MLA Commons | CLCS Caribbean | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/ Activity feed for the group, CLCS Caribbean. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:15:34 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 d872021a4d6fc5e2360b0a35be3144ad Nathan H. Dize started the topic CPF: Ecologies of Enslavement, Ecologies of Abolition, MLA 2025 in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/cpf-ecologies-of-enslavement-ecologies-of-abolition-mla-2025/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:36:53 -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 f5211a96488ef1a359b32caf08a69486 Nathan H. Dize started the topic CFP: Édouard Glissant: Still A Caribbean Theorist? (MLA 2025, in-person panel) in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/cfp-edouard-glissant-still-a-caribbean-theorist-mla-2025-in-person-panel/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:34:03 -0500 Michael Dash’s translation and abridgment of Le discours antillais into Caribbean Discourse raises the question of how we situate Glissant within Caribbean Studies. Send 150-word abstracts that consider how we deploy Glissant’s literary-creative-artistic thought today.Deadline for submissions: Friday, 8 March 2024 Nathan H. Dize, Washington Univ…[Read more]

]]> 0 821c9aa3fe209dd6fd8931b6a372f9c4 Nathan H. Dize started the topic CFP: LABOR CONDITIONS in Caribbean Studies in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/cfp-labor-conditions-in-caribbean-studies/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:31:37 -0500 This roundtable discussion continues a conversation begun at MLA 2023 about Caribbeanist scholars’ labor conditions. Send 150-word abstracts that explore the expectations and vulnerabilities Caribbeanists face when working across borders of nation, language, and discipline.Deadline for submissions: Friday, 8 March 2024Raj Chetty, St. John’s U, NY …[Read more]

]]> 0 0577931add8d3ff57ee9a6726efaff2f Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:37:12 -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 021b8f695131737dbf4afd68db5e5c6e Nathan H. Dize started the topic Conversation w/ Jean Abel Pierre about corruption in Haiti (in French) in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/conversation-w-jean-abel-pierre-about-corruption-in-haiti-in-french/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 12:47:31 -0400 Kwazman 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]

]]> 0 1e525d9d1c1dc0f106b4245ace89424e Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic Three Positions in Black Studies and English at Amherst College in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/three-positions-in-black-studies-and-english-at-amherst-college/ Mon, 18 Oct 2021 23:27:40 -0400 Black Studies and English (three positions)The Departments of English and Black Studies at Amherst College invite applications for multiple full-time appointments in the field of Black literature and culture, to begin on July 1, 2022. We define this field broadly to include work in any genre or medium produced by people from Africa, the Caribbean,…[Read more]

]]> 0 0d8ffe98572a3b3dc9ddc29c7bd93b44 Jason Frydman deposited Death in the Arena: A Brief History of Dancehall, Time, and the Cold War in the group CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1730981/ Thu, 11 Mar 2021 03:48:43 -0500 This essay decodes how Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings uses the history of Jamaican music, culminating in the conflict between roots reggae and dancehall, to chart the Cold War’s conflicts over time, temporality, and futurity. A Brief History of Seven Killings points readers to a jaded, subaltern temporality encoded in a dan…[Read more]

]]> 0 96129941330189e907b8988398e1f089 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Sign petition to Save CENTRO (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)  in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/sign-petition-to-save-centro-center-for-puerto-rican-studies-2/ Tue, 09 Feb 2021 14:55:48 -0500 This is a petition shared by Aldo Lauria Santiago of Rutgers University.

Please consider reading and signing the “Save Centro (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)” petition, which you can access here: https://forms.gle/pDfE56LPkopPZHwb8

Thanks,

Elena Machado Sáez

Chair of the LLC Latina and Latino Forum

]]> 0 36d4bca3cff157ac03734a5f21be12a9 Lisa Nalbone started the topic 1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/1st-biannual-conference-of-the-center-for-jose-marti-studies-2/ Mon, 18 Jan 2021 17:17:47 -0500 You are cordially invited to attend the “1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies“, January 28 (7:00pm) to January 30 (5:00pm), hosted by the University of Tampa, themed “Envisaging José Martí in 2021: History, Culture and Education“. Program and registration appear: 1st Biannual Conference Registration | University of Tampa (ut.edu)

]]> 0 c8c1badb5a538f2758a1cb88c77bea2f Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Tonight at 7:15pm: Join us for joyful conversation and community! in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/tonight-at-715pm-join-us-for-joyful-conversation-and-community-2/ Sat, 09 Jan 2021 20:50:06 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

Join us this evening for our much-anticipated multi-forum reception, held via Zoom from 7:15-8:30 p.m!

