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Molly Des Jardin started the topic CFP: SHARP 2019 (Indigeneity, Nationhood, and Migrations of the Book) in the discussion
Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoHi all,
Forgive this non-MLA post (cross-posting on top of it!) but I was thinking of proposing something for SHARP 2019 in Amherst, MA. If anyone has interest in doing a panel on Japanese book history, I’d love to hear from you. Here is the very broad CFP, entitled Indigeneity, Nationhood, and Migrations of the…[Read more]
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Matthew Fraleigh started the topic Job announcement of potential interest in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoDear All,
Johns Hopkins reached out to ask that the following job announcement be circulated to the members of this forum.
Best,
Matthew
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The Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University searches for a tenure-track assistant professor, with an anticipated…[Read more]
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Amy Kahrmann Huseby deposited “Half Poets” and “Whole Democrats”: The Politics of Poetic Aggregation in Aurora Leigh in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoElizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh seeks to redress the divisive work of women’s democratic political representation by way of poetic form to ask whether women must always be regarded as partial citizens. Women are not counted as integral units—ones—politically or culturally. Barrett Browning connects women’s ability to produce writing a…[Read more]
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Zane Koss deposited Prehistoric Canadian Networks: Louis Dudek, Marshall McLuhan and the Post in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoIn 1949, Montreal poet Louis Dudek circulated a package of poetry manuscripts through a decentralized network of writers working in the U.S. and Canada that he called the “Poetry Grapevine.” In the manifesto-like instructions for the project, Dudek declares that “THERE IS A LOT MORE HAPPENING IN OUR DAILY LIVING CONSCIOUSNESS (NOT TO SPEAK OF UN…[Read more]
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Alexa Joubin deposited “‘To unpath’d waters, undream’d shores’: Shakespeare in the World.” The Score : An Insider’s Guide to the Performing Arts (New York: Lincoln Center, June 28, 2018) in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoIn the centuries since William Shakespeare’s death, numerous stage and, more recently, film and television adaptations of his work have emerged to inspire, comfort, and provoke audiences in far-flung corners of the globe. As early as 1619, for example, Hamlet was performed in colonial Indonesia to entertain European expatriates. In 1845, U.S. Army…[Read more]
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Benjamin Ridgway started the topic 2019 MLA Panel: Transitions in Early and Medieval Chinese Literary History in the discussion
LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoDear Colleagues,
Please find the details for an upcoming session at the 2019 MLA conference sponsored by the “Pre-14<sup>th</sup> century Chinese literature” forum. We look forward to seeing you there!
Panel Title: Transitions in Early and Medieval Chinese Literary History
Keywords: Early China, Medieval China, textual tra…[Read more]
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Xiaowen Xu started the topic 2019 MLA Panel: Teaching Classical Chinese in the discussion
LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoDear Friends,
Please find the following details for your information. We look forward to your participation!
