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Amin Nash deposited Romantic American Ideals and Disruptive Perceptions: Human and Character Disconnections in Nabokov’s Lolita with Observations from Kubrick’s Film in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoVladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” is known for its seductive writing despite its destructive subject matter. How does this novel accomplish such a juxtaposition? How does the novel keep the reader interested despite Humber blatantly attacking Dolores Haze? This essay explores critically explores the technical method which Nabokov uses in “Lolita.” The…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Anna Castillo started the topic Thank you for the nomination! in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHello to all! Many thanks for the recent nomination for a seat on the Executive Committee of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American Forum. I’m a newcomer to the MLA Commons, so let me introduce myself. I am the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University, where I research and teach contemporary literature and…[Read more]
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Benigno Trigo started the topic Introduction and many thanks! in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHello, everyone! I’ve been nominated for a seat on the Executive Committee of the LLC Puerto Rican Forum Panel, so I’d like to tell you a little about myself. My research interests include nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American and Caribbean Literature; Women’s Writing; Psychoanalysis and Autobiography. My publications include Malady a…[Read more]
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Dr Rahul K Gairola deposited Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoLightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today
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Fabian Banga started the topic Revista Zama – Universidad de Buenos Aires in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoRevista Zama
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Número actual Vol. 11 Núm. 11 (2019) http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/zama/issue/view/596 -
Fabian Banga started the topic Revista Zama in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoRevista Zama
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Número actual Vol. 11 Núm. 11 (2019) http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/zama/issue/view/596 -
Lisa L. Tyler deposited Ernest Hemingway, Global American Modernist in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoA Companion to World Literature. John Wiley and Sons, 2020. Available in Wiley Online Library, https://www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118635193
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John Hansen deposited “Defying Stereotypes: To Assimilate or Not Assimilate?” in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoDoes the shift away from following or portraying the typical Asian male in my own life help Asians as a whole? Yes. Doing so can help Asian-Americans because it might allow others who view or interact with me to then change their perceptions about other Asian males and help them be more open-minded and accepting. This personal essay explores such notions.
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Jervette Ward started the topic CFP Women and Language in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agohttps://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/african-american/
Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender.…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Women & Language Journal CFP in the discussion
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoCall for Papers | Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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Ifeoma C. Kiddoe Nwankwo started the topic In Memoriam: African American Literary and Scholarly Greats in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoSubmit 300-word abstracts for an In Memoriam Panel celebrating and critically engaging with the works and legacies of recently departed writers and scholars to jervette@gmail.com by April 6.
LLC African American Forum
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Just published: Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Politics of US Latinx Twitter in the discussion
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoIf you’re interested, check out the essay I recently published in issue #4 of archipelagos: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis, edited by Kaiama L. Glover and Alex Gil: http://archipelagosjournal.org/issue04/machado-gratitude.html
In “Debt of Gratitude: Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Politics of US Latinx Twitter,” I engage in an ana…[Read more]
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited Books.Files: Preservation of Digital Assets in the Contemporary Publishing Industry (A Report) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe book publishing industry is an important social, cultural, and economic institution whose records deserve to be preserved for the public good. Books.Files was an exploratory project funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation aimed at assessing the archival value of digital assets in the contemporary publishing industry for stakeholders…[Read more]
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Ahmed Idrissi Alami deposited CFPs: MLA 2021, CLCS Global Arab and Arab American in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoGlobal Indigeneity
Considers theoretical and political questions raised by the model of “trans-indigeneity” paying attention to indigenous mythologies, histories of settler colonialism, and questions of comparison, translation, resistance, language, and appropriation. 300-word abstract and short bio.
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Ahmed Idrissi Alami deposited CFPs: MLA 2021, CLCS Global Arab and Arab American in the group
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoGlobal Indigeneity
Considers theoretical and political questions raised by the model of “trans-indigeneity” paying attention to indigenous mythologies, histories of settler colonialism, and questions of comparison, translation, resistance, language, and appropriation. 300-word abstract and short bio.
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2021 CFP: "Afro-Latinx Stories" and "Latinx Affect" in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoDear MLA members,
Please consider submitting proposals for one of the following CFPs for the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention in Toronto!
MLA 2021 Call For Papers: Afro-Latinx Stories
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James Gifford deposited in our time: The 1924 Text in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis critical edition of Hemingway’s 1924 version of in our time is the second of three volumes for each major state of the text. Few writers have shaped the style of twentieth century prose as did Hemingway, and it all began with the “vignettes” of in our time, which have been largely unavailable for scholars and entirely out of reach for…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2021 CFP: Afro-Latinx Stories in the discussion
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
Please consider submitting proposals for this panel on “Afro-Latinx Stories” for the 2021 Modern Language Association convention. See more info below. Thanks!
Cheers,
Elena
MLA 2021 Call For Papers: Afro-Latinx Stories
- Papers analyzing Afro-Latinx cultural and literary production.
- Send 150-word abstract and C…
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