548 Social Event Arranged by the Forums LLC Latina and Latino, Chicana and Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban and Cuban Diasporic, Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English, African American, Caribbean,…[Read more]

]]> 0 34d2084117c2fee5b61e4a78d1023dd0 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Today at MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels  in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/today-at-mla-2021-afro-latinx-stories-and-latinx-affects-panels-2/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:47:43 -0500 Dear MLA members,

Join us today at the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!

“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)

  • Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
  • Presider: Joshua Guzmán, U of California, Los Angeles
  • <…

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]]> 0 93ab32dc073d286fcc160f97cb8b98bd Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2021-forum-delegate-election/ Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:17:31 -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 9c0a2d2e32865ef75f021f47829a9854 Nathan H. Dize deposited French #MeToo?: Francophone African and Caribbean Women's Writing in English Translation in the group CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1690378/ Tue, 09 Jun 2020 16:30:28 -0400 Originally founded by Tarana Burke in 2006, the “Me Too Movement” seeks to help survivors of sexual violence, particularly women of color, “to help find pathways to healing” (“metoomvmt.org/about/). Then, in the fall of 2017, the #MeToo hashtag reverberated throughout the Internet, on the front pages of newspapers, and in the public square as…[Read more]

]]> 0 d3438471de4d9b0e215db9e445210c6a Nathan H. Dize deposited A Phenomenology of Gede: Thinking with the Dead in Haiti in the group CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1690372/ Tue, 09 Jun 2020 16:28:48 -0400 In the Haitian religious tradition of Vodou, Gede is the lwa, or spirit, concerned with the
beginning of life and the passage into the afterlife, death and regeneration. Gede is often
regarded as the spirit of the people in Haiti because he has a direct connection to every living
being, everyone may call on Gede for protection. Gede’s appeal a…[Read more]

]]> 0 4ced8c3aa7c2d309f5da0303b9f90943 Nathan H. Dize deposited The Archive as Method: Virtual and Material Archives of the French Atlantic in the group CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1690366/ Tue, 09 Jun 2020 16:27:11 -0400 In the last two decades since the publication of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, Caribbean historical studies has undergone an ‘archival turn.’ Indeed, archives and formal institutions of knowledge have always been and continue to be an integral part of historical work, but Trouillot’s work has cal…[Read more]

]]> 0 01af30013ce12d5308d326a89b1fd821 Nathan H. Dize deposited Le Devoir de Mémoire dans la Littérature d’Expression Francophone in the group CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1690359/ Tue, 09 Jun 2020 16:25:22 -0400 « La mémoire est un droit » écrit Christiane Taubira dans sa contribution au débat ‘La Mémoire de l’esclavage et ses dérives’ en 2006 pour la revue philosophique Cités. Étant donné que la mémoire est un droit, qu’est-ce que l’on entend par mémoire ? La mémoire de qui et de quoi ? Pourquoi faut-il s’en souvenir ? Quel est le but de la mémoire ? P…[Read more]

]]> 0 ba5be06a78d97067e048ffac0b303bb3 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Just published: Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Politics of US Latinx Twitter in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/just-published-lin-manuel-miranda-and-the-politics-of-us-latinx-twitter-2/ Sat, 04 Apr 2020 01:04:03 -0400 If you’re interested, check out the essay I recently published in issue #4 of archipelagos: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis, edited by Kaiama L. Glover and Alex Gil: http://archipelagosjournal.org/issue04/machado-gratitude.html

 

In “Debt of Gratitude: Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Politics of US Latinx Twitter,” I engage in an ana…[Read more]

]]> 0 bca724ccad800a7c53d66079fd493781 Jennifer M. Wilks replied to the topic CFP: Extra-Anthropcentric Subjects in and from the Global South (MLA 2021) in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/cfp-extra-anthropcentric-subjects-in-and-from-the-global-south-mla-2021/#post-1023775 Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:37:26 -0400 Deadline extended to 3/31!

