MLA Commons | LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/ Activity feed for the group, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:10:57 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 eed160b9adf7eb4744a28cbd016c0b6c Cole Rizki started the topic Nominations for Candidates to Delegate Election in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/nominations-for-candidates-to-delegate-election/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:19:15 -0500 Hi everyone, I write to solicit nominations for candidates to the MLA delegate election. For eligibility: any candidates for election must have been included in the membership list of the association for the preceding year. No one can occupy more than one delegate seat at a time and delegates may only serve two consecutive terms on the Delegate…[Read more]

]]> 0 21613f4d7281e7e57f243100ab1f58c4 Cole Rizki started the topic Soliciting Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/soliciting-nominations-for-the-forum-executive-committee-3/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:07:48 -0500 Hi everyone, I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Friday January 23rd with your nominations. Thanks!

]]> 0 9d5e2d3e60d71708ad9ac3c103810696 Anna Castillo posted an update in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American: Dear Colleagues, We are excited to announce the call for […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1907864/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:37:56 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

We are excited to announce the call for Guaranteed Session Proposals for the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American Forum for the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto. If accepted by our Forum, your panel is guaranteed a place at next year’s convention. We invite proposals that engage with a wide range of topics related to 20th- a…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d62191f783a3cb76c17bd6d381ac13b Anna Castillo posted an update in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American: Hello fellow Latin Americanists! I write because we are […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1907863/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:34:06 -0500 Hello fellow Latin Americanists! I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Wednesday January 15th with your nominations. Thanks!

]]> 0 74755405707853a0d82fe9bfe7a82e5c Nathan H. Dize started the topic CPF: Ecologies of Enslavement, Ecologies of Abolition, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/cpf-ecologies-of-enslavement-ecologies-of-abolition-mla-2025-3/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:36:58 -0500 How have enslavement, incarceration, and other colonial confinements shaped more-than-human circum-Caribbean ecologies? How have Black culture-makers confronted these ecologies with abolitionist aesthetics? Send 150-word abstracts to this co-sponsored panel (Caribbean & Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities).Deadline for submissions: Friday,…[Read more]

]]> 0 292811c4e08d23bff02f77cb2bd58766 Crystal Anne Chemris deposited Flyer for The Spanish Baroque and latin American Literary Modernity: writing in Constellation in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870641/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 04:04:05 -0500 This contains a table of contents and description for the book, The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity: Writing in Constellation, as a follow up to my paper for the 2024 MLA. Chapter One formed the basis for “Góngora, Inca Garcilaso, and the Meeting of Humanist and Indigenous Modes of Knowledge.”

]]> 0 f51e48204bd4c01f1697cb6850f2e37b Anne Garland Mahler started the topic Soliciting Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/soliciting-nominations-for-the-forum-executive-committee-2/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:45:22 -0500 Hi everyone,I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Wednesday January 16th with your nominations. Thanks!

]]> 0 3b6e0c0bfcef2cb88d6ec058bc794e4a Raquel Patricia Chiquillo started the topic CFP: for Journal Humanities - on Twenty-First Century Central American Novel in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/cfp-for-journal-humanities-on-twenty-first-century-central-american-novel/ Wed, 08 Mar 2023 20:43:57 -0500 Buenas tardes, colegas: quisiera invitarlos a subir sus artículos sobre la novela centroamericana del siglo XXI para consideración de ser publicadas en la revista académica “Humanities.” La fecha de entrega es el 31 de marzo pero se puede extender. Me han dicho que el APC no se va a cobrar. Se aceptan manuscritos en español y en inglés. Por favo…[Read more]

]]> 0 7bb8f7f660b48b97e2a2d04305c7388c Margaret Frohlich deposited Sexual Diversity in Young Cuban Cinema in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1835406/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 03:48:43 -0500 This book explores how young Cuban filmmakers have expanded the range of sexual subjectivities on screen. It analyzes cine joven (films made by young directors) from the late 1980s to the early 2020s, film reviews, articles, and materials from the Cinematheque of Cuba’s archive to illustrate the confluence of sexuality, cinema, and discourses of…[Read more]

]]> 0 57354b817c017804f7bb6972829ab240 Anne Garland Mahler started the topic Soliciting Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/soliciting-nominations-for-the-forum-executive-committee/ Sun, 22 Jan 2023 20:17:56 -0500 Hi everyone,

I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Wednesday January 25th with your nominations. Thanks!

