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Tamar Steinitz deposited Back Home: Translation, Conversion and Domestication in Leila Aboulela’s The Translator in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoAbstract
The Sudanese-born author Leila Aboulela describes the position of the non-western Anglophone writer as a translator by default, moving ‘back and forth’ between languages and cultures. This essay argues that Aboulela’s novel The Translator (1999) calls into question conceptualizations of translation that grow out of western relig…[Read more] -
Tamar Steinitz deposited Back Home: Translation, Conversion and Domestication in Leila Aboulela’s The Translator in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoAbstract
The Sudanese-born author Leila Aboulela describes the position of the non-western Anglophone writer as a translator by default, moving ‘back and forth’ between languages and cultures. This essay argues that Aboulela’s novel The Translator (1999) calls into question conceptualizations of translation that grow out of western relig…[Read more] -
Tamar Steinitz deposited Back Home: Translation, Conversion and Domestication in Leila Aboulela’s The Translator on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
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The Sudanese-born author Leila Aboulela describes the position of the non-western Anglophone writer as a translator by default, moving ‘back and forth’ between languages and cultures. This essay argues that Aboulela’s novel The Translator (1999) calls into question conceptualizations of translation that grow out of western relig…[Read more] -
Anna Strowe's profile was updated on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for Climate Change (cli-fi) Literature Syllabus (Tachtiris, Antioch) in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis course, under the broad heading of literature and science, takes on the subject of climate change fiction (cli-fi). It was first taught at Antioch College in winter of 2017. The course included field trips to the OSU climate research center, a local nature preserve, and the College’s farm.
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for Climate Change (cli-fi) Literature Syllabus (Tachtiris, Antioch) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis course, under the broad heading of literature and science, takes on the subject of climate change fiction (cli-fi). It was first taught at Antioch College in winter of 2017. The course included field trips to the OSU climate research center, a local nature preserve, and the College’s farm.
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for Climate Change (cli-fi) Literature Syllabus (Tachtiris, Antioch) on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months ago
This course, under the broad heading of literature and science, takes on the subject of climate change fiction (cli-fi). It was first taught at Antioch College in winter of 2017. The course included field trips to the OSU climate research center, a local nature preserve, and the College’s farm.
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Corine Tachtiris's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months ago
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Tamar Steinitz's profile was updated on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months ago
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Corine Tachtiris's profile was updated on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months ago
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Corine Tachtiris's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months ago
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Corine Tachtiris replied to the topic Is this forum still active? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoHello, all,
I’m joining the virtual party late, but I wanted to add my introduction. I’m currently Visiting Assistant Professor of French at Earlham College where I’ll be teaching language as well as a course on French Caribbean cinema. In French studies, I’m primarily a Haitianist but also work on the rest of the Francophone Caribbean as well…[Read more]
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Corine Tachtiris started the topic CFPs in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoStarting a new thread for CFPs. Here’s one for the Caribbeanists, co-organized by our colleague here Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo:
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Corine Tachtiris's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months ago
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Corine Tachtiris replied to the topic Call for Participants: Translation Site on the Commons in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoI can put you in touch with Edwin Gentzler, if no one else has already.
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Francesco Levato started the topic CFP: Border(ing) Anxiety: Constructions of a Biopolitical Other in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoCall for Papers: Permanent Section – Creative Writing II (Prose) – Deadline Extended
2015 Midwest Modern Language Association Convention
Border(ing) Anxiety: Constructions of a Biopolitical Other
The force of biopolitics in contemporary society marks boundaries beyond geopolitical borders, inscribing otherness on bodies simultaneously necessary…[Read more]
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Anna Strowe changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago
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Anna Strowe's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago
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Corine Tachtiris changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago
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Corine Tachtiris's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago
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