and circulation.
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Dustin Friedman deposited “Sinister Exile”: Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Race in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoThe aestheticism of Walter Pater and Vernon Lee participated in a late-nineteenth-century discourse devoted to exploring the aesthetic’s role in producing and sustaining, as well as undermining, notions of racial difference. Pater’s “A Study of Dionysus: The Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew” (1876) and Lee’s “Dionea” (1890) partake of Immanue…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited “The rarest, most complex & most lately developed form of aestheticism”: Olive Schreiner, decadence, and the aesthetic education of the senses in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoThis essay focuses on Olive Schreiner’s personal correspondence and the allegories collected in Dreams (1890) to explore her complicated relationship to late-Victorian Decadence. I argue that Schreiner modified Decadent writers’ use of intersensoriality and synaesthesia to educate her readers into a new kind of common sense, one aligned with her…[Read more]
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic CFP: US Literatures and Psychoanalysis (MLA 2023) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoWhat does psychoanalysis do for theory, criticism, and scholarship in US literatures today? Conversely, how do US literatures intervene on psychoanalysis?
The MLA’s Transdisciplinary Connections Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature has noted extraordinary scholarly interest in these questions recently. We therefore invite a…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic ACLA 2022 Seminar CFP: Intermediality & the Transboundary in S & SE Asia in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoIntermediality and the Transboundary in South and Southeast Asia
A Seminar Proposal for the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Annual Conference, National Taiwan University, Taipei, June 15-18, 2022
Deadline for Submission: October 31, 2021 at 11:59 p.m. PST
To submit an abstract for this seminar, please visit:…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: Inter-Asia Intermediality: A Two-Part International Workshop in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoInter-Asia Intermediality: A Two-Part International Workshop
Conveners: Brian Bernards (USC) and Elmo Gonzaga (CUHK)
Part 1: University of Southern California (Los Angeles), May 20-21, 2022
Part 2: Chinese University of Hong Kong, June 10-11, 2022Over the past two decades, intermediality and inter-Asia (much like interdisciplinarity) have…[Read more]
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Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic Three Positions in Black Studies and English at Amherst College in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoBlack Studies and English (three positions)The Departments of English and Black Studies at Amherst College invite applications for multiple full-time appointments in the field of Black literature and culture, to begin on July 1, 2022. We define this field broadly to include work in any genre or medium produced by people from Africa, the Caribbean,…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe’s Fiction in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoGene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]
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Ted Laros deposited Literature and the Law in South Africa, 1910–2010: The Long Walk to Artistic Freedom in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoIn 1994, artistic freedom pertaining inter alia to literature was enshrined in the South African Constitution. Clearly, the establishment of this right was long overdue compared to other nations within the Commonwealth. Indeed, the legal framework and practices regarding the regulation of literature that were introduced following the nation’s t…[Read more]
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