]]> 0 2452c574f6213aad3cfbb960b7f89ea2 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2021 CFP: Afro-Latinx Stories in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/mla-2021-cfp-afro-latinx-stories-2/ Mon, 17 Feb 2020 01:10:20 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

Please consider submitting proposals for this panel on “Afro-Latinx Stories” for the 2021 Modern Language Association convention. See more info below. Thanks!

Cheers,

Elena

MLA 2021 Call For Papers: Afro-Latinx Stories

  • Papers analyzing Afro-Latinx cultural and literary production.
  • Send 150-word abstract and C…

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]]> 0 2b6dbda2feb08c967a9de7ca15b8d328 Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic CFP: Extra-Anthropcentric Subjects in and from the Global South (MLA 2021) in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/cfp-extra-anthropcentric-subjects-in-and-from-the-global-south-mla-2021/ Thu, 06 Feb 2020 16:59:21 -0500 Extra- and non-anthropocentric subjects of the Global South, notably the Caribbean. Who/ what is the human-animal-other subject? Narratives/poetics extrinsic to the colonial mind/body split?  Old materialisms ‘with soul’. 300 word abstract and 1 page CV by 3/15 to Jennifer M. Wilks (jmwilks@austin.utexas.edu) and Rosemary J. Jolly (rjj14@psu.edu).

]]> 0 5aa20d0b07a7618507ee32f132141cd1 Raphael Dalleo started the topic 648 - Cash Bar co-sponsored by Caribbean forum, Sat 1/11 @ 7:15 pm in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/648-cash-bar-co-sponsored-by-caribbean-forum-sat-1-11-715-pm/ Wed, 08 Jan 2020 17:02:40 -0500 648 – Cash Bar Arranged by the Forums LLC Latina and Latino, LLC Chicana and Chicano, LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English, LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic, LLC Puerto Rican, and CLCS Caribbean

 

Saturday, 11 January 2020

7:15 PM – 8:30 PM

Sheraton -…[Read more]

]]> 0 edc8b5120b28d4bc20af392a96880721 Raphael Dalleo started the topic 468 - Sylvia Wynter and/in the Undergraduate Classroom, Sat. 1/11 @ 10:15 am in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/468-sylvia-wynter-and-in-the-undergraduate-classroom-sat-1-11-1015-am/ Fri, 03 Jan 2020 18:09:07 -0500 2020 MLA convention session sponsored by the CLCS Caribbean forum:

 

Sylvia Wynter and/in the Undergraduate Classroom

Saturday, January 11th, 2020

10:15 am to 11:30 am

Washington State Convention Center, Skagit 3

Presiding: Kaiama Glover, Barnard College-Columbia University

 

Prose Fiction, Plays, and Pantomimes: Teaching Wynter through…[Read more]

]]> 0 a9bfb74b3ad32f78ed5cfddd813ae500 Raphael Dalleo started the topic 200. The Caribbean 1970s, Friday 10 January 2020 at 8:30 am in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/200-the-caribbean-1970s-friday-10-january-2020-at-830-am/ Fri, 03 Jan 2020 18:02:11 -0500 2020 MLA convention panel, cosponsored by the CLCS Caribbean and TC Postcolonial Studies forums:

 

The Caribbean 1970s

Friday, January 10th, 2020

8:30 am to 9:45 am

Washington State Convention Center, Chelan 4

Presiding: Raphael Dalleo, Bucknell University

 

“Liberation of a Small Place: Political Narratives about the Grenadian Revolution…[Read more]