]]> 0 a76f60c9a3f230ae72769bad4a4df11a Elisa Kriza deposited Helena. La soledad en el laberinto. Epistolario de Helena Laura Paz Garro y Ernst Jünger, por: Elsa Margarita Schwarz Gasque y María del Carmen Vázquez Martínez, ISBN: 9786078706433, Ediciones del Lirio, 2020. in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1821159/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 03:49:44 -0500 This is a book review that evaluates the Spanish-language edition of the letters written by the Mexican poet Helena Paz Garro to the German writer Ernst Jünger, which were originally written in French. The reviewer had access to the original letters in the German Literature Archive in Germany and she compares the original texts with the…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ea0b45b8834f7c7efbd5d034320410c Debra Ann Castillo created the doc Invitation to apply: New editor(s) for Latin American Literary Review in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1785757/ Wed, 06 Jul 2022 18:17:16 -0400 0 af5176d180cd6e405ca8de89143616f5 Claudio Palomares-Salas deposited The Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde: Ultraísmo & Estridentismo, 1918-1927 in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1739363/ Tue, 25 May 2021 03:48:47 -0400 The Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde: Ultraísmo & Estridentismo, 1918-1927 is a thorough exploration of the meanings and values Hispanic poets and artists assigned to four iconic locations of modernity: the city, the cafés, means of transportation, and the sea, during the first decades of the 20th century. Joining important studies on S…[Read more]

]]> 0 d97ff97b3f9ad3081a0e48f17a52ea2a Dan Connor started the topic INSCREVA-SE PARA UMA BOLSA DE MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/inscreva-se-para-uma-bolsa-de-mla-international-bibliography-2/ Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:11:16 -0500 INSCREVA-SE PARA UMA BOLSA DE MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

O prazo de inscrição é 1º de abril de 2021

O MLA International Bibliography (MLAIB) está aceitando inscrições para bolsas de três anos para bibliógrafos externos. Os bolsistas do MLAIB atuam como bibliógrafos externos que examinam textos acadêmicos, escrevem resumos informativ…[Read more]

]]> 0 3a6b2d49a869da01852a4e6f7d5a57f1 Anna Castillo started the topic Thank you for the nomination! in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/thank-you-for-the-nomination/ Sat, 10 Oct 2020 17:08:51 -0400 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]

]]> 0 6354edcc402f08cfd6ae2183d0a95fd6 Benigno Trigo started the topic Introduction and many thanks! in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/introduction-and-many-thanks-2/ Thu, 08 Oct 2020 20:47:44 -0400 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]

]]> 0 5365ee0dfa1b65a1b1d0df06a39de5ac Fabian Banga started the topic Revista Zama - Universidad de Buenos Aires in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/revista-zama-2/ Sat, 11 Jul 2020 18:33:13 -0400 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

]]> 0 5365ee0dfa1b65a1b1d0df06a39de5ac Fabian Banga started the topic Revista Zama in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/revista-zama-2/ Sat, 11 Jul 2020 18:33:13 -0400 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

]]> 0 ad437725b2715edcf551404719cff42c Brenda Werth created the doc Call for Papers / Women & Language / Ed. Leland Spencer / Miami University in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1692647/ Mon, 22 Jun 2020 11:55:09 -0400 0 63b4f32a57c7fe30eb7b7de1c403036f Isabel Jaén-Portillo started the topic CALL FOR PAPERS: V LALISA Conference Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/call-for-papers-v-lalisa-conference-southern-oregon-university-ashland-or/ Wed, 15 Jan 2020 05:32:02 -0500 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

 

]]> 0 cb91fd5a265c1a94af9a4966708a7b31 Scott Challener deposited Latinx Literatures and Cultures in the U.S. and Beyond in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1674802/ Fri, 10 Jan 2020 03:55:40 -0500 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]

]]> 0 03b6a15f7983055db856c0db216d5d6a Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic University of Florida - Spanish Graduate Program in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/university-of-florida-spanish-graduate-program-4/ Wed, 16 Oct 2019 15:45:48 -0400 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

]]> 0 fc72e6c324c83d68063a8bac714efd5d Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2020-forum-delegate-election-32/ Thu, 19 Sep 2019 15:36:17 -0400 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]

