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CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century

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  • Profile picture of Hania A.M. Nashef

    Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “Testimonies of War: Reportages by Samar Yazbek and Atef Abu Saif” in the group Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago

    War diaries are often written under duress, and are attempts at documenting events as they unfold, or narrating stories of how people survive under trying circumstances. She argues that conditions of war under which authors produce their work dictate the form itself. When an author’s life is under threat, when safety is compromised, m…[Read more]

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    Hania A.M. Nashef deposited ‘To have been and no longer be’: The angst towards death in Darwish’s Mural and Saramago’s Death at Intervals in the group Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago

    In Portuguese Nobel Laureate José Saramago’s As Intermitências da Morte (2005) and in Mahmoud Darwish’s epic poem Mural (2000), the authors contemplate the nothingness that accompanies death, a concern that increasingly permeates their later writings. Although ‘death’ is depicted differently, the authors fear that with death “the universe wo…[Read more]

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    Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Ciaran Carson: A Memorial Tribute (10 October 2019) in the group Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago

    This memorial tribute for the late Ciaran Carson (1948-2019), Irish creative writer extraordinaire, was commissioned three years ago for inclusion in a special number of “Reading Ireland” which has not yet materialised. It is now archived in and by Humanities Common on the third anniversary of his funeral rites and burial in Belfast, Northern…[Read more]

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    Brian Gregory Caraher deposited The Correspondence of E M Forster and Forrest Reid: Content and Implications of a New Literary Archive in the group Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 months, 2 weeks ago

    This essay/ article examines the provenance and the implications of a literary archive acquired by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library of Queen’s University Belfast and now fully catalogued by Brian Caraher and Emma Hegarty under the auspices of the British Academy. The state-of-the-art. fully annotated, online catalogue establishes the…[Read more]

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    Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for Redisigning Modernities Special Issue of Comparative Literature Studies in the discussion Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 months, 3 weeks ago

    The journal Comparative Literature Studies invites proposals for a special issue titled “Redesigning Modernities Part II,” edited by Waïl Hassan (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Maria Truglio (Penn State U). The issue solicits inquiries into the divergences, inequalities, and commonalities that define “modernity” in different parts of the w…[Read more]

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    D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke deposited Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness in the group Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago

    The first incarnation of this Broadview edition of Heart of Darkness appeared in 1995, the second in 1999; both were widely acclaimed, and the Goonetilleke Heart of Darkness remained for many years one of Broadview’s best-selling titles. For the third edition the book has been completely revised and updated to take account of the scholarship of t…[Read more]

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    Elisa Kriza started the topic CfP: New peer-reviewed book series "Crossovers: New Perspectives on CompLit" in the discussion Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago

    Call for Proposals
    (Version française ci-joint.)

    The European Society of Comparative Literature/Société Européenne de Littérature Comparée is calling for monograph proposals for its new peer-reviewed book series Crossovers: New Perspectives on CompLit to be published by ibidem Press (Germany).

    Aims and Scope

    The series welcomes the submi…[Read more]

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    Eric Prieto started the topic Cities Under Stress: Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, Resistance, and Ren in the discussion Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago

    <p style=”text-align: center;”>Cities Under Stress: Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, Resistance, and Renewal  </p>
    <p style=”text-align: center;”>The Third International Conference of the Association for Literary Urban Studies (ALUS)</p>
    <p style=”text-align: center;”>University of California, Santa Barbara on 17–19 February 2022. </p>
    <p st…[Read more]

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    Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Suppressed Nakba Memories in Palestinian female narratives Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Radwa Ashour’s The Woman from Tantoura in the group Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months ago

    Israeli officials have long denied that rape was used as an instrument of war against Palestinians. Most of the files relating to the expulsion of Palestinians during the Nakba in 1948 and its aftermath remain sealed in Israeli archives and have been reclassified as top secret. Palestinian oral narratives have long been considered a poor…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Carla Sassi

    Carla Sassi deposited Humanities Special Issue “Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature” in the group Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago

    Special issue of Humanities exploring expressions and registrations of environmental culture and the eco-critical imagination in 21st century Scottish literature and culture. Open access.

