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LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American

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  • Profile picture of Anna Castillo

    Anna Castillo started the topic Thank you for the nomination! in the discussion Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin AmericanLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago

    Hello 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 Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin AmericanLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago

    Hello, 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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    Fabian Banga started the topic Revista Zama – Universidad de Buenos Aires in the discussion Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin AmericanLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 6 months, 2 weeks ago

    Revista 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

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    Fabian Banga started the topic Revista Zama in the discussion Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin AmericanLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 6 months, 2 weeks ago

    Revista 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

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    Brenda Werth created the doc Call for Papers / Women & Language / Ed. Leland Spencer / Miami University in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin AmericanLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 7 months, 1 week ago

  • Profile picture of Isabel Jaén-Portillo

    Isabel Jaén-Portillo started the topic CALL FOR PAPERS: V LALISA Conference Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR in the discussion Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin AmericanLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 1 year ago

    Dear colleagues,

    Please find attached the CFP for the V LALISA Conference Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon.

    We look forward to your participation!

    Best regards,

    Isabel

     

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    Scott Challener deposited Latinx Literatures and Cultures in the U.S. and Beyond in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin AmericanLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 1 year ago

    This course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will concentrate our attention on works by Chicanos, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Dominican Americans. We will consider how these works represent and participate in the upheavals that characterize the…[Read more]

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    Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic University of Florida – Spanish Graduate Program in the discussion Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin AmericanLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago

    Dear colleagues,

    The Spanish graduate program at the University of Florida is accepting applications for the MA and PhD degrees in either Spanish Literatures and Cultures or Hispanic Linguistics. Please circulate the attached brochure among any interested parties.

    Inquiries can be addressed to: grad-coord@spanish.ufl.edu

  • Profile picture of Leigh A. Neithardt

    Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin AmericanLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago

    The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

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    Mariela Mendez deposited “De crepusculares y garotas modernas: Las columnas travestidas de Alfonsina Storni y Clarice Lispector” in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin AmericanLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago

    Hinging on the concept of transvestism, this article traces a trajectory that goes from Alfonsina Storni’s re-appropriation of the women’s page in the guise of a male persona, through Alejo Carpentier’s contributions to a fashion column disguised as Jacqueline, to Clarice Lispector’s unsettling use of the page addressed specifically to women i…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Alberto Ribas-Casasayas

    Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Currently Accepting Submissions: Spectral Mexico in the discussion Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin AmericanTwentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago

    The peer reviewed journal iMex. Interdisciplinary Mexico, ISSN 2193-9756 is currently accepting original, unpublished articles on the subjects of haunting and spectrality in contemporary Mexican cultures for its special issue Spectral Mexico.  Original call for papers available here:…[Read more]

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    Charlotte Rogers started the topic CFP: “Current and Future Ecocriticisms of the Americas” for ASLE 2019 in the discussion Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin AmericanTwentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago

    What is the current state of hemispheric American ecocritical studies?  Where is the discipline headed? The newly formed Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment interest group “Ecocriticism of the Americas” offers a jam session to address these questions at the biannual conference in Davis, CA from June 26-29, 2019.  Panel…[Read more]

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    Zane Koss deposited Coastal Flows: Situating Vancouver Poetry in the Americas in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin AmericanLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months ago

    In a 1972 poem about Vancouver Island, Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco wonders, “Acaso fue el Aztlán de las mexicas / De allí partieron siete tribus.” Though Pacheco spent several years living in Vancouver during the late 1960s and early 1970s—and was published in a 1971 anthology of poetry “From Canada’s Unofficial Languages”—h…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Claudia Cabello-Hutt

    Claudia Cabello-Hutt deposited Redes queer: escritoras, artistas y mecenas en la primera mitad del siglo XX in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin AmericanLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago

    A partir de la lectura del epistolario de Anna Melissa Graves, este trabajo recompone la relación de complicidad entre la escultora chilena Laura Rodig y la, hasta ahora desconocida “mecenas”, Consuelo Lemetayer. De manera específica, esta indagación de archivo analiza las redes queer de cooperación transnacional y transatlántica en las que part…[Read more]

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    Mariana Romo-Carmona replied to the topic International Conference on Global Human Rights in the discussion Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin AmericanTwentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks for attaching, Luz Angélica.

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    Luz Angélica Kirschner started the topic International Conference on Global Human Rights in the discussion Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin AmericanTwentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago

    Dear Colleagues,

    please find attached the CfP for the International Conference on Human Rights that will take place at the South Dakota State University, Oct. 4-6, 2018. We are looking forward to you panel proposals, round tables, and individual presentations.

    Many thanks,

    Luz Angélica Kirschner

     

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    Juan E. De Castro deposited Alfonso Reyes, Jorge Luis Borges, y Nuestra América in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin AmericanLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago

    This article studies the uses made of the phrase “Nuestra América” by both Alfonso Reyes and Jorge Luis Borges. It also traces the influence of the Reyes on Borges.

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    Molly Appel deposited The Pedagogical Poetics of Testimony: How in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin AmericanLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 3 years ago

    Feminist resistance has been crucial for Argentina’s recovery from the military dictatorship of 1976-1983. Alicia Partnoy was “disappeared” into one of hundreds of torture centers sardonically called “Little Schools.” After her release and exile to the United States, she published her poetic testimony, The Little School, with Cleis Press in 1986.…[Read more]

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    Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Call for Articles. Spectral Mexico in the discussion Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin AmericanTwentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months ago

    Spectral Mexico. Ghosts and the Talking Dead in Contemporary Mexican Culture

    The persistence of death and its figurative representations is a recognizable commonplace in the visual and narrative discourses of Mexican culture. Underworlds like Mictlan and Xibalba, the Catrina skull, the Santa Muerte, ghosts, dancing skeletons, post-mortem…[Read more]

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    Julie Ward posted an update in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin AmericanLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago

    Hi, As I am on the ballot for the Forum Executive Committee, I was invited to introduce myself here in the Commons.

    I work on representations of reality in contemporary Latin American cultural production, in particular in Mexican theatre and drama, though I write about South American theatre, including Brazilian, as well.

    My goals for the LLC…[Read more]

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