]]> 0 d483531a97e65fd1bb1781a2ea93b61f Mariela Mendez deposited "De crepusculares y garotas modernas: Las columnas travestidas de Alfonsina Storni y Clarice Lispector" in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1622022/ Thu, 25 Oct 2018 04:04:45 -0400 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]

]]> 0 ecda4b07a3f77c35a679e771fb9d3d9b Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Currently Accepting Submissions: Spectral Mexico in the discussion Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/currently-accepting-submissions-spectral-mexico/ Tue, 07 Aug 2018 15:52:28 -0400 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]

]]> 0 afa14e18d209cce26205aabea9e57446 Charlotte Rogers started the topic CFP: “Current and Future Ecocriticisms of the Americas” for ASLE 2019 in the discussion Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/cfp-current-and-future-ecocriticisms-of-the-americas-for-asle-2019-3/ Tue, 31 Jul 2018 12:57:37 -0400 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]

]]> 0 357cab9e8d1ea99a981cafec955559f1 Zane Koss deposited Coastal Flows: Situating Vancouver Poetry in the Americas in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1607167/ Thu, 26 Apr 2018 04:20:12 -0400 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]

]]> 0 bd671226c3f4fcbf3ec3f269d4734c0a Claudia Cabello-Hutt deposited Redes queer: escritoras, artistas y mecenas en la primera mitad del siglo XX in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1602132/ Wed, 28 Feb 2018 04:13:07 -0500 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]

]]> 0 7e71a89b3d0baf4246317a3950653fa1 Mariana Romo-Carmona replied to the topic International Conference on Global Human Rights in the discussion Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/international-conference-on-global-human-rights/#post-1016554 Thu, 22 Feb 2018 13:26:16 -0500 Thanks for attaching, Luz Angélica.

]]> 0 c0d81a226656a9f58ad3c6f524d91a20 Luz Angélica Kirschner started the topic International Conference on Global Human Rights in the discussion Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/international-conference-on-global-human-rights/ Sat, 17 Feb 2018 23:27:18 -0500 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

 

]]> 0 6639db1f9d6fdabf3284bf19b1c1ab91 Juan E. De Castro deposited Alfonso Reyes, Jorge Luis Borges, y Nuestra América in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1600593/ Tue, 13 Feb 2018 03:48:44 -0500 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.

]]> 0 7d49dcf46ed9cdec252e5d57ba4e27bc Molly Appel deposited The Pedagogical Poetics of Testimony: How in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1595845/ Tue, 09 Jan 2018 05:47:21 -0500 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]

]]> 0 31961507a8607593b80cea2fc0d153b1 Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Call for Articles. Spectral Mexico in the discussion Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/call-for-articles-spectral-mexico/ Sat, 04 Nov 2017 19:17:54 -0400 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]

]]> 0 0d63b7eebff70915cc035f0b2c1402f3 Julie Ward posted an update in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American: Hi, As I am on the ballot for the Forum Executive Committee, […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1584513/ Thu, 12 Oct 2017 22:58:49 -0400 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]

]]> 0 d73c3d0e802588ca228c3a1a8ebee0d7 Mariela Mendez de Coudriet started the topic CFP Special Dossier on Clarice Lispector in the discussion Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/cfp-special-dossier-on-clarice-lispector/ Mon, 05 Jun 2017 16:25:24 -0400 <h2>CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Edited Volume of Critical Essays on Clarice Lispector</h2>
<h2>Mariela Méndez (University of Richmond) and Anna Katsnelson (Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York) invite proposals for a volume of critical essays on Clarice Lispector’s contributions to the Brazilian press.</h2>
Clarice Lispector (1…[Read more]

]]> 0 0d51d9397138e77085fd650b7b2c8480 Yolanda Padilla deposited Felix beyond the Closet: Sexuality, Masculinity, and Relations of Power in Arturo Islas's The Rain God in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565189/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 01:09:25 -0400 This essay examines the uneasy relationship that Arturo Islas’s The Rain God has had with narratives of identity, focusing on how the representation of Felix’s sexuality makes him a problematic figure for certain strains of Chicana/o and queer studies. In other writings, Islas criticizes Quinto Sol, the chief publishing house of Chicano literature…[Read more]

]]> 0 03c62fbc2d423a70a03cd89f7e1d268c 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/cfp-2018-working-group-wild-interventions-in-latino-america-xx-and-xxi-centu/ Tue, 14 Mar 2017 14:17:26 -0400 Address 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]

]]> 0 df24b0697879e6e079aa458c86fcaa7d Judith Sierra-Rivera started the topic CFP (MLA 2018) Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2018-caribbean-space-and-bodies-at-war-2/ Sun, 05 Feb 2017 19:32:25 -0500 CFP (MLA 2018) Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
LLC Puerto Rican

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 b44cb21069f8fa9f44a37d222140dcc5 Benigno Trigo deposited From Necrotic to Apoptotic Debt in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1556642/ Thu, 05 Jan 2017 20:20:47 -0500 Analysis 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.