]]> 0 4dc2a3174d26bfa83f5bc4fe68d7ab6a Shane Graham started the topic CFP: Langston Hughes Review Special Issue—"'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' at 100" in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/cfp-langston-hughes-review-special-issue-the-negro-speaks-of-rivers-at-100-2/ Sun, 24 Nov 2019 18:27:19 -0500 Langston Hughes Review
Guest Editor: Shane Graham
Expected Publication: May 2021
In June 1921, Crisis published Langston Hughes’ first adult poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” In many ways it contained the blueprint for the poet’s entire subsequent career, and established many of his key themes: black pride and self-assertion; the validat…[Read more]

]]> 0 62af957c1a5a381b9a6a0cacd43e5d94 Jason Frydman deposited Jamaican Nationalism, Queer Intimacies, and the Disjunctures of the Chinese Diaspora: Patricia Powell's The Pagoda in the group CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1666908/ Sat, 19 Oct 2019 16:38:13 -0400 Attentive to the disjunctures of the Chinese diaspora in the Americas, Patricia Powell’s “The Pagoda” intertextually re-territorializes the tropes of Asian American literature and cultural criticism in a Jamaican context in order to fashion a queer utopian historical romance. The novel portrays a simultaneously pluralist and creolizing…[Read more]

]]> 0 c42e8328487cbcf199a0ce99d4d80000 Jason Frydman deposited Narco-narratives and Transnational Form: The Geo-Politics of Citation in the Circum-Caribbean in the group CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1666907/ Sat, 19 Oct 2019 16:38:12 -0400 This essay argues that narco-narratives–in film, television, literature, and music–depend on structures of narrative doubles to map the racialized and spatialized construction of illegality and distribution of death in the circum-Caribbean narco-economy. Narco-narratives stage their own haunting by other geographies, other social classes, other…[Read more]

]]> 0 009ea23116276e97eb1dc1bca6a86238 Jason Frydman deposited Scheherezade in Chains: Arab-Islamic Genealogies of African Diasporic Literature in the group CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1666903/ Sat, 19 Oct 2019 16:30:37 -0400 Drawing on Arabic textual traditions and foregrounding the liminal time and space of administrative detention, of the expired visa, of deportation, and of repatriation, Muslim slave narratives deserve recognition as generative forebears of transnational, multicultural literature in both England and the United States. Yet these forebears were…[Read more]

]]> 0 b08550fa0ce9d3822110946ec78bc5b8 Jason Frydman deposited Kafka, the Caribbean, and the Holocaust in the group CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1666901/ Sat, 19 Oct 2019 16:25:39 -0400 This essay reexamines the figure of Franz Kafka (1883–1924) in light of his largely ignored, recursive links to circum-Caribbean and Black Atlantic processes of racialized exploitation and corporal punishment. When we centre Kafka’s extensive biographical and literary engagements with these processes, the persistent debate over Kafka’s statu…[Read more]

]]> 0 7a35ba65b810b948174195b1723c63ed Jason Frydman deposited Violence, Masculinity, and Upward Mobility in the Dominican Diaspora: Junot Díaz, the Media, and Drown in the group CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1666900/ Sat, 19 Oct 2019 16:25:38 -0400 The media reception of Drown frames Junot Díaz as a voice of the street that denounces the subjugating violence of internal US colonialism. However, Drown itself suggests that this extra-textual critique displaces the reader’s analytic gaze. The stories in the collection intimate that it is not oppressive socio-economic conditions that co…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d1b2451855051f0af2a1d158f71daa0 Marisa Parham deposited Breadfruit, Time and Again: Glissant Reads Faulkner in the World Relation in the group CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1657603/ Sun, 14 Jul 2019 16:26:12 -0400 Two-thirds of the way through Faulkner, Mississippi, his extended meditation on the prose oeuvre of the American writer William Faulkner, Édouard Glissant remarks on Faulkner’s famous ‘amused refusal to “correct the contradictions”’ introduced into his texts through his constant revisiting of characters across novels not necessarily set in proper…[Read more]