  • Profile picture of Julia Elsky

    Julia Elsky started the topic CFP (MLA): Making Waves: Two Decades of Experimental Romanian Cinema  in the discussion Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    Call for Papers: MLA 2022 (6-9 January, Washington, D.C.)

    Romanian Forum’s Guaranteed Panel  

    Making Waves: Two Decades of Experimental Romanian Cinema 

    2021 marks two decades since the symbolic launch of Romanian New Wave cinema, a movement that has received important recognition at international film festivals. The Romanian Forum of th…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Weihsin Gui

    Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature in the discussion Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    Call for papers: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature (MLA 2022)

    We invite papers for a proposed session on “Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature” for the 2022 Modern Language Association conference (6-9 January). The session is co-sponsored by the MLA’s Asian American Liter…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Scott Challener

    Scott Challener deposited Contemporary Latinx Literatures & Cultures in the group Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 1 year, 12 months ago

    This course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the last two decades. We will concentrate our attention on how contemporary art works represent and participate in the upheavals of the twenty-first century—9/11, global economic and ecological crisis, mass migration and mass deportation, political and social mobilization, s…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Christopher M. Lupke

    Christopher M. Lupke started the topic CFP Ritual and Representation in East Asian Literature in the discussion Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 1 year, 12 months ago

    Ritual and Representation in East Asian Literature We are inviting proposals for papers featuring ritual as a theme or structuring device in East Asian (including diasporic) literature in relation to belief, kinship, and/or community. This will be a collaborative session between the TC Anthropology and Literature and TC Religion and Literature…[Read more]

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    Lisa Nalbone posted an update in the group Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years ago

    Announcing the “1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate” Jan. 28-30, 2021. For more information, please visit: https://www.ut.edu/academics/college-of-arts-and-letters/center-for-jos%C3%A9-mart%C3%AD-studies-affiliate/1st-biannual-conference-registration

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    Li Guo started the topic Invitation to LLC Ming Qing Chinese Social Event, Session 11077 in the discussion Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years ago

    Invitation to MLA 2021 LLC Ming and Qing Chinese Social EventSession 11077: January 7th, TR, 8:45pm-10:00pm EST

    Event in the program: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Session/11077

    Dear colleagues attending the upcoming MLA,

    Please join us for lively conversations and networking with colleagues at MLA.

    Forum members:…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Weihsin Gui

    Weihsin Gui started the topic Southeast Asia & Southeast Asia diasporic sessions MLA 2021 in the discussion Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago

    FYI: based on a search of the MLA 2021 online program, here’s a list of the sessions/panels that have content related to Southeast Asia & its diasporas. All dates & times are US Eastern Time (New York).

    * Asian American Literature and Empire and Imperialism
    Thursday, 7 January 2021
    7:15 AM – 8:30 A…[Read more]

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    Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Sourcing “a place of first permission”: Robert Duncan’s ‘mythological mind’ and H.D.’s “Trilogy” in the group Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago

    This article is a slightly revised version of a plenary panel address presented at the ‘Passages’ Symposium at the Sorbonne, Paris on the 12th of June 2019, in honor of the centenary of the birth of the American poet Robert Duncan. The article traces some of the mutual interest and influence between the poets Robert Duncan and Hilda Doolittle…[Read more]

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    Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Turning Point ’68: From Tet to Chicago, Paris to D.C., Hesiod to “Works & Days” in the group Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago

    This commemorative and retrospective memoir examines events fifty years ago in the interests of tracking and placing the editorial ideals and dynamics of the journal “Works & Days”, founded in 1978 and published through 2019. The author was one of the original co-founders of the journal, as well as a contributor and member of the editorial board…[Read more]

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    Brian Gregory Caraher deposited ‘Balancing Fire, Dreams and the Signatures of All Things’: Sinead Morrissey’s Poetry and Poetics in the group Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago

    This article is a sustained profile and study of prominent Northern Irish poet Sinead Morrissey’s complete run of work from the 1990s through 2018. The article examines closely the developing course of her poetry as well as the developing itinerary of her poetics, especially in the light of her transatlantic poetics as well as local and…[Read more]

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