]]> 0 49359478d0ccf447652d0f5bc560060e Francesco Masala started the topic Call for Submission: Constructing and Representing Ecuadorian Identity in the discussion Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/call-for-submission-constructing-and-representing-ecuadorian-identity/ Tue, 13 Dec 2016 19:52:51 -0500 <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]

]]> 0 3f80da2af52e098ac0f332e56ba72f37 Francesco Masala created the doc Call for Papers 2017 - Constructing and Representing Ecuadorian Identity in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1555314/ Sun, 11 Dec 2016 23:38:39 -0500 0 3a5a97b6f65e256ea267bd0234ea1ec8 Francesco Masala created the doc Call for Papers 2017 - Constructing and Representing Ecuadorian Identity in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1555313/ Sun, 11 Dec 2016 23:34:37 -0500 0 5b24f61bd97a78d463befac03080a499 Francesco Masala created the doc Call for Papers 2017 - Constructing and Representing Ecuadorian Identity in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1555312/ Sun, 11 Dec 2016 23:32:10 -0500 0 4ff5a922cd52e8bd5beb0d1dabe779a8 Francesco Masala created the doc Call for Papers 2017 - Constructing and Representing Ecuadorian Identity in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1555311/ Sun, 11 Dec 2016 23:30:46 -0500 0 396638abe1e3ce34d28780fa5c518952 Francesco Masala created the doc Call for Papers 2017 - Constructing and Representing Ecuadorian Identity in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1555310/ Sun, 11 Dec 2016 23:29:20 -0500 0 05563c34a512bce33531186f335fda36 Francesco Masala created the doc Call for Papers 2017 - Constructing and Representing Ecuadorian Identity in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1555309/ Sun, 11 Dec 2016 23:25:40 -0500 0 34276db6854ca315fd530ca3adb533ef Marcos Wasem deposited Barroso y sublime. Poética para Perlongher in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1555133/ Fri, 09 Dec 2016 01:00:05 -0500 La reflexión crítica que opera en torno al concepto de neobarroco recupera la categoría estética de lo sublime, expropiándola de los márgenes que ha ocupado en el pensamiento estético-filosófico de Occidente. Si bien se ha escrito bastante sobre la relación entre el barroco del siglo XVII y el neobarroco hispaoamericano, son pocos, sin embargo,…[Read more]

]]> 0 d22476ff6c771632d3b5e9fca46658c1 Claudia Cabello-Hutt started the topic 20th- and 21st- century LatAm panels @MLA Philly 2017 in the discussion Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/20th-and-21st-century-latam-panels-mla-philly-2017/ Tue, 15 Nov 2016 14:40:37 -0500 Here are the panels organized by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American. Feel free to share info about related panels at the upcoming MLA.

The Autonomy of Poetry Revisited

Friday, 6 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 305-306, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin Ameri…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b24685144f1740d3995e80d0546b71a Zachary Ludington started the topic Call for Submissions: Poéticas in the discussion Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/call-for-submissions-poeticas-4/ Tue, 08 Nov 2016 17:05:22 -0500 Poéticas, Revista de Estudios Literarios, a new journal published in English and Spanish, invites submissions of scholarly work related to all aspects of poetry, in any language or period. In addition to scholarly studies, and book reviews, the journal publishes new work from recognized poets like Charles Simic and Yusef Komunyakaa. See the…[Read more]

]]> 0 a738fbd065075119cda3f2dd1e609d44 Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for Next Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-next-forum-delegate-election/ Thu, 03 Nov 2016 16:21:43 -0400 Since the term of this forum’s current Delegate Assembly representative will expire in January 2018, the next forum delegate election is scheduled for the fall of 2017. The forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive com…[Read more]

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