MLA Commons | LLC 19th-Century Latin American | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-latin-american/ Activity feed for the group, LLC 19th-Century Latin American. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:52:48 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 f654c2b09898f6ba822edc0f235dbc69 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC 19th-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-latin-american/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-26/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:06:28 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 b5d33a977f3e955ff3511ab38f2e81fa Thomas Robert Ward started the topic Roque Moreno, novela histórica peruana de Teresa González de Fanning (nueva ed.) in the discussion LLC 19th-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-latin-american/forum/topic/roque-moreno-novela-historica-peruana-de-teresa-gonzalez-de-fanning-nueva-ed/ Mon, 19 Apr 2021 13:15:17 -0400 Thomas Ward, Spanish Professor at Loyola University Maryland has published a critical edition of Roque Moreno, a historical novel Teresa González de Fanning (1836-1913), Peruvian educator and novelist, published in 1905. The novel portrays the chaos that characterized Peru in the years immediately after Independence. The plot revolves around two…[Read more]

]]> 0 a3f0a2f20eab097610492d2588048ac7 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC 19th-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-latin-american/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2021-forum-delegate-election-26/ Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:32:58 -0400 The 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]

]]> 0 42e4175f22babdfc57d6319572bfc868 Thomas Robert Ward deposited Decolonizing Indigeneity: New Approaches to Latin American Literature in the group LLC 19th-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1631156/ Wed, 06 Feb 2019 03:48:43 -0500 While there are differences between cultures in different places and times, colonial representations of indigenous peoples generally suggest they are not capable of literature nor are they worthy of being represented as nations. Colonial representations of indigenous people continue on into the independence era and can still be detected in our…[Read more]

]]> 0 9174e2ff686b767341684530a9950377 Giovanna Gobbi Alves Araujo started the topic CFP: OPINIÃES Nº 13 - Dossiê: Circulação da Literatura Brasileira no Exterior in the discussion Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-latin-american/forum/topic/cfp-opiniaes-no-13-dossie-circulacao-da-literatura-brasileira-no-exterior/ Tue, 29 May 2018 15:57:40 -0400 CHAMADA EM ABERTO ­ — OPINIÃES Nº 13
Dossiê: Circulação da Literatura Brasileira no Exterior

A Revista Opiniães (Qualis B5) tratará da circulação da literatura brasileira no exterior em seu dossiê temático para a edição de número 13, a ser publicada no fim do segundo semestre de 2018.

O aumento de pesquisas, eventos, concessões de bolsas de estu…[Read more]

]]> 0 79daf27bf96583a462bbf600c30a4a59 José Francisco Robles deposited La crítica ilustrada a la realidad americana: el colonialismo ilustrado del funcionario Alonso Carrió de la Vandera en "El Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes" in the group LLC 19th-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565013/ Wed, 22 Mar 2017 01:01:43 -0400 “El Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes” is one of the most important works of the Peruvian eighteenth century. This article examines the author’s critical perspective ––in his geographical and political journey through the viceroyalty–– in whose ideological position, called here “enlightened colonialism,” colonialist ideas meld with those of the pen…[Read more]

]]> 0 386545d2af9ddc112d487603032d972b Judith Sierra-Rivera started the topic CFP (MLA 2018) Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-latin-american/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2018-caribbean-space-and-bodies-at-war-3/ Sun, 05 Feb 2017 19:40:46 -0500  

Imperial 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).

]]> 0 7a5f7826fbfd6174260b65caad501ee9 Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo started the topic Special Issue Hispanic Journal "Rebeldes Históricos en el imaginario mexicano" in the discussion Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-latin-american/forum/topic/special-issue-hispanic-journal-rebeldes-historicos-en-el-imaginario-mexicano/ Tue, 27 Sep 2016 16:05:07 -0400 SPECIAL ISSUE OF HISPANIC JOURNAL

“Rebeldes históricos en el imaginario mexicano”

Este número especial de Hispanic Journal propone estudiar la figura del/la rebelde en el imaginario mexicano, un personaje histórico-cultural que ha existido desde tiempos pre-colombinos hasta la actualidad. Una de las premisas fundamentales de los ensayos selecc…[Read more]

]]> 0 77b9c537d395c56f8f5a4765fcc32b85 Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo posted an update in the group LLC 19th-Century Latin American: The editors of Hispanic Journal invite submissions of […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/550619/ Tue, 06 Sep 2016 16:15:39 -0400 The editors of Hispanic Journal invite submissions of unpublished studies all year around. Hispanic Journal is published twice annually by the Department of Foreign Languages and the Graduate School of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Its purpose is to publish research and criticism of the highest quality in the areas of Spanish, Spanish…[Read more]

]]> 0 22b65ca4f799bb07c595fb50eae4f605 Victor Goldgel-Carballo deposited Unwilling Impostors, Willing Victims: Passing in Two Nineteenth-Century Cuban Novels in the group LLC 19th-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/531562/ Mon, 19 Oct 2015 21:00:01 -0400 A light-skinned mulata passes for white and begins a romantic relationship that ends tragically, revealing the intransigence of racial barriers; a mother raises her biological daughter as her step-daughter, so that she might adopt a white identity; a multiethnic society is shaken by dreams and anxieties of social mobility: These are some of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 c4e75b38efc7fa1333229f672a8d157d Victor Goldgel-Carballo deposited 'High-Speed Enlightenment.’ Latin American literature and the new medium of periodicals in the group LLC 19th-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/531519/ Mon, 19 Oct 2015 20:48:50 -0400 Drawing upon studies of media history and print culture, this article analyzes the relationship among early-nineteenth-century Latin American periodicals, literary institutions, and new experiences of time and history. Framing these periodicals as a new medium which boomed during and immediately after the wars of independence, it underscores their…[Read more]

]]> 0 44ffff17b72626dd079d613b2ca0823d Carlos Vargas-Salgado started the topic Congreso Mariano Melgar y la Independencia de las Américas, Arequipa, PERU in the discussion Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/latin-american-literature-from-independence-to-1900/forum/topic/congreso-mariano-melgar-y-la-independencia-de-las-americas-arequipa-peru/ Thu, 16 Apr 2015 05:39:34 -0400 CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL “MARIANO MELGAR, 200 AÑOS: POESÍA E INDEPENDENCIA” Arequipa, Peru, agosto de 2015

PRIMERA CIRCULAR

(para los interesados en Mariano Melgar, el bicentenario de las independencias y el romanticismo en general)

La Asociación Internacional de Peruanistas (AIP), la Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana (RCLL), el Muni…[Read more]

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