]]> 0 19e776af92050f4c6a0d1386e258cb1a Nathan H. Dize deposited La Mulâtresse During the Two World Wars: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Suzanne Lacascade’s Claire-Solange, âme-africaine and Mayotte Capécia’s Je suis Martiniquaise in the group CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1643906/ Wed, 03 Jul 2019 16:25:21 -0400 When we think of the literature produced before, during, and after the two World Wars we rarely think of the Caribbean as a site of significant literary output. Typically, we privilege a white, male, European literary voice. If we do consider literature from elsewhere, it usually follows a pattern of normative privilege. Therefore, it is useful to…[Read more]

]]> 0 fe5fb5985f50573a6d3029e819fa6dab Nathan H. Dize deposited Intervening in French: A Colony in Crisis, the Digital Humanities, and the French Classroom in the group CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1643732/ Tue, 02 Jul 2019 16:28:11 -0400 This essay explore​s​ the use of *A Colony in Crisis: The Saint-Domingue Grain Crisis of 1789* in the French literature classroom and how it helps address gaps in digital humanities and French language pedagogy while interrogating the colonial positionality of the French Revolution’s digital archive. In 2015, the Newberry Library received a Digit…[Read more]

]]> 0 a29b54ba8943a4249240372ec33db0f6 Nathan H. Dize deposited Taking One Last Breath, Catching One Last Glimpse (a review of L'Etoile Absinthe by Jacques Stephen Alexis) in the group CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1643727/ Tue, 02 Jul 2019 16:26:23 -0400 L’étoile absinthe (The Absinthe Star) begins with an image of the Caribbean sun––this infra-rouge mass floats in the sky like a large bird, circling the potomitan. Readers of the novel will immediately notice a patch of text on the very first page is missing, as though time were slowly eating away at the final distinguishable traces of Alexis…[Read more]

]]> 0 9b8e6be8598184070c7c69a4c35ffcc6 Nathan H. Dize deposited Haiti in Translation: Anacaona by Jean Métellus in the group CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1643542/ Mon, 01 Jul 2019 16:30:20 -0400 This interview with Susan Pickford considers her translation of Jean Métellus’s 1986 play Anacaona. Susan contacted me via the University of Liverpool’s Francofil Listserv, where she first heard of the blog series. She informed me of her translation of Anacaona, and I leaped at the opportunity to interview her via e-mail about a Haitian auth…[Read more]

]]> 0 4b040fe125587617c88c00e5ab4c573c Nathan H. Dize deposited Translating Global Citizenship: Haiti, Charles Moravia, and Woodrow Wilson in the group CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1643539/ Mon, 01 Jul 2019 16:28:45 -0400 This is a bilingual edition of Charles Moravia’s poem “La Vision de Président Wilson,” or “President Wilson’s Vision” first published in the Haitian daily, Le Matin on November 4, 1918 in response to Woodrow Wilson’s (in)action regarding post-war peace and reconciliation in Europe.

]]> 0 b667b13857106899209226d20877d8ea Nathan H. Dize deposited Beyond the Morality Tale of Humanitarianism: Epistolary Narration and Montage in Raoul Peck's Assistance mortelle in the group CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1643535/ Mon, 01 Jul 2019 16:27:13 -0400 This article analyzes Raoul Peck’s use of epistolary narration and montage in his 2012 documentary “Assistance mortelle” (Fatal Assistance), which delves into the immediate aftermath of the 2010 Haitian earthquake and the geopolitics of the recovery process.

]]> 0 a016982d52476a4573cb0aed4d5e7294 Nathan H. Dize deposited « Comment écrire en évitant d’exotiser le malheur? » : L’apocalypse et le retour au quotidien dans Je suis vivant de Kettly Mars in the group CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1643528/ Mon, 01 Jul 2019 16:25:21 -0400 Après le passage des ouragans, des incendies et des séismes, les médias reviennent toujours à l’apocalyptique, un discours qui vise à répertorier les dommages d’un désastre jusqu’à perdre toute trace d’intimité humaine. Depuis le 12 janvier 2010, des auteurs, artistes, académiciens et acteurs sociaux – activistes et militants – haïtiens se batte…[Read more]

