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James Gifford deposited ENGL 3384: Postcolonial Literature in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoSelected works from the literatures of former European colonies: African, Indian, Caribbean, Australian, Canadian, Latin American, etc. Colonialism waned in the 1940s through 60s amidst decolonization movements, yet globalization flourished in often unnoticed, hegemonic pathways. Considering cultural products of this moment leads us to ask what…[Read more]
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Laila Amine deposited A House with Two Doors? Creole Nationalism and Nomadism in Multicultural London in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoThis article focuses on the limits of liberal discourses such as multiculturalism in an increasing global world. I focus on multicultural London and juxtapose Black British writer, Zadie Smith’s novel, White Teeth to Stephen Frears’ Dirty Pretty Things, to underline the multiple intersections between the status of colored immigrants, their des…[Read more]
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Laila Amine deposited A House with Two Doors? Creole Nationalism and Nomadism in Multicultural London in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoThis article focuses on the limits of liberal discourses such as multiculturalism in an increasing global world. I focus on multicultural London and juxtapose Black British writer, Zadie Smith’s novel, White Teeth to Stephen Frears’ Dirty Pretty Things, to underline the multiple intersections between the status of colored immigrants, their des…[Read more]
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Laila Amine deposited Double Exposure: The Family Album and Alternate Memories in Leïla Sebbar's The Seine was Red in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoAmine’s essay explores memory-making and highlights a paradox in
Leı¨la Sebbar’s The Seine was Red, a novel that describes the conflicting memories of the police massacre of Algerians in Paris on 17 October 1961. Structured as a family album with captioned identities, place, and time, Sebbar’s novel employs a mode of remembrance that convent…[Read more] -
Laila Amine deposited The Paris Paradox: Colorblindness and Colonialism in African American Expatriate Fiction in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoThis essay maps out a six-year literary transformation of Paris noir from 1957 to 1963 that overlaps with the Algerian war for independence from France (1954–1962). In this journey that transits from Parisian utopianism to postcolonial criticism, from Richard Wright and James Baldwin’s love songs to racially liberal Paris to William Gardner S…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Gnosticism in Lawrence Durrell’s Monsieur: New Textual Evidence for Source Materials in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoPrevious scholarship on source materials for Lawrence Durrell’s Gnostic themes in Monsieur are insufficient in light of his marginalia in Serge Hutin’s Les Gnostiques and his notebooks for the novel. We contend that archival evidence from the Bibliothèque Lawrence Durrell in Nanterre, France, necessitates a reevaluation of previous work in orde…[Read more]
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Anna Ciamparella replied to the topic Self-translation of literary works into English in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoCara Arianna,
forse vuole consultare i testi di Antonio d’Alfonso autore del Quebec. Ha tradotto di suo pugno (dal francese all’inglese) non solo raccolte di poesie sue, ma anche uno dei sui romanzi.
Buona lettura!
Anna
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Eleonora Rao replied to the topic Self-translation of literary works into English in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoCiao Arianna,
Nancy Huston: Canadian (Calgary) transpanted to Paris a while ago – she married Todorov – has self translated a few of her novels – I haven’t read them – I know her essay on displacement: Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exile (Toronto, 2012).
eleonora
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Arianna Dagnino started the topic Self-translation of literary works into English in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoI am looking for contemporary published writers who have been self-translating their work from major romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese) into English.
<div class=””>If you know of any living authors active in self-translation in these language combinations, please let me know.</div>
<div class=””>Kind regards,</div>
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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic CFP for 2017 AASA Conference: Waypoints and Watersheds in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoWaypoints and Watersheds: Arab American Activism and Memories
A Conference Marking the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 War
Arab American Studies Association 2017 Conference
March 24-26, 2017
Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
Several important Arab and Arab American institutions and associations were established in the immediate aftermath…[Read more] -
Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: The Critic as Amateur in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoSaikat Majumdar and I are inviting essays for a proposed collection tentatively titled The Critic as Amateur, with strong interest from Oxford UP. The collection will focus on literary criticism as an activity suspended (productively) between expertise and amateurism. It will explore the idea of the critic of literature as an amateur rather t…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: The Critic as Amateur in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoSaikat Majumdar and I are inviting essays for a proposed collection tentatively titled The Critic as Amateur, with strong interest from Oxford UP. The collection will focus on literary criticism as an activity suspended (productively) between expertise and amateurism. It will explore the idea of the critic of literature as an amateur rather t…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Statements by MLA Members in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months ago” I urge all colleagues to endorse this reasonable and well formulated resolution and make clear their refusal to remain silent in the face of escalating brutality directed at a desperate population of civilians living under alien military occupation.” Ian Balfour
Check out the MLA Members for Justice in Palestine website for recent statements on…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic The Hypocrisy of the Anti-BDS Lawsuit in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoEven an opponent of boycotts agrees that:
“This is frivolous litigation designed for the sole purpose of getting the government to suppress the freedom of speech of a private organization. It should be condemned by everyone on all sides of the BDS issue, and anyone who believes in liberty….
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Repression of BDS Activists: Omar Barghouti denied the right to travel in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoIn recent months, Israel and its supporters have been ramping up their campaign to suppress BDS activism globally, having failed to prevent this non-violent civil society movement from disseminating information about Israel’s discriminatory regime, continuing acts of dispossession, and unrelenting violations of human rights and international law.…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic History, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference, McMaster U in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoHistory, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference
Department of English & Cultural Studies, May 6-7, 2016
<div class=”entry-content”>On June 23, 1985 a bomb detonated on Air India Flight 182 en route from Toronto to New Delhi via Montreal. The mid-air explosion killed all 329 passengers and crew, the majority of whom were South…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic History, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference. McMaster U in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoDepartment of English & Cultural Studies
History, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference
May 6-7, 2016
McMaster Innovation Park
<div class=”entry-content”>On June 23, 1985 a bomb detonated on Air India Flight 182 en route from Toronto to New Delhi via Montreal. The mid-air explosion killed all 329 passengers and crew, the…[Read more]
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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic Please vote on MLA Resolutions in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoHello everyone,
As per, MLA member communications by Carol Zuses, the MLA “at its meeting during the 2016 convention in Austin, the Delegate Assembly approved six constitutional amendments and one resolution.” One of those has to do with speaking out against Islamophobia. As Carol Zuses’s email points out, “the assembly’s actions are not fi…[Read more]
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Greg Forter deposited Atlantic and Other Worlds: Critique and Utopia in Postcolonial Historical Fiction in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoThis essay explores the meanings and effects of postcolonial authors’ recent refashioning of classical historical fiction. That refashioning has two aims: a materialist cartography that counters the nationalist vocation of classical historical fiction by revealing the supra-national, global aspirations of colonial capitalism as a system; and an e…[Read more]
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Greg Forter deposited Atlantic and Other Worlds: Critique and Utopia in Postcolonial Historical Fiction in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoThis essay explores the meanings and effects of postcolonial authors’ recent refashioning of classical historical fiction. That refashioning has two aims: a materialist cartography that counters the nationalist vocation of classical historical fiction by revealing the supra-national, global aspirations of colonial capitalism as a system; and an e…[Read more]
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