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Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2025 CFP: Entomological Turns in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years agoFrom Proust’s queer bumblebee to Deleuze and Guattari’s tick, insects play an outsized role in 20th/21st-century literature, art, and critical thought. Speakers will explore the French/Francophone entomological imagination, examining concepts from swarm to camouflage, pollination, and beyond.
This is a guaranteed 2025 MLA panel. Please send 250…[Read more]
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic Join TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature’s Executive Committee! in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years agoMLA’s Transdisciplinary Connections Forum for Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature solicits nominations and self-nominations for a seat on the Executive Board. The Executive Board devises and runs programming for the MLA Convention, including at least two panels yearly. The Forum is an excellent way to meet colleagues with similar interests.…[Read more]
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Siham Bouamer started the topic Call for Nominations: LLC Francophone (2025) in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Colleagues,The LLC Francophone Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self)nominations from our membership for one colleague (must be an MLA member) willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2025 through the close of the January 2029 convention). Members who would like to nominate themselves or other members for…[Read more]
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Gerald Joseph Prince started the topic Call Nominations LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Colleagues,The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2025 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]
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Gerald Joseph Prince started the topic Call Nominations LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Colleagues,The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2025 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story in the discussion
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
We recently published an article titled as “Deconstructing a Disempowering Normative Identity: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story” in Interlitteraria journal. We present the information and the abstract of the article below. If you would like to have a copy of it, please write t…[Read more]
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Darren J. Borg replied to the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoOur panel, #733–“What is a life worth living?: Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life– does not have a specific focus on psychoanalysis, but my paper, “Towards a Psychoanalysis of the Time-Traveller,” does. Please share!
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThe Transdisciplinary Connections Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature invites you to attend our panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia!
We have two interesting and timely sessions this year:
194 – Lacan and the Event: Papers in Honor of Mari Ruti
Friday, 5 January 2024, 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Marriott – Franklin 7 (Level…[Read more]
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Epifanio San Juan deposited INTER-CROSSCULTURAL DIALOGUES AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIGENIZATION IN LATE MODERNITY in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoSurvey of the rise of sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology) in the context of decolonization and indigenization movements in the Philippines in the last decades of the 20th century.
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Steven Schroeder deposited as murder is to crow in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThomas à Kempis wrote that everyone desires peace but not the things that make for peace. Such a universal desire would be a hopeful sign, a foundation to build on as we contemplate (and, no doubt, debate) “the things that make for peace.” I offer as murder is to crow as a record of “perchings” in my contemplation of things that make for peace.…[Read more]
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Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
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Marisa Verna deposited « Proust et l’odeur de son temps » in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoUntil now, critics have shown little interest in the bouquet of aromas and scents that permeate the linguistic fabric of À la recherche du temps perdu , to the point of forming an olfactory (and cognitive) underlay. The aesthetic impact of these odors warrants further investigation, starting with a reconstruction of the “problem of smell” in Prou…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited « Proust et l’odeur de son temps » in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoUntil now, critics have shown little interest in the bouquet of aromas and scents that permeate the linguistic fabric of À la recherche du temps perdu , to the point of forming an olfactory (and cognitive) underlay. The aesthetic impact of these odors warrants further investigation, starting with a reconstruction of the “problem of smell” in Prou…[Read more]
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Jacob Jewusiak deposited Aging Earth: Senescent Environmentalism for Dystopian Futures (Introduction) in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoAlarmist demography often situates older people as natural
disasters: images of the “gray flood” and “silver tsunami” imbue
senescence with the destructive force of climatic proportions. This
Element focuses on the demographic dread arising from the relative
shift in younger and older populations: not of a world lacking children,
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Marisa Verna deposited “L’indicible dans la Recherche du temps perdu. Proust et le silence du corps “ in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDeath, as well as sleep, seem to leave us facing the category of the unspeakable. This paper aims at studying Proust’s novel from this point of view, examining the paradox of a writing that crosses the threshold between what can be said and “what cannot be said but must nevertheless be heard” (Blanchot). We intend to analyze the discursive and r…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited “The past goes to sleep, and wakes up inside you”: Identity Crisis in Hassan Blasimʼs “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes” in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis article examines “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes,” the last of the fourteen stories that comprise Iraqi writer Hassan Blasimʼs collection The Corpse Exhibition. In “The Nightmares” Blasim is not concerned at all about depicting the reception of refugees in Europe. As evident in the title itself, what is central to the story is the psycholo…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited Homeland as a Site of Trauma in Selected Short Stories by Edwidge Danticat in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe main objective of this article is to examine the representation of ʻhomelandʼ in three short stories by Caribbean-American writer Edwidge Danticat: “The Book of the Dead,” “Night Talkers,” and “The Gift.” All three stories represent Haitian migrants in the multi-cultural setting of the United States. A central theme that connects these stories…[Read more]
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Nathan H. Dize started the topic Conversation with Jean Abel Pierre about corruption in Haiti (in French) in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoKwazman Vwa is delighted to welcome author Jean Abel Pierre. Pierre will be with us to discuss his recent book, Sociologie critique de la corruption: Comment Haïti est pris au piège de la pauvreté. Corruption is a subject that concerns us all, and somehow, our preoccupation with limiting its effects and abuses never seem to fully eliminate it ent…[Read more]
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Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024–Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]
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