Panel Title: Teaching Classical Chinese as Cultural, Philosophical, and Literary Texts
Keywords: classical Chinese poetry, pedagogy, translation, reception, text selection
Sponsoring Entity: LLC Pre-14th-Century…[Read more] -
Doris Hambuch deposited A Vindication of Vernacular: Bennett, Goodison, Hippolyte, and Walcott in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThis essay identifies four major factors responsible for the use of vernacular in Anglophone Caribbean poetry. Analyses of selected texts by Lorna Goodison, Louise Bennett, Kendel Hippolyte, and DerekWalcott illustrate that these four factors include the representation of working class characters, subversive protests against the imposition of…[Read more]
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Zane Koss deposited Coastal Flows: Situating Vancouver Poetry in the Americas in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoIn a 1972 poem about Vancouver Island, Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco wonders, “Acaso fue el Aztlán de las mexicas / De allí partieron siete tribus.” Though Pacheco spent several years living in Vancouver during the late 1960s and early 1970s—and was published in a 1971 anthology of poetry “From Canada’s Unofficial Languages”—h…[Read more]
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Geraldine Fiss started the topic CFP: Mapping East Asian Feminisms in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCFP: Mapping East Asian Feminisms
MLA 2019 LLC East Asian Forum Session Call for Papers
MLA 2019 Convention in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019
Modern and contemporary East Asian women writers, poets and filmmakers contribute in unique and significant ways to cultural change, while both embodying and transcending feminist concerns. Many women…[Read more]
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Geraldine Fiss posted an update in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCFP: Mapping East Asian Feminisms
MLA 2019 LLC East Asian Forum Session Call for Papers
MLA 2019 Convention in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019Modern and contemporary East Asian women writers, poets and filmmakers contribute in unique and significant ways to cultural change, while both embodying and transcending feminist concerns. Many women…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic ADCPL CFP MLA 2019: "Transacting Comparative Studies" in the discussion
Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoHi all, I’m on the board of the Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature and I’m posting on behalf of the chair, Thomas Beebee, to publicize our CFP for MLA 2019. Here it is, inspired by the Presidential Theme of “Textual Transactions”:
<h1>Transacting Comparative Studies with other Disciplines and Units</h1>
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Janine Beichman deposited Translating Yosano Akiko’s poem Kanashikereba: A talk given on March 1 2018 in the group
japanese poetry on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoText of a talk I gave on March 1 at the Translation Symposium held in conjunction with the awards ceremony of the 3rd International JLPP International Translation Competition at Gakushi Kaikan, Tokyo.
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Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers! “Environmental Humanities, China and Japan”
CFP: Roundtable at the Modern Language Association convention
Chicago, IL, January 3-6, 2019This roundtable considers recent developments in the intersection of modern Chinese and Japanese studies and the environmental humanities, broadly defined. The roundtable is organized by the…[Read more]
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Molly Des Jardin started the topic CFP: Textual Transference in Modern and Contemporary Japan (MLA 2019) in the discussion
Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoTextual Transference in Modern and Contemporary Japan
How does creative work get reused, translated, or adapted in modern and contemporary Japan? This panel seeks to explore questions of “transference” writ large: cultural memes, tropes, characters, fictional works, and their reinterpretation in media of all kinds. Potential topics might…[Read more]
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Matthew Fraleigh posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoJapanese Editorial Practice and Commentary in East Asian Canons
This panel examines the apparatus of literary circulation and dissemination through the lenses of commentary, introduction,
annotation, and translation to isolate how foreign texts were domesticated and localized.From the rise of commercial book publishing in early modern Japan,…[Read more]
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Jonathan Abel posted an update in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP:
Social Media, Literary Transaction, and Nationalism in East Asian LiteratureA Forum Session at the next MLA convention in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019
How have Asian digital networks (e.g. Line, Weibo, and KakaoTalk) impacted the circulation of poetry and prose? And do these new literary transactions correlate with heightened…[Read more]
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Kelly Y. Jeong started the topic CFP: Literature and Film in Neoliberal East Asia in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP: Literature and Film in Neoliberal East Asia
A Forum Session at the next MLA convention in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019
In recent decades East Asian societies have felt the reach of neoliberalism as a culture, a set of economic policies, and political agenda, which has informed people’s lives in various ways. This guaranteed panel for Mod…[Read more]
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Zane Koss deposited ‘While the triangle-roofed Farmer’s Grain Elevator / sat quietly by the side of the road’: Site and Simultaneity in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’ in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoRecent scholarship has focused on the flowering of poetry that engaged with geographic and spatial logics in the United States in the years following the Second World War, notably in Lytle Shaw’s 2013 study Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics. Alongside such works as William Carlos Williams’s Paterson and Charles Olson’s Maxim…[Read more]
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Janine Beichman deposited Yoel Hoffmann as Japanologist: Japanese Death Poems in the group
japanese poetry on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoDiscussion of Yoel Hoffmann’s book “Japanese Death Poems”
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