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Amel Abbady deposited “The past goes to sleep, and wakes up inside you”: Identity Crisis in Hassan Blasimʼs “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes” in the group
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis article examines “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes,” the last of the fourteen stories that comprise Iraqi writer Hassan Blasimʼs collection The Corpse Exhibition. In “The Nightmares” Blasim is not concerned at all about depicting the reception of refugees in Europe. As evident in the title itself, what is central to the story is the psycholo…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited “The past goes to sleep, and wakes up inside you”: Identity Crisis in Hassan Blasimʼs “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes” in the group
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis article examines “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes,” the last of the fourteen stories that comprise Iraqi writer Hassan Blasimʼs collection The Corpse Exhibition. In “The Nightmares” Blasim is not concerned at all about depicting the reception of refugees in Europe. As evident in the title itself, what is central to the story is the psycholo…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited Investigating the Postcolonial Grotesque in Martin McDonaghʼs A Very Very Very Dark Matter in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoMcDonagh is arguably one of the most celebrated yet most controversial of contemporary Anglo-Irish playwrights. His plays have received mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike, mostly for featuring graphic violence and obscene dialogues. Even though comedy is mostly seen as an inferior genre compared to tragedy, McDonagh, among many…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited Investigating the Postcolonial Grotesque in Martin McDonaghʼs A Very Very Very Dark Matter in the group
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoMcDonagh is arguably one of the most celebrated yet most controversial of contemporary Anglo-Irish playwrights. His plays have received mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike, mostly for featuring graphic violence and obscene dialogues. Even though comedy is mostly seen as an inferior genre compared to tragedy, McDonagh, among many…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited Homeland as a Site of Trauma in Selected Short Stories by Edwidge Danticat in the group
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe main objective of this article is to examine the representation of ʻhomelandʼ in three short stories by Caribbean-American writer Edwidge Danticat: “The Book of the Dead,” “Night Talkers,” and “The Gift.” All three stories represent Haitian migrants in the multi-cultural setting of the United States. A central theme that connects these stories…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited Homeland as a Site of Trauma in Selected Short Stories by Edwidge Danticat in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe main objective of this article is to examine the representation of ʻhomelandʼ in three short stories by Caribbean-American writer Edwidge Danticat: “The Book of the Dead,” “Night Talkers,” and “The Gift.” All three stories represent Haitian migrants in the multi-cultural setting of the United States. A central theme that connects these stories…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited Mobility, Survival, and the Female Body in Laila Lalami᾿s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoAbstract of my book chapter, published in Memory, Voice, and Identity
Muslim Women’s Writing from across the Middle East
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Amel Abbady deposited Mobility, Survival, and the Female Body in Laila Lalami᾿s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits in the group
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoAbstract of my book chapter, published in Memory, Voice, and Identity
Muslim Women’s Writing from across the Middle East
Edited By Feroza Jussawalla, Doaa Omran -
Amel Abbady deposited Mobility, Survival, and the Female Body in Laila Lalami᾿s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoAbstract of my book chapter, published in Memory, Voice, and Identity
Muslim Women’s Writing from across the Middle East
Edited By Feroza Jussawalla, Doaa Omran -
Francesco Ardolino deposited Una nota maragalliana de Guillem Viladot in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoAnalysis of he influence of Joan Maragall in the writing of Guillem Viladot
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Donald W. Wood started the topic MLA 2024, New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies, session abstracts in the discussion
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoBelow are the abstracts of the papers accepted for the New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies (in person) hosted by the LLC Medieval Iberian Forum at the MLA 2024 Convention.
Eric Calderwood (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), The Intersectional al-Andalus Since the early twentieth…[Read more]
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Nathan H. Dize started the topic Conversation with Jean Abel Pierre about corruption in Haiti (in French) in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoKwazman Vwa is delighted to welcome author Jean Abel Pierre. Pierre will be with us to discuss his recent book, Sociologie critique de la corruption: Comment Haïti est pris au piège de la pauvreté. Corruption is a subject that concerns us all, and somehow, our preoccupation with limiting its effects and abuses never seem to fully eliminate it ent…[Read more]
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Nathan H. Dize started the topic Conversation w/ Jean Abel Pierre about corruption in Haiti (in French) in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoKwazman Vwa is delighted to welcome author Jean Abel Pierre. Pierre will be with us to discuss his recent book, Sociologie critique de la corruption: Comment Haïti est pris au piège de la pauvreté. Corruption is a subject that concerns us all, and somehow, our preoccupation with limiting its effects and abuses never seem to fully eliminate it ent…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Journeys across fragmented lands: Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K and Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail in the group
Critical Studies in World Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoSolidarity between South Africa and Palestine has a long history, and often times, a comparison is drawn between the apartheid system in South Africa and the Israeli occupation and settler-colonial project in Palestine. In 1997, the late South African President, Nelson Mandela, said, “We know all too well that our freedom is incomplete without t…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Journeys across fragmented lands: Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K and Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail in the group
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoSolidarity between South Africa and Palestine has a long history, and often times, a comparison is drawn between the apartheid system in South Africa and the Israeli occupation and settler-colonial project in Palestine. In 1997, the late South African President, Nelson Mandela, said, “We know all too well that our freedom is incomplete without t…[Read more]
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Ross Wilson deposited Reading Materials: Pots, Plaster, Poetry, and the Press, 1766-1861 in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis is the proposal for ‘Reading Materials: Pots, Plaster, Poetry, and the Press, 1766-1861’, a (putative) panel for MLA 2024. Individual paper abstracts and other materials will follow.
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Ellen Cressman Frye started the topic Welcome to Antarctic Studies!!! in the discussion
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoWith a lifetime of passion for studying other cultures, followed by a Ph.D. in Spanish and now nearly a decade of research, conference papers, and publications about Antarctica, I am most excited to bring Antarctica to North Amercia, via the Modern Language Association.
The Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences of Antarctica have always been…[Read more]
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Raj Chetty started the topic MLA 2024 Convention CFP – CLCS Caribbean in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoColegas, colleagues this is our short description for our MLA Forum panel for 2024, and it follows our interest in describing contemporary shifts in states and “nation” formations in the Caribbean. Please send us your abstracts! STILL ACCEPTING ABSTRACTS–just send them our way before March 31
EVOLUTIONS IN CARIBBEAN STATE FORMATION-Caribbean…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic MLA 2024 Global Anglophone Forum CFP (deadline today) in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoDigitality, Postcoloniality, Globality (sponsored by CLCS Global Anglophone Forum) Deadline today!
This panel considers how digital technologies intersect with categories of knowledge, namely postcoloniality and globality. Possible topics: conceptions of digitality from the Global South, decolonizing DH, born-digital/post-digital literature and…[Read more] -
Aarthi Vadde started the topic MLA 2024 GA Forum CFP (Guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoDigitality, Postcoloniality, Globality (sponsored by CLCS Global Anglophone Forum) Deadline today!
This panel considers how digital technologies intersect with categories of knowledge, namely postcoloniality and globality. Possible topics: conceptions of digitality from the Global South, decolonizing DH, born-digital/post-digital literature and…[Read more] - Load More