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David C. Lloyd started the topic New Website and Facebook for MLA Boycott in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoFor more information and discussion of the resolution to endorse the Palestinian call to boycott Israeli academic institutions, please check our new website, which is open to public viewing and regularly updated with news, links and blog-posts, and our Facebook page. Like us there!
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Anthropology and Women's Studies Associations Move to Endorse the Boycott in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis November, the business meeting of the American Anthropological Association overwhelmingly voted–by a margin of 86%–to send a resolution to endorse the Palestinian Call for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions to the full membership for a…[Read more]
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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic Panels organized by the Global Arab and Arab American Forum in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoHello Everyone,
We thought you’d be interested in attending one or all of the sessions that we have organized for the Global Arab and Arab American Literature forum. This is our first official presence at the MLA, so we would welcome your support! Below are the panels we have organized. Hope to see you there!
Politics of Solidarities and…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Literary Trivia Quiz in Austin in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoI’d like to invite any members of this group attending the 2016 convention to participate in the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which will take place next Thursday night at the JW Marriott. It promises to be unabashedly nerdy, but fun too! A cash bar and prizes will be available.
Space is limited, so please reserve your spot at [Read more]
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic REIM CFP in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago<div align=”center”>CALL FOR PAPERS
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The Journal of International Mediterranean Studies (REIM) invites authors to submit articles for its 2016 special issue on“Local Politics in Contemporary Middle Eastern and North African Countries: Spaces of Political Continuity or Change?”.This special issue aims to explore the MENA countries and…[Read more]
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Leah Milne deposited Choosing Africa: The Importance of Naming in Beloved and The Poisonwood Bible. in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago“Choosing Africa: The Importance of Naming in Beloved and The Poisonwood Bible.” CLA Journal 55.4 (June 2012): 352-369.
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Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang posted an update in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoBe sure to check out “Intersections: African Literature and Electronic Literature on Sunday, 10 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 209, JW Marriott”
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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic GAAM Sessions at the MLA! in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear all,
Below you can find the listing of the first ever sessions organized by the Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum (GAAM) at the 2016 MLA convention in Austin, TX. Hope to see you there!
Politics of Solidarities and Cross-Racial Alliances
Friday, 8 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 18D, ACC
Program arranged by the forums CLCS G…[Read more]
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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic Election Results are in! in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoHello everyone,
We are excited to announce that Karim Mattar and Shaden Tageldin will be joining the executive committee of the Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum!
Please help us give them a big welcome by posting your congratulations here on our Commons page!
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Elana Hornblass Dushey deposited Tortured Zionism: Messianism, Ambivalence, and Israel in post-Holocaust Jewish American literature in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis dissertation examines post-Holocaust, Jewish American novelists that utilize messianism in their narratives to negotiate ambivalence about Zionism. Studying novels from the mid-1980’s to 2013, I look at the triangular relationship between Jewish American identification, the Holocaust, and Israel, to explore major topics in contemporary J…[Read more]
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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic Remember to vote by tomorrow! in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
If you haven’t yet done so, please be sure to vote for new members to the Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum! The last day for voting is tomorrow, December 10, 2015!
Candidates running for election for the term 2016-close of Jan. 2021 convention:
Ghenwa Hayek, University of Chicago
Karim Mattar, University of C…[Read more] -
Juan E. De Castro deposited ¿En qué idioma escribe usted?: Spanish, Tagalog and Identity in José Rizal's Noli me tangere in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago“¿En qué idioma escribe Ud.?” (142) “In which language are you writing?” This question, that Juan Crisóstomo Ibarra, the protagonist of José Rizal’s novel Noli me tangere (1887), addresses to the old scholar Don Anastasio, better known as Tasio, is more than just an expression of curiosity when he sees the latter writing, of all things, hiero…[Read more]
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Lawrence M. Venuti started the topic Call for Papers: “Translation and Ethnography: Reflexivity and Representation.” in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago29th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Translation Studies
Second Call for Papers (new deadline: January 29, 2016)
“Translation and Ethnography: Reflexivity and Representation”
University of Calgary (Alberta)
May 30 to June 1, 2016
The 29th annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Translation Studies is plea…[Read more]
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Ghenwa Hayek replied to the topic Candidate Statement – Exec Committee, Global Arab and Arab American Forum in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
I am writing in support of my nomination to the Global Arab and Arab American Executive Committee. I am Assistant Professor of Modern Arabic Literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. My research focuses on the entangled relationships between literary and cultural…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Lisa Zunshine in Conversation with Ralph James Savarese in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHave cognitive scientists misread autism? What happens if, instead of simply accepting such research, literary critics turned to the actual prose and poetry written by autistic authors, such as Tito Mukhopadhyay and Donna Williams? Literary theory may never be the same once it comes to terms with neurodiversity.
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Daniel Escandell Montiel started the topic Journal Caracteres: new issue. Cybertheatres and Performativity (monograph) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoMessage both in English & Spanish; Mensaje en español e inglés]
Estimados colegas:
El nuevo número de la revista Caracteres, vol.4 n. 2, ya está disponible tanto a través de la web como mediante descarga (en PDF): http://revistacaracteres.net/revista/vol4n2noviembre2015/ Este número incluye un monográfico coordinado por María Ángeles Grande t…[Read more]
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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic Please Vote for new Executive Committee Members! in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
If you haven’t yet done so, please be sure to vote for new members to the Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum!
Candidates running for election for the term 2016-close of Jan. 2021 convention:
Ghenwa Hayek, University of Chicago
Karim Mattar, University of Colorado, BoulderCandidates running for election for the…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Introduction to Panic Spring in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoEditor’s Introduction to Panic Spring. First published in 1937, two years after Durrell took up residence on the Greek island Kerkyra, Panic Spring broke with the realist tradition in 1930s novels and shows the young author’s first attempts to extend High Modernist innovations in rural and personal landscapes. Cubist, surrealist, and imagist…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Introduction to Panic Spring in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoEditor’s Introduction to Panic Spring. First published in 1937, two years after Durrell took up residence on the Greek island Kerkyra, Panic Spring broke with the realist tradition in 1930s novels and shows the young author’s first attempts to extend High Modernist innovations in rural and personal landscapes. Cubist, surrealist, and imagist…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Introduction to Pied Piper of Lovers in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoEditor’s Introduction to Pied Piper of Lovers. Durrell’s first novel, Pied Piper of Lovers, was published in 1935, shortly after he left England to live abroad until his death in 1990. As an autobiographical Künstlerroman, it traces Walsh Clifton’s Anglo-Indian childhood and his struggles to negotiate a life between “mother” India and “father”…[Read more]
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