]]> 0 95740be87ed6700d6607ce76c0157542 Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic CFP: Teaching the Caribbean Elsewhere (MLA 2020) in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/cfp-teaching-the-caribbean-elsewhere-mla-2020/ Wed, 06 Mar 2019 21:15:12 -0500 Seeking presentations on the logistical and pedagogical challenges of teaching Caribbean literature beyond the Caribbean basin, including in its less familiar diasporas. 300-word abstract and 1-page CV to Jennifer Wilks (jmwilks@austin.utexas.edu) by March 15, 2019

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2019

]]> 0 203209a2f7ca5e17e915ef1834a2063b Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic CFP: The 1970s and the Caribbean (MLA 2020) in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/cfp-the-1970s-and-the-caribbean-mla-2020/ Wed, 06 Mar 2019 21:13:51 -0500 Seeking presentations on the significance of the 1970s to cultural engagements with the Caribbean’s postcolonial history. 300-word abstract and 1-page CV to Rafe Dalleo (prdalleo@gmail.com) and Sheri Harrison (harrisonsl@missouri.edu ) by March 15, 2019

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2019

]]> 0 d8c6dd0af362c10344bda1df40a651b5 Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic CFP: Sylvia Wynter in the Undergraduate Classroom (MLA 2020) in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/cfp-sylvia-wynter-in-the-undergraduate-classroom-mla-2020/ Wed, 06 Mar 2019 21:11:05 -0500 Seeking presentations that discuss how to engage the significant theoretical principles of Sylvia Wynter’s work from a rigorous and non-jargonistic perspective in the undergraduate classroom. 300-word abstract and 1-page CV to Kaiama L. Glover (kglover@barnard.edu)

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2019

]]> 0 c485c3b6bc2775025fa6bd165a29b718 Charlotte Rogers started the topic CFP: “Current and Future Ecocriticisms of the Americas” for ASLE 2019 in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/cfp-current-and-future-ecocriticisms-of-the-americas-for-asle-2019-2/ Tue, 31 Jul 2018 12:57:22 -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 d77453c140c30758f6d29a08b7b933c5 Jason Frydman started the topic CFP MLA 2019: Peter Abrahams, RIP - Commemorating a Pan-African Life. in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2019-peter-abrahams-rip-commemorating-a-pan-african-life/ Tue, 06 Mar 2018 18:29:52 -0500 <b>MLA 2019 Special Session. </b>Honoring the centenary of Abrahams’ birth, we re-assess his epoch-making career as author-journalist-Panafricanist from Johannesburg to London to Kingston. Abstracts 100-300 words by 22 March 2018; Jason Frydman (jfrydman@brooklyn.cuny.edu).

]]> 0 b1a7c02bd8c821a6b76359c5f5841644 Jennifer M. Wilks posted an update in the group CLCS Caribbean: CFP: “Translating the Caribbean” (special session pro […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1601253/ Mon, 19 Feb 2018 23:29:49 -0500 CFP: “Translating the Caribbean” (special session proposed for MLA 2019)

Several decades ago, Édouard Glissant wrote in Le Discours antillais of the “undeniable” reality of a common Caribbean culture that had emerged from the shared history of the plantation, island living, creolization, and social systems. For Glissant, however, this reality…[Read more]

]]> 0 810230806506e2e856a51fdee4f77919 Nathan H. Dize deposited An Explosion in the Archives, Reframing French Archives through Caribbean Digital Praxis in the group CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1600958/ Fri, 16 Feb 2018 04:12:41 -0500 The digital archive of Saint-Domingue poses major questions relating to power and the production of history, especially since North American institutions possess and have digitized massive collections of French language materials. Once digitized, how will the material be curated, read, and interpreted by the archive’s various users (teachers,…[Read more]

]]> 0 54a26a88114960520d612556192c2f14 Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2018 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2018-forum-delegate-election/ Fri, 08 Sep 2017 18:35:17 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2018, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2018 convention in New York. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

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