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Kanika Batra deposited City Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke in the group
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoCity Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke
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Claudia Cabello-Hutt started the topic CFP 2018- Working Group Wild Interventions in Latin/o America – XX and XXI Centu in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoAddress the ways in which cultural, literary, and artistic interventions in the socio-political landscape of Latin/o America during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have queered genders and sexualities, practices of sociality, public spaces, the production and consumption of cultural goods, forms of embodiment, developmental rhetorics, and…[Read more]
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Laura Halperin started the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED! Chicana and Chicano Literature Forum: MLA 2018 Call for Papers in the discussion
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago21st Century Chicanx Performance
We invite papers on 21st century Chicanx performance/ performance of Chicanidad on stage/film/street, etc.; 200-300 word abstract; 1-page cv. 200-300 word abstract; 1-page cv by 20 March 2017; José Navarro (jnavar17@calpoly.edu).
Trump Terror
We invite analyses of the president’s/executive cabinet’s anti…[Read more]
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Martin J. Ponce started the topic CFPs: MLA 2018, Race and Ethnicity Forum in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCarceral States of Exception and Insecurity
Critical, theoretical, cultural engagements with the prison, detention, punishment, and their representations. National, international, and/or comparative contexts. Brief CV & 300-word abstract by 13 March 2017; Ruby Tapia (rtapia@umich.edu).<hr />
Interdisciplinary Palestine
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John Young deposited How to Revise a True War Story: Tim O’Brien’s Processes of Textual Production in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHow to Revise a True War Story is the first book-length study of O’Brien’s archival papers at the University of Texas’s Harry Ransom Center. Drawing on extensive study of drafts and other prepublication materials, as well as the multiple published versions of O’Brien’s works, John K. Young tells the untold stories behind the production of such k…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Native Sons; Or, How “Bigger” Was Born Again in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThis article reconsiders Richard Wright’s Native Son by comparing divergences between the published novel and an earlier typeset manuscript. It argues that such revisions render protagonist Bigger Thomas an icon of global class conflict rather than a national figure of racial tension. By revealing the continuities among critical essays that…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Native Sons; Or, How “Bigger” Was Born Again in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThis article reconsiders Richard Wright’s Native Son by comparing divergences between the published novel and an earlier typeset manuscript. It argues that such revisions render protagonist Bigger Thomas an icon of global class conflict rather than a national figure of racial tension. By revealing the continuities among critical essays that…[Read more]
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Judith Sierra-Rivera started the topic CFP (MLA 2018) Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoCFP (MLA 2018) Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
LLC Puerto RicanImperial frontier/zone; militarism/militarization of space; soldiers, veterans, military migrations, encounters with unforeseen “others”; censorship, persecution, political prisoners; pacifism, civil disobedience. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2017; Judith Sierra-Rivera (jus55@psu.edu).
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Martin Paul Eve deposited “Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years agoThe rhetoric of “excellence” is pervasive across the academy. It is used to refer to research outputs as well as researchers, theory and education, individuals and organizations, from art history to zoology. But does “excellence” actually mean anything? Does this pervasive narrative of “excellence” do any good? Drawing on a range of sources we…[Read more]
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Laura Lisabeth deposited When William Strunk Was A Philologist He Thought of Grammar as a Folder in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn this paper, I show how, as a philologist, William Strunk’s approach to language was a rich historical and rhetorical experience far from the prescriptivism E.B. White ascribes to him in the first edition of The Elements of Style (1959). An interesting historical parallel exists between Strunk’s tenure as a PhD student in philology at Cornell…[Read more]
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Suzanne del Gizzo started the topic Hemingway Society Founders' Fellowship: Updated Link in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoUpdated Link–the link in my first post did not work. Here is the post again with a working link. Thanks.
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>The Hemingway Foundation and Society invites applications for two $1000.00 Founders’ fellowships to support scholars working in Hemingway studies. Although the competition is open to all scholars, pre…[Read more] -
Benigno Trigo deposited From Necrotic to Apoptotic Debt in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoAnalysis of debt of the unincorporated territory of Puerto Rico from a psychoanalytic perspective using recent work by Eduardo Lalo as a point of departure for the analysis.
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Richard T. Rodríguez started the topic Report on Academic Freedom and Higher Education in Palestine in the discussion
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoMLA members, and in particular members of this forum who will be attending this year’s MLA 2017 assembly meeting in Philadelphia, may already know that there are a number of resolutions to be considered that address the question of boycotting Israeli academic institutions. The Resolution to endorse the Palestinian call for the boycott of Israeli i…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Conditions for Palestinian Higher Education: MLA Members Report in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoIn June, 2016 a group of six MLA members traveled together to the West Bank and Israel to find out what it was like for Palestinian academics and students trying to study, teach, and research at universities in the occupied territories and within Israel itself. In addition to learning about academic conditions under occupation, the group also wa…[Read more]
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Francesco Masala started the topic Call for Submission: Constructing and Representing Ecuadorian Identity in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″><b>“YOU Think Therefore I Am”: Constructing and (Re)presenting Identity In and Outside </b></span><span class=”s1″><b>Ecuador</b></span></p>
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>This Call for Papers seeks scholarly contributions for an edited volume focusing upon the Ecuadorian’s individual experience while abroad. In par…[